Doroti Pačkova: It’s a good thing we are angry
Rebel fighting for single parents talks about their struggle and dreams.
All of us who gathered around this organization, we are sick of it all ― of this abnormality and the normalization of the abnormality.
Our goal is not to be treated like the other social categories — but on the contrary — we want to individualize the approach due to a different family structure.
It's a good thing we are angry. We can't accept something abnormal as normal, thereby violating our basic human rights.
Although I'm a collector of all things bright, we must detect the dark things in order to be able to illuminate them.
Doroti Pačkova describes herself as a “collector of all things bright” that she detects in the dark. Photo: Private archive of Doroti Pačkova.
She emphasized that there is no such thing as the feminization of poverty. At a crucial moment, another minister refused to accept the existence of gender experts as a profession.I don’t want to list all the things, because I should publish a biography for future generations to remember — not to forget— and be grateful for the possibilities that are arising in the new world. Because we were tormented by ignorance, the partial knowledge, the superficiality, and banalization of human lives.I see that the modern youth have a seed of change in them, I see hope in their potential. A shining example are my students to whom I teach gender studies and who know how to make me cry with the beautiful things they say. A shining example is the Edna može! team. It isn’t easy, but we won’t surrender.This gives me an opportunity to breathe deeply, it fills my arteries, and pushes me forward — despite everything.
Sonja Stojadinović
Sonja Stojadinović is a political scientist with both a bachelor’s and master’s degree from the Saints Cyril and Methodius University’s Political Sciences Faculty in Skopje (International Politics Department). She is an activist with the “Solidarnost” leftist movement and a columnist working with a number of North Macedonian, regional, and international websites and blogs. She is currently pursuing another MA at the Karl-Franzens-Universität in Graz, Austria.
This story was originally written in Serbian.