Nida Vasiliauskaitė is a Lithuania

Lithuania

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n educator, feminist and publicist

Publicist

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. She has a doctorate of philosophy.

She is an academic at Vilnius Gediminas Technical University

Vilnius Gediminas Technical University

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 in the department of Philosophy and Political Sciences. Vasiliauskaitė is a member of the New Left 95

New Left 95

New Left 95 is a group of Lithuanian intellectuals and activists who launched their activities on 1 May 2007 with the declaration ‘New Left 95 Manifesto’, which brought together individual arguments on sociopolitical and cultural issues from the newer leftist perspective into the joint political...

 movement, the Union of Lithuanian Young Scientists, and the Tolerant Youth Association. Since 2005, she is a Delfi

Delfi.lt

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 news portal analyst. She advocates ideas of tolerance

Toleration

Toleration is "the practice of deliberately allowing or permitting a thing of which one disapproves. One can meaningfully speak of tolerating, ie of allowing or permitting, only if one is in a position to disallow”. It has also been defined as "to bear or endure" or "to nourish, sustain or preserve"...

, cosmopolitanism

Cosmopolitanism

Cosmopolitanism is the ideology that all human ethnic groups belong to a single community based on a shared morality. This is contrasted with communitarian and particularistic theories, especially the ideas of patriotism and nationalism...

, feminism

Feminism

Feminism is a collection of movements aimed at defining, establishing, and defending equal political, economic, and social rights and equal opportunities for women. Its concepts overlap with those of women's rights...

, equality

Social equality

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 and is critical of xenophobia

Xenophobia

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 and dogma

Dogma

Dogma is the established belief or doctrine held by a religion, or a particular group or organization. It is authoritative and not to be disputed, doubted, or diverged from, by the practitioners or believers...

tic religious thinking.