More than 20 female Czech and Slovak Roma University students gathered at Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Republic to attend the Gender Studies mini-school for Roma Women.
The seminar, jointly organized by the Open Society Fund–Prague, the Open Society Foundation–Bratislava, and the German Center of the School of Social Studies at Masaryk University in Brno, focused on acquainting female Roma students with gender studies and feminist activism—information otherwise unaccessible via the traditional education system. "The ultimate goal of the organizers was to introduce gender studies and feminist activities to the students in the Czech Republic and Slovakia," said Lucie Jarkovska of Gender Centrum. Viera Klementova from OSF-Bratislava added, "We consider Roma women being at the intersection of dual disadvantages—first as women, second as Roma."
The seminar program included discussions, film screenings, lectures, and presentations with experts and guests from the Center for Gender Studies Bratislava, the Center for Gender Studies Prague, the feminist publishing house Aspekt, and the Slovakian Ministry of Labor, Social Affairs and Family, among others.