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A journal examining the multifaceted links between resurgent religious fundamentalism and gender. Reposts are not endorsements. Banner image: Shamsia Hassani

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Feminist Dissent @feministdissent.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Tomorrow members of Feminist Dissent (and friends) will march again against the far right and stand in solidarity with Palestinians, who mark the anniversary of the Nakba each year. We will be joining the Jewish bloc – hope to see some of you there!
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FiLiA @filiacharity.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
🧵 Last w/e, @kiritunks.bsky.social spoke for the FiLiA Trade Union Women’s Network at @mstaronline.bsky.social 1926-2026: Organised Labour – 100 years from the General Strike conference, Holding up Half the Sky ‒ Women & the Labour Movement. Read her speech here ➡️ www.filia.org.uk/latest-news/...
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sianushka.bsky.social @sianushka.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Quick hit on why Orban’s electoral defeat dealt a blow to the global anti gender movement www.opendemocracy.net/en/orban-hun...
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Europe’s great replacement leader lost. We should celebrate.
Europe’s great replacement prime minister lost on Sunday, and so did the global anti-gender movement
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Molly Crabapple @mollycrabapple.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
"Crabapple is a time traveler, a necromancer and an unclassifiable genius. She beckons readers through a portal to an irresistible,lost world, one bound together by passion, solidarity, and a burning hunger for justice.“- @naomiaklein.bsky.social Preorder www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/646320...
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Here Where We Live Is Our Country by Molly Crabapple: 9780593229453 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
The dramatic story of the Jewish Bund—a revolutionary movement from a vanished world—and their radical vision of solidarity in an age of division. “Molly Crabapple beckons readers through...
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Feminist Dissent @feministdissent.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Webinar on May Day at 4pm. Our speakers will look at: ◾️Interconnections between white supremacist far right & authoritarian religious groupings – and why social control of women is so central ◾️How we organise a feminist, left & antiracist response **Sign-up link in reply** 1/2
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The Freethinker @thefreethinkermag.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
REMINDER: Freethought History Webinar #9, ft. Barathy M.G. on the oft-forgotten links between UK and Indian freethinkers/secularists, happening tonight at 7 pm UK time. Sign up now to secure your place! freethinker.co.uk/2026/03/free...
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Freethought History Webinar #9: Bradlaugh and India: A Trans-Imperial History of Freethought and Republicanism. With Barathy M.G. (14 April 2026). - The Freethinker
An invitation to the ninth in our Freethought History Webinar series.
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Rosanna Reade, Northern Irish contemporary printmaker and illustrator, living and working in Edinburgh #WomensArt
Print of an interior at night.with a lit.fire in the fireplace, a table and chairs and sleeping cat on the floor
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Project Resist @projectresist.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
This is a really timely and important initiative aiming to amplify women's voices and strengthen democracy in north east England in the run up to the local elections. Check out the website for events near you: www.onemillionwomenandgirls.org
onemillionwomenandgirls.org
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Right Wing Watch @rightwingwatch.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Catholic Michael Knowles and Protestant Doug Wilson may disagree on who should run a future Christian nationalist U.S., but for now they're culture war allies www.peoplefor.org/rightwingwat...
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Christian Nationalist Doug Wilson and Right-Wing Catholic Michael Knowles Bond Over ‘Common Enemy’ of Secular Progressivism
Catholic Michael Knowles and Protestant Doug Wilson may disagree on who will run a future Christian nationalist U.S., but for now they're fighting their common enemy: progressives.
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Feminist Dissent @feministdissent.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
A great addition to your May Day celebrations! Speakers will examine: *Interconnections between white supremacist far right & authoritarian religious groupings – why social control of women so central to them *How we organise a feminist, left & antiracist response www.eventbrite.com/e/webinar-ge...
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Project Resist @projectresist.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Naomi Hunte & Fiona Holm were both killed by the same abusive partner, though they alerted the police to his violence. Join family members, LSE Centre for Women Peace & Security, @bhattmurphy.bsky.social & us for a vital public meeting on what needs to change. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/never-forg...
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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 04/03/2026
Syrian-born journalist Loubna Mrie speaks to @natashawalter.bsky.social about her raw new memoir, her political awakening, and the power of defiance www.thenerve.news/p/loubna-mri...
‘My father was my first dictator’: activist Loubna Mrie, pictured against a black background, speaks to Natasha Walter about oppression, murder and escape from Assad’s Syria
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Natasha Walter @natashawalter.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
I spoke to BBC reporter Tim Whewell for this programme on Syria’s Kurds and the women’s revolution of North East Syria. Worth a listen, not for me but for the Kurdish women who speak so movingly about their lives transformed- and the threats ahead. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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Assignment - Can Syria’s Kurds save their women’s revolution? - BBC Sounds
What’s the future for Syria’s Kurds now they’re losing their autonomy
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Iranian artist Shadi Ghadirian, Untitled (from the Qajar series), 2002 #womensart
Monochrome photograph featuring a standing Iranian woman in a hijab holding a portable radio and tape deck on her shoulder in an interior
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Monika Kinner-Whalen, contemporary Canadian textile artist known for her thread paintings #WomensArt
Textile artwork featuring an image of a landscape with fields of purple flowers under a blue sky with fluffy white clouds
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Southall Black Sisters (SBS) @sbsisters.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
The government has announced major changes to the UK’s refugee protection system, making status temporary and subject to reassessment for asylum-seeking women and victim-survivors of VAWG. This means prolonged precarity, fear and instability. 1/3
Teal and white informational carousel titled “How will making refugee status temporary harm victim-survivors of violence against women and girls?”, created by a coalition of VAWG organisations including Southall Black Sisters.Teal and white informational carousel titled “How will making refugee status temporary harm victim-survivors of violence against women and girls?”, created by a coalition of VAWG organisations including Southall Black Sisters.Teal and white informational carousel titled “How will making refugee status temporary harm victim-survivors of violence against women and girls?”, created by a coalition of VAWG organisations including Southall Black Sisters.Teal and white informational carousel titled “How will making refugee status temporary harm victim-survivors of violence against women and girls?”, created by a coalition of VAWG organisations including Southall Black Sisters.
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The Freethinker @thefreethinkermag.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Today in the Freethinker, @maryamnamazie.bsky.social writes about the importance of blasphemy to human freedom - particularly women's blasphemy. 'In [theocratic/authoritarian] systems, being a woman is in and of itself an act of blasphemy.' freethinker.co.uk/2026/03/wome...
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Women’s Blasphemy and the State - The Freethinker
Blasphemous. Corrupt. Apostate. Kafir. These words are always defined from the perspective of the religious. The religious lens…
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Feminist Dissent @feministdissent.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
A few of us will be marching at this on Saturday... Hope to see you there!
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FiLiA @filiacharity.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
👩‍🏭Workshops 👭Panels 📢Activism 🎭Performances 🚼FREE crèche (limited spaces) ❤️‍🔥and much more! 🏖️ #Blackpool September 18th-19th for #FiLiA2027 🎟️ filia.org.uk/tickets ⏰#EarlyBird tickets END at midnight 9th March!
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Project Resist @projectresist.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Join our co-director Pragna Patel today at this vital online meeting on Religion, Nationalism and the Mainstreaming of the Far Right. In these dangerous times, we need to understand - and to resist - the connections between religion and reactionary politics. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/religion-n...
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Religion, nationalism and the mainstreaming of the far right
Religion and reactionary politics in the UK today
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Feminist Dissent @feministdissent.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Searing new blog post by Yasmin Rehman: "There is of course nothing new in what Farage and Yusuf announced. It is a direct lift from the National Front leaflets of the 1970s with an added sprinkle..." feministdissent.org/blog-posts/s...
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FiLiA @filiacharity.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
🧵Ahead of @tuc.org.uk, which starts in #Brighton today, check out the #FiLiA Trade Union Women’s Network briefing on how Women’s TUC and Conference structures function and feed into making TUC policy. 🔗 filia.org.uk/s/FiLiA-TUWN-WTUC-2025-6-Briefing.pdf #UnionsForWomen #TUC2025 #TUC25
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Kenan Malik @kenanmalik.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
While Lucy Connolly was being feted at the Reform conference, hundreds were being arrested for their speech opposing the proscription of Palestine Action. Yet those turning Connolly into a free speech martyr seem to have little to say about those arrests. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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More than 425 arrested at rally against Palestine Action ban in London
Hundreds gathered in Parliament Square to oppose the group's ban under anti-terrorism legislation.
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Feminist Dissent @feministdissent.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
Rosie Lewis is another FD collective member speaking at FiLia about the new report from the Angelou Centre and Project Resist UK on the impact of last year's far right riots on minoritised women and children. #WhyDoIHaveToHideAway #StoriesofColour
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Feminist Dissent @feministdissent.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
Join us for online launch of Feminist Dissent 8, with Gita Saghal, Judith Götz and Chetan Bhatt. 30 September 5pm UK time. Free but register below for the link. Link to the issue in reply.
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Feminist Dissent @feministdissent.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
Proud that FD collective member Gita Sahgal is joining the roster of speakers and grassroots activists at FiLia. Looking forward to this!
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Feminist Dissent @feministdissent.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
New issue 8 is out now! With authoritarianism, racist nationalism and misogyny rising, how do we respond? Edited by Stephen Cowden, Jane Gabriel, Gita Sahgal, Amrita Shodhan & Rashmi Varna, with bold and evocative artwork by Palestinian artist Malak Mattar. Watch this space...
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Samira Ahmed @samiraahmeduk.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Great comprehensive thread on last night’s 📚📖launch event for Planet Patriarchy 🌎
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FiLiA @filiacharity.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
FiLiA will be there in #Sisterhood and #Solidarity #IWD2025
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Dr Rachel Broady @drrachelbroady.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
Sick of right wing populists, lefty neoliberals, ageing anarchists, ideologically-illiterate, ahistorical activists fuelling racism by joining "Asian grooming gangs" rhetoric. If concerned about abuse of women and girls can look to the Catholic church, honours list, Epstein's friend, EDL/BNP ...
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The right is trying to rewrite history with its toxic rhetoric on Britain’s rape gangs | Kenan Malik
Girls who have suffered terrible abuse are now being exploited by populists for their own ends
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Sisters Salon Brighton #CreatingWomensSpaces @sisterssalon.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
Please sign the petition Iran is one of the world’s top executioners of women: www.change.org/p/call-to-ac... #EndGenderApartheid #PakhshanAzizi #VerishehMoradi
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