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Tag: Anti-LGBTQ+ Politics

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Birth Control, Bathrooms & Biblical Patriarchy. Interview with Sarah Jones – 5 March 2026

Sarah Posner sits down with New York Magazine senior writer Sarah Jones to unpack the accelerating assault on transgender rights in Kansas and beyond. They

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Weaponising Gender, by Aminah Jasho, Esme Abbott, Julisa Tambunan – 3 February 2026

Anti-gender politics has become integral to the far-right organising globally, because it offers emotionally charged justifications for centralising power and suppressing civil society. Behind it

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The Global Gag Rule Expanded: How Anti-Rights Ideology Is Governing U.S. Foreign Aid – 30 January 2026

In a new episode of the Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters (SRHM) podcast, SRHM convenes leading experts and advocates to unpack the implications of three newly

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Latest US Restrictions on Aid ‘Bully’ Recipients to Accept ‘Extremist Ideology’, by Kerry Cullinan – 29 January 2026

Global health organisations have reacted with anger to the new US foreign aid policy, which prohibits all aid recipients, bar military, from performing or promoting

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A Feminist Perspective on Costa Rica’s Upcoming Vote, by Laura Álvarez Garro, Vanessa Beltrán Conejo, María José Cascante Matamoros & María José Guillén Araya – 29 January 2026

On Sunday, February 1, Costa Rica will hold elections amid the most tumultuous and uncertain political climate in decades. Conservative and right-wing political forces are

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Gender Under Siege: Slow Violence and Antigender Mobilisation in Bosnia and Herzegovina’s Ethnonationalist Landscape, by Zlatiborka Popov-Momčinović  – 23 January 2026

This article explores antigender mobilisation – a global phenomenon that challenges and undermines gender equality – with a focus on Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH). Using

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LGBT Organisations Navigate Indonesia’s Two Homophobias, by Shaan Amin – 15 January 2026

Despite the widely-covered crackdown on LGBT life since 2016, Indonesian official homophobia is not monolithic. One homophobia aims to eradicate ‘deviant’ sexualities, but another paternalistically

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Anna Hájková on Eastern Europe and the Blind Spots of the Global Left – 4 January 2026

00:00:00 Intro to the series 00:02:30 Intro to the webinar 00:03:31 Anna Hájková‘s research and public interventions 00:10:23 Blind spots 00:14:10 Epistemic frames 00:18:13 The

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Why Gender Is at the Heart of the Far-Right Agenda – And Why We Must Take It Seriously, by Andrea Dip – 9 July 2025

Brazil is one of the most dangerous countries in the world for women and LGBTQ+ people: we have some of the highest rates of femicide

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Slovakia’s Toxic Bargain: How Red-Brown Politics Exploit Masculinity, by Karmína – 1 May 2025

The political shift to the right—towards authoritarianism, nationalism, misogyny, and hatred of queer people—is global and dates back to the 2008 crisis. Its main political

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The Un-African Mechanisms of Queer Repression, by Ani Kayode Somtochukwu – 23 April 2025

From Africa Is a Country Anti-queer laws in Africa are often framed as cultural defense—but their roots lie in colonial legacies, religious nationalism, and global

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Rainbow Extremism, by Liliya Vezhevatova – 18 December 2024

Why has pressure on LGBT+ people in Russia increased to frightening proportions since the full-scale invasion into Ukraine? How are people fighting back against repression?

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Transgender People in Warring Russia, by Ramil Bulatov – 6 November 2024

What is happening to transgender people in Russia after the full-scale invasion of Ukraine? Why is the Russian state so obsessed with transness? Is it

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Roots of Hate. Fascist and Fundamentalist Narratives and Actors in South Asia and Southeast Asia Regions, by NOOR – September 2024

Author: Subha WijesiriwardenaLead Editors: Islam Al Khatib, Maie Panaga BabkerEditor: Naureen ShameemPeer Review: Suri Kempe, Tooba Syed, Sabika Abbas, Amna NasirAdditional Research: Anonymous contributorProofreading: Rochelle

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Pro-Natalism – 27 August 2024

In this episode of In Bed With The Right, Moira walks Adrian through the long, creepy history of pro-natalism, and its resurgence amongst conservatives. It

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Russia’s ban on the ‘LGBT movement’. Interview with Dan Healey, Alexander Kondakov and Leandra Bias – 8 December 2023

On November 30, the Russian Supreme Court outlawed an organization that doesn’t exist: the so-called “international LGBT movement.” The ruling came in response to a

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Postcolonial Nationalism and the Global Right, by Chenchen Zhang – 21 July 2023

Chenchen Zhang is associate professor in international relations at Durham University, where she is also director of the Centre for Contemporary Chinese Studies. This article

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Anti-Trans Extremism: The Far Right’s New Strategy to Spread Hate, by Hanah Stiverson, Erin E. Wilson and Elizabeth Yates – 30 June 2023

Mainstream far-right actors are escalating a nationwide campaign to eliminate the trans community from American society – a dangerous threat to trans people and one

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The Vatican Anti-Gender Theory and Sexual Politics: An African Response, by Kapya Kaoma – 19 February 2016

Kapya Kaoma is a Zambian, US-educated scholar, pastor and human rights defender who is most noted for his ecological, and LGBTQI+ scholarship, particularly regarding Africa.

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