#GenderingDemocracy
🌈 #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.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
🪖 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.49
👨‍⚖️ A Nigerian High Court has declared parts of the country's #SameSexMarriage (Prohibition) Act unconstitutional.
🏳️‍🌈 Matthew Gichohi, @ayosogunro.bsky.social + Liv Tønnessen argue queer rights are eroded through bureaucracy, not legislation. #Pride2026
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🌈 Queer rights in Nigeria: the bureaucracy of survival
Nigerian queer activists have achieved a High Court ruling declaring parts of the country's Same-Sex Marriage (Prohibition) Act unconstitutional. Yet registrars, banks, police, and landlords are refus...
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July 2, 2026 at 9:18 AM
🌈 #GenderingDemocracy No.48
🏳️‍🌈 Amid rising far-right + anti-gender movements, many LGBTQAI+ people worry about the future of #Pride events. @frammaturo.bsky.social reveals that throughout its history, Pride has reflected many different visions of activism + community. #PrideMonth
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🌈 The conflictual politics of Pride events
Amid the rise of far-right and anti-gender movements, and given growing internal conflicts and divisions, many LGBTQAI+ people worry about the future of Pride events. But Francesca Romana Ammaturo rev...
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June 22, 2026 at 9:51 AM
🌈 #GenderingDemocracy No.47
🌍️ In countries across Europe, #Pride events celebrating LGBTQ visibility face threats of violence. This, warns @sabinedvolk.bsky.social, reveals the transnationalisation of far-right activism + the mainstreaming of queer-hostile discourse. #Pride2026
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🌈 Pride under pressure from the far right
In countries across Europe, Pride events celebrating LGBTQI visibility face threats of violence. This, warns Sabine Volk reveals the transnationalisation of far-right activism and the mainstreaming of...
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June 22, 2026 at 8:34 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.45
🗣️ @krishogl.bsky.social, @annikabjorkdahl.bsky.social & @johannamannergren.bsky.social show how women's testimonies have transformed the way the world recognises wartime violence.
📃 Despite this, women remain marginal to many accounts of conflict.
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🌈 From silence to accountability: the power of women’s war testimonies
As reports of gendered violence emerge from Gaza, Sudan, Ukraine and elsewhere, a crucial question remains: whose stories shape our understanding of war? Annika Björkdahl, Kristine Höglund and Johanna...
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June 12, 2026 at 8:24 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.43
🔎 What do battles over #GenderEquality reveal about the state of multilateral democracy?
♀️ Serena Fiorletta draws on her participation at the UN's Commission on the Status of Women in NYC to show how shifting rules point to a deeper political crisis.
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🌈 Gender battles and the crisis of multilateral democracy
What do battles over gender equality reveal about the state of multilateral democracy? Drawing on her participation at the UN's Commission on the Status of Women in New York, Serena Fiorletta shows ho...
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May 13, 2026 at 8:30 AM
🌈 #GenderingDemocracy No.42
⚖️ On 21 April, the European Court of Justice delivered a landmark ruling that Hungary’s anti-LGBTQ+ law is incompatible with #EU values.
🔎 @kslootmaeckers.bsky.social analyses the Court’s ruling + its wider implications beyond #Hungary.
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🌈 The European Court of Justice's Hungary judgement and what it means for LGBTQ+ rights
On 21 April 2026 the European Court of Justice delivered a landmark ruling, arguing that Hungary’s anti-LGBTQ+ law, in dehumanising LGBTIQ+ people, is incompatible with EU values. Koen Slootmaeckers a...
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May 6, 2026 at 8:15 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.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.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.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
🌈 #GenderingDemocracy No.37
⚖️ Germany recently passed incremental liberalisations to its abortion law. Yet access to abortion remains under threat, with far-right forces blocking it. Lisa Brünig explains how these processes are symptomatic of broader #DemocraticBacksliding. #IWD2026
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🌈 Abortion law reform in Germany amid democratic backsliding
Germany recently passed incremental liberalisations to its abortion law. Yet access to abortion remains under threat, and far-right and conservative forces blocked its partial legalisation. Lisa Brüni...
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March 10, 2026 at 9:25 AM
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
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🌈 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
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
🌈#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. 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
🌈 #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.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.33
💭 #DigitalViolence research must account for its metapolitical dimension.
🗣️ @ilheenk.bsky.social of @ecprgender.bsky.social reveals how proponents of the far-right metapolitical project are shaping public discourse to fit their anti-democratic interests. 👉 bit.ly/4j3e4pL
🌈 Metapolitical digital wars on gender, race, and queer life
Research on digital violence must account for its metapolitical dimension. Silvia Díaz Fernández reveals how proponents of the far-right metapolitical project are shaping public discourse to fit their...
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December 19, 2025 at 9:25 AM
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