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(2/2): A huge thank you to our brilliant speakers and everyone who joined us for this important conversation. 💜

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Roots of Hate: Fascist and Fundamentalist Narratives and Actors in the Caribbean - Noor
This report examines how anti-gender and anti-rights movements are expanding across the region within a broader context of imperialism, authoritarianism, racial capitalism and ongoing crisis. Building...
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September 21, 2026 at 8:37 AM
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(3/3): Read the full #RootsOfHate in the #Caribbean report here: wearenoor.org/roots-of-hat...

#NoorResearch #QueerCaribbean #TransCaribbean #DecolonialFutures #CollectiveLiberation
Roots of Hate: Fascist and Fundamentalist Narratives and Actors in the Caribbean - Noor
This report examines how anti-gender and anti-rights movements are expanding across the region within a broader context of imperialism, authoritarianism, racial capitalism and ongoing crisis. Building...
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August 31, 2026 at 2:41 PM
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(2/3): Hear directly from activists and experts as we connect the dots between anti-rights organising, its impacts, and the resistance taking shape across the Caribbean.

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Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Roots of Hate: Caribbean – virtual global launch. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.
A virtual global launch hosted by Noor and invited Caribbean movement speakers for a presentation and discussion of the legal, financial, ideological and organisational infrastructures shaping anti-ge...
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August 31, 2026 at 2:41 PM
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(1/3): Meet our speakers! 📣

Join us on 2 Sept for the global launch of #RootsOfHate, bringing together voices from across the #Caribbean to unpack the forces driving #antirights & #antigender movements across the region.
Zoë Mercedes Teague: Zoë Mercedes Teague is a multi-faceted bold Queeribbean (queer + Caribbean) woman. She was born, raised and educated in the twin-island state of Antigua & Barbuda and then moved onto Barbados and Jamaica where she pursued her legal studies.  She describes herself as a “Jane of many trades” as she is an accomplished lawyer, creative entrepreneur, gender justice and LGBTQI+ activist, content creator, public speaker, writer, narrative change practitioner, black feminist, philanthropy professional and deeply passionate about the Caribbean region. This multi-dimensionality shines through her work and gives her a unique vantage point in which she approaches every opportunity. A key part of Zoë’s life and work is centered around gratitude. She is the creator of the mantra “life nice. Thank you, more please.” which has grown from mantra to movement, inspiring many others to shift their perspective and see life through a more expansive lens. It is all of this passion, lived experience and dynamism that Zoe brings to her intervention, this panel discussion and to life, more broadly. Patrice Daniel: Patrice Daniel is an Afro-Caribbean feminist and Psychotherapist from Barbados. She holds a B.A. in Psychology and a Master's in Clinical Mental Health Counselling from Vermont, USA. Her academic background is rooted in anti-oppression teachings, focusing on dismantling white supremacy and cisheteropatriarchy. Having minored in Sociology and Anthropology, she locates the individual person within the wider socio-cultural context. Patrice’s recent work has included supporting gender-focused research, advising within world health systems, and organising around Global South feminism as a distinct political identity. She has a significant history in social justice, particularly in sexual and reproductive justice and combating gender-based violence. As a feminist and anti-racist practitioner, Patrice creates participatory workshops, guides student research, and challenges regional and international organisations to engage in anti-colonial work. Judith Wedderburn: Ms. Judith Wedderburn is the recently retired Director of Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, (FES) Jamaica and the Eastern Caribbean, and for over 30 years, has been an advocate in the field of gender and development in Jamaica and the wider Caribbean. Ms. Wedderburn was responsible for the conceptual development of education and training programmes, and the design and implementation of diverse “learning experiences”, which involved the use of conventional as well as participatory methodologies. These programmes were developed in collaboration with a diverse range of partners in civil society, the public sector, trade unions and the academic community, nationally and regionally. Nastassia Rambarran: Nastassia Rambarran (she/her) is a Guyanese Barbadian researcher, activist and writer whose work focuses on LGBTQ+ history and health, human rights, decoloniality, and climate and gender justice.
August 31, 2026 at 2:41 PM
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(1/3): 📣 Save the date: Roots of Hate is launching globally!

Join Noor and Caribbean movement organisers for the virtual global launch of Roots of Hate — unpacking the forces shaping anti-gender and anti-rights movements across the Caribbean.

#RootsOfHate #NoorResearch
JOIN US FOR THE VIRTUAL GLOBAL LAUNCH OF ROOTS OF HATE: FASCIST AND FUNDAMENTALIST NARRATIVES AND ACTORS IN THE Caribbean Wednesday, 2 September 2026 5:00 PM Beirut/ 2:00 PM UTC/ 10:00 AM Guyana French & Spanish interpretation available
August 21, 2026 at 5:10 PM
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(3/3): This report maps these connections and their consequences across the region, offering evidence and analysis on the actors, narratives, and systems at work.

Read the full report: wearenoor.org/roots-of-hat...

#RootsOfHate #Caribbean #NoorResearch
Roots of Hate: Fascist and Fundamentalist Narratives and Actors in the Caribbean - Noor
This report examines how anti-gender and anti-rights movements are expanding across the region within a broader context of imperialism, authoritarianism, racial capitalism and ongoing crisis. Building...
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June 19, 2026 at 12:14 PM
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(1/3): Our latest #RootsOfHate mapping report explores how anti-rights and exclusionary movements shape law, public discourse, and everyday life across the #Caribbean. These dynamics are not abstract; they have real political & social consequences for communities across the region.
Roots of Hate: Fascist and Fundamentalist Narratives and Actors in the Caribbean - Consequences in the Region On the region in crisis “This mapping is being published while a region is in crisis, and the crisis is not singular. Cuba is enduring the intensified suffocation of a renewed U.S. embargo, Haiti is facing the worst humanitarian catastrophe in the Western Hemisphere, while Jamaica, Cuba, the Dominican Republic and Haiti are still rebuilding from the October 2025 Hurricane Melissa.” On the consequences in the Caribbean “The consequences are not abstract. They translate into court cases defending colonial-era anti-sodomy laws, regional conferences, billboards greeting delegates at regional summits, and legislation banning gender-affirming care.”
June 19, 2026 at 12:14 PM
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(1/3): #RootsOfHate - Caribbean report maps how anti-rights movements are structured, funded & coordinated across borders. It examines how power operates through transnational networks, strategic funding, political influence, & coordinated messaging to challenge advances in gender and sexual rights.
Roots of Hate: Fascist and Fundamentalist Narratives and Actors in the Caribbean - How Anti-Rights Power Operates On the natural family “The ‘natural family' is a dog whistle for white supremacist values.” On extractivism “Extractivism is a key tool in colonial and neocolonial projects.”
June 17, 2026 at 12:51 PM
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Thrilled to launch Roots of Hate: Fascist & Fundamentalist Narratives & Actors in the Caribbean—3rd in Noor’s #RootsOfHate series!

Mapping anti-gender & anti-rights movements across the #Caribbean amid imperialism, authoritarianism, racial capitalism & climate crisis.

wearenoor.org/roots-of-hat...
Roots of Hate: Fascist and Fundamentalist Narratives and Actors in the Caribbean - Noor
This report examines how anti-gender and anti-rights movements are expanding across the region within a broader context of imperialism, authoritarianism, racial capitalism and ongoing crisis. Building...
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May 20, 2026 at 10:59 AM
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(1/2): In “Normalised Invisibility – The Path Towards Exclusion,” Tasaffy Hossain shows how women’s absence in #Bangladesh public spaces isn’t incidental — it’s manufactured, normalised, and quietly upheld.

#SouthAsia #RootsOfHate #FeministResistance #WomenRising #ResistanceMatters #HerStory
“Visibility is a key characteristic of what enables representation and access to ‘publicness’.” “The true tragedy of this story is that if you ask most people in Bangladesh about this, especially men, they will tell you they have not noticed or considered this as something to take note of.” “Men still largely view women in public, economic, political, and service roles as an add-on, not a basic right or earned position.”
February 18, 2026 at 3:13 PM
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📢 Noor is hiring!

We are seeking researchers for our #RootsOfHate mapping in #SouthernAfrica — analysing authoritarian resurgence, anti-gender campaigns, extractivism & racial capitalism - amplifying feminist alternatives.

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Call for researcher. Roots of Hate, Souther Africa. Application deadline: 15 Jan 2026.
November 27, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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(2/2): Her courage reflects a long history of Indonesian women resisting repression, corruption & inequality — breaking silence with unyielding strength.

Read here: wearenoor.org/womens-resis...

#VoicesOfResistance #RootsOfHate #Indonesia #StopApparatusBrutality #RightToProtest
“It is the culmination of wounds and pain of Indonesian people who have to endure state violence and inequality, accumulated by one tragedy after another.” “Her weekly protest and presence tell us a truth more profound than any politician's speeches: justice denied is injustice perpetuated.” “In the end, resistance is not chaos, and even if it is, it is needed when systemic injustices are left unchallenged.”
September 17, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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🔥 #VoicesOfResistance #9

A mother in a pink hijab faces riot police. Her courage has gone viral, becoming the symbol of Indonesia's ongoing protests against inequality, corruption & #StateViolence.

Out this Wednesday. Stay tuned...

#Indonesia #StopApparatusBrutality #RightToProtest #RootsOfHate
Women's Resistance against Economic Inequality, State Violence and Corrupt Elites in Indonesia By Siti Yunia Mazdafiah and Amar Alfikar
September 8, 2025 at 8:52 AM
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(3/3): This is a call to imagine emancipatory futures beyond the nation-state — rooted in solidarity, resistance & internationalism.
🔗 Read here: wearenoor.org/war-antifasc...

#VoicesOfResistance #Kashmir #SouthAsia #AntiFascism #RootsOfHate #PeoplePower
War, (Anti)Fascism, and The Political Task of Emancipatory Social Movements By Abdul Vajid - Noor
The brief but highly volatile flare-up of armed conflict between India and Pakistan brought several key political contradictions and dynamics in South Asia to the forefront: colonial occupations of fr...
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September 3, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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(2/2): Resisting #fascism in #SouthAsia means reimagining the nation itself & drawing on liberatory histories. Read here: wearenoor.org/unlearning-t...

#India #AntiFascism #RootsOfHate #SSEAsia
"Fascism has to be fought simultaneously on multiple fronts." "Identifying gaps in the knowledge and building knowledge and resources for progressive struggles is an important front in the fight against fascism." "The Shaheen Bagh sit-in, eventually replicated in various other cities, displayed copies of the preamble of the Constitution of India at the protest sites."
August 13, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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📣 Dispatch 7 of #VoicesOfResistance is now live!

Rahee unpacks how majoritarian rule in #India hides behind democracy & development—fueling violence, erasure & dispossession.

But resistance lives on—from Shaheen Bagh to Adivasi villages.

🔗 wearenoor.org/unlearning-t...

#NoToHindutva #RootsOfHate
Unlearning the Nation: Anti-Fascist Futures in India by Rahee - Noor
When the Modi-led Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) assumed power in India more than a decade ago, people from various quarters of India and the world named this shift in Indian politics as the beginning o...
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August 6, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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#VoicesOfResistance Dispatch 7 drops Wednesday!

In Unlearning the Nation, Rahee exposes Indian fascism — cloaked in democracy, fuelled by majoritarian hate, corporate greed & religious supremacy.

Stay tuned...

#RootsOfHate #NoToHindutva #MuslimLivesMatter #DalitLivesMatter #ShaheenBagh
Unlearning the Nation: Anti-Fascist Futures in India by Rahee
August 5, 2025 at 12:40 AM
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(2/2): 📖 Read now: wearenoor.org/they-call-it...

#VoicesOfResistance #Philippines #GenderJustice #FeministVoices #QueerDefiance #RootsOfHate #SSEAsia
“Telling our stories of wins and lessons is not just about providing a case study—it is about inspiring actions that send the message that there will always be wins in collective action.” “As the roots of hate are identified and mapped, the roots of hope, solidarity, and collective action take form.” “The ‘Babae Ako’ (I am Woman) campaign… reignited women’s movements in the Philippines, amid the culture of misogyny and hate.”
July 23, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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📣 Dispatch 6 of #VoicesOfResistance is now live.

Cristina Palabay exposes how #authoritarianism, #neoliberalism & religious #fundamentalism collide in the #Philippines to police bodies & silence dissent.

🔗 wearenoor.org/they-call-it...

#GenderJustice #QueerDefiance #RootsOfHate #SSEAsia
They Call It Order, We Call It Violence by Cristina Palabay - Noor
Noor’s Roots of Hate in SSEA Asia succeeds in contributing to feminist discourse on fascism(s) and fundamentalism(s) in the region when the report tackles and bravely points out and asserts that the t...
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July 16, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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🔥 #VoicesOfResistance Dispatch 6 drops Wed!

In "They Call It Order, We Call It Violence", Cristina Palabay exposes how state power, religious conservatism & neoliberalism collide in the #Philippines — hurting women & #LGBTQIA+ communities.

#RootsOfHate #FeministResistance #QueerLiberation #SSEAsia
They Call It Order, We Call It Violence by Cristina Palabay
July 14, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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(1/2): How is the state weaponising “family”?
Berfu Şeker unpacks Turkey’s anti-gender turn — from pro-natalist mandates to queer criminalisation and moral panic.

#VoicesOfResistance #QueerResistance #AntiGenderPolitics #SWANA #Turkey #RootsOfHate #FeministFutures
The action plan aims to serve as a social engineering project that regulates a gender regime based on essentialist and religious perceptions of attributed sex, to restore patriarchy and re-design the society based on firm categories of gender dichotomy It aggressively reimposes traditional gender roles in a rigid and conservative manner, while systematically attacking LGBTIQ+ rights under the pretext of fighting ‘global degenderization projects’. Branded as ‘Strengthening the Family,’ this policy orientation reflects a global trend wherein states increasingly rely on women’s underpaid and unpaid labor to sustain both economies and patriarchal social orders.
July 9, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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(2/2): But Kashmiris resist.
In memory, in art, in silence, in survival.
Even as resistance is criminalised, it endures.

Read here: wearenoor.org/suppression-...

#Kashmir #VoicesOfResistance #Post370 #AFSPA #UAPA #PressFreedom #Fascism #RootsOfHate
"The state has criminalised truth-telling by journalists, labelling documentation of violence as incitement to violence." "Tourism is not evidence of peace; it is evidence of who is allowed to move freely and who is not." "Post-2019, Kashmiris have not been given access to peace—only to repression dressed up as development." "What is portrayed as 'normalcy' in Kashmir is a façade enforced through militarisation, media blackout, and silencing of dissent."
June 4, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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🚨 1 day left to apply!
Noor is hiring a Research Consultant for our next #RootsOfHate report - mapping #fascist & #fundamentalist actors in the #Caribbean.

💰 USD 6000
🗓️ 4-month consultancy
📅 Deadline: May 16

More info: drive.google.com/file/d/19JSl...
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Noor is hiring a research consultant for our Roots of Hate report on fascist & fundamentalist actors in the Caribbean.
💰 USD 6000 | 🗓️ 4 months | 📅 Starts May 26
Apply by May 16 – more info: drive.google.com/file/d/19JSl...

#FeministJobs #RootsOfHate #CaribbeanPolitics
call for consultant Roots of Hate - Caribbean Noor is looking for a critical researcher with a grounding in feminist and anti-colonial methodology and strong familiarity with Caribbean political geographies. Previous work in or alongside movements and demonstrated capacity to trace material, ideological, and discursive power are desirable. apply before may 16, 2025 * A one-page proposal outlining your proposed research question(s), scope, and methodology. Reflect your understanding of the report’s goals and suggest a clear direction or focus area within the Caribbean region. * Suggested timeline and work plan for the research project. * A CV detailing your relevant experience. * A letter of interest (maximum two pages) explaining your motivation for this work, your connection to the region or themes, and how your background aligns with Noor’s political vision and goals for this report. Please send all documents to: mbabker@wearenoor.org
May 15, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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(1/2): In "Thinking Through Roots", @sachini.bsky.social traces the roots of an increasingly coordinated landscape of #antirights, #fascist & #fundamentalist actors across #SSEAsia & #SWANA.

#VoicesOfResistance #DigitalJustice #Disinformation #SurveillanceCapitalism #CounteringFascism #RootsOfHate
[Nathasha] was charged under the International Convention on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) Act and the Penal Code, for hate speech and what can be paraphrased as wounding and outraging Buddhist religious feelings. Initially denied bail, she was released on bail in June 2023 and it was exactly one year later that all charges against her were dropped. While unlawful arrests and detainments of activists is nothing new in our countries, it felt important to notice, study and understand how the tactics and tools used by fascist and fundamentalist actors are evolving and how these actors work together as an ever expanding ecosystem. Countering informant culture, particularly on the internet, is a delicate dance between holding platforms and other perpetrators accountable while ensuring that doesn’t lead to absolute clampdowns on freedom of expression
May 7, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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Noor is hiring a research consultant for our Roots of Hate report on fascist & fundamentalist actors in the Caribbean.
💰 USD 6000 | 🗓️ 4 months | 📅 Starts May 26
Apply by May 16 – more info: drive.google.com/file/d/19JSl...

#FeministJobs #RootsOfHate #CaribbeanPolitics
call for consultant Roots of Hate - Caribbean Noor is looking for a critical researcher with a grounding in feminist and anti-colonial methodology and strong familiarity with Caribbean political geographies. Previous work in or alongside movements and demonstrated capacity to trace material, ideological, and discursive power are desirable. apply before may 16, 2025 * A one-page proposal outlining your proposed research question(s), scope, and methodology. Reflect your understanding of the report’s goals and suggest a clear direction or focus area within the Caribbean region. * Suggested timeline and work plan for the research project. * A CV detailing your relevant experience. * A letter of interest (maximum two pages) explaining your motivation for this work, your connection to the region or themes, and how your background aligns with Noor’s political vision and goals for this report. Please send all documents to: mbabker@wearenoor.org
May 2, 2025 at 2:23 PM