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Issue #8 (2025): Human Rights in an Age of Populist Authoritarianism

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This issue is devoted to the way authoritarian political parties and organisations have both attacked but also sought to appropriate human rights discourse.

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Issue #7 (2023): Afghan Women’s Resistance: Forty Years of Struggle Against Gender Apartheid

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This special issue is based on the Afghan Women’s Resistance: Forty Years of Struggle Against Gender Apartheid...

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Issue #6 (2022): Special Issue : ‘When you cannot debate together you cannot live together’ – Why Free Speech?

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This special issue is based on the question of 'When you cannot debate together you cannot live together' - Why Free Speech?...

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Issue #5 (2020): Special Issue on Secular States, Fundamentalist Politics

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This special issue is based on a series of symposia on Gender and Fundamentalisms conducted over the last four years on different aspects of the relationship between gender and fundamentalisms.

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Public Meeting – Solidarity With Birmingham Schools: Defending Equality!

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This public meeting has been called to show solidarity with the brave stand taken by the school, and to call on all schools to continue in...

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In Defence of Equality in Birmingham Schools

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Joint Statement by Southall Black Sisters and Feminist Dissent As a group of individuals and organisations, we express our solidarity with...

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Feminist Dissent Celebrates 40 Years of Southall Black Sisters: Film Screening of Bhaji on the Beach (1994)

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Feminist Dissent presents Bhaji on the Beach (directed by Gurinder Chadha) to celebrate 40 Years of Southall Black Sisters. The film will be followed by a panel discussion.

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Issue #4 (2019): Special Issue on Prevent

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The focus of this Issue is the UK’s counter-radicalisation programme ‘Prevent’. As a number of articles in this Issue explain, this...

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Why We Defended Rushdie and Why It Is Still Important Today: 30 Years After…

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Description On this Valentine’s Day, the 30th anniversary of the fatwa against Salman Rushdie, join Feminist Dissent to defend the...

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Issue #3 (2018): Special Issue on Challenging Binaries to Promote Women’s Equality

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In this issue we are calling for a new interpretive framework that recognises the multiple genealogies that have contributed to binary constructs of the Western/secular versus the authentic/religious; takes into account the different power positionalities of those engaging in global and national struggles temporally and spatially.

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