Anti-feminist and anti-LGBTIQ+ mobilisations have taken roots transnationally, denying individuals autonomy, rights to bodily integrity, and self-determination, and attacking selected groups of people (e.g. trans* people, people doing abortion) in order to pursue dehumanising and exclusionary agendas.
Drawing on the research findings from the RESIST Project (https://theresistproject.eu) on the parliamentary and media ‘anti-gender’ debates in the UK, PL, HU, CH, European Parliament, this presentation will argue that a broad range of actors that continue to agitate a wide range of issues, which are constantly shapeshifting and fluctuating, does so in order to ensure the vitality of ‘anti-gender’ politics across times and contexts. In particular, the presentation will: (1) situate the transnational findings as a context; (2) discuss the contingent diffusion of key concepts, actors, strategies as evidenced in the project’s empirical findings, esp. from PL case; (3) think forward about recommendations and next steps needed in our fight against inequalities and for the better, queer-feminist futures.
Citation
Kulpa, R. (2024, May). Mapping so-called ‘anti-gender’ discourses in parliamentary and media debates: lessons and recommendations in the future fight for LGBTIQ+ equalities. Presented at UCU Equality Research Conference 2024, University of Manchester, UK
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