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Tag: Feminism (en)

Articles

How Anarchists Saw the Iranian Revolution (Part 3), by Tom Goyens – 28 May 2026

Freedom of Choice The oppression of women in Iran remains one of the clearest expressions of the theocratic order established in 1979. The nationwide “Woman,

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Articles

The Timorese Women’s Movement Continues the Struggle, by Muhammad Ammar Hidayahtulloh & Shelli Israelsen – 20 May 2026

Even as formal recognition of gender equality has progressed over the 24 years since Timor-Leste’s independence, the legacy of the resistance against Indonesian occupation still

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Videos Webinars

Oksana Dutchak on War, Austerity and Care – 29 March 2026

00:00:00 Webinar series intro 00:04:35 Oksana Dutchak introduces herself and her research 00:07:22 Core concepts of feminist social reproduction theory 00:29:39 Q&A: hierarchies of care

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Articles

Iran and Anti-Imperial Feminism. Ania Loomba in Conversation with Faranak Miraftab – 22 March 2026

On Wednesday, 11th March, 2026, along with 135 other nations, India co-sponsored a resolution of the United Nations Security Council which condemned Iran for attacking

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Statements

Communiqué: Reflections from the Webinar on the Proposed African Charter on Family, Values and Sovereignty, by the Initiative for Strategic Litigation in Africa (ISLA) – 19 March 2026

The recent webinar convened by the Initiative for Strategic Litigation in Africa (ISLA) under its Countering Anti-Rights Actors (CARA) thematic area marked an important moment

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Articles

Iran, the Western Left and the Ambiguity of Allies, by Sirantos Fotopoulos – 8 March 2026

A Left politics that instructs the Iranian feminist to defer her liberation to the requirements of the anti-Western imperial struggle is not offering her solidarity.

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Articles

Resisting State Control over Reproductive Health Rights in Indonesia, by Perempuan Mahardhika – 25 February 2026

Ahead of the 115th International Women’s Day, Perempuan Mahardhika [1] and Amnesty International Indonesia held a public discussion on 24 February 2026 in Jakarta, entitled “Resisting

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Articles

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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Articles

South Korea’s ‘Willfully Unmarried’ Movement, by Hawon Jung – 29 January 2026

From New Lines Magazine The three-story industrial building in Seoul’s hipster neighborhood of Seongsu was packed with hundreds of women, their chatter and laughter echoing

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Interviews

Bangladesh’s Stalled Feminist Movements and Present Politics. Interview with Samina Luthfa – 21 January 2026

From Himal Southasian In October 2024, two months after the monsoon revolution in Bangladesh toppled Sheikh Hasina as prime minister and Awami League government, four

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Articles

Are ‘Hyper-Meritocracy’ and Feminist Backlash Driving South Korean Young Men to the Right?, by Yewon Kang – 10 January 2026

It can be difficult to define what “conservative” or “right-wing populist” means, as the boundaries have blurred with other terms such as “far right” or

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Articles

In the Wages for Housework Archives, by Emily Callaci – January 2026

From n+1 Magazine […] The basic provocation of Wages for Housework is that capitalism relies on the invisible and uncompensated labor of women, and that

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Interviews

Feminist Search for Alternatives. Interview with Ella Rossman – 10 December 2025

How can we shift the focus from discussing state gender policy to seeking alternatives? Why does this matter now, in the third year of the

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Articles

Argentina’s Encuentro Plurinacional, a Bastion Against State Anti-Feminism, by Susi Maresca – 4 December 2025

The Plurinational Gathering of Women, Lesbians, Travestis, Transgender, Bisexual, Intersex, and Non-Binary People is the backbone of Argentina’s transfeminist movement. Known as the Encuentro, this

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Articles

A Bizarre New Alliance Is Coming After Sexual Freedoms. We’re Ready, by Maya Linstrum-Newman – 24 November 2025

Regular readers of ‘Beyond Trafficking and Slavery‘ will be familiar with the stark divide amongst women’s rights organisations on the issue of sex work and

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Interviews

The Crisis of Social Reproduction, Women’s Agency, and Feminism in China. Interview with Yige Dong – 18 November 2025

Dramatically falling birthrates and a skyrocketing number of divorces as the number of marriages collapsing increases all point toward the erosion of the capitalist family

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Articles

Contested Terrain – Feminism, Faith and the Fight for Lesbian and Trans Rights in Indonesia, by Mark Johnson – 13 November 2025

The relationship between feminist movements and lesbian and trans activists in Indonesia reveals fundamental tensions about what feminism means in the world’s largest Muslim-majority country.

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Articles

Money, Muscles and Anxiety: Why the Manosphere Clicked With Young Men – A Visual Deep Dive by Anna Leach, Ed Gargan and Maeve Shearlaw – 21 October 2025

From The Guardian The ‘manosphere’ – a loose but large group of influencers making content aimed at men – is often described as a dark

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Podcasts

Surrogacy and Bodily Autonomy as a Matter of Sexual and Reproductive Justice – 20 October 2025

On 8 October 2025, Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters (SRHM) co-hosted a global webinar titled Surrogacy as a Matter of Sexual and Reproductive Justice in partnership with

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Articles

Chilean Feminists Regroup Under Progressive Rule, by Claudia Hernández & Andrea Salazar – 14 August 2025

Chile’s transfeminist movement faces an uncertain future after a decade of achievements, breakthroughs, and creative political strategies. We are living in a time that demands

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Articles

On Being Transfeminist in México, by Lorena Wolffer – 17 July 2025

Calling myself transfeminist is not just a political stance, it is a way of positioning myself in the world, a way of living in it.

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Articles

New Documentary ‘Double Minority’ Tackles Women’s Political Exclusion in Nigeria, by Oluwakemi Adelagun – 11 July 2025

From Premium Times The documentary amplifies the nationwide dialogue about gender imbalance in Nigeria’s politics In a significant step towards amplifying the voices of women

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Articles

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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Books

Against Machismo in Organizing, by Guiomar Rovira – 4 July 2025

Note from the editors of Ojalá, where this article was originally published: This week we’re sharing the prologue to Irene Ragazzini’s La lucha dentro de

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Articles

Fabric of Resistance: Women’s Activism in Times of War, by Liliya Vezhevatova – 2 July 2025

How has women’s activism in Russia changed since February 24, 2022? Why have women-led, grassroots initiatives become one of the few resilient forms of resistance?

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Interviews

Three-Finger Salute to Autocracy. Interview with Jeffrey Wasserstrom – 21 June 2025

What can we learn from a decade of protest in Asia? Hong Kong, Thailand, Burma, and Taiwan—all are linked by their shared appreciation of milk

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Articles

Women and Politics in Post-Jina Iran, by Mona Tajali – 17 June 2025

Nearly a year after the eruption of the Woman, Life, Freedom protests across Iran in September 2022, Sedigheh Vasmaghi, a renowned theologian, former politician and

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Statements

Urgent Call for Peace by Indian and Pakistani Feminists – 11 May 2025

The ceasefire is just the first step in the long walk to justice and peace We, feminists from India and Pakistan, unequivocally welcome the ceasefire

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Interviews Podcasts

A Growing Protest Movement in Indonesia. Interview with Olin Monteiro – 24 April 2025

On 28 March, in downtown Jakarta, across from the Sarinah department store, an unlikely group of protesters gathered holding signs and making speeches. The crowd

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Articles

Where’s the Outrage over ‘Systematic’ Sexual Violence Against Palestinians?, by Samah Salaime – 17 April 2025

From +972 Magazine Despite mounting evidence of the army’s gender-based crimes, Israeli women’s groups have largely ignored or denied the UN’s damning new report. Last

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Interviews Videos

The Argentinian Laboratory. Interview with Verónica Gago – 1 April 2025

Verónica Gago is a feminist academic. What this means is that she does not separate her activism as a feminist from her work as an

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Interviews

Far-Right Women’s Appropriation of Feminism in France: Interview with Charlène Calderaro – 25 March 2025

This interview is based on Charlène Calderaro’s article Beyond Instrumentalization: Far-Right Women’s Appropriation of Feminism in France published in Politics & Gender (2025). For readers less familiar with

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Articles

8M in Buenos Aires Puts a Limit on Milei’s Fascist Agenda, by Susi Maresca and Ceci García – 13 March 2025

The streets surrounding Argentina’s National Congress took on tones of purple and green as people dressed in the colors of of the struggle for abortion

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Articles

Women’s Day Celebration at the ASHA Workers’ Strike in Thiruvananthapuram and B Team Scheming, by J. Devika – 9 March 2025

Yesterday was a day of great strength, solidarity, and remembrance of women workers’ historic struggles for rights and against tyrants. Support for the striking ASHA

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Statements

International Women’s Day Statement, by the Women’s Peace Network – 8 March 2025

This International Women’s Day, we, Women’s Peace Network, reaffirm our solidarity with our fellow women in Myanmar and across the world, and call for comprehensive

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Articles

Why This Mizrahi Feminist Movement Is Disbanding – But Not Disappearing, by Nathalie Rozanes – 28 February 2025

Shovrot Kirot aimed to bring together marginalized communities in Israel to build a new political force. But facing funding shortfalls and internal divisions after Oct.

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Statements

Support the ASHA Workers’ Strike in Kerala: An Appeal to Women’s Organisations, Trade Unions, and Malayalis around the World – 23 February 2025

The ASHA workers’ strike in Kerala is entering its third week. We are appalled by the CPI(M)-led government’s apathy and the disgusting ignorance of the

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Articles

A Year in Patriarchy: Key Setbacks in Yemeni Women’s Rights in 2024, by Bilqees Al-Lahbi, Lara Uhlenhaut, Rim Mugahed – 4 February 2025

Away from the Red Sea crisis that dominated the headlines of 2024, the space for female political and social actors in Yemen has continued to

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Articles

Pluralizing Social Reproduction Approaches, by Alessandra Mezzadri, Shirin M. Rai, Sara Stevano, Donatella Alessandrini, Hannah Bargawi, Juanita Elias, Shireen Hassim, Surbhi Kesar, Jayanthi Thiyaga Lingham, Serena Natile, Neetha N., Lyn Ossome, Parvati Raghuram, Dzodzi Tsikata & Stefanie Wöhl – 03 February 2025

Abstract The concept of social reproduction (SR) has gained renewed interest in the past decade. Discussed and elaborated by generations of feminists, the concept offers

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Reports

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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Articles

The Reactionary Turn in Popular Feminism, by Jilly Boyce Kay – 18 August 2024

Jilly Boyce Kay is a scholar of Media and Cultural Studies, specialising in feminist theory. This article first appeared in Feminist Media Studies Volume 25,

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Articles

Othering, Peaking, Populism and Moral Panics: The Reactionary Strategies of Organised Transphobia, by Fran Amery and Aurelien Mondon – 16 April 2024

This article was first published in The Sociological Review.

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Articles

Women’s Liberation Mustn’t Stop at Either Side of the Gaza Fence, by Samah Salaime – 22 December 2023

From +972 Magazine Feminist principles compel us to stand with both the Palestinian women being slaughtered in Gaza and the Israeli women testifying about sexual

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Statements

Hamas-Israel War: Feminism Cannot Be Used to Relativize the Violence Suffered by Jews – 13 December 2023

Having worked for years on the fronts of feminism, anti-racism and the fight against discrimination based on colour, colonisation, gender identity or sexual orientation, we

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Articles

(En)Countering epistemic imperialism: A critique of “Westsplaining” and coloniality in dominant debates on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, by Tereza Hendl, Olga Burlyuk, Mila O’Sullivan & Aizada Arystanbek – 4 December 2023

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Interviews Podcasts

The “Transsexual Empire”. Interview with Susan Stryker – 25 September 2023

Often considered the ur-text of trans-exclusionary feminism, Janice Raymond’s “The Transsexual Empire” came out in 1979, but rehearses a bunch of tropes you could just

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Articles

The Crisis of Social Reproduction and ‘Made-In-China’ Feminism, by Yige Dong – 1 November 2021

Yige Dong is Assistant Professor of Sociology and Global Gender & Sexuality Studies at University at Buffalo, State University of New York. She co-authored ‘What

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Articles

Beauty and Belonging in West Papua, by Terje Toomistu – 3 May 2021

Five hours before the opening of the West Papuan waria beauty pageant, the salon of the Sorong community elders was busy with preparations. Among 10

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The enemy’s enemy: feminism at the crossroads of neoliberal co-optation and anti-gender conservatism, by Jenny Gunnarsson Peyne and Sofie Tornhill – 6 May, 2021

Contemporary left-wing feminist and queer politics finds itself in a double-bind between on the one hand neoliberal and corporate embracement of gender equality and sexual

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The Quiet Feminist Revolution in Arab Society in Israel, by Samah Salaime – 8 March 2018

From +972 Magazine Despite the hardships, Arab women are making gains in the Israeli legal establishment, local politics, academia, and even in the Islamic Movement. 

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Towards a Materialist Approach to the Racial Question. A Response to the ‘Indigènes de la République’, by Malika Amaouche, Yasmine Kateb and Léa Nicolas-Teboul – 30 June 2015

The ‘Indigènes de la République’ have helped make visible a racism of the left, one rooted in the pervasive racism consubstantial with French society —

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