Devrim Mavi (born 10 November 1970) is a Swedish journalist, editor, and politician. Since January 2015, she has been a leader at the Feminist initiative in Stockholm.
Devrim Mavi (born 10 November 1970) is a Swedish journalist, editor, and politician. Since January 2015, she has been a leader at the Feminist initiative in Stockholm.
Mavi was born on 10 November 1970 in Urfa.
From September 2005 and December 2006, she was a spokesperson for the Feminist Initiative She worked as a journalist at Kommunalarbetaren , Mana , Bang and Internationalen . Between February and March 2001, she was a Stockholm reporter and columnist at Dagens Nyheter . For several years she was editor-in-chief of Arena, and lead writer at Dagens Arena . [1] She resigned as editor-in-chief of Arena in 2012 to take over as editor-in-chief of the hotel and restaurant union's member newspaper Hotellrevyn . In January 2015, she became head of office for the Feminist Initiative's office in Stockholm City Hall. [2]
In 2014, together with Lawen Mohtadi, she compiled the anthology Racism in Sweden: key texts 2010–2014 . [3]
Mavi was Office Manager at the Swedish Disability Rights Federation. [4] and Funktionsrätt Sweden. [5]
Feminist Initiative is a radical feminist political party in Sweden. The party was formed in 2005 from a pressure group of the same name, and has since taken part in every election to the Riksdag and the European Parliament. The party won its first elected representative in 2014, with Soraya Post taking one seat in the European Parliament.
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Events from the year 2001 in Sweden
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