Featured in The Wire: Lecturer and Rebel, Pavla Jonssonov谩, Ph.D.

Recently by The Wire, Pavla Jonssonov谩 Ph.D. (pictured right), discusses what it was like to be the first riot grrrl in Czechoslovakia during the Soviet era. Giving insight into her journey with feminism, becoming a feminist scholar at Anglo-American University and later, one of the first lecturers to teach gender studies in the Czech Republic, Pavla exposes the challenges of being in an all-girl band in the alternative rock scene on the other side of the 鈥淚ron Curtain鈥�. From the formation and evolution of her (Plyn, Dybbuk, and ) to having written a book titled 鈥� (2017)鈥�, Pavla encapsulates the youth zeitgeist of1980s Czechoslovakia and beyond!

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