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Tatyana Mamonova (born 10 December 1943), [1] is a member of the modern Russian women's movement and an author, poet, journalist, videographer, artist, editor and public lecturer.
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Tatyana Mamonova (born 10 December 1943), [1] is a member of the modern Russian women's movement and an author, poet, journalist, videographer, artist, editor and public lecturer.
Mamonova was born in the Soviet Union, and was raised in Leningrad after World War II. [1]
Mamonova was exiled from the Soviet Union in 1980. Her organization, then called Woman and Russia, was an NGO promoting the human rights of women from the Soviet Union and connecting Russian speaking women's voices and needs with the international community. She edited and published the samizdat Woman and Russia Almanac, now called Woman and Earth Almanac, an art and literary journal containing the first collection of Soviet feminist writings. Prior to her exile from her native St. Petersburg, Russia, she was an organizer and exhibitor in the non-conformist artist movement in Russia and a literary and television journalist with Aurora Publishers (working alongside Josef Brodsky) and Leningrad Television.[ citation needed ]
In 1987 Mamonova, became an associate of the Women's Institute for Freedom of the Press (WIFP). [2] WIFP is an American nonprofit publishing organization. The organization works to increase communication between women and connect the public with forms of women-based media.
She contributed the piece "It's time we began with ourselves" to the 1984 anthology Sisterhood Is Global: The International Women's Movement Anthology , edited by Robin Morgan. [3]
Since her exile, in addition to continuing to edit and publish her alamanc, Woman and Earth Almanac and two additional Woman and Earth publications: Succes d’estime (since 2001) and Fotoalbum: Around the World (since 2004), and to lead and expand her organization, now also called Woman and Earth Global Eco-Network, she has authored four books in the United States, [ citation needed ]
She is a former post-doctoral fellow with Harvard University's Bunting Institute, a member of Pen International, and is the Russia representative to the Sisterhood Is Global Institute.[ citation needed ]
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