Acknowledgments Many thanks to all the activists of the feminist and women’s movement, who found time in their busy schedules to be interviewed for this zine. We value your daily work in promoting and protecting the rights of women and girls. Special thanks to our donor partners, Mama Cash and the Central Asia Solidarity Group (CAG) for their flexibility, to the 2012-2018 BFI
working team for making this zine possible, to our colleagues for their support and solidarity while we worked on this zine, to Community Initiatives and Research - Central Asia (CIRCA) and BFI for their technical support, and to our designer, Karina Tolmcheva, our translators, Nurzat Sultanalieva and Jyrgal Kasmamytova, and our English language editors, Jessica Linn Whitbread and RJ.
Saadat This is for my feminist sisters, colleagues, apam1 and tainem2 — all the women who are and have been a part of my life!
a self-sufficient person. I cannot imagine my world without your care, criticism, motivation, smiles, tears and commitment.
I love you and thank you all from the bottom of my heart for your support during my childhood, adolescence and adulthood. Thank you for supporting me during times of joy and during the injuries and violence that I experienced and endured as a young woman. You were the people who believed in me, supported me as I tried to find myself and taught me to trust myself. I would like to thank every woman, every young woman and every girl in my life, and especially my feminist comrades who supported me and shared their wisdom, which allowed me to grow into
I also want to thank my partner, who has been with me for many years, supported me and was with me through both the joyous and the difficult moments in my life.
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Kyrgyz – “my mother” Kyrgyz – “my (maternal) grandmother”
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I love you all very much <3 With love and solidarity, Saadat
