Following our third issue covering Gender Equality (Opens in a new window), 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. (Opens in a new window)

Issue #3 - Gender Equality Community Edition

Solutions from across Europe

• 🛠️ The Gender Equality Toolkit for Working Women and Friends (Opens in a new window) 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 (Opens in a new window), helping anyone to transform societies by effectively advocating for gender budgeting at all levels. ➡ Relay their message, follow their events (Opens in a new window), or make a donation (Opens in a new window).

• 📊 Gender Data Lab (Opens in a new window), 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 (Opens in a new window), 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 (Opens in a new window) in Barcelona (9-19 July),🎬 International Queer Film Festival (Opens in a new window) in Portugal (16-24 Sept.), and the 🎬 Hamburg Queer Film Festival (Opens in a new window) in Hamburg (18-23 Oct.).

• 🌍 All Out Campaign Tool (Opens in a new window), empowers anyone, from anywhere around the world, to launch their own petition for LGBT+ rights (Opens in a new window).

• 🏫 Tools for Gender Equality in Academia and Research (GEAR) by EIGE (Opens in a new window) 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 (Opens in a new window), 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 (Opens in a new window).

• ✍️ Long road to motherhood: Lesbians fight for IVF in Europe (Opens in a new window), article by Rachel Savage for Openly News on 26 April 2021.

• 🎨 Women Rise NFT (Opens in a new window), 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” (Opens in a new window)

Solutions per country

In the UK

• 🏛️ Queer Britain Museum (Opens in a new window), 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 (Opens in a new window), by the renowned DIVA Magazine (Opens in a new window), a no-holds-barred celebration of the achievements of LGBT+ people – and their allies – across business, the media and politics.

• 🧑🏻‍🤝‍🧑🏾INvolve People (Opens in a new window) helps firms drive cultural change and create inclusive workplaces where any individual can succeed. See their annular role model lists (Opens in a new window).

In Poland

• 💩 Stop Bzdurom / Stop Bullshit (Opens in a new window), a radical, feminist and queer collective fighting the "Stop Pedophilia" disinformation campaign (Opens in a new window) and advocating for LGBT+ rights.

• 🧃🌈 Rainbow4.love (Opens in a new window), an original aid fund campaign powered by the sale of the Yerba Mate Rainbow drink (Opens in a new window) to help projects related to psychological and legal support for LGBT+ people.

• 👐 Kampania Przeciw Homofobii / Campaign Against Homophobia (Opens in a new window) 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 (Opens in a new window), a non-profit platform that aims to push Feminism forward in society through communication, creativity and education. ➡ See #stopnipplecensorship (Opens in a new window) and @nipplemagazine (Opens in a new window), one of their many campaigns calling to revisit the way women are portrayed on social networks.

• ✍️ The only woman in the room (Opens in a new window), article by Marta Buces (Opens in a new window) 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 (Opens in a new window), a free database of women experts in many fields to improve diversity in policy and media debates.

• 👮‍♀️ Women In International Security Global (Wiis) (Opens in a new window) dedicated to advancing the leadership and professional development of women in the field of international peace, security and defence.

In Germany

• ⚕️ LEVY Health (Opens in a new window), 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 (Opens in a new window), 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 (Opens in a new window)”, article by Rachel Volgelstein and Alexandra Bro for Foreign Policy in Sweden on 30 January 2019. To date, 98 countries (Opens in a new window) 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 (Opens in a new window) (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) (Opens in a new window) 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 (Opens in a new window)).

• La Fabuleuse (Opens in a new window) (FR), five young, queer and unfiltered influencers (led by Bilal Hassani) who talk about fashion, sex or friendship with a claimed kindness.

• Camille (FR) (Opens in a new window), 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 (Opens in a new window) (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 (Opens in a new window) (DE) talks about self-love, feminism & sustainability with their very Mediterranean swag (also on Steady (Opens in a new window)).

• We presented these two changemakers in the previous edition but make sure to tune in for I Weigh (EN) by Jameela Jamil (Opens in a new window) and Gurls talk (Opens in a new window)(EN) by Adwoa Aboah.

Media for your eyes 📰 📹

• Openly News (EN) (Opens in a new window)is an initiative of the Thomson Reuters Foundation dedicated to impartial coverage of LGBT+ issues from around the world.

• Unbias the News (EN) (Opens in a new window)is a feminist cross-border newsroom by Hostwriter (Opens in a new window), working towards a more equitable and inclusive world of journalism.

• Ideologia LGBT by Are We Europe (EN) (Opens in a new window), and their latest Queer issue (Opens in a new window) to get a glance at what it feels to be queer in all corners of the continent.

• Gal-dem (EN) (Opens in a new window) 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 (Opens in a new window)).

• Stream’Her (Opens in a new window) (FR), provides a safe space for (future) women streamers with access to advices, testimonials and discussion areas on Discord.

• PAINT Youtube Channel (Opens in a new window) (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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