#GenderingDemocracy
All month long, at the @ecprtheloop.bsky.social series on #GenderingDemocracy🌈, we’re marking 8 March – International Women’s Day with a series of special pieces on feminism, gender, and democracy.

Stay tuned throughout March!

#IWD2026
March 6, 2026 at 2:40 PM
Glad to start this new adventure in such a good company!
Laura, @pcaravantes.bsky.social and I are happy to receive submissions! Do you want to contribute to #GenderingDemocracy 🌈and have idea, data, opinion you want to share? Write to us!
Self-promotion 👍🏽, especially from early career scholars 🔝
In 2023, The Loop launched its 🌈 #GenderingDemocracy series, led by Conny Roggeband & Andrea Krizsan. The two have now handed the reins to a fresh team: @pcaravantes.bsky.social, Laura Eigenmann & @francescafeo.bsky.social, who are keen to receive submissions! @ecprgender.bsky.social
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🌈 New scholars at the helm for The Loop’s Gendering Democracy series
European Consortium for Political Research
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December 16, 2025 at 12:19 AM
In 2023, The Loop launched its 🌈 #GenderingDemocracy series, led by Conny Roggeband & Andrea Krizsan. The two have now handed the reins to a fresh team: @pcaravantes.bsky.social, Laura Eigenmann & @francescafeo.bsky.social, who are keen to receive submissions! @ecprgender.bsky.social
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🌈 New scholars at the helm for The Loop’s Gendering Democracy series
European Consortium for Political Research
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December 10, 2025 at 3:23 PM
All month long, at the @ecprtheloop.bsky.social
series on #GenderingDemocracy🌈, we’re marking 8 March – International Women’s Day with a series of special pieces on feminism, gender, and democracy.

Stay tuned throughout March!
#IWD2026
🌈 #GenderingDemocracy No. 36
🪧 For decades, activists have worked to end gender-based violence through grassroots organising, legal challenges + public education.
📱But research by Eiman Alabdulghani shows that the digital world represents a powerful new frontier.
#IWD2026
👉 bit.ly/4riwwwZ
🌈 Digital activism: reshaping the fight against gender-based violence
For decades, activists have worked to end gender-based violence through grassroots organising, legal challenges, and public education. But Eiman Alabdulghani’s research suggests that the digital world...
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March 7, 2026 at 7:46 AM
🌈 #GenderingDemocracy No.53
📋 Decisions about what governments collect and publish can shape more than statistics.
🗂️ Sebastián León-Giraldo argues public knowledge is part of democratic infrastructure.
📊 When states make some populations harder to see, they exacerbate inequality.
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🌈 Gender, public knowledge, and democratic backsliding
Political decisions about what governments collect, publish and use can shape more than statistics. Sebastián León-Giraldo argues that public knowledge is part of democratic infrastructure. When state...
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October 1, 2026 at 9:02 AM
🌈 #GenderingDemocracy No.26
♀️ #IWD25
🗳️ A study by @hildecoffe.bsky.social & colleagues on the 2024 legislative elections in Belgium reveals how sexist attacks, stereotypes & dismissals are damaging careers of women candidates, silencing their voices & discouraging future leaders.
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🌈 Sexism in politics: a barrier to women’s representation
Sexism in politics restricts women’s participation and weakens democracy. A study by Hilde Coffé and colleagues on the 2024 legislative elections in Belgium reveals the impact of sexist attacks, stere...
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March 13, 2025 at 9:19 AM
🌈 #GenderingDemocracy No.24
♀️ #IWD2025
#ExtractiveIndustries threaten land and lives in the Amazon. But #Indigenous women are not just resisting destruction — they are transforming political systems and shaping the future of environmental democratic governance, writes
Camila Montero
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🌈 Indigenous women defending land and democracy in the Amazon rainforest
Across the Amazon, Indigenous women are at the forefront of the fight for democracy, environmental justice, and human rights. In a world where extractive industries threaten their land and lives, they...
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March 11, 2025 at 9:48 AM
🌈 #GenderingDemocracy No.39
👭 Feminists all over Europe embrace solidarity as a form of political dissent + face systematic repression as a result.
🪧 Yet, Marta Rawłuszko of @ecprgender.bsky.social argues, they continue to resist + offer political alternatives to capitalist logics.
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🌈 Feminist solidarities in times of chronic crisis
Feminists all over Europe embrace solidarity as a form of political dissent – and face systematic repression as a result. Yet, Marta Rawłuszko argues, they continue to resist and offer deeply politica...
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April 14, 2026 at 9:33 AM
🌈 #GenderingDemocracy No.41
📈 #GenderEquality is rising in parliaments, cabinets + party leadership.
🔎 But Catherine Bolzendahl & @hildecoffe.bsky.social argue that we need to look beyond elite politics, to explore how ordinary women + men take part in democratic life.
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🌈 Rethinking gendered participation in European democracies
For decades, European democracies have celebrated rising gender equality in parliaments, cabinets, and party leadership. These gains matter. But if we look only at elite politics, argue Catherine Bolz...
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April 28, 2026 at 8:22 AM
🌈 #GenderingDemocracy No.25
♀️ #IWD25
The new German Bundestag will be smaller, more right-wing wing & more male-dominated. @corinnakroeber.bsky.social & @lenastephan.bsky.social discuss the potential long-term consequences for women’s political representation in Germany.
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🌈 How a new electoral reform has pushed women out of the Bundestag
The new German Bundestag will be smaller and more right-wing wing. And it will be more male-dominated. Corinna Kröber and Lena Stephan discuss how the political shift to the right and the new electora...
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March 12, 2025 at 9:31 AM
🌈#GenderingDemocracy No.22
🇺🇸 Donald Trump's executive order on #GenderIdentity is in danger of crossing the border into Canada.
🇨🇦 Elie Kallab reveals how American cultural battles threaten to fundamentally alter Canada's democratic landscape.
#IWD2025
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🌈 How American gender politics is reshaping Canadian democracy
As Donald Trump's executive order on gender identity sends shockwaves through North America, Conservative Party of Canada Leader Pierre Poilievre's
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March 7, 2025 at 9:52 AM
🌈 #GenderingDemocracy No.38
💭 Political analysis often conceptualises religion as a conservative force opposed to #GenderRights, incompatible with feminist politics. @albertagiorgi.bsky.social explores a growing body of research that challenges this assumption. #IWD2026
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🌈 Why we need to gender political analysis of religion
Political analysis often conceptualises religion as a conservative force opposed to gender rights, incompatible with feminist politics and progressive change. Yet a growing body of research on religio...
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March 18, 2026 at 9:35 AM
💐 Have you seen the ♀️ International Women's Day takeover on @ecprtheloop.bsky.social?

Dive into the 🌈 #GenderingDemocracy series, featuring blog pieces that examine the gendered aspects of democratic erosion around the world

👀 Stay tuned for more this week!

#IWD2025 #AccelerateAction #Polisky
The Loop | 🌈 Gendering Democracy Series
Examining the gendered aspects of democratic erosion around the world
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March 10, 2025 at 9:00 AM
🌈 #GenderingDemocracy
🪖 US far-right & #manosphere influencers have appeared at Russian state-linked events and in military propaganda
🤝 Anya Kuteleva of @ecprgender.bsky.social reveals how
Russia offers legitimacy, while the anti-gender right recasts authoritarianism as culture war bit.ly/4vNOxGr
🌈 Russia's anti-gender Internationale: Western culture warriors in Moscow
In June 2026, US far right figures and manosphere influencers appeared at Russian state-linked events and in military propaganda. These moments, argues Anna Kuteleva, reveal a mutually beneficial alli...
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July 8, 2026 at 8:34 AM
🌈 #GenderingDemocracy No.50
💭 #AntiGender politics is an epistemic conflict as much as a political one, generating political fatigue among researchers in the field.
😴 We must address such fatigue through distance + collective reflection, argues @massimoprearo.bsky.social #Pride2026
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🌈 The political fatigue of doing feminist and queer research in anti-gender times
Anti-gender politics does not only attack rights. It attacks the knowledge that makes those rights intelligible. Massimo Prearo argues that anti-gender politics is an epistemic conflict as much as a p...
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July 2, 2026 at 10:07 AM
🌈 #GenderingDemocracy No.32
✍️ To kickstart a new round of blogs in the series @pcaravantes.bsky.social, Laura Eigenmann and @francescafeo.bsky.social recap the discussion so far, explaining why we need to keep gender at the centre of research on the politics of our time.
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🌈 Why gendering democracy matters now, more than ever
To kickstart a new round of blogs in the Gendering Democracy series, Paloma Caravantes, Laura Eigenmann and Francesca Feo recap the discussion so far, explaining why we need to keep gender at the cent...
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December 2, 2025 at 9:32 AM
🌈#GenderingDemocracy No.21
🗣️ Far-right politicians around the world have mastered the art of epistemic warfare, threatening academic freedom. Iris B. Segers reflects on the challenges of feminist resistance 🫸 to a bizarre political reality rife with lies.
#IWD2025
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🌈 Lies, damned lies, and the far right
Far-right politicians around the world have mastered the art of epistemic warfare, posing a serious threat to academic freedom. Iris B. Segers reflects on the challenges of feminist resistance to a bi...
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March 6, 2025 at 9:22 AM
🌈 #GenderingDemocracy No.44
🤝 #Belgium often prides itself on being an LGBTQ-friendly country, yet anti-trans activists hide their #Transphobia behind superficial pro-trans statements.
🪧 Rylan Verlooy explores how this paradox affects trans people’s activism.
🏳️‍⚧️ #IDAHOT
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🌈 Who really cares for trans lives in an 'LGBTQ-friendly' country?
Belgium often prides itself on being an LGBTQ-friendly country, yet anti-trans activists hide their transphobia behind superficial pro-trans statements. Rylan Verlooy explores how this paradox affects...
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May 19, 2026 at 9:26 AM
🌈 #GenderingDemocracy No.52
👩‍⚖️ A recent ruling in the case of a Slovak journalist who suffered years of online abuse is a stark reminder of widespread gendered violence against women in public life.
⚠️ This form of violence puts democracies at risk, argues @michalkojanv.bsky.social.
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🌈 Online violence against women in public life threatens democracy
A recent ruling in the case of a Slovak journalist who suffered years of online abuse is a stark reminder of widespread gendered violence against women in public life. Ján Michalko argues that this fo...
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September 17, 2026 at 8:16 AM
🌈 #GenderingDemocracy No.46
🗣️ Reactionary gender politics are not the preserve only of the far right.
↘️↙️ @romainbiesemans.bsky.social & @archibaldgustin.bsky.social show how conservative and far-right parties in Spain and Belgium converge in their opposition to #GenderEquality.
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🌈 Conservative parties against gender equality
Reactionary gender politics are not the preserve only of the far right. Through a comparison between Belgium and Spain, Romain Biesemans and Archibald Gustin show how conservative and far-right partie...
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June 18, 2026 at 9:37 AM
🌈#GenderingDemocracy No.37
👩‍👩‍👦 A #RadicalFeminist politics of kinship asks us to interrogate the roots of how we live together: how we form families + share resources. At stake, says @victorhugoramirez.bsky.social isn't just #GenderEquality but the future of democracy itself. #IWD2026
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🌈 A radical feminist kinship for democratic futures
A radical feminist politics of kinship asks us to interrogate the roots of how we live together: how we form families, share resources, and imagine belonging. At stake, says Víctor Hugo Ramírez García...
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March 5, 2026 at 11:02 AM
🌈 #GenderingDemocracy No.35
👨‍👩‍👧 Authoritarian populists are pushing a 'family in crisis' narrative. @basakakkan.bsky.social & Tuğçe Erçetin argue that ‘familyism’ ideology underpins pronatalist care politics aimed at restoring the patriarchal sexual contract.
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🌈 ‘Familyism’ and the remaking of care politics in authoritarian populism
In response to shifting gender hierarchies and demographic anxieties, authoritarian populists are pushing a 'family in crisis' narrative. Başak Akkan and Tuğçe Erçetin argue that ‘familyism’ ideology ...
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February 23, 2026 at 10:52 AM
🌈 #GenderingDemocracy No.40
🌍️ Susana Galán & Tutku Ayhan of @ecprgender.bsky.social explore why existing theoretical frameworks are not helpful for studying #AntiGender politics in the #SouthwestAsia + #NorthAfrica region, and offer alternatives to tackle the phenomenon.
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🌈 Anti-gender politics in Southwest Asia and North Africa
Theoretical frameworks dominating the study of anti-gender politics both enable and constrain our understanding of the phenomenon. Susana Galán and Tutku Ayhan argue that the existing frameworks are n...
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April 22, 2026 at 8:12 AM
🌈 #GenderingDemocracy No.34
💻️ Followers of the Hindu nationalist #Hindutva movement are using AI-generated pornographic images to degrade Indian Muslim women. Their tactics, argues @sonias26.bsky.social, serve the movement’s wider drive to humiliate India’s Muslim community.
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​​​🌈 Hindu nationalists are targeting Muslim women via AI porn
Followers of the ‘Hindutva’ Hindu nationalist movement are using AI-generated pornographic images to degrade Indian Muslim women – including public figures. Their tactics, argues Sonia Sarkar, serve t...
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February 17, 2026 at 9:19 AM
🌈 #GenderingDemocracy No. 36
🪧 For decades, activists have worked to end gender-based violence through grassroots organising, legal challenges + public education.
📱But research by Eiman Alabdulghani shows that the digital world represents a powerful new frontier.
#IWD2026
👉 bit.ly/4riwwwZ
🌈 Digital activism: reshaping the fight against gender-based violence
For decades, activists have worked to end gender-based violence through grassroots organising, legal challenges, and public education. But Eiman Alabdulghani’s research suggests that the digital world...
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March 5, 2026 at 9:28 AM