A seminar/work group called Lezzy Think Tank took place last Saturday, September 6, in St. Petersburg. The organizers, Anna Viola Hallberg and Annica Karlsson Rixon, or just Anna and Annica - Swedish artists - free, creative, inspired, and amazingly beautiful Women.

This project exists in conjunction with their art exhibition State of Mind, but at the same time is a separate, independent brain-child of the artists. The main idea behind the project is to stimulate and gather the thought potential of lesbians regarding the LGBT issues and questions. Its format is akin to a game of ball: first questions were produced in Stockholm and the ball was "thrown" to St. Petersburg, where St. Petersburg lesbians, in their turn, interpreted the questions posed to them and came up with their own questions to the next group of "thinkers" in Gothenburg. From there, the questions will travel to Ukraine, then on, and on... This produces a snowball effect, in which The Thought grows in size, becomes more dense and concentrated.

The questions and answers will be posted on the artists' website, www.aview.se, open to everyone to see. This way, every one will get an answer to their question. And the relay will travel onward, to the questions not yet asked and the issues not yet discussed.

What's most important is that in the process of this mega-dialog, an amazing feeling of unity arises - unity with the world and the people living in other countries, so far from us. But maybe over there the same problems occupy their minds.

And so this feeling of "US" spreads far beyond the graspable boundaries. What's especially important is that it's permeated with the feeling of pride and dignity: We are lesbians, We conceive ideas, We carry the strength and energy to create positive change in this world.

One thing left to add: this project is directed first and foremost at lesbians. The authors clarify this as follows: gay men are more often visible, their problems are discussed more often, and they themselves articulate them more often (this is one of the results of gender inequality in the society). Anna and Annica set to compensating this inequality by working specifically with women-lesbians. Even though all and anyone were invited to the seminar, finally only women came. Is that a good thing? It probably would have been good to have everyone. But one of the main characteristics of the work done in this lesbian circle was very well articulated by one of the participants, "We had a very friendly atmosphere, there was no rivalry or competition..."