50.50 spent a (fairly) fact-free weekend among anti-feminists at London’s International Conference on Men’s Issues
Violence against women is perpetrated in order to sustain patriarchal power relations. Projects to prevent violence, through economic empowerment, must remember this.
There will be hard times ahead in Italy, unless you are a heterosexual, cisgendered, white man. The new families minister opposes abortion, immigration and LGBTI rights.
“What populists are really afraid of is pluralism” says FEMEN activist Inna Shevchenko, who argues that democracy and feminism are interlinked.
It’s important to have more women in public and political debates. But having a seat at the table isn’t the same thing as being heard.
The more women stand up against bullies and harassment in our personal lives, the less we will tolerate them in our political lives too.
Women around the world led protests in 2017 for our rights and against threats from everyday sexism to femicide.
Italy is one of Europe's most transphobic countries, and its laws – and rates of violence – reflect that.
