FIERCE

🌍 𝐅𝐈𝐄𝐑𝐂𝐄 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰𝐥𝐞𝐝𝐠𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐮𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐯𝐞𝐥 𝐛𝐞𝐲𝐨𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐣𝐞𝐜𝐭! 🎯 Even as the FIERCE project comes to an end, our partners continue to disseminate research findings and contribute to ongoing discussions on gender, democracy, and reactionary politics across Europe and beyond. 📅 23–24 October 2025 📍 European University Institute (EUI) - Florence At the workshop “Unpacking Reactionary Politics on Both Sides of the Mediterranean”, organised by the Global Governance Programme, FIERCE partners shared key insights from their research. 🎙️ FIERCE contributions: 🔹 Ozlem Altan-Olcay, Koç University: “Anti-Feminist Rhetoric and Discourses of Culture: The Turkish Case” 🔹 Alexandros Kioupkiolis, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH): “The Authoritarian Turn and Challenge for Egalitarian Politics Today: The Case of Contemporary Greece (post-2010)” 💬 The workshop explored parallels between illiberal and reactionary movements in Europe and the Middle East, highlighting shared dynamics such as anti-gender and anti-feminist positions, religious and nativist agendas, and discourses of exclusion and inequality. ✨Their participation demonstrates how FIERCE’s research and feminist perspectives continue to inform debates on democracy, equality, and the rise of anti-gender backlash - ensuring that the project’s impact resonates well beyond its completion. #WeAreFIERCE #FIERCEProjecteu #HorizonEurope #GenderEquality #Democracy #FeministResearch #AntiGenderBacklash #EUI

🎧 Throughout the FIERCE project, our podcast series FIERCE Dialogues created spaces for critical reflection and exchange between feminist scholars, activists, and practitioners across Europe. ✊ Now, as the project comes to an end, these episodes stand as part of our legacy - a living archive of feminist voices, struggles, and visions for democracy. 🇫🇷 In this thought-provoking episode, Gabrielle Jourde meets Laure Salmona, co-founder of Féministes contre le cyberharcèlement, to explore “Cybersexism and Democracy.” Together, they unpack the intersections between cyberviolence, gender inequality, systemic racism, and democracy - shedding light on: 🔹 The disproportionate impact of cyberviolence on racialised and gendered minorities 🔹 Biases in generative AI and the dangers of automated content 🔹 The urgent need for regulation and collective feminist resistance online 🎙 Listen to the episode now in French on our Spotify channel 👉https://lnkd.in/dTv-VeCF 💻 Watch with English subtitles on YouTube 👉 https://lnkd.in/dpjQmrbM 🔍 Explore all the FIERCE Dialogues feminist episodes on our website 👉 https://lnkd.in/daz8xWg5 #WeAreFIERCE #FeministPodcast #Cybersexism #DigitalDemocracy #FeministVoices #GenderEquality #fierceprojecteu #HorizonEurope

🌟 FIERCE is featured in the latest edition of the CCINDLE Project Newsletter! 🌏 We’re thrilled that the FIERCE feminist course is highlighted alongside news from our sister project #UNTWIST. 📰 This issue also reflects on: ✨ The social side of campaigning ✨ Legacies of fascism and colonialism in Europe ✨ Budapest’s biggest ever #Pride parade ✨ How shifts in women’s representation and the rise of far-right and populist voices are changing the tone of the European Parliament 🔎Explore the new CCINDLE Project Newsletter issue  👉 https://lnkd.in/dAW8Qddm

✨ As FIERCE comes to a close, we are revisiting our FIERCE Dialogues - a podcast series that captured the voices, struggles and visions of feminist movements across Europe. 🎙 These accessible for all conversations remain a vital part of the project’s legacy, highlighting the challenges we face and the futures we imagine. In this episode, Anastasia Barone and Giada Bonu Rosenkranz, postdoctoral researchers at the Scuola Normale Superiore and members of the Italian FIERCE team, speak with Aurora Perego, member of the sister project CCINDLE Project 'Co-creating Inclusive Intersectional Democratic Spaces Across Europe'. 💡 They reflect on the current wave of feminist mobilization in Italy - its innovative character, the challenges it faces, and the most contested issues of recent years, especially the right to abortion and LGBTQ rights. The discussion also examines the growing influence of anti-gender and anti-choice actors in the country. 📢 Language: English 🎧 Listen now on Spotify 👉 https://lnkd.in/dtQMV9Ks  💻 Watch on YouTube with English subtitles 👉https://lnkd.in/dXiva3h6 Let’s keep feminist voices alive and strong. 💜 #FIERCEprojecteu #FIERCEDialogues #Podcast #FeministFutures #ReproductiveRights #LGBTQ #GenderEquality #HorizonEurope #WeAreFIERCE

⚠️ Violence against women is not a private issue. It's a systemic, global emergency. At FIERCE, we stand in solidarity with the call from UN Women to act now. Every 10 minutes, a woman is killed by an intimate partner or family member. This is unacceptable. We echo the urgent need to prevent violence, support survivors, and hold perpetrators accountable. ✊ Let’s raise our voices. Let’s demand change.

✨🗣 Through the FIERCE project, we launched FIERCE Dialogues, a space where researchers and activists meet to exchange perspectives on today’s most pressing feminist issues. Today, we revisit the Polish episode: “Reproductive Rights and Interactions with the Political System.” 🎙️ FIERCE researcher Grzegorz Piotrowski and partner from the University of Gdansk speaks with Prof. Elzbieta Korolczuk (University of Södertörn & University of Warsaw), a renowned scholar on feminist movements and co-author of Anti-Gender Politics in the Populist Moment. 💡 In this conversation, Prof. Korolczuk explores: 🟣 Recent political developments in Poland and their impact on reproductive rights 🟣 The challenges and resilience of the feminist movement in this context 🟣 Lessons activists across Europe can draw from the Polish experience 🔎 Beyond her academic work, Prof. Korolczuk also contributes to our sister project CCINDLE-Project, researching inclusive democratic spaces in Sweden, while Poland is studied by Dr. Marta Rawluszko and her team. 📢 Language: Polish 🎧 Listen now on Spotify 👉 https://lnkd.in/d-vPnuX3 💻 Watch on YouTube with English subtitles available 👉 https://lnkd.in/d-xKaaJW ✊ Let’s amplify feminist voices and strengthen transnational solidarity 💜 #FIERCEproject #FIERCEDialogues #Podcast #ReproductiveRights #FeministFutures #GenderEquality #HorizonEurope #WeAreFIERCE

✊ Feminist knowledge at your fingertips! Join the FIERCE Course TODAY 👩🎓 🚨 Have you registered yet? The FIERCE Course is live! Α free, self-paced programme where research meets activism to strengthen feminist alliances and counter anti-gender backlash across Europe. 🔎Drawing on FIERCE’s research and co-creation with feminist organisations, the course brings together academic knowledge and activist experience. ✔️ It features lectures by gender and political studies scholars alongside first-hand insights from feminist activists, exploring current political dynamics, sharing resistance strategies, and imagining collective feminist futures. 👩🎓 Designed for: 🔹 Feminist activists, NGOs & social movements 🔹 Policymakers, political actors & gender experts 🔹 Students, academics & practitioners in gender & democracy 💡 Why join? ✔️ Learn from leading feminist researchers & activists ✔️ Explore strategies to resist anti-gender backlash ✔️ Gain tools for building inclusive, intersectional alliances 👉 Register now: https://lnkd.in/dfk4jYdg 👉 Start exploring lessons: https://lnkd.in/dpuhcA44 🌐 More info: https://lnkd.in/dkwr9GQt 👉 Complete all modules and the final quiz to receive your certificate! 💜FIERCE Feminist Course: Tools for change, knowledge for action #FIERCEproject #FIERCEcourse #FeministFutures #GenderEquality #Democracy #HorizonEurope #WeAreFIERCE European Research Executive Agency (REA)

🎙️ During the FIERCE project, we created FIERCE Dialogues - a podcast series bringing together activists, researchers, and practitioners to share feminist perspectives across Europe. As we approach the conclusion of FIERCE, we’re revisiting these powerful conversations that highlight the diversity and strength of feminist voices. Each episode offers unique insights and stories that remain as relevant today as when they were first recorded. 🎙️ Today, let’s return to the episode on "Feminism from the Perspective of People with Disabilities"🌈 🗣FIERCE partner and researcher Andreas Beyer Gregersen from Aalborg University speaks with Gertrud Magnusson, volunteer at the Danish NGO Tegnbuen, which represents LGBTQ+ individuals with hearing disabilities and/or those who use sign language. 💡 Highlights from this dialogue: ✨ How disability, LGBTQ+ identities, and feminist struggles intersect in Denmark ✨ The unifying role of sexuality and sign language within Tegnbuen ✨ The origin of the name Tegnbuen — blending the Danish words for “sign language” and “rainbow” 🌈 📢 Language: Danish 🎧 Listen on Spotify 👉https://lnkd.in/dhZwT-7g 💻 Watch on YouTube with English subtitles 👉https://lnkd.in/dBxFxjkJ Let’s keep these voices alive. Let’s keep building feminist futures. 💜 #fierceprojecteu #fiercedialogues #feministpodcast #FeministFutures #disabilityrights #lgbtqcommunity #HorizonEurope #WeAreFIERCE #lgbtqia

📚 We’re proud to introduce the new Open Access book developed as part of the FIERCE scientific research!  "Anti-Gender Mobilizations in Europe and the Feminist Response" ✍️ Edited by Rok Smrdelj & Roman Kuhar from University of Ljubljana and FIERCE partners 📍 Published by Palgrave Macmillan (Palgrave Studies in European Political Sociology) 🌏Across Europe, anti-gender movements have gained strength—threatening hard-won advances in gender equality and human rights. This timely book maps these mobilisations in Italy, Slovenia, France, Spain, Turkey, Poland, Greece, and Denmark, offering deep insights into their key actors, strategies, and discourses. ✊ But this book is not only about opposition - it’s also about productive resistance! 🗣 Through interviews with feminist and LGBT+ activists in the eight FIERCE countries, the book reveals how these movements are responding with innovative, productive strategies that reimagine activism and solidarity in the face of growing backlash. 🔍 Topics include: ▪️The framing of anti-gender discourses ▪️Intersections with far-right and populist politics ▪️Grassroots feminist and queer resistance ▪️Comparative insights across European contexts Whether you're a student, researcher, activist, or policymaker, this book offers valuable knowledge for understanding today's political landscape and shaping feminist futures. 📖 Read and download the book here (Open Access): 👉 https://lnkd.in/dvPsfucd European Research Executive Agency (REA) #fierceprojecteu #WeAreFIERCE #FeministResistance #antigender #genderequality #lgbtqia #socialmovements #genderstudies #PalgraveMacmillan #research #openaccess #PoliticalSociology #HorizonEurope 

🎙️ NEW FIERCE Podcast Episode from Greece! "The feminist politics of the body as pivotal to the struggle for social justice in our times" ✨ In this episode of FIERCE Dialogues, Alexandros Kioupkiolis from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH), researcher and member of the FIERCE team in Greece interviews Nina Seferiadou, feminist and anti-racist activist, and member of the feminist collective Meduses and the Anti-racist Initiative in Larisa, central Greece. The discussion explores: 🟣 The broader significance of contemporary feminist struggles that place the body at the centre of politics and articulate gender, class, and racial dimensions of resistance. 🟣The challenges of anti-feminist and anti-gender politics in Greece and beyond, and the wider reactionary turn. 🟣 Turning points in the resurgence of feminist and LGBTQ+ movements in Greece. 🟣 The core challenges of contemporary feminist politics—from gender-basedviolence to labour inequalities. 🟣The repertoires of feminist action today: increasing visibility of gender-based violence, empowering survivors, building communities of solidarity, and envisioning a world beyond patriarchy and capitalism. 🟣Structural gaps and injustices in Greece’s legal and institutional responses to gender-based violence, including the revictimization of survivorsand the financial burdens of seeking justice. 🎧 Listen now on Spotify in Greek 🔗 https://lnkd.in/d6jhkCJe 💻 Watch on YouTube (with English subtitles) 🔗 https://lnkd.in/dZdxvAcB European Research Executive Agency (REA) #fierceprojecteu #WeAreFIERCE #HorizonEurope #fiercedialogues #feministpodcast #genderequality #antiracism #SocialJustice #feministpolitics #larisacity #podcast #AristotleUniversity