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Dima, Ramona, Associate Senior LecturerORCID iD iconorcid.org/0000-0003-1630-1388
Biografi [eng]

Researcher in queer and gender studies with focus on Southeastern Europe. Publications and research interests include queer culture, sexuality and migration, LGBT+ activism. I hold a PhD in Media and culture from the University of Bucharest, with a research project on Romanian queer culture of the 20th and 21st centuries. Since then, I have led the Marie Skłodowska-Curie project  External link, opens in new window."Queer Herstories of struggle and survival in Romania: From Communist criminalization to contemporary anti-gender movements in SEE spaces" (2021-2023), which deals with the memory of queer women* and their experiences during communism and the transition period in Romania.

Biografi [swe]

Arbetar inom queerstudier och genusvetenskap med fokus på sydöstra Europa. Publikationer och forskningsintresse inkluderar queerkultur, sexualitet och migration, och HBT+ aktivism. Jag har en doktorsexamen i Media och kultur från Bukarests universitet, med en avhandling om 1900 och 2000-talets rumänsk queerkultur. Sedan dess, ledde jag Marie Skłodowska-Curie-projektet Länk till annan webbplats, öppnas i nytt fönster. "Queer Herstories of struggle and survival in Romania: From Communist criminalization to contemporary anti-gender movements in SEE spaces" (2021-2023), om minnet av queera kvinnor* och deras erfarenheter under kommunism- och övergångsperioden i Rumänien.

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Dima, R. (2026). Hysterical lesbians and respectable gays. Lesbian anonymity in mainstream LGBT+ and grassroots activisms. Journal of Lesbian Studies, 30(2), 232-250
Åpne denne publikasjonen i ny fane eller vindu >>Hysterical lesbians and respectable gays. Lesbian anonymity in mainstream LGBT+ and grassroots activisms
2026 (engelsk)Inngår i: Journal of Lesbian Studies, ISSN 1089-4160, E-ISSN 1540-3548, Vol. 30, nr 2, s. 232-250Artikkel i tidsskrift (Fagfellevurdert) Published
Abstract [en]

This article is informed by sixteen in-depth interviews with LGBT + activists in Romania, my archive and notes during my involvement in feminist and queer activist circles, as well as archival materials of an LGBT + NGO. It proposes the concept of lesbian anonymity as a means of investigating the way in which marginal positions within mainstream movements are anonymized and their contributions to the movement dispersed within the generic queer/gay activism. By looking at specific case studies from Romaniás transition period (1989 to mid 2000s), I analyze how matters of representation were tackled within the LGBT + mainstream movements in relation to grassroots activist circles. The article explores what happens when queer gatekeepers fail to engage with internal criticisms concerning the selective erasure of certain categories of voices such as queer women, trans people, racialized people, sex workers. I argue that lesbian anonymity offers another angle of analyzing the clashes between and within different LGBT + groups in post-socialist spaces. How does lesbian anonymity shape the queer movements and why is it important to keep representational issues in mind while working on non-normative sexualities, gender, and women´s reproductive rights? This contribution offers a necessary critique of the representational gaps within queer movements.

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Routledge, 2026
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urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-54587 (URN)10.1080/10894160.2024.2381854 (DOI)001293877400001 ()39155789 (PubMedID)2-s2.0-85201563056 (Scopus ID)
Forskningsfinansiär
EU, Horizon 2020, 101022731
Tilgjengelig fra: 2024-08-20 Laget: 2024-08-20 Sist oppdatert: 2026-04-08bibliografisk kontrollert
Dima, R., Carastathis, A., Dumitriu, S. & Tsilimpounidi, M. (2025). A Note from the Guest Editors. Feminist Critique - East European Journal of Feminist and Queer Studies (6), 5-6
Åpne denne publikasjonen i ny fane eller vindu >>A Note from the Guest Editors
2025 (engelsk)Inngår i: Feminist Critique - East European Journal of Feminist and Queer Studies, ISSN 2524-2733, nr 6, s. 5-6Artikkel i tidsskrift, Editorial material (Annet vitenskapelig) Published
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Östersjö- och Östeuropaforskning
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urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-56963 (URN)
Tilgjengelig fra: 2025-04-22 Laget: 2025-04-22 Sist oppdatert: 2025-10-07bibliografisk kontrollert
Brock, M., Dima, R., Gradskova, Y., Miesiac, M. & Zirra, M. (2025). Editorial for Issue 33-02. NORA: Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research, 33(2), 117-118
Åpne denne publikasjonen i ny fane eller vindu >>Editorial for Issue 33-02
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2025 (engelsk)Inngår i: NORA: Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research, ISSN 0803-8740, E-ISSN 1502-394X, Vol. 33, nr 2, s. 117-118Artikkel i tidsskrift, Editorial material (Annet vitenskapelig) Published
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Taylor & Francis, 2025
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urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-57318 (URN)10.1080/08038740.2025.2492548 (DOI)001491991900008 ()2-s2.0-105005585466 (Scopus ID)
Tilgjengelig fra: 2025-06-03 Laget: 2025-06-03 Sist oppdatert: 2025-10-07bibliografisk kontrollert
Carastathis, A., Dima, R., Dumitriu, S. & Tsilimpounidi, M. (Eds.). (2025). Queer and Feminist Studies in Southeastern Europe – II. Krytyka
Åpne denne publikasjonen i ny fane eller vindu >>Queer and Feminist Studies in Southeastern Europe – II
2025 (engelsk)Collection/Antologi (Fagfellevurdert)
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Krytyka, 2025. s. 75
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Feminist critique. East European journal of feminist and queer studies, ISSN 2524-2733 ; 6/2025
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Östersjö- och Östeuropaforskning
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urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-56976 (URN)
Tilgjengelig fra: 2025-04-28 Laget: 2025-04-28 Sist oppdatert: 2025-10-07bibliografisk kontrollert
Dima, R. & Miesiac, M. (2025). The Editorial. NORA: Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research, 33(4), 347-349
Åpne denne publikasjonen i ny fane eller vindu >>The Editorial
2025 (engelsk)Inngår i: NORA: Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research, ISSN 0803-8740, E-ISSN 1502-394X, Vol. 33, nr 4, s. 347-349Artikkel i tidsskrift, Editorial material (Annet vitenskapelig) Published
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Taylor & Francis, 2025
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urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-58552 (URN)10.1080/08038740.2025.2587989 (DOI)001620854700001 ()2-s2.0-105022691817 (Scopus ID)
Tilgjengelig fra: 2025-12-09 Laget: 2025-12-09 Sist oppdatert: 2025-12-09bibliografisk kontrollert
Dima, R. (2025). The Future Unfolds in the Cupboard: Plastic Bags, Buen Vivir, and New Habits. Berliner Gazette (2025-11-17)
Åpne denne publikasjonen i ny fane eller vindu >>The Future Unfolds in the Cupboard: Plastic Bags, Buen Vivir, and New Habits
2025 (engelsk)Inngår i: Berliner Gazette, nr 2025-11-17Artikkel i tidsskrift (Annet (populærvitenskap, debatt, mm)) Published
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urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-58455 (URN)
Tilgjengelig fra: 2025-11-18 Laget: 2025-11-18 Sist oppdatert: 2025-11-19bibliografisk kontrollert
Dima, R. (2024). The unspeakable queerness in Romania’s communist period: Lesbian and queer accounts beyond gay men’s experiences. Sexualities
Åpne denne publikasjonen i ny fane eller vindu >>The unspeakable queerness in Romania’s communist period: Lesbian and queer accounts beyond gay men’s experiences
2024 (engelsk)Inngår i: Sexualities, ISSN 1363-4607, E-ISSN 1461-7382Artikkel i tidsskrift (Fagfellevurdert) Published
Abstract [en]

Informed by interviews with queer women, nonbinary persons, and a trans man, this article aims to fill a major gap in the Southeastern European sexuality studies. It does that by depicting and analyzing several microhistories from communism (1947–1989) and from the early 1990s Romania. The 1990s were also marked by the communist legacy and same-sex relationships continued to be criminalized until 2001. Since gay men’s accounts are much more represented in the public space and in the incipient literature on queerness in Romania, the article offers an alternative view beyond this tendency, by bringing forth the particularities and experiences of cisgender women and trans persons and their day-to-day lives within the patriarchal and homophobic society. The article argues that during communism matters of queerness were known, although rarely discussed, and that the accounts of queer women and trans persons were not absent but neglected. Another objective is to offer explanations for the lack of these marginal (ized) accounts in the incipient gender and queer studies literature on Romania.

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Sage Publications, 2024
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Östersjö- och Östeuropaforskning
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urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-53657 (URN)10.1177/13634607241228110 (DOI)
Forskningsfinansiär
European Commission, 101022731
Tilgjengelig fra: 2024-03-13 Laget: 2024-03-13 Sist oppdatert: 2025-10-07bibliografisk kontrollert
Dima, R. & Dumitriu, S. (2023). Home is where the cat is: The here-there of queer (un)belonging. In: Elisabeth L. Engebretsen, Mia Liinason (Ed.), Transforming Identities in Contemporary Europe: Critical Essays on Knowledge, Inequality and Belonging (pp. 118-135). London: Routledge
Åpne denne publikasjonen i ny fane eller vindu >>Home is where the cat is: The here-there of queer (un)belonging
2023 (engelsk)Inngår i: Transforming Identities in Contemporary Europe: Critical Essays on Knowledge, Inequality and Belonging / [ed] Elisabeth L. Engebretsen, Mia Liinason, London: Routledge, 2023, s. 118-135Kapittel i bok, del av antologi (Fagfellevurdert)
Abstract [en]

This chapter builds on the diasporic status the authors acquired once relocated from Romania to Sweden. It marks the reference point and position for a self-reflective study constituted in the form of vignettes that stem from personal experiences on belonging and un-belonging in queer spaces, migration and community forming in a new space from a comparative perspective based on the authors’ experiences in both countries. This adds to the existing literature on gender, diasporas and migration. Furthermore, it offers an insight into the construction of certain elements with regard to a “queer Romanian diaspora” and how the transformations experienced in terms of losing certain aspects of an “activist self” become relevant within the transnational research frameworks. This contribution thus frames the authors’ de-construction and re-construction of activist and migrant identities by refusing and rethinking the usual binaries operating within the methodological nationalism predominant in migration studies and see “identities” more as “as a process of multiple relationalities”. Focusing on concepts such as “diaspora”, “solidarities”, “opting out” and “homonationalism”, the authors use queer retrosexuality to construct a fragmented critical story by using the mechanism of “looking back” to their shared past, finding connections within the present, often interrupted by small but meaningful glimpses of interactions in different life situations. One purpose is to understand the borders of queerness in the chosen contexts. The other is to explore and make sense of the different configurations the authors’ activist selves have taken over time.

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London: Routledge, 2023
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urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-53661 (URN)10.4324/9781003245155-8 (DOI)2-s2.0-85162626735 (Scopus ID)978-1-032-15651-4 (ISBN)978-1-032-15651-4 (ISBN)
Tilgjengelig fra: 2024-03-13 Laget: 2024-03-13 Sist oppdatert: 2026-03-20bibliografisk kontrollert
Dima, R. (2023). Queer Culture in Romania, 1920–2018. Palgrave Macmillan
Åpne denne publikasjonen i ny fane eller vindu >>Queer Culture in Romania, 1920–2018
2023 (engelsk)Bok (Fagfellevurdert)
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Palgrave Macmillan, 2023. s. 210
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Östersjö- och Östeuropaforskning
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urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-53658 (URN)9783031388484 (ISBN)
Tilgjengelig fra: 2024-03-13 Laget: 2024-03-13 Sist oppdatert: 2025-10-07bibliografisk kontrollert
Dima, R. & Dumitriu, S. (2021). A Note from the Guest Editors. In: Ramona Dima, Simona Dumitriu (Ed.), Queer and Feminist Studies in Eastern Europe (Feminist Critique special issue): (pp. 7-10). Feminist Critique
Åpne denne publikasjonen i ny fane eller vindu >>A Note from the Guest Editors
2021 (engelsk)Inngår i: Queer and Feminist Studies in Eastern Europe (Feminist Critique special issue) / [ed] Ramona Dima, Simona Dumitriu, Feminist Critique , 2021, s. 7-10Kapittel i bok, del av antologi (Annet vitenskapelig)
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Feminist Critique, 2021
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Feminist Critique: East European Journal of Feminist and Queer Studies, ISSN 2524-2733 ; 2021 (4)
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Östersjö- och Östeuropaforskning
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urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-53670 (URN)
Merknad

Proceeding from the conference: QueerFemSEE - Queer and Feminist Studies in Southeastern Europe, Bucharest, 2017

Tilgjengelig fra: 2024-03-15 Laget: 2024-03-15 Sist oppdatert: 2025-10-07bibliografisk kontrollert
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