Find Your Sisters

Find Your Sisters

From Subject To Power by Elle Kamihira

January 22, 2026 · 53 min · Season 4 · Episode 56

About this episode

Elle Kamihira interviews Hungarian feminist Krisztina Les about women's rights advocacy in Hungary and its implications for women globally.

One of the main goals of Subject To Power is to create an international platform for women (and some men) from different cultures to come on and report on what is happening in their corner of the world, so that the rest of us can learn from them, and maybe heed some warnings. It's easy to think that what happens in our own little bubble is unique, unique to our government, unique to our laws, to the way men behave in our particular country, unique to our cultural customs. But the more you listen to women in places elsewhere, the clearer it becomes that so many of the methods and tactics used to control women - are the same across nations, and are very predictable. In this episode Elle talks to young Hungarian feminist Krisztina Les, about what her advocacy and activism for women’s rights in Hungary looks like, and all of what we could learn from what has unfolded there in the last 20 years. It has never been more crucial that we look beyond our own country’s borders to see what might be ahead for women in our own countries. How democracy, basic freedoms, women’s rights, equality and whole value systems can be dismantled in a very short amount of time. And that none of it is…

People in this episode

Host: Elle Kamihira

Guest: Krisztina Les

Topics covered

  • women's rights
  • feminism
  • activism
  • international perspectives
  • cultural customs
  • democracy

Keywords

  • women's rights
  • feminism
  • Hungary
  • activism
  • cultural customs
  • democracy
  • equality

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: PATENT, Association FiLiA, Hague Mothers

Places: Hungary, Budapest

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