Balkans - Blog Posts
by Rapsak on Flickr.Dervish Monastery and Buna river source in Blagaj, Bosnia.
Srebrenik Fortress, the best-preserved medieval fortress in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Romanian embroidery from Bucovina
"You are our hero" signed their posters by members of the Civic Association "Eastern Alternative" before the sentencing General of the Army of Republika Srpska to life imprisonment in 2017
Srbia
Thanks! About the symbol, maybe we can all add our own for some extra national pride. I sure as hell would NOT mind a sun on there, tho that very well could be a slippery slope considering where exactly we live
My bad attempt at making flags
So some days ago, I saw this post on reddit.
This user made a flag for queer slavic people :D. That's pretty cool! However, there are some things that I didn't like about the design. First of I didn't like how it was all pastel, I mean it makes sense because this was posted on a subreddit for xenogenders and from what I've seen online a lot of flags for xenogenders use pastel colors. Second of all, I really don't understand why they added pierogi. I mean, pierogi is a slavic dish but only in poland, Ukraine, and Russia (am I wrong? Too lazy to check right) and here in the balkans, it kind of isn't.
So here's my attempt to make a flag that was heavily inspired by the reddit user above! All creative credit goes to u/somethingisbread! This isn't me stealing their design this is just me editing it as a slavic queer.
It's basically the same thing as the flag in the reddit post. The only difference is that I didn't make the colors pastel, and I removed pierogi. I wanted to add a different symbol to represent queer slavic people. I want to add an owl to represent our slavic mythology and paganism and also our slavic brother/sisterhood because in every slavic language, we have the same word for owl (that is sova/сова). Unfortunately, I currently can't find a good owl design that would go well with the flag.
The blue, red, and white represent the pan slavic colors, and the lavender represents queerness.
Prof. M. S. Megalommatis - Interview with Leyla Tavşanoğlu, Cumhuriyet, 23 January 1994
Prof. M. Ş. Megalommatis - Leyla Tavşanoğlu ile söyleşi, Cumhuriyet, 23 Ocak 1994 проф. М.Ш. Мегаломматис - Интервью с Лейлой Тавшаноглу, Cumhuriyet, 23 января 1994 г. -------------------------— Türkiye ile Yunanistan arasındaki ilişkiler / Отношения между Турцией и Грецией / The relations between Turkey and Greece
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A video of a Paste Magazine interview with the Balkans.