Zhanar Sekerbayeva is one of the co-founders of the Kazakhstan Feminist Initiative ‘Feminita’ (https://www.instagram.com/feminita_kz/profilecard/?igsh=MXMwNTl3bzZjZ29iZA==). She is a fierce lesbian, feminist, powerlifter and poet. Zhanar graduated with Summa Cum Laude from the ‘Gumilev’ Eurasian National University in 2005. In 2014 Zhanar enrolled at the European Humanities University (Lithuania) MA program in Sociology with focus on gender and culture, and finished at the University of Tsukuba, Japan, PhD program (Social Sciences). In 2024 ‘Feminita’ organized and successfully had The First Lesbian Quryltai in Central Asia.
