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Anatomy of a feminist debate: the ambivalences of the notion of femicide

Caterina Peroni — 2026-06-09T13:19:13Z

“Violence against women is a structural phenomenon that demands a comprehensive response that cannot be dictated by “fragmentary interventions driven by fleeting media sensationalism or purely formal laws.” Sociologist Caterina Peroni discusses the relevance of this penal response here. ”

- Feminism / Italy, Women, Features

The impact of colonization and international cooperation on the feminist movement in Palestine

Leila Serra Badran — 2026-05-29T13:26:05Z

“Feminism is not a Western invention: authenticity versus tradition, imported feminisms versus local feminisms.”

- Feminism / Palestine, Women, Features

What is emancipatory about 21st century feminism?

Justa Montero — 2026-05-29T13:25:50Z

Feminism is pluralistic, with significant political and ideological differences, sometimes even antagonistic ones. Therefore, in this text I will always refer to the feminism that, with a global perspective, addresses the full range of conflicts generated by the system, which it considers its responsibility, and which expresses its desire to change everything through struggles that look toward an emancipatory horizon for everyone.
What is emancipatory about feminism, what hopes can it (…)

- Feminism / Women, Features

Code of Conduct against abuses: Two-Day Safeguarding Training Held by Bangladesh Krishok Federation

Badrul Alam — 2026-05-29T13:25:30Z

“An important outcome of the two-day training was the drafting of a preliminary Safeguarding Policy and a Code of Conduct for the Bangladesh Krishok Federation. The main objective of this policy is to ensure safety, dignity, and non-discriminatory behavior in the organization's work with staff members, activists, volunteers, women, children, and marginalized communities.”

- Feminism / Women, Bangladesh

Affordability or Crisis of Social Reproduction?

Kim Moody — 2026-05-29T13:24:55Z

“Right now, we are seeing an upswing in left and progressive movement activity in the fight against Trump, with No Kings Day, May Day Strong, and Anti-ICE activity, as well as significant union growth, tenants' unions, and the proliferation of union reform caucuses (among others). But there is the danger that—like the short-lived upsurge around Occupy Wall Street, Black Lives Matter, and the resistance during Trump's first term in office—much of this activity will burn out for lack of solid grassroots organization, only to leave another trail of undemocratic advocacy NGOs and a tiny number of socialist “electeds” swimming against the current in the Democratic Party.”

- Features / United States (USA), Marxism, Women, Economy

A Review of Nancy Holmstrom's “From a Marxist-Feminist Point of View”

Cinzia Arruzza — 2026-04-21T09:32:12Z

Nancy Holmstrom's From a Marxist-Feminist Point of View: Essays on Freedom, Rationality and Human Nature is a collection of essays written across several decades by a philosopher whose commitment to theoretically and politically integrating Marxism and feminism has remained unfashionably steady across half a century of shifting intellectual trends.

- Reviews section / Marxism, Women, Reviews

The Gender(ed) Politics of Fascism: How Women Came to Lead the Contemporary Far-Right

Sonja Pietiläinen — 2026-04-12T11:02:12Z

During the last decade, far-right women leaders have played an essential role in contributing to the growing acceptance of fascism. Although the globally thriving far-right is anti-feminist and male-dominated, it is increasingly led by women. Marine Le Pen (National Rally), Riikka Purra (Finns Party), Alice Weidel (Alternative for Germany), Giorgia Meloni (Brothers of Italy), Pia Kjærsgaard (Danish People's Party), Siv Jensen (Progress Party), Beata Szydło (Law and Justice) are only a few of the latest examples of influential far-right women leaders.

- Features / Women, Fascism

Popular Feminism: The Radical Force Capable of Defeating the Far Right in Brazil

Women of Centelhas — 2026-04-01T12:20:09Z

This year, 2026, marks the 20th anniversary of the occupation of Aracruz Celulose by women from the Landless Rural Workers' Movement (MST), Via Campesina and the World March of Women – a milestone in the radicalisation of women's struggles in our country and across Latin America.

- Feminism / Brazil, Ecology and the Environment, Women, Features

A Revolutionary Feminist Position on Iran: Vs. Authoritarianism, Vs. Imperialism, Vs. Zionism, and NO TO WAR!

Anonymous — 2026-03-31T18:43:36Z

A REVOLUTIONARY FEMINIST position on Iran must refuse the false and damaging binary that demands choosing between defending the Islamic Republic and endorsing US-imperialist and Zionist intervention. This is a constructed choice designed to collapse political judgment into campism. It converts solidarity into a competition of moral allegiances and leaves ordinary people, workers, women, youth, and minorities to a reality shaped simultaneously by internal repression as well as external militarized destruction.

- Feminism / Women, Iran, Far Right, Anti-imperialism

Non-natalism

Leslie Root — 2026-03-27T13:51:44Z

Pronatalism—the ideology that birth rates are too low and must be raised by implementing policies that get people to have children—has been having a cultural moment in the United States.

- Feminism / United States (USA), Women, Features