Dossier

Digitalizing the EU's External Borders

In the context of our series of events on the situation of queer refugees, we hosted the international conference "The digitalization of the EU's external borders and the production of vulnerability" in Berlin in June 2024.

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Recent Contributions

Our bodies, our movements

Article

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 Ailing European Academic Accreditation System Hacked by Illiberal ‘Polypore Science’ – An Interview with Hungarian Gender Studies Professor Andrea Pető

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?”.

Anna Frenyó, Andrea Pető

Young Women and Teenagers At-Risk in Mixed Cities

Article

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.

Rachel Banner

Upcoming Events

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Our Focal Points

Antifeminism

Golden Girl Street art in Shoreditch, London September 2017 Artist: Dreph

Feminist Foreign Policy

Viele unterschiedliche Menschen (stilisiert, schwarz/weiß)

Feminism for the Post-Migrant Society

Digitally created pattern in beautiful colours

Feminist Digital Politics

Intersectional Feminism

Reproductive Justice

Publications

Perspectives #02/2015: Bodies, Morals and Politics - Reflections on Sexual and Reproductive Rights in Africa

Despite the formal commitment of many African states to universal human rights, the realisation of those rights remains unfulfilled for a great number of their citizens, especially women.

Sexual and Reproductive Rights

Women’s bodies have regularly been – and still are – the central target of conservative and fundamentalist ideology and praxis. This essay provides analytical background information for critical and controversial debates and motivation to explore political intervention.

Anti-Gender Movements on the Rise?

The concept of "gender backlash" encompasses too activities pursued by a multitude of different local initiatives all over Central and Eastern Europe, which strongly promote tradition over equality. In many cases these groups appear to be backed and inspired both by influential US-American “pro life” organisations as well as the Kremlin’s "Gay-rope" propaganda, which aims to discredit the European Union as a place of moral decline.

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Dossiers

Analyzes & perspectives & viewpoints on selected topics