Transnational 'Anti-Gender' Movements and Resistance: Narratives and Interventions

Delighted to share this video that captures some highlights of the concluding trialogue of the Workshop “Mapping and resisting the gender phantasm in Latin America: geographies of 'anti-gender' movements” held on the 11th and 12th of April 2023 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. This was the second workshop of the Transnational 'Anti-Gender' Movements and Resistance: Narratives and Interventions Project.

Delighted to share this important piece titled "Anti-gender ideology and neo-liberal state grammar in Brazil" by Diana Granados as part of our series on Engenderings. The piece is available in both English and Spanish languages. 

The post is based on a presentation made at our April 2023 workshop on Mapping and resisting the gender phantasm in Latin America: Geographies of ‘anti-gender’ movements’

Delighted to share this important piece titled "Anti-gender ideology and neo-liberal state grammar in Brazil" by Marco Aurelio Máximo Prado as part of our series on Engenderings  . 

The post is based on a presentation made at our April 2023 workshop on Mapping and resisting the gender phantasm in Latin America: Geographies of ‘anti-gender’ movements’

On 21 February 2024, the Society of Gender Professionals (SGP) and Co-Creating Inclusive Intersectional Democratic Spaces Across Europe (CCINDLE Project) will host a Gender Café on the topic, 'Understanding and Countering Anti-Gender Movements,' the first of a series of joint SGP-CCINDLE Gender Cafes’ to better understand what, how and why anti-gender movements are gaining political, social and economic legitimacy and what a coordinated response looks like. To register and for more information visit here. 

Tickets out for the final Keynote Panel on day 1 of the Transnational “Anti-Gender” Politics & Resistance of our 3rd Workshop in London on 22 February 2024 in London. The Panel will feature Judith Butler (UC Berkeley) in conversation with Tooba Syed (Women Democratic Front  Pakistan) and will be chaired by Clare Hemmings (LSE). For tickets and more information visit here. 

Tickets still available for the final Keynote Panel on day 2 of the Transnational “Anti-Gender” Politics & Resistance of our 3rd Workshop in London on 23 February 2024 in London. The Panel will feature Zethu Matebeni (UFH) in conversation with Jules Gill-Peterson (Johns Hopkins) and will be chaired by Alyosxa Tudor (SOAS). For tickets and more information visit here. 

Delighted to share the call for submissions for the Breaking Silos: building solidarities in gender research conference organised by the PhD Researchers of the LSE Department of Gender Studies. The conference will welcome submissions from PhD students and early-career researchers from all research disciplines in any of the universities in greater London, as well as London-based practitioners, activists and community organizers. For more information, visit here. 

Our very own Clare Hemmings and Sumi Madhok were recently interviewed by the Finnish Journal of Foreign Affairs about their work related to this project. The piece was titled 'Gender issues became an obsession for dictators - anti-gender movements are networking everywhere'. 

Click here to read it. 

Delighted to share the Fall 2023 Special Issue of DiGeSt: Journal of Diversity and Gender Studies titled 'Varieties of TERFness'. 

Click here to access the issue. 

Delighted to share this important piece by Tomás Ojeda and Trinidad Avaria on Psychoanalyses and gender affirmation published on Engenderings. 

Webinar: Understanding the Rise of Anti-Gender Discourses in the Context of Development, Human Rights and Social Protection.

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Attend this webinar exploring how global networks and actors have shaped Latin American and Eastern European "gender wars" 

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Delighted to share the information about this Conversation on 'The Authoritarian Assault on Gender studies' between our Advisory Board Member Judith Butler and Masha Gessen.

This online event is hosted by Alt New College in Cooperation with the Open Society University Network and Bard College Center for Civic Engagement. 

Click here for more information. 

Delighted to share this important piece titled Solidaristic coalitions and ‘unbudgeable conviction in justice’ in the face of transnational anti-gender movements by our very own Sumi Madhok as part of our series on Engenderings  . 

The post based on comments given at the following events: AHRC Network workshop on Transnational Anti-Gender Politics: Narratives and Resistance held at the LSE on 2 December 2022; the SOAS Gender Studies Conference 4 February 2023 and the Pathfinders grand Challenge on Inequality Panel Solidarity in Action: Countering anti-feminist trends around the globe, 13 March 2023, NYU Centre on International Cooperation. 

Delighted to share this video clip of the intervention made by Morena Herrera in the Panel on ‘Narratives of Latin American Resistance’ at our Second Workshop. The workshop was titled Mapping and resisting the gender phantasm in Latin America: geographies of 'anti-gender' movements' and was held on the 11th and 12th of April 2023 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. 

Pleased to share this new article by our Advisory Board Member Alyosxa Tudor titled "The anti-feminism of anti-trans feminism" on the European Journal of Women's Studies. Access the article here. 

Delighted to share this piece published on the Sexuality Policy Watch Website on our Second Workshop. It is titled "SPW and LSE host seminar on anti-gender movements in Latin America" Read more here. 

Delighted to share this important piece titled Non-Obvious Connections: How Feminism Becomes Transphobic?. 

This is the second blog post in the series on Engenderings  based on  contributions made at our first Workshop Transnational “Anti-Gender” Politics & Resistance

RESOURCE: Call for inputs: Report on colonialism and sexual orientation and gender identity. The United Nations Independent Expert on protection against violence and discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity (IE SOGI), Victor Madrigal-Borloz, will dedicate his report to the 78th session of the United Nations General Assembly to the issue of the historic and ongoing impacts of colonialism on the enjoyment of human rights by lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and gender diverse (LGBT) persons. Read more about submitting input here.  

RESOURCE: "In light of current public debates sparked by the publication of the chapter “The walls spoke when no one else would: Autoethnographic notes on sexual-power gatekeeping within avant-garde academia,” included in the edited volume Sexual Misconduct in Academia: Informing an Ethics of Care in the University (Routledge 2023), we express our full solidarity with the authors. We extend the same solidarity to other voices that came out publicly, as well as to all those subjected to abuses of power and other forms of violence both in academic contexts and beyond. This document is a collective and unfinished contribution to an ongoing debate." Read here. 

11 -12 April 2023 

We are delighted to announce that the 2nd workshop of the Transnational 'Anti-Gender' Movements and Resistance: Narratives and Interventions project is scheduled to take place on the 11th and 12th of April 2023 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The workshop is titled Mapping and resisting the gender phantasm in Latin America : geographies of 'anti-gender' movements'. You can find the conference  programme and more information here. 

Delighted to share this important piece titled Hindu supremacism, ‘anti-gender’ politics, & feminist resistance by Kalpana Wilson. 

This is the second blog post in the series on Engenderings  based on  contributions made at our first Workshop Transnational “Anti-Gender” Politics & Resistance

New article by our very own Clare Hemmings on the Feminist Studies Journal. The article is titled "But I thought we'd already won that argument!": "Anti-gender" Mobilizations, Affect, and Temporality. Access it here. 

Delighted to share this interview about our project with Clare Hemmings and Sumi Madhok on Research for the World, the LSE's Social Science Magazine. Read here.

'With the rolling back of abortion rights in America after the overturning of Roe vs Wade and the attack on gender rights in Brazil under former President Jair Bolsonaro, anti-gender movements are on the rise across the globe. A new transnational project, led by Clare Hemmings and Sumi Madhok, seeks to map, and understand these movements and the political struggles engendered in resistance to them.'

Starting today, we will share some key contributions made at our 1st Workshop 'Transnational 'Anti-Gender' Movements & Resistance: Narratives & Interventions' as blog posts on Engenderings.

This first piece by Clare Hemmings is based on the initial comments made at the workshop and is also a way of framing the blog posts being published.

1 - 2 June 2023

Our Advisory Board members Alyosxa Tudor and SM Rodriguez are speaking at this important conference titled 'Gender Studies Now 2023' hosted by the Centre for Gender Studies at the University of Stavanger from1 - 2 June 2023. To view the call for abstracts and for more information visit here.

We’re delighted to announce that our Advisory Board member Prof. Irina Zherebkina has been awarded a Researcher at Risk Fellowship from  the British Academy allowing her to join the LSE's Department of Gender Studies for 24 months. Many Congratulations Prof Zherebkina.   Read more about her new research project here. 

13 March 2023

Join Sumi Madhok & an exciting line-up of speakers for a thought-provoking virtual discussion on addressing the rise of anti-feminist movements around the world happening on the side-lines of the 67th session of the Commission on the Status of Women. 

To register and for more information visit here. 

This important conference 'We are the feminisms in the lecture theatres (and in the streets)' is organised by our Advisory Committee member Alyosxa Tudor, at the Centre for Gender Studies, SOAS with a range of other Advisory Committee members also aspeaking. To register and for more information visit here.

On Tuesday 29 November 2022 our Advisory Committee member Sonia Corrêa moderated this online event on current attacks on gender and LGBTIQ+ people in Latin America, particularly those that have taken place during the pandemic. The event is also the occasion for launching the English version of an e-book that compiles a series of national reports that account for the state of "anti-gender ideology" attacks in the region, which have experienced a worrying rise. Those interested can register here

Speakers: Tomás Ojeda, Centre for Transforming Sexuality and Gender - University of Brighton; Almudena Rodríguez, L' Associació de Drets Sexuals I Reproductius; Françoise Girard, Feminism Makes Us Smarter LLC

Moderator: Sonia Corrêa, Sexuality Policy Watch