Resources

Stage 1: Map – Transnational Findings, which bring together the case studies to offer an overall insight, in Català (Catalan), English, Français (French), Deutsch (German), Ελληνικά (Greek), Magyar (Hungarian), Polski (Polish), Español (Spanish) and Türkçe (Turkish)

Stage 1: Map – Case Study Findings: Hungary, Poland, Switzerland (Deutsch), Switzerland (English), UK, and European Parliament

Stage 1: Map – Full Report in English, containing the Transnational Findings, the National and European Parliament Reports, and how this research was undertaken

Stage 1: Map –  RESIST Research Summary tool/brochure, in English. Here you will find a 30 page outline of what the Mapping Stage found. It will be made available at a later date in Français (French), Deutsch (German), Ελληνικά (Greek), Magyar (Hungarian), Polski (Polish) and Türkçe (Turkish)

Stage 2: Listen – Full Report in English, containing the Transnational Findings, Case Study Findings, Relief Maps and, and how this research was undertaken

Stage 2: Listen – Transnational Findings, which bring together the case study findings to offer an overall insight, are available here in full in English and Ελληνικά (Greek), and in summary form in Català (Catalan), Deutsch (German), Ελληνικά (Greek), Русский (Russian), Español (Spanish), Français (French), Polski (Polish) and Türkçe (Turkish).

Stage 2: Listen – Case Study Summary Findings for Deutschland – Deutsch (Germany – German), Ελλάδα – Ελληνικά (Greece – Greek), España – Castellano (Spain – Spanish), Espanya – Català (Spain – Catalan), France – Français (France – French), Polska – Polski (Poland – Polish), Беларусь – Русский (Belarus – Russian), Schweiz – Deutsch (Switzerland – German), Suisse – Français (Switzerland – French), and Sürgün – Türkçe (In Exile in the EU – Turkish).

Stage 2: Listen - Irish Survey Data: This short report looks at Irish survey data on the prevalence of Anti-LGBTIQ+ and Anti-Feminist Sentiment and Mobilisations.

Stage 2: Listen – Case Study Full Findings for Belarus - English, Deutschland - Deutsch (Germany - German), Ελλάδα - Ελληνικά (Greece - Greek), Greece - English, France - English, Germany - English, In Exile in Europe - English, Ireland - English, Poland - English, Spain (Catalonia & Basque Country) - English and Switzerland - English

We are happy to launch our own open access repository space on the leading EU-backed ZENODO repository. You will find here all our outputs produced during the project lifetime.

When we have published academic outputs, they will be listed here on the RESIST website. You can also see them, and all other types of RESIST outputs on our ZENODO repository.

Here you will find our Toolkits and Datasets we will produce during the project. This section of the ‘Resources’ page will be updated as we release new outputs. If you want to be notified about new releases, you can sign up to our newsletter here

Kath Browne gave a 'keynote provocation' with reference to RESIST data at the Queer Data Summit, organised by the University of Edinburgh. The event was attended by 40 policymakers, researchers, community leaders, and industry practitioners.

Marianne Blidon gave an invited talk for the Pasteur Queer Club’s seminar on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, held at Institut Pasteur.

Organised by University College Dublin, this event convened researchers, clinicians, and community organisations to explore diverse facets of LGBTQ+ health and healthcare amidst uncertain times. Kath Browne gave the keynote address with reference to RESIST results, which were well received by the audience.

Marianne Blidon spoke about the impact of 'anti-gender' and anti-LGBTIQ+ movements on community health initiatives to disseminate RESIST findings among healthcare professionals and policy makers.

Kath Browne spoke alongside two Irish LGBT advocates regarding trans solidarity in LGBT rights movements. This session took place at a conference in Dublin marking ten years since the marriage equality referendum was passed in Ireland.

Ekaterina Filep presented RESIST findings on 'anti-gender' mobilisations in Switzerland in front of scholars and students from the Department of Geosciences at Universite de Fribourg.

As part of this plenary session, on a panel with EL*C Advocacy Director Ilaria Todde, and Italian trans activist Eva Sassi Croce, Kath Browne spoke about what 'anti-gender' is, how it is working in Europe, its impact, and forms of resistances, drawing on RESIST findings from the first two stages of the research.

This event, led by Kath Browne, Sheryl Lynch, and Anna Carastathis, explored the relevance of the RESIST research findings for those who attended. It was outlined how ‘anti-gender’ movements are mobilising across Europe, the effects they have, and how resistances are taking shape. Attendees were asked to consider how these findings relate to their experiences and the steps we might take to counter the anti-feminist, anti-LGBTQIA+, and anti-rights agendas that are increasingly defining our worlds.

Kath Browne spoke at Dublin City University's public seminar titled "DCU School of Communications Spring Series 2025: Gender Disinformation in Online Ecosystems" about gender disinformation in relation to the RESIST project's findings.

Roberto Kulpa, Ekaterina Filep, and Adrianna Zabrzewska organised and presented the RESIST project and its findings during a collaborative workshop with scholars and activists from the region, hosted together with the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences. You can watch the recording here.

Mathilde Kiening and Marianne Blidon shared the results of RESIST case study on France with Francophone audiences, disseminating findings and inviting a discussion with fellow scholars through a presentation titled Des existences contestées aux résistances partagées : Effets et résistance face aux discours, politiques et mobilisations « anti-genre ».

Mathilde Kiening and Marianne Blidon organised a research symposium on the experiences of marginalised communities, sharing RESIST findings and inviting other Francophone scholars to contribute.

Through Latife Akyuz's presentation, "Exiles from Turkey and Northern Kurdistan: Facing Anti-Gender Politics and Building Resistance in Europe," workshop participants explored how exiled communities develop anti-fascist, feminist, and anti-racist strategies for collective resistance and future action.

Stefanie Boulila presented the results of the German case study at a public lecture organised as part of the 16 Days against Violence against Women. The event was titled "Antifeministische und queerfeindliche Anfeindungen als Gefahr für die Demokratie" (“Anti-feminist and anti-queer hostility as a threat to democracy”) and took place in Freiburg im Breisgau (Germany).

As part of GEF 2024, Roberto Kulpa shared findings from the RESIST project during the session ''Countering the gender backlash: Strategies on getting our act together and setting our own narratives"

Hekate Diakoumakou presented RESIST findings on Greece in a presentation "Lived experiences of 'anti-gender' politics in Greece: Structural discriminations and resistances" during an event organised by Diotima.

An in-person event to launch the Irish case study findings in was held in central Dublin. Three representatives of LGBT/civil society organisations gave a short reflection on the findings, followed by a discussion with attendees.

Ekaterina Filep presented the findings from the WP2 report on Switzerland during a workshop organised by our sister project UNTWIST. Katya's discussion highlighted key themes surrounding the construction of media and parliamentary anti-gender discourses in Switzerland, emphasizing how these narratives contribute to shaping seemingly innocuous spaces that mask deeper issues.

Latife Akyuz's presentation explored how displaced intellectuals and activists confront anti-gender mobilisations, highlighting their strategies for building resistance in the context of exile. It emphasised the transformative potential of displacement in creating new forms of intellectual subjectivity and examined the vulnerabilities, challenges, and agency of exiled communities in fostering anti-fascist, feminist, and anti-racist responses across Europe.

The RESIST team promoted findings from the second stage of the project during an online event (23/10/2024). The second stage explored the effects of 'anti-gender' mobilisations on people's everyday lives in Belarus, Poland, Germany, France, Spain, Ireland, Greece, Switzerland, as well as on the lives of people in exile across Europe. The recording is available here and under 'Podcasts & Videos'.

Katya Filep and Roberto Kulpa talked about findings of the first stage of the project to the international audiences gathered at the 7th European Geographies of Sexualities Conference, Brighton (UK), September 2024. The theme ‘Uncomfortable Spaces’ was a perfect fit and focal point to talk and think with fellow researchers about problems associated with expanding ‘anti-gender’ politics and mobilisations.

Roberto Kulpa presented the findings from the first stage of the project to the members of the UK-based academic trade union (UCU, Universities and Colleges Union) and other attending researchers, at the UCU Equality Research Conference 2024. A lively conversation followed showing resonances and importance of the findings to the audiences.

The RESIST team organised an event (23/04/2024) to promote findings from the first stage of the project. During the first year, we mapped media and parliamentary discourses of ‘anti-gender’ mobilisations across Polish, British, Swiss, Hungarian, and European Parliament’s cases. The event was recorded, and the video is available here and also under the ‘Podcasts & Videos’ list.

Kath Browne spoke at LSE with five other academics about the funding challenges of conducting research on 'anti-gender' mobilisations, as part of a wider conference organised by the London School of Economics.

Members of the RESIST team (Gavan Titley, Sheryl Lynch, Roberto Kulpa, and Lati Akyuz) presented at the international conference: “Contesting 21st Century B/Orders” organised by the Viadrina Center B/ORDERS IN MOTION at the European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder), Germany, September 06-08, 2023.

As part of a UCD lunchtime series for academic staff, Kath Browne spoke about the project and about receiving Horizon Europe funding for RESIST.

The RESIST Project officially launched in October 2022 in Dublin. The inaugural event gathered numerous stakeholders from civil society, media, community groups, and academia. We presented the project, and were thrilled to receive numerous messages of support, welcoming RESIST and anticipating its outputs.

We have launched a RESIST YouTube channel. This multipurpose platform will serve in hosting and promoting our own videos and recordings, podcasts, educational materials, and a curated collection of external audiovisual resources that we recommend for anyone interested in learning more and understanding ‘anti-gender’ mobilisations, and queer-feminist resistances. Please subscribe and follow us to receive updates when the new content appears online.

During the workshop on confronting 'anti-gender' mobilisations across Ukraine, Poland, Belarus, and Russia, organised in Warsaw together with Edinburgh Napier University and the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Roberto Kulpa, Ekaterina Filep, and Adrianna Zabrzewska shared findings from the RESIST project. You can watch their presentations here.

Kath Browne participated in a conversation around misinformation/disinformation on the 'Combatting Misinformation; Supporting Muslim Women; and Inclusive Trails' episode of the 'Younified' podcast, speaking about how it related to anti-gender in Ireland

Click here to watch our team present findings on the effects of, and resistances against 'anti-gender' mobilisations across Europe.

In this podcast episode of “Der Lila Podcast”, Stefanie Boulila, head of the case study on Germany in the RESIST project, talked with host Katrin Rönicke about the term anti-gender politics, the experiences of those affected by them in Germany as well as their resistances.

The recording of the event promoting findings from the first stage of the RESIST project is available on the RESIST YouTube channel

Prof Kath Browne, PI on the RESIST Project, shares her reflections on working on the RESIST project funded under the EC Horizon Europe, Pillar 2, Cluster 2 “Culture, Creativity and Inclusive Society”. The video was produced for the Irish Marie Skłodowska-Curie Office. You can view the video on the RESIST YouTube channel.

RESIST's report using Irish survey data on the prevalence of Anti-LGBTIQ+ and Anti-Feminist Sentiment and Mobilisations was reported on in the Irish national newspaper The Irish Times.

Adrianna Zabrzewska and Roberto Kulpa shared RESIST findings on the effects of 'anti-gender' politics on everyday life and activist work in Poland and Europe in a short article for ngo.pl, a Polish portal for non-governmental organisations.

Roberto Kulpa shared the findings from the RESIST project during an interview with the Polish radio station Nowy Świat.

Pink Mail, a magazine for members of Pink Cross, Switzerland’s organisation of gay and bisexual men, published an interview with Ekaterina Filep about the RESIST Project. Available in French and German.

Maria Rodó and Leon Freude published an opinion article in La Directa (in Catalan)

Roberto Kulpa talks on the Polish radio TOK.FM about the 'anti-gender' mobilisations in Poland and Europe, and how to educate about gender equalities. Dr Kulpa introduced a selection of findings presented in the two RESIST Project reports: National and Transnational Reports on the Formation of Anti-Gender Politics and Effects of, and Resistances to 'Anti-Gender' Mobilisations Across Europe: A Report on Nine Case Studies.

Maria Rodó and Leon Freude communicated the findings on Spain in an article for El Periodico.

Publico published an interview with Maria Rodó and Leon Freude on how the lack of institutional and legal support leaves the victims of anti-gender attacks unprotected.

Social.cat - El diari digital de l'acció social a Catalunya published an article about RESIST findings, particularly in the context of Spain.

Ekaterina Filep was interviewed by La Liberté, a prominent French-language daily newspaper based in Fribourg, Switzerland.

Kath Browne wrote an article for the Irish LGBTQ+ magazine, GCN, summarising results from the Irish case study and highlighting how these findings have come almost ten years after the 2015 marriage equality referendum in Ireland.

Queer.de wrote an online article with links to three RESIST reports, including the case study on Germany, the summary of the transnational report, and the entire transnational report.

Pompeu Fabra University (UPF) newspaper Diari de Barcelona has featured news on the RESIST project and its findings on Spain.

BreakingNews.ie (national Irish news website) published an article based on the Irish press release from the second work package of RESIST.

Kath Browne shared the Irish case study findings in an interview with national Irish radio station, Newstalk.

The mainstream media outler La Republica has shared news on RESIST and its Spanish case study. You can read it here.

The mainstream media outlet La Vanguardia published an article on the RESIST project and the case study on Spain.

La Nocion published an article under the title "The effects of 'anti-gender' policies are persistent and leave a deep mark on the individuals who endure them, according to a study led by UPF."

La Vanguardia's second article on the RESIST project's case study on Spain.

Maria Rodó talks on a radio news programme about RESIST project and the findings on Spain.

Kath Browne, who led the Irish case study, spoke with Sarah McInerny in a radio interview with the Irish national broadcaster, RTÉ Radio 1, during their Drivetime programme.

The findings of from the case study on Switzerland were featured in the article by 20min.ch

Sébastien Chauvin spoke about Swiss 'anti-gender' campaigns and sex education in an interview for the Swiss newspaper Le Temps (in French).

We are happy to have been featured in the article by Rozenn Le Carboulec for the French magazine Mediapart. The article, ‘Un rapport alerte sur l’offensive antigenre en Europe’ (05/06/2024), is part of the ‘Série Europe : l’offensive anti-genre’. 

“Anti-Gender-Politik in der Schweiz: Analyse der Hochschule Luzern” (20/05/2024) was published by Luzern Zeitung. The article showcases the findings of the Swiss case study in the first stage of the RESIST project. A PDF copy of the article is available here.

The digital newspaper Nueva Tribuna shared news about the RESIST project and its case study on Spain in an article titled La política "antigénero" ataca cada vez más la participación democrática según un studio.

German media magazine watson published an interview with Stefanie Boulila in conversation with Juliette Baur. The article, titled ‘Richtet sich gegen Frauen und Minderheiten» – Expertin erklärt «Anti-Gender»-Politik’ (11/04/2024) can be read in full here.

Roberto Kulpa spoke about the importance of the 'gender' category in social sciences, including reflections from the RESIST project during a TV programme "Czy ja dobrze rozumiem?" (Do I understand correctly) by TVP Nauka. You can watch it here.

RESIST welcomed journalists from the Irish GCN Magazine to the project launch event in October 2022. You can read more about their impressions and reflections from the event in this article.

The article ‘EU study to examine the rise of gender-critical politics’ (21/10/2022) by Leigh Mc Gowran was published in the Irish magazine Silicon Republic, Ireland’s no 1 resource for science and technology news, and one of the leading online publications in Europe in this area.

In April 2025, Prof. Kath Browne was part of a plenary session to discuss the findings of RESIST, on a panel with EL*C Advocacy Director Ilaria Todde, and Italian trans activist Eva Sassi Croce, under 4 key questions:

What is ‘anti-gender’?

How is it working in Europe?

If you are interested in the answer to these questions, read our latest blog post about key RESIST project findings, written by Kath Browne and Órlaith Hennessy, to find out more.

At the two year mark, the RESIST team reflects on achievements so far, and next steps in a blog post which discusses how the project mapped the landscape of 'anti-gender' politics, explored the effects of, and resistances against 'anti-gender' politics,  the task of communicating and dissemination the research results across languages and geographies, and next steps in terms of affecting social change through collaborative research.

What is 'anti-gender' politics?

From the comments section on the Internet to the halls of power where political decisions are made, ‘anti-gender’ actors question the validity of gender and sexual diversity—or, even more broadly, any kind of diversity: sexism, misogyny, homophobia, and transphobia are mustered by the same actors that mobilise racism, ableism, and anti-immigrant sentiments.
Our RESIST blog post reflects on how this complex issue requires an equally intricate, well-executed research project.

We launched a RESIST LinkedIn page. This professional ‘social media’ service will help us in promoting our outputs and findings to the diverse and wide group of general audiences. Please follow us to receive updates when the new content appears online.

Bundesverband Trans* (the German federal trans* association) published an Instagram post and an accompanying blog post as part of a monthly series of brochures by trans* for trans* about trans*, in which they wrote about RESIST findings from the case study on Germany.

The RESIST project and its case study on Germany were featured in a blog post by the organisation queerNB e.V.

UCD created Facebook post sharing a link to the publication of the Irish press release on UCD website

The UCD website published RESIST press release on Ireland on their 'News' page.

HSLU featured an article about RESIST, in which they speak with Stefanie Boulila about the project, gender and sexual diversity, and social inequalities. You can read the article (in German) here.

In the third RESIST newsletter, we provided a comprehensive overview of the project's first two years, including links to reports, blog posts, and details about our team's dissemination and communication efforts.

You can now subscribe to our mailing list, and receive notification when we publish new outputs on our website. Our newsletters are infrequent (typically 2-3 per year) to avoid unnecessary clutter in mailboxes.

In this edition of our newsletter, we announced the release of findings from the second phase of our research project, which highlighted the effects of ‘anti-gender’ discourses and politics in everyday life across nine case studies in Europe.

The first RESIST newsletter was sent out on the 16th of Aprili 2024, containing news about the first set of research findings, a project findings webinar invitation and links to published findings

Press Releases for the Listen Stage Findings: Ελλάδα – Ελληνικά (Greece – Greek) & Greece (English), España – Castellano (Spain – Spanish), Espanya – Català (Spain – Catalan), In Exile in the EU – English, France – Français (France – French), Im Exil – Deutsch (In Exile in the EU – German), Deutschland – Deutsch (Germany – German), Ireland – English, Poland – English, Polska – Polski (Poland – Polish), Schweiz – Deutsch (Switzerland – German), Suisse – Français (Switzerland – French), Spain (Catalonia & Basque Country) – English, Sürgün – Türkçe (In Exile in the EU – Turkish), Switzerland – English and Transnational – English.

Press Releases for the Mapping Stage Findings can be read here in Català (Catalan), Deutsch-Deutschland (German-Germany), Deutsch-Schweiz (German-Switzerland), English, Français (French), Ελληνικά (Greek), Magyar (Hungarian), Polski (Polish), Español (Spanish) and Türkçe (Turkish).

The RESIST project, a Europe-wide study of ‘anti-gender’ politics was launched on the 20th of Oct 2022, aiming to investigate so-called ‘anti-gender’ politics across the continent. Here you will find the official project launch press release in .pdf format