Sexuality and gender

The co-founder of an anti-fascist sports club in London talks sexism, self-defence and why more of us should bring sweat into our politics.

Kristen Ghodsee, an American ethnographer and a Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies at Bowdoin College, discusses women’s movements in Eastern European countries, their common socialist past, and a general history of feminism throughout the world.

The transatlantic critical theorist compares the political crises in the US and Europe, calling for a renewed democratic left to overcome the Trumps and Le Pens of the world.

The Marxist feminist talks about the relationship between anti-work politics and the struggle against patriarchy.

According to the common saying, prostitution is the oldest profession in the world – but it isn’t. Midwifery is.

The Sicilian born Marxist-feminist talks about the new, global wave of women-led mobilisations and the continuing importance of class politics.

We travelled to Croatia to talk to activists and scholars about how social movements and other grassroots movements can expand their political influence.

This is the sexualisation of racism: anti-Islam feminists talk about Muslim women’s emancipation, but what does this emancipation look like? They are doing jobs that feminists don’t want to do.

According to the most modest assessment, the march brought together about 2,500 participants, who walked more than a kilometre down the streets in the city centre.

One of the core themes for discussion in the Fearless Cities summit in Barcelona few weeks ago was the feminisation of politics. What it means to feminise politics has been largely written and discussed in Spain the past couple of years: when we speak about politics we mean any physical and symbolic structure where a […]