Gender and Feminisms

Iranian forces are arbitrarily arresting civil society activists, journalists and anyone protesting against the regime over the death of Mahsa Amini. Iranian authorities are struggling to put an end to demonstrations that have rocked the country for weeks. The anti-government…

We spoke to Ryma Sheermohammadi about what is happening in Iran afterwards the death of Mahsa Amini; about the solidarity of the population in different parts of the world; about the slow response of Western governments… but also about the…

We interviewed Edu Barbeira (Stambolsky) for Pressenza.com’s Gender and Sexualities in Latin America series in Spanish. Continuing our series Gender and Sexualities in Latin America, we interviewed Edu Barbeira, an artist and activist we met in Barcelona a couple of…

Last Thursday in Tehran, Iran, as soon as the news broke that 22-year-old Mahsa Amini died of a heart attack after being detained by the “Morality Police” because she was wearing her head veil incorrectly, a compulsory garment in the…

Indigenous women and girls in Canada continue to face disproportionate levels of violence and insecurity rooted in colonialism. By Tanupriya Singh Violence against Indigenous women is “escalating like never before,” the Union of British Columbia Indian Chiefs (UBCIC) has warned.…

Out on the Town Magnus Hirschfeld and Berlin’s Third Sex Years before the Weimar Republic’s well-chronicled freedoms, the 1904 non-fiction study Berlin’s Third Sex depicted an astonishingly diverse subculture of sexual outlaws in the German capital. James J. Conway introduces a foundational text…

This year, Tunisia has been the host country of the 3rd World Women’s Conference with a focus on “grassroot women”. Tunisia is the third country to host this kind of event. The first one was held in Caracas, Venezuela in…

The latest available Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 5 data show that the world is not on track to achieving gender equality by 2030. At the current rate of progress, it may take close to 300 years to achieve full gender equality, according…

Patriarchy is still at work in the mining industry. According to studies carried out by universities and dedicated NGOs, the mining discourse that is officially presented to us leaves aside the discrimination that affects women miners, ranging from when they…

In the last five years, the Indian film industry has observed a resurgence of the alpha-male hero. One would have imagined change to happen following the successful #MeToo movement that started in Hollywood and trickled down to India as well…