I will not stop speaking out loud | Inna Shevchenko | TEDxKalamata

Inna will present herself to us as a leader of movement that is trying to rebuild the world without permission. Throughout her speech she will describe to us the mission FEMEN, which is to spot out the problems and to put out the lights on what is ignored or hidden on purpose in this world. Inna is going to share with us her true beliefs about activism.

Inna Shevchenko is the leader of International women’s movement FEMEN, the worldwide known movement of topless activists that stage their manifestations against patriarchy. Shevchenko is a high-profile activist and a campaigner. She was born in Ukraine where she grew up and studied and worked in journalism. In 2011 she and 2 other FEMEN members have been brutally tortured in Belarus by KGB after FEMEN’s topless protest in support of political prisoners in Belarus, Minsk. After moving to France she initiated a transformation of Ukrainian FEMEN group into an International movement. Inna is curating the work of dozen of FEMEN branches from Paris where she established a training base for feminists activists. Shevchenko is an often speaker at international conferences and a contributor to international medias.In July 2013, Shevchenko was named as an inspiration for new Marianne for the national stamp of France and was included in the list of iconic women of the years by Madame Figaro.

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