About the speaker
Alexandra Zykunov is a bestselling author, journalist, and speaker who writes weekly columns for SPIEGEL magazine on political developments from a feminist perspective. More than 75,000 people follow her on Instagram as alexandra___z, and her angry posts about the invisibility of gender equality and family policy issues regularly go viral. “Alexandra, you always shout so beautifully on the internet—wouldn't you like to shout in a book sometime?” she was asked in 2022. The result was her first nonfiction book, Wir sind doch alle längst gleichberechtigt! (We've all been equal for a long time!), which remained on SPIEGEL's bestseller list for more than six months. On August 27, her third and most personal book to date will be released, in which she attempts to raise her children as feminists, but constantly fails due to podcast culture, social media, and the like, and asks herself, “But it's okay to say patriarchal bullshit, right?” For years, Zykunov has been on book tours, sitting on panels, and giving keynotes at ministries and companies. Unfortunately, not much has changed politically since then. Quite the contrary, in fact.
Alexandra Zykunov at OMR
Tradwives, pickup artists, and misogynistic violent videos generated by AI: the internet is being flooded with reactionary content. But how much influence does it really have on role models, political attitudes, and social developments? In this discussion, Alexandra Zykunov analyzes current figures, studies, and contexts and shows that things are not as black and white as they seem. It's about the political gender gap between young men and young women, the shift to the right, education and media power, and the question of what will really have more influence on the next generation: the parental home or algorithms.
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