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

Blog posts:

Transnational “Anti-Gender” Politics and Resistance: Introduction to the 2 December 2022 AHRC Workshop, LSE by Clare Hemmings (March 6th, 2023)

Mapping anti-gender movements and resistance, an interview with Sumi Madhok and Clare Hemmings by LSE Research for the World. (March 23rd, 2023)

Non-Obvious Connections: How Feminism Becomes Transphobic? by Olga Plakhotnik and Maria Mayerchyk. (April 24th, 2023)

SPW and LSE host seminar on anti-gender movements in Latin America by Sexuality Policy Watch. (April 27th, 2023)

Hindu supremacism, ‘anti-gender’ politics, and feminist resistance by Kalpana Wilson (March 29th, 2023)

Solidaristic coalitions and ‘unbudgeable conviction in justice’ in the face of transnational anti-gender movements by Sumi Madhok (May 22nd, 2023)

Genealogies, meanings, and effects of anti-gender feminism in Latin America by Diana Granados (December 6th, 2023) Spanish version here

Anti-gender ideology and neo-liberal state grammar in Brazil by Marco Aurelio Máximo Prado (February 6th, 2024)

Associated Articles:

Clare Hemmings published an article in the Feminist Studies Journal titled "But I thought we'd already won that argument!": "Anti-gender" Mobilizations, Affect, and Temporality. (2022) 

Advisory Board member, Alyosxa Tudor, published an article entitled, 'The anti-feminism of anti-trans feminism' in the European Journal of Women's Studies. (May 6, 2023)

Sumi Madhok and Clare Hemmings were interviewed by the Finnish Journal of Foreign Affairs for the article 'Gender issues became an obsession for authoritarians - anti-gender movements are networking in all directions'. (December 7th, 2023)

Advisory Board member, Éric Fassin, published an article entitled 'An Epidemic of Transphobia on French Turf' to the Fall 2023 Special Issue of DiGeSt: Journal of Diversity and Gender Studies titled 'Varieties of TERFness'. (December 11th, 2023)

Workshops:

Workshop 1: 'Politics' (2 December 2022, London, United Kingdom)

Panels: Transnational Culture Wars and Narratives I & II; Narratives of Transnational Resistance I & II; The Politics of Transnational “Anti-Gender” Mobilisations and Resistance

Workshop 2: 'Geographies' (12-13 April 2023, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)

Panels: Anti-gender politics in Latin America: A cartography of what we do know and of whatwe need to know better; Anti-gender politics in LA: when & how the national & international intertwine; Convergences and fractures at play at the intersection of anti-gender politics, racismand coloniality; Narratives of Latin American Resistance; How to resist anti-abortion and anti-gender politics in local legislative bodies?

Workshop 3: 'Temporalities and Transnational Imaginaries' (22-23 February 2024, London, United Kingdom)

Panels: Funding Knowledge to Resist Anti-Gender Movements;  Intersecting Inequalities and Anti-Gender Movements I & II; Transnational Anti-Gender Conversations; Transnational “Anti-Gender” Politics & Resistance

Event Recordings:

Workshop 1: Final Panel: Transnational ‘Anti-Gender’ Politics and Resistance. View 1 or View 2. (December 2nd, 2022)

Speakers: Judith Butler (UC Berkeley), Sonia Corrêa (Sexuality Policy Watch), Françoise Vergès (antiracist decolonial theorist and writer). Chairs: Clare Hemmings (LSE) and Sumi Madhok (LSE).

Workshop 2: Narratives of Latin American Resistance: Morena Herrera (April 11th & 12th, 2023)

Morena Herrera (Agrupación Ciudadana) presents 'Struggling for reproductive rights and resisting anti-gender crusades: A regional overview from the El Salvador perspective'

Workshop 2: Intersections between anti-gender politics, racisms, feminisms & colonialities in Latin America (April 11th & 12th, 2023). 

Speakers: Sayak Valencia, Carla Rodrigues and Flavia Rios. Chairs: Sonia Corrêa (SPW) and Sumi Madhok (LSE).

Workshop 3: Transnational anti-gender politics and resistance (February 22nd, 2024)

Speakers: Judith Butler (UC Berkeley) and Tooba Syed (Women's Democratic Front- Pakistan). Chair: Clare Hemmings (LSE).

Workshop 3: Transnational 'Anti-Gender' Politics and Resistance (February 23rd, 2024)

Speakers: zethu Matebeni (University of Fort Hare) and Alyosxa Tudor (School of Oriental and African Studies). Chair: Sumi Madhok (LSE).

Associated Events:

Alyosxa Tudor and many other Advisory Board members participated in the School of Oriental and African Studies Centre for Gender Studies conference 'We are the feminisms in the lecture theatres (and in the streets)'. (February 4th, 2023)

Sumi Madhok took part in a virtual discussion titled, Solidarity in Action: Countering anti-feminist trends around the world, as a part of the 67th session of the Commission on the Status of Women. (March 13th, 2023)

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. (June 1st & 2nd, 2023)

Advisory Board member, Judith Butler, and Masha Gessen spoke at an event, 'The Authoritarian Assault on Gender studies', hosted by Alt New College in Cooperation with the Open Society University Network and Bard College Center for Civic Engagement. (Septmember 18th, 2023)