loading . . . Me, you, and the revolution Voices Across Waters is a living chain of conversations among ecofeminist activists from across the Mediterranean: Svetlana Balovska Đurković, Mariona Bonsfills Clotet, Noe Diaferia, Asmaa Elmalky, Simona Getova, Jasmina Husanović, Lena Penšek, Roula Seghaier, and Shereen Talaat. Through intimate and courageous dialogue, the series amplifies voices, stories, and political imagination rooted in care, solidarity, resistance, and transformation.
Across borders and struggles, each episode explores how ecofeminism challenges patriarchal, colonial, capitalist and extractivist systems while nurturing collective alternatives grounded in justice, dignity and ecological balance.
These are not just interviews. They are acts of alliance building towards collective liberation. They are conversations between commerades, between friends. They are hope.
In this episode of Voices Across Waters, Shereen speaks with Simona about growing up in post-Yugoslav Macedonia, inheriting a deep sense of social justice, and finding her political home in transnational climate justice organizing.
Simona reflects on a defining moment within international climate justice organizing, when comrades from the Global South challenged European activists to confront privilege, colonial histories, and unequal power relations within the movement itself. From that turning point, intersectionality became not a theory, but a practice.
Together, they explore why relationships are the foundation of ecofeminist struggle, why “safe spaces” must go beyond rhetoric, and how solidarity must become material through mutual aid, shared platforms and tangible care. In a world shaped by late-stage capitalism, militarization and patriarchal elites, this conversation reminds us that prefiguring the future begins in how we relate to one another now.
Simona Getova (interviewee) is an intersectional decolonial feminist organizer, facilitator, and educator from Macedonia, currently based in Barcelona. Simona is the head of operations at Research & Degrowth International and a researcher at the Department of Political and Social Sciences at UPF.
Shereen Talaat (interviewer) is a feminist economist and filmmaker from Egypt, currently based in Marocco, who founded the MENAFEM Movement to lead regional advocacy for debt justice and feminist economic alternatives in the SWANA region.
This podcast series is part of the Ecofeminism in the Mediterranean initiative and was developed as a chain-interview format designed to create relational dialogue across territories, experiences, and struggles.
An initiative by Research & Degrowth International:
Research & Degrowth is an academic association dedicated to advancing research, training, and collective reflection on degrowth, ecological justice, and post-growth transformations. Through interdisciplinary collaboration, it supports critical thinking and collective action toward socially just and ecologically viable futures. Project coordination and leadership by Lena Penšek, activist and communicator of the Ecofeminism in the Mediterranean project, with visual identity and artwork by Alexandra Mestre Garcia. Find out more at https://degrowth.org/
Design and production by Efecto Colibrí:
Efecto Colibrí helps create narratives that advance a just, diverse, and regenerative reality. It drives systemic change by transforming the stories that quietly shape our worlds. Through narrative research, co-design of systemic-change narratives, and story activation, Efecto Colibrí builds understanding, moves conversations forward, and equips teams to create change through narrative clarity in times of noise and polarization. Creative design by Ana Amrein, founder of Efecto Colibrí, together with Gonzalo Díaz, architect and editor. Find out more at: https://efectocolibri.com/en/
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