🇲🇰 📕 FEPS was in North Macedonia to discuss the upcoming policy study “European populism and #AntiGender narratives”.
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Moderator - Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah is a communications strategist, facilitator, and writer with over 20 years of experience working with global feminist organisations and social movements. She is Co-Founder and Co-Director of the Institute of Journalism and Social Change and leads MAKEDA PR, a feminist communications agency. She is also the author of The Sex Lives of African Women and Seeking Sexual Freedom: African Rites, Rituals and Sankofa in the Bedroom.
Speaker - Diakhoumba Gassama is a Senegalese-Belgian Pan-African feminist and human rights advocate with over 20 years of global experience advancing gender justice, migration rights, and inclusive governance. She has held leadership roles with Amnesty International and the Association for Women’s Rights in Development (AWID), and currently works with a U.S.-based philanthropic foundation.
Speaker - Heather Benjamin is the inaugural Director of the Nebula Fund, with a background spanning philanthropy, global policy advocacy, and grassroots activism. She previously spent a decade with the Open Society Foundations’ Public Health Program, where she worked on global HIV financing and sexual and reproductive health and rights. Her work has focused on supporting activists responding to transnational anti-gender movements and advancing funding and policies for SRHR, sex worker rights, and LGBTQI+ justice.
Speaker - Ana Ines Abelenda is a Latinx feminist from Brazil and Uruguay with over 20 years of experience advancing social and economic justice and supporting feminist movements across the Global South. Before joining Noor as Organizing Lead, she spent more than a decade at the Association for Women's Rights in Development (AWID) working on feminist economic justice, care economies, and labor rights. Her work focuses on building collective strategies to resist authoritarianism and advance systemic change.
(2/3): Join us for the launch of a new report exposing how #BigTech-linked philanthropy has quietly funded #antirights and #antigender movements worldwide. Our speakers will unpack how these funding networks strengthen #farright influence and what this means for our movements. #CSW70
Just saw today that my article w/Jelena Ceriman 'From Gender Re-Traditionalizations to #AntiGender Mobilizations: Care for Family in Serbia and Croatia' is the 3rd most cited article in last 3yrs in East European Politics and Societies. It's open OA so you can read it too!
doi.org/10.1177/0888...
If you are interested in #AntiGender issues discussed in the OA book below, follow & join @antigenderpolitics.bsky.social! Many chapter authors are members too!
Not all homeschooling parents share this ideology, but next time you meet someone who homeschools, wonder: are they anti-gender?
#famiglianelbosco #homeschooler #homeschoollife #farright #antigender #gender #christians
Please, consider applying to this PhD #scholarship opportunity to research #GenAI, #bots, #antigender content, and #misogynisticradicalisation and work with our colleague, Dr @katkrulisova.bsky.social. Link 👉 www.ntu.ac.uk/study-and-co...
MEET THE MENTORS. Feminist Journalist Fellowship.
(1/2): ✨ Meet the mentors of #FeministJournalistFellowship: Journalism as Resistance!
These incredible storytellers driving change will guide our fellows as they investigate fascist & fundamentalist movements, counter #antigender propaganda & amplify frontline voices across the #GlobalSouth.
#symposium #Research #GenderStudies #intersectionnality #socialmovements #femonationalism #homonationalism #antigender #genderedpolitics
#symposium #Research #GenderStudies #intersectionnality #socialmovements #femonationalism #homonationalism #antigender #genderedpolitics
🌈 #GenderingDemocracy No.29
In 2024, #Georgia adopted a new #FamilyValuesBill that mirrors Russia’s ‘gay #Propaganda’ ban.
⚖️ Alexander Kondakov & Sandro Tabatadze explore how this law blends Russian-inspired #AntiGender policies with homegrown political logic.
➡️ bit.ly/4gKVoKg
Noor Popular Education School - Know Your Enemy. Session 3: Infiltration and Conferencing: Investigating the geopolitical ambitions that drive covert operations and strategic gatherings
Global Networks & Core Strategies Anti-gender movements are not isolated. They are: Transnational networks with significant funding and political influence Coordinated through “alliances” of religious and political actors United by the concept of “gender ideology,” used to undermine human rights Active in multilateral spaces like the UN, shaping global policy debates
Narratives & Influence These movements advance by: Glorifying a “traditional past” while framing equality as a threat Spreading narratives of victimhood, fear, and conspiracy Using global platforms to expand reach and build legitimacy Narratives matter: they shape public opinion, policy, and lived realities.
Contested Spaces & Resistance Multilateral institutions (like the UN) are key battlegrounds: Anti-gender actors stigmatize these spaces while also working inside them They block progress by reframing debates and stalling negotiations. Activists face the challenge of limited resources vs. well-funded opposition, requiring both strategic responses and solidarity.
On Sept 12, Noor’s #KnowYourEnemy School dove into #antigender movements as #transnationalnetworks framing “gender ideology” as threat, forging unholy alliances & waging battles at the UN.
We reflected on their narratives, risks for activists & need for solidarity + creative resistance.
#NoorSchool
Want to effectively counter anti-gender extremism narratives?
GATE developed a toolkit and a training to guide you: gate.ngo/knowledge-p...
Share it widely!
#trans #transgender #antigender #democracy #socialjustice #humanrights
Want to understand the real impact of anti-gender movement, both globally and regionally?
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If you don't know yet what anti-gender movements are, follow here: gate.ngo/knowledge-p...
#trans #transgender #antigender #democracy #socialjustice #humanrights
⚖️ From under-representation to #antigender backlash, #inequality still shapes who has a voice in #Europe.
⚧️The #express2EU project examines #GenderInequality where laws fall short and how to rebuild an #inclusive #SocialContract for #allgenders.
👉 https://express2project.eu/en/gender-inequality
#SaveTheDate #snacklab #seeffield #antigender #genderrights #antigendermovement #southeasteurope #reasearch #talk #sciencetalk #uniregensburg
Why is that so? My hypothesis is that anti-gender groups are populist and they say "the elites" as imposing certain ideologies about gender. They also see "the elites" regulating health like vaccines and mandates to stay home during pandemics
#WHO #Pandemic #gender #antigender #religion #CitizenGO
Really proud of this one: The first article of my postdoc project on the #farright #antigender protest and #mainstreaming is now properly out and page-numbered in @europeansocieties.bsky.social 🗞️ 🥳
And open access! lnkd.in/e6DXbqDj
@feps-europe.eu @ceudeminst.bsky.social @weareceu.bsky.social
Read my article on #antigender #movements
feps-europe.eu/what-is-the-...
Who is fueling global anti-gender movements? And what role do African anti-gender politics play in wider transnational far right advocacy?
I sat down for a pod with UNRISD to talk geopolitics, narrative power, and the urgent need for organized outrage! #antigender #US #Africa #UN
Reminder: This upcoming event with @lawtransform.bsky.social at @bergenglobal.bsky.social: 6 May, 14.15. @haleymcewen.bsky.social & Jon Braddy will talk to Kari Jegerstedt about the Trump administration's #antigender strategy and its broader implications for #academicfreedom. #standupforscience
I BT i dag er senterleiaren vår intervjua om ein av konsekvensane av Trump sin anti-genderpolitikk: Florida Gulf Coast University avlyste nyleg eit digitalt utvekslingsemne om #skeiv teori som skulle haldast der og ved @unibergen.bsky.social til hausten. Les saka under (for abonnentar) #antigender
Anti-gender assaults on the field of Gender and Sexuality Studies have increased dramatically since Trump took office. If you’re in Bergen, register to join this important and timely conversation. #antigender #academicfreedom #genderstudies
Thank you for creating safe spaces for #queer researchers in these challenging #antigender, #antiqueer, #antidemocratic, and #progenocide times!
How do #AntiGender movements differ around the world?
Transnational Anti-Gender Politics: Feminist Solidarity in Times of Global Attack ed. Aiko Holvikivi @lsegender.bsky.social, Billy Holzberg @tiojeda.bsky.social @ceg-unil.bsky.social reviewd on @lsereviewofbooks.bsky.social.
By removing policies safeguarding trans people, they make it easier for harassment, doxxing & digital violence to thrive. At the same time, #AntiGender & #AntiRights movements are gaining momentum across the globe. If we're going to keep occupying these spaces, we need to talk about what that means.
Noor at CSW69 11/03 4:30 PM Financing Fascism & Fundamentalism - Corporate Funding Flows Sowing Hate Noor & IJSC 17/03 8 AM No Going Back on Gender Justice: Organizing against Anti-Gender Rights Backlash Noor & JASS 18/03 8:30 AM Seeking just futures: Reflecting on criminalization and the gender justice agenda at Beijing+30 Noor, JFC, APC & INTERSEX ASIA. More details coming soon
✨ Save the Dates! ✨
Noor is thrilled to be co-organizing three events at #CSW69!
📍 Two in-person events
💻 One virtual event
Join us as we dive into critical conversations on #Fascism & #Fundamentalism, #AntiGender rights, criminalization & #GenderJustice. More details coming soon🔥
#NoorAtCSW69
