Following our third issue covering Gender Equality (Si apre in una nuova finestra), 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. (Si apre in una nuova finestra)

Issue #3 - Gender Equality Community Edition

Solutions from across Europe

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

• 📊 Gender Data Lab (Si apre in una nuova finestra), 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 (Si apre in una nuova finestra), 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 (Si apre in una nuova finestra) in Barcelona (9-19 July),🎬 International Queer Film Festival (Si apre in una nuova finestra) in Portugal (16-24 Sept.), and the 🎬 Hamburg Queer Film Festival (Si apre in una nuova finestra) in Hamburg (18-23 Oct.).

• 🌍 All Out Campaign Tool (Si apre in una nuova finestra), empowers anyone, from anywhere around the world, to launch their own petition for LGBT+ rights (Si apre in una nuova finestra).

• 🏫 Tools for Gender Equality in Academia and Research (GEAR) by EIGE (Si apre in una nuova finestra) 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 (Si apre in una nuova finestra), 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 (Si apre in una nuova finestra).

• ✍️ Long road to motherhood: Lesbians fight for IVF in Europe (Si apre in una nuova finestra), article by Rachel Savage for Openly News on 26 April 2021.

• 🎨 Women Rise NFT (Si apre in una nuova finestra), 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” (Si apre in una nuova finestra)

Solutions per country

In the UK

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

• 🧑🏻‍🤝‍🧑🏾INvolve People (Si apre in una nuova finestra) helps firms drive cultural change and create inclusive workplaces where any individual can succeed. See their annular role model lists (Si apre in una nuova finestra).

In Poland

• 💩 Stop Bzdurom / Stop Bullshit (Si apre in una nuova finestra), a radical, feminist and queer collective fighting the "Stop Pedophilia" disinformation campaign (Si apre in una nuova finestra) and advocating for LGBT+ rights.

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

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

• ✍️ The only woman in the room (Si apre in una nuova finestra), article by Marta Buces (Si apre in una nuova finestra) 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 (Si apre in una nuova finestra), a free database of women experts in many fields to improve diversity in policy and media debates.

• 👮‍♀️ Women In International Security Global (Wiis) (Si apre in una nuova finestra) dedicated to advancing the leadership and professional development of women in the field of international peace, security and defence.

In Germany

• ⚕️ LEVY Health (Si apre in una nuova finestra), 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 (Si apre in una nuova finestra), 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 (Si apre in una nuova finestra)”, article by Rachel Volgelstein and Alexandra Bro for Foreign Policy in Sweden on 30 January 2019. To date, 98 countries (Si apre in una nuova finestra) 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 (Si apre in una nuova finestra) (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) (Si apre in una nuova finestra) 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 (Si apre in una nuova finestra)).

• La Fabuleuse (Si apre in una nuova finestra) (FR), five young, queer and unfiltered influencers (led by Bilal Hassani) who talk about fashion, sex or friendship with a claimed kindness.

• Camille (FR) (Si apre in una nuova finestra), 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 (Si apre in una nuova finestra) (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 (Si apre in una nuova finestra) (DE) talks about self-love, feminism & sustainability with their very Mediterranean swag (also on Steady (Si apre in una nuova finestra)).

• We presented these two changemakers in the previous edition but make sure to tune in for I Weigh (EN) by Jameela Jamil (Si apre in una nuova finestra) and Gurls talk (Si apre in una nuova finestra)(EN) by Adwoa Aboah.

Media for your eyes 📰 📹

• Openly News (EN) (Si apre in una nuova finestra)is an initiative of the Thomson Reuters Foundation dedicated to impartial coverage of LGBT+ issues from around the world.

• Unbias the News (EN) (Si apre in una nuova finestra)is a feminist cross-border newsroom by Hostwriter (Si apre in una nuova finestra), working towards a more equitable and inclusive world of journalism.

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

• Gal-dem (EN) (Si apre in una nuova finestra) 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 (Si apre in una nuova finestra)).

• Stream’Her (Si apre in una nuova finestra) (FR), provides a safe space for (future) women streamers with access to advices, testimonials and discussion areas on Discord.

• PAINT Youtube Channel (Si apre in una nuova finestra) (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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