Co-Creating Inclusive Intersectional Democratic Spaces Across Europe

Threats to democracy and feminism are strongly linked. CCINDLE is a Horizon Europe research project which studies these threats and the responses of feminist...

Anti-gender politics is a big topic in today’s academic literature. However, not all studies seem to agree on which actors are to be considered under this label. Some talk about political parties, others about civil society organisations, or individual activists and public opinion makers. As a reader, you can easily get lost amongst this array […]

The CCINDLE evidence bites offer handy summaries of key research outputs from across our team, creating a practical resource for politicians, campaigners, and practitioners interested in how anti-gender and anti-democratic movements work together, and how feminist resistance can protect rights and safeguard democracy. The new batch of nine evidence bites ask: Catch up on the […]

Pride flags flutter in the Place De Brouckèr in Brussels Research on anti-gender mobilization often focusses on active actors. However, equal power might lie in the act of ignorance. “Ignorance” can refer to both a lack of knowledge and the act of turning a blind eye to something. The case of intersex people in Belgium […]

The CCINDLE policy brief: Advancing Equality in Parliaments in Times of Anti-Gender Hostilities Gender, Migration, and the Nation: The Racialised Politics of Secularism and Religion in Sweden and Spain Impossible Solidarities: Women of Colour Activists and White Spaces Mapping Resistances: Italian trans-feminist organizations creating grassroot knowledge to resist and exist Lessons from the third Feminist […]

The CCINDLE evidence bites offer handy summaries of key research outputs from across our team, creating a practical resource for politicians, campaigners, and practitioners interested in how anti-gender and anti-democratic movements work together, and how feminist resistance can protect rights and safeguard democracy. The new batch of nine evidence bites ask: Catch up on the […]

Over the past few years, CCINDLE has had the privilege of co-organising four Gender Cafés with the Society of Gender Professionals (SGP), a global non-profit network of gender practitioners, academics, and activists spanning 127 countries. The partnership with SGP provided a great way to take CCINDLE’s comparative research on gender backlash and democratic backsliding in Europe and […]

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Reimagining Democracy: Feminist Experiments Across Europe Activists across Europe are reimagining democracy from the ground up. Faced with hostile institutions, restrictive laws, and deepening inequalities, feminist movements are building alternative democratic practices rooted in care, solidarity, and collective liberation. From grassroots abortion support networks to trans-inclusive healthcare, from border solidarity to intersectional coalitions, activists create […]

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International Women’s Day 2024 canvas at the Spanish Parliament. Photo courtesy of Javier Perez Montes via Unsplash On 7 April 2026, the Spanish government approved a draft constitutional reform aimed at safeguarding the right to voluntary termination of pregnancy across the national territory, alongside new measures to strengthen action against gender-based violence. Spain is not the first European country to […]

In a pressurized environment, academics may self-censor What does it mean to do feminist work in an academic environment that feels increasingly hostile, uncertain, or restrictive? That question was at the center of our latest Feminist Futures Workshop session, which brought together feminist scholars to share experiences and strategies for solidarity, with over 70 participants […]