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There’s no doubt that many levers of this government have been shaken. Without a skilled, committed and comprehensive effort, however, this in itself will not make its own collapse… Legalised corruption? – (pdf)

Some issues are simply not popular. Which is exactly why it’s the duty of all of us who do not feel like discriminated minorities to push for these topics, to insist on them even if those directly concerned cannot. For our sake, as much as for theirs. You never know when you’ll end up being… »

And this is why the thought as such is so inconsequential here: it has to be in the service of daily needs or worthless, it has to be a personal attack or it lacks the necessary stage flair, it has to be an attack on others because the phenomenological approach is too demanding for the… »

Our life under selective implementation of already flawed laws is being thoroughly ignored in the hope that the problems will go away on their own or with certain individuals. This hope is as naive as the April fool’s joke was real, cynically uncovering the brutality of our reality and the impotence of the laws and… »

Talmud says: “Perhaps it is not your destiny to succeed, but you must try”. Our own folk tradition offers a much more vivid and perhaps more understandable adage: “Fear the herd, fear a turd, but when will you live?”… Life vs fear – (pdf)

We should work on changing the dominant discourse, and start dealing with individual problems instead of the grand, often ungraspable issues which are perhaps important from the mythological or some other standpoint but which have no palpable consequences for the quality of our lives, but rather represent an obstacle to the democratic transformation of Montenegro…… »

Will you go back into the night of Glembajs or you know you’re worth more? It’s up to you. The House of Glembajs – (pdf)

I’ll admit it, at his age I believed that the world is mine and that there are no limits. Surviving remnants of that conviction still make me get up every morning… Scars – (pdf)

It is hard to break the strong conformist chains, which lock up a significant number of people living here. Yet, breaking these chains is necessary and it has a healing effect. The question of whether this government can meet the seven conditions is a major one. If they could, and if they had the willingness… »

On the positive side, the discussion of LGBT rights left the boundaries of our programmes of alternative education and lecture holes where it largely preached to the converted and entered the public sphere. On the negative side, there is still no sign of institutional, political and professional accountability of those who are publicly promoting lies,… »