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Folklorist, feminist, activist. Maryša. (Portrait of Marie Oláhová.)

Marie Oláhová, better known to all as Maryša, has been fighting against discrimination and social exclusion for decades. She is the founder of the Union of Roma Maternity Centres (ÚRMC), a self-help women's network that strives for the emancipation of Roma women. We followed her in the activities she organizes together with other women from ÚRMC or outside the network, and in our joint conversations we also revisited her activist past. Her story is extremely colourful, so we only captured a small part of it: we focused on the work of ÚRMC with women and the activities that members of the network jointly organise in different towns and villages of the Banská Bystrica region.
(If you want to see the film, click on the picture below.)

Translated by deepl.com. Not edited.

Marie Maryša Oláhová on the place where once stood the so-called wooden house, a community centre that she and her association operated in Detva.