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Being a lesbian during wartime strengthens interiorized homophobic fears, and the process of coming out becomes more difficult and many fears appear on the surface. The author wrote this article in order to express the dilemmas and questions she had during the war in the former Yugoslavia, which started in Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina in 1991 and went on until 1996. The article poses a number of questions asked by a feminist lesbian living in Belgrade, Serbia, during the war. How was the war in the former Yugoslavia connected to the fears experienced by a lesbian? How did the war create lesbian solidarity and what did it mean for lesbians in the isolated regions?

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je preživela rat u Gvatemali koji je trajao od 1960 do 1996. Njen otac je ubijen zbog političkog delovanja, majka sindikalistkinja se vodi kao nestala, a Jolanda je bila aktivna članica otpora od svoje 15. godine, kada je kao mlada partizanka u ratu višestruko grupno silovana od svojih kolega. "Više ne želim davati svedočenja o tome. Umorila sam se od viktimizacije koja mi oduzima snagu. Umesto da ulažem svu svoju snagu u patnju ulagaću u nastavak života, to je bila jedna epizoda u mom životu, ali to nije moj život." Ćitat iz intervjua "Treba dekolonizvati emocije", internet čileanskog portala La Juguera Magazine, 2019.