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“I Didn't Ask for It”: Women of Former Yugoslavia vs. The Invisibility of Rape

Online initiative "I Didn't Ask for It" (#nisamtrazila) started in January 2021 in Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Slovenia, motivated by a public confession of a young Serbian actress of being raped by a well- known Belgrade drama pedagogue. Soon joined by her female colleagues and other women, journalists, musicians, students, doctors and politicians, in four former Yugoslav countries, an online platform was opened where thousands of women took the opportunity to describe and report the various forms of sexual abuse done by a person(s) they knew to which they were exposed during their education and employment. As a potentially belated Balkan version of the “Me Too” movement, “I Didn’t Ask for It” initiative inherited a number of features of the said movement while displaying some new ones, dependent on the specific sociocultural and political context and heritage of the region. The latter is grounded in the complex permeation of the socialist attitude towards women's rights and sexual violence, the unresolved traumas of mass wartime rapes and the contemporary experience of the threat to “Balkan masculinity”.

sexual violence

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