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

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. 

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.

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. 

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. 

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