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Transgender socialism

Echo Fortune — 2026-03-27T13:52:24Z

There remains a world to win for transgender people, but what kind of socialism is capable of winning it? Echo Fortune gives her answer.

- Sexual politics / LGBT, Sexual politics, Features

Weaponising Gender: How gender became the perfect scapegoat for far-right and authoritarian actors

Aminah Jasho, Esme Abbott, Julisa Tambunan — 2026-03-27T13:16:33Z

Anti-gender mobilisation has become a defining feature of far-right movements since around 2015; and is now a tactic widely adopted by authoritarian governments across the political spectrum. From overturning abortion rights in the United States (US) to rescinding protection against domestic violence in Türkiye, institutions that defend women's rights are being systematically dismantled. These patterns align with a global decline in democracy, with over 75% of the world's population now living under restricted freedom. The correlation is not coincidental. As democratic institutions weaken, attacks on gender-based rights accelerate the decline and provide a roadmap for it.

- Sexual politics / Women, Far Right, Sexual politics, Features

GBV in the LGBTQIA+ community: what is the picture and what are the ways to counter it?

Bridgette Nkomana, Amandla! — 2025-10-18T10:11:25Z

Amandla! interviewed Bridgette Nkomana about gender based violence (GBV) and the LGBTQIA+ community.

- Sexual politics / South Africa, LGBT

Transphobic hate is not an opinion but a crime that endangers the lives of transgender people

Yong-hui Hong — 2023-01-03T22:41:11Z

In South Korea, there was a focus on hate and discrimination against transgender people in 2020 and 2021, when the Covid-19 backlash targeted LGBTIQ people.

- Sexual politics / South Korea, LGBT

Kevin Floyd's Foundational Queer Marxism: A Tribute

Peter Drucker — 2022-04-21T09:34:16Z

Against the Current advisory editor Peter Drucker, the author of Warped: Gay Normality and Queer Anticapitalism, is one of a handful of scholars who have in recent years developed the field of queer Marxism. Another pioneer of queer Marxism, Kevin Floyd, died tragically in 2019. This year the Marxist Literary Group honored Kevin Floyd's legacy with a special issue of its journal Mediations, including this tribute by Peter Drucker.

- Sexual politics / Marxism, Obituary, LGBT, Sexual politics

Marxism and the oppression of trans people

Arya Meroni — 2021-06-28T15:17:38Z

The following text comes from notes for an educational for Anticapitalistas that I have reworked. The aim was to look back at the “polemics” posed by the new transphobic currents in feminism, from a theoretical and strategic point of view and in the context of the debates on the “Trans law”. It is not, therefore, a text that goes into the issues explored in depth or that claims to be exhaustive, but rather an introduction to the theoretical and strategic problematization of trans oppression from a Marxist perspective.

- Sexual politics / Marxism, Women, LGBT, Sexual politics, Features

Trans Liberation and Socialist Feminism

Socialist Resistance — 2021-06-28T15:15:21Z

Our understanding of the term gender is that it is separate from the term sex, the latter refers to physiological features, the former to a socially constructed role. To quote Simone de Beauvoir: ‘one is not born but rather becomes a woman'. This has always been the general position of Marxist feminists – oppression is not a direct result of physiological features but the social role assigned in general to those who have those features.

- Sexual politics / Britain, Women, Sexual politics, Features

Sex and the Russian Revolution

Peter Drucker — 2018-03-08T09:44:26Z

The big question surrounding the centenary of the October Revolution: Is this event a hundred years ago still relevant for the left today?

- Sexual politics / Women, LGBT, Historical events and figures, Sexual politics

Queer sexuality, labour and nation

Peter Drucker — 2017-11-03T12:48:07Z

Talk at the International Meeting Against Homophobia and Transphobia, Kaos GL, Ankara, 13 May 2017.

- Sexual politics / LGBT, Sexual politics, Features

Homonationalism, Heteronationalism and LGBTI Rights in the EU

Peter Drucker — 2016-10-06T08:25:32Z

This year's pride marches in Europe have taken place under the shadow of a threat, compounded by the recent terrorist attacks in Western Europe (Paris, Brussels and now Germany) and the slaughter at Pulse nightclub in Orlando. We have been urged not to give in to fear, while at the same time we've been told that undisclosed security precautions are being taken. The route of the Paris pride march was drastically shortened, supposedly for security reasons. It's not clear whether the attack in Orlando was motivated by religious fundamentalism or was more the product of anger and anguish about the attacker's life and sexuality. Either way, it could be just a matter of time before a similarly murderous anti-LGBTQI attack takes place in Europe.

- Sexual politics / LGBT