Following our third issue covering Gender Equality (Öffnet in neuem Fenster), we come back with YOUR ‘Community Edition’ to relay even more constructive and inspiring content coming directly from the audience.
This impressive list of 25 suggested solutions (stories, changemakers and initiatives) and 13 recommended media and podcasts shows us that there are many different ways to contribute to a fairer and more gender-equal Europe. Since we believe that each of us can make a change, don’t hesitate to spread the word about their work, to participate in some of their activities or to replicate these good practices in your own region.
To keep the conversation going and growing, we count on you to keep suggesting new ideas and innovative solutions via our various social media channels. (Öffnet in neuem Fenster)
Issue #3 - Gender Equality Community Edition
Solutions from across Europe
🛠️ The Gender Equality Toolkit for Working Women and Friends (Öffnet in neuem Fenster) that facilitates conversations, raises awareness and helps drive positive change in the workplace. ➡ Stay tuned for their Kickstarter campaign to be launched in May 2022 !
💰 Gender Budgeting by the European Women's Lobby (Öffnet in neuem Fenster), helping anyone to transform societies by effectively advocating for gender budgeting at all levels. ➡ Relay their message, follow their events (Öffnet in neuem Fenster), or make a donation (Öffnet in neuem Fenster).
📊 Gender Data Lab (Öffnet in neuem Fenster), a collaborative place to share knowledge and open datasets around gender to visualize inequality. It’s open and free!
📣 The Writers Hub of the Young Feminist Europe (Öffnet in neuem Fenster), an open platform publishing different feminist views aiming to raise awareness on intersectional gender issues.
In addition to the one in Poland in our previous edition, see also 🎬 Fire!! Festival (Öffnet in neuem Fenster) in Barcelona (9-19 July),🎬 International Queer Film Festival (Öffnet in neuem Fenster) in Portugal (16-24 Sept.), and the 🎬 Hamburg Queer Film Festival (Öffnet in neuem Fenster) in Hamburg (18-23 Oct.).
🌍 All Out Campaign Tool (Öffnet in neuem Fenster), empowers anyone, from anywhere around the world, to launch their own petition for LGBT+ rights (Öffnet in neuem Fenster).
🏫 Tools for Gender Equality in Academia and Research (GEAR) by EIGE (Öffnet in neuem Fenster) that aim to narrow the gap between women and men in academia and can help to set up gender equality plans in your own organisation.
🗺️ Trans Rights Map by TGEU (Öffnet in neuem Fenster), launched in May 2022, shows the legal situation of 55 countries on trans-specific legislation (recognition, asylum, hate speech, health, family, etc.) and, luckily, records slow progress in the last years, despite the pandemic. ➡ See also TGEU’s resources in support for trans persons from Ukraine (Öffnet in neuem Fenster).
✍️ Long road to motherhood: Lesbians fight for IVF in Europe (Öffnet in neuem Fenster), article by Rachel Savage for Openly News on 26 April 2021.
🎨 Women Rise NFT (Öffnet in neuem Fenster), a collection of 10,000 unique NFT art pieces (see below) that are, for once, purpose-driven and supporting important causes in our society. ✍️ See also this article on “How Women Are Carving Out a Space of Their Own in the NFT Market” (Öffnet in neuem Fenster)
Solutions per country
In the UK
🏛️ Queer Britain Museum (Öffnet in neuem Fenster), on 5th May, this charity opened the UK’s first LGBT+ museum, a place as exciting as the people, stories and ideas it explores and celebrates.
🏆 Diva Awards 2022 (Öffnet in neuem Fenster), by the renowned DIVA Magazine (Öffnet in neuem Fenster), a no-holds-barred celebration of the achievements of LGBT+ people – and their allies – across business, the media and politics.
🧑🏻🤝🧑🏾INvolve People (Öffnet in neuem Fenster) helps firms drive cultural change and create inclusive workplaces where any individual can succeed. See their annular role model lists (Öffnet in neuem Fenster).
In Poland
💩 Stop Bzdurom / Stop Bullshit (Öffnet in neuem Fenster), a radical, feminist and queer collective fighting the "Stop Pedophilia" disinformation campaign (Öffnet in neuem Fenster) and advocating for LGBT+ rights.
🧃🌈 Rainbow4.love (Öffnet in neuem Fenster), an original aid fund campaign powered by the sale of the Yerba Mate Rainbow drink (Öffnet in neuem Fenster) to help projects related to psychological and legal support for LGBT+ people.
👐 Kampania Przeciw Homofobii / Campaign Against Homophobia (Öffnet in neuem Fenster) and their recent work to welcome and provide adequate support to transgender and intersex refugees from Ukraine and other countries (see tweet below).
In Spain
🎒 School of Feminism (Öffnet in neuem Fenster), a non-profit platform that aims to push Feminism forward in society through communication, creativity and education. ➡ See #stopnipplecensorship (Öffnet in neuem Fenster) and @nipplemagazine (Öffnet in neuem Fenster), one of their many campaigns calling to revisit the way women are portrayed on social networks.
✍️ The only woman in the room (Öffnet in neuem Fenster), article by Marta Buces (Öffnet in neuem Fenster) for Eurocities on March 9th 2022, asking if the situation for women in local politics improved over the years in Madrid, Gothenburg, Zaragoza, Tallinn and Barcelona.
In Belgium
📍 The Brussels Binder (Öffnet in neuem Fenster), a free database of women experts in many fields to improve diversity in policy and media debates.
👮♀️ Women In International Security Global (Wiis) (Öffnet in neuem Fenster) dedicated to advancing the leadership and professional development of women in the field of international peace, security and defence.
In Germany
⚕️ LEVY Health (Öffnet in neuem Fenster), the first digital platform for holistic fertility medicine with a mission to close the gender health and care gap (having just raised €2.5 million to scale-up).
In the Netherlands
💻 The Code To Change (Öffnet in neuem Fenster), an academy that inspires and teaches women and other underrepresented groups essential tech skills to succeed in the job market.
In Sweden
✍️ “Sweden’s Feminist Foreign Policy, Long May It Reign (Öffnet in neuem Fenster)”, article by Rachel Volgelstein and Alexandra Bro for Foreign Policy in Sweden on 30 January 2019. To date, 98 countries (Öffnet in neuem Fenster) have adopted national action plans to promote the role of women in peace and security processes.
BONUS: Recommended podcasts & media
Podcasts for your ears 🎙️
Exactly. With Florence Given (Öffnet in neuem Fenster) (EN) diving deep into 5 topics; sex, social media, feminism, relationships and body image and exploring them all with fascinating guests.
The Shift by Sam Baker (EN) (Öffnet in neuem Fenster) amplifies and celebrates women in midlife and beyond as we don’t often hear these women’s voices, their experiences, their WISDOM (also on Steady (Öffnet in neuem Fenster)).
La Fabuleuse (Öffnet in neuem Fenster) (FR), five young, queer and unfiltered influencers (led by Bilal Hassani) who talk about fashion, sex or friendship with a claimed kindness.
Camille (FR) (Öffnet in neuem Fenster), Camille Regache helps demystify gender and sexual identities. Try some of her must-hear episodes like “How to be a good ally to trans people” and “The Big Bad Queer”.
Coming Out (Öffnet in neuem Fenster) (FR) gives the floor to well-known and lesser-known personalities, who recount their coming out and their journey to fully accept themselves.
Black Confetti (Öffnet in neuem Fenster) (DE) talks about self-love, feminism & sustainability with their very Mediterranean swag (also on Steady (Öffnet in neuem Fenster)).
We presented these two changemakers in the previous edition but make sure to tune in for I Weigh (EN) by Jameela Jamil (Öffnet in neuem Fenster) and Gurls talk (Öffnet in neuem Fenster)(EN) by Adwoa Aboah.
Media for your eyes 📰 📹
Openly News (EN) (Öffnet in neuem Fenster)is an initiative of the Thomson Reuters Foundation dedicated to impartial coverage of LGBT+ issues from around the world.
Unbias the News (EN) (Öffnet in neuem Fenster)is a feminist cross-border newsroom by Hostwriter (Öffnet in neuem Fenster), working towards a more equitable and inclusive world of journalism.
Ideologia LGBT by Are We Europe (EN) (Öffnet in neuem Fenster), and their latest Queer issue (Öffnet in neuem Fenster) to get a glance at what it feels to be queer in all corners of the continent.
Gal-dem (EN) (Öffnet in neuem Fenster) since the current journalistic landscape is 94% white and 55% male, this new media publication is committed to telling the stories of people of colour from marginalised genders to redress this imbalance (also on Steady (Öffnet in neuem Fenster)).
Stream’Her (Öffnet in neuem Fenster) (FR), provides a safe space for (future) women streamers with access to advices, testimonials and discussion areas on Discord.
PAINT Youtube Channel (Öffnet in neuem Fenster) (FR) created by Aline and Cédric FEITO, twins and both gay, in order to give more visibility to the French-speaking LGBTQIA+ community.
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