In PerspectiveIn February 2025 the LGTBIQ+ movement organized a massive demonstration in Argentina, against the libertarian government, the president’s homophobic remarks at Davos and his permanent hate speech. It was the first Anti-fascist, Anti-racist, LGBTIQ+ demonstration and it was huge because it managed to mobilize sectors that had rarely mobilized in protest against Milei. In this article we want to analyse what happened that this particular event was able to articulate so many different groups. But also, we propose an explanation for why that movement weakened, giving way to a small demonstration one year later, and how we might regain strength again.
Antifeminism & LGBTIQ
InterviewNearly four years after the killing of Mahsa Jina Amini triggered one of the largest uprisings in Iran since the establishment of the Islamic Republic, the political landscape has changed dramatically. State repression dismantled activist networks, imprisoned militants, and forced many activists into exile, while the military offensive carried out by Israel and the United States reshaped the political terrain. In this interview, Firoozeh Farvardin reflects on the place of feminism in a context marked by internal repression, war, and struggles over who speaks for the Iranian opposition.
In PerspectiveThe explosive growth of social media self-help culture promises quick solutions to intimate crises, from restoring “feminine energy” to reclaiming “masculine power.” Yet beneath its language of empowerment lies a deeper political logic. As neoliberal societies produce a growing “care deficit,” self-help influencers transform insecurity into a market while promoting survivalist individualism, gender essentialism, and authoritarian fantasies of control that increasingly echo the moral agendas of contemporary far-right politics.
By Ülker Sözen
Interview
Melina Vázquez and Carolina Spataro explore a new type of right-wing
libertarian feminism, distinct not only from left-wing feminism but
also from classical liberal feminism and right-wing conservatism. Who
are these libertarian feminists and why do they think feminism has
more to do with Javier Milei than with socialism?
InterviewArgentinian feminist intellectual Rita Segato draws connections between the genocide in Gaza and the femicides she studied in Ciudad Juárez, and reflects about the current fascistic shift and how some of her key conceptualizations on coloniality, race, and violence, help us decipher it.
By Börries Nehe
