What is meant by "gender ideology"? How does the anti-gender movement argue, and what is its relationship to the EU? The strengthening of the movement in the European Union is illustrated by the example of the conflicts over the Istanbul Convention.

Viktor Orbán is gradually dismantling democratic structures in Hungary. He uses right-wing populist and anti-Islamic rhetoric. What role does family and sexual self-determination play in this?

This short piece focuses on sets of people in India whose bodies and desires are viewed as “deviant” – sexual or gender minorities (LGBTIAQ). Beginning with an overview of the ways people from these communities are viewed, the paper sketches some of the terrain covered by this young and vibrant movement and then touches upon some of the fault lines within the movement before concluding.

The internationally renowned Hungarian academic Andrea Pető, Professor in the Department of Gender Studies at Central European University, resigned from the Hungarian Accreditation Committee (HAC) after being pressured by the president of the Committee to withdraw a paragraph from her double peer-reviewed and published article entitled “The Illiberal Academic Authority: An Oxymoron?”.

The article explores feminist social work conducted during May 2021’s violent events in the mixed city of Haifa. Linking experiences of marginalization and processes of community building, the article outlines the possibilities embedded in women’s only spaces against a backdrop of hostility and aggression.

The city of Lod found itself at the heart of the violent aggression of May 2021. Through documented interviews, the article outlines six themes through which the traumatic events were reflected in the lives of the women of Lod and their families.