intersectionality

What is lost, beyond their modesty, when non-sexual images of women and queer people are captured, circulated, or manipulated without their consent? 

What happens when words travel further than the power they promise? Feminist scholar and activist Anila Noor left the Women Deliver 2026 conference carrying an unexpected metaphor: a conference bag that was empty. Not as a disappointment — but as a revelation.

The Women Deliver 2026 conference in Melbourne convened 6,123 participants from 189 countries. These figures reflect the scale and urgency of global gender equality efforts. Yet beyond participation, this analysis reveals a more complex picture of inclusion, power, and persistent structural gaps.

Courts and human rights mechanisms have moved beyond a single axis lens by employing intersectionality as a key principle in the prosecution of international crimes. This leads to strategies for non-discriminatory justice, aimed at promoting substantive equality.

In Iran, feminist foreign policy demands both short-term interventions to alleviate the suffering of the civilian population and a long-term approach to deal with the state’s structural violence against its own citizens.

War and armed conflict almost always go hand in hand with sexual violence – rape, sexual slavery, forced marriage. On occasions when it seems pertinent, such as in the context of the current war in Ukraine, politicians and the media talk about the issue and condemn the violence, but their rhetoric is short on substance.

The elimination of violence against women is tied to the elimination of all forms of heteropatriarchal, homo- and transphobic, (neo-)colonial, racist, capitalist, ableist violence.

Despite the authoritarian atmosphere, the contemporary feminist and queer movements in Poland are becoming more diverse, informal, intersectional, and focused on countering misogyny and homophobia in locally defined contexts.