Podcasting Social Justice: Dialoges of Resistances

About Podcasting Social Justice: Dialoges of Resistances

A podcast series about ‘anti-gender’ politics, a complex, multi-sided political and civil society movement threatening gender and sexual diversity. In each episode, we look at how campaigns against gender and sexual equality take shape in different places, how these ideas travel across borders and across party lines, and what they mean for everyday life. Along the way, we ask how these debates affect democracy and rights, from education and the media to academic freedoms, reproductive justice, and people’s ability to live and self-identify in safety. Across the episodes, we not only diagnose what is currently happening but also discuss how we may resist these ‘anti-gender’ mobilisations. You will hear from researchers as well as from feminist and queer organisers and collectives - together, these conversations map the solidarities and strategies that can help sustain pro-equality changes. *** This podcast series is based on the RESIST Project (2022-2026) (https://theresistproject.eu/ (https://theresistproject.eu/)) which examined ‘anti-gender’ politics and populisms as well as queer-feminist responses to these illiberal attacks on democracy. The study was conducted across several country cases: Belarus, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Poland, Spain, Switzerland, the EU, as well as a transnational case of people living in exile in Europe. In the project, we have collaborated with 40 advocacy groups, experts, and public intellectuals (e.g. journalist, doctors, artists) to create space for shared learning and grounded knowledge that amplifies those voices who are too often pushed to the margins. *** Series Citation: Kulpa, R., & Zabrzewska, A. (2026). Podcasting Social Justice: Dialogues for Resistances (Podcast Series). https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21676257 *** ACKNOWLEDGMENTS The frist two seasons of this podcast series draw on the RESIST Project, funded by the European Union under Project ID: 101060749. EU Horizon Europe (EU partners); UK Government Horizon Europe Guarantee Scheme (UK partner); Swiss State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation (Swiss partners). Views and opinions expressed are those of the authors and guests only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or British and Swiss funding authorities. Neither the European Union nor the granting authorities can be held responsible for them. Podcast series was established thanks to the Knowledge Exchange grant, Edinburgh Napier University (2026).

Publisher

Roberto Kulpa & Adrianna Zabrzewska

Category

education · science · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

20 Aug 2026

Latest episode

21 Aug 2026

Latest episodes

5 episodes in the feed.

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   21 Aug 2026

   Vulnerabilities: Weak Resistances and Precarity (S01E02)

   How does vulnerability become a source of strength in resistance? Is vulnerability really a weakness—or is it our most vital foundation for collective resistance? In this episode of Dialogues for Resistance, we unpack the politics of vulnerability amidst escalating “anti-gender” mobilisations across Europe. Moving past the illusion of the self-sufficient individual, in this episode we talk about intersectional precarity & burnout and why risk and exhaustion are structured unequally across...

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   21 Aug 2026

   Affects: Emotions in Anti-Gender Movements and Queer Resistances (S01E03)

   How do emotions fuel anti-gender movements, and how can they fuel resistance too? What makes fear so politically powerful — and what happens when joy becomes a strategy of resistance? In this episode of Dialogues for Resistance, we explore how anti-gender movements mobilise emotions to shape public life. These campaigns do not rely on arguments alone: they manufacture moral panic, recruit fear and outrage, and turn children, families, and the nation into emotional symbols of threat. The resul...

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   21 Aug 2026

   Displacements: Queer Migration & Anti-Gender Politics (S01E04)

   What does queer migration look like day to day? Paperwork, barriers, and belonging... In this episode of Dialogues for Resistance, we move beyond headlines about migration “crises” and listen instead to the lived realities of queer, trans, feminist, and LGBTIQ+ people displaced by anti-gender politics. We ask what happens when staying becomes impossible — and when arrival does not yet mean safety. Through stories of persecution, border violence, asylum interviews, racism, bureaucracy, and lif...

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   21 Aug 2026

   Knowledges: Anti-Gender Politics and Education (S01E01)

   What are the barriers to gender and sexual equality in higher education? What happens when “science,” “common sense,” and “neutrality” become political weapons? In this episode of Dialogues for Resistance, we explore how anti-gender politics targets knowledge itself: universities, classrooms, research, equality work, and the people who make these spaces more inclusive. We ask why gender and sexuality scholarship is so often framed as “ideology,” while anti-gender actors present their own mora...

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   20 Aug 2026

   Podcast Series Teaser

   Welcome to Podcasting Social Justice: Dialogues of Resistances — a podcast series about ‘anti-gender’, a complex, multi-sided political and civil society movement threatening gender and sexual diversity. In each episode, we look at how campaigns against gender and sexual equality take shape in different places, how these ideas travel across borders and across party lines, and what they mean for everyday life. Along the way, we ask how these debates affect democracy and rights, from education ...

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