Following our third issue covering Gender Equality (Abre numa nova janela), 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. (Abre numa nova janela)
Issue #3 - Gender Equality Community Edition
Solutions from across Europe
🛠️ The Gender Equality Toolkit for Working Women and Friends (Abre numa nova janela) 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 (Abre numa nova janela), helping anyone to transform societies by effectively advocating for gender budgeting at all levels. ➡ Relay their message, follow their events (Abre numa nova janela), or make a donation (Abre numa nova janela).
📊 Gender Data Lab (Abre numa nova janela), 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 (Abre numa nova janela), 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 (Abre numa nova janela) in Barcelona (9-19 July),🎬 International Queer Film Festival (Abre numa nova janela) in Portugal (16-24 Sept.), and the 🎬 Hamburg Queer Film Festival (Abre numa nova janela) in Hamburg (18-23 Oct.).
🌍 All Out Campaign Tool (Abre numa nova janela), empowers anyone, from anywhere around the world, to launch their own petition for LGBT+ rights (Abre numa nova janela).
🏫 Tools for Gender Equality in Academia and Research (GEAR) by EIGE (Abre numa nova janela) 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 (Abre numa nova janela), 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 (Abre numa nova janela).
✍️ Long road to motherhood: Lesbians fight for IVF in Europe (Abre numa nova janela), article by Rachel Savage for Openly News on 26 April 2021.
🎨 Women Rise NFT (Abre numa nova janela), 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” (Abre numa nova janela)
Solutions per country
In the UK
🏛️ Queer Britain Museum (Abre numa nova janela), 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 (Abre numa nova janela), by the renowned DIVA Magazine (Abre numa nova janela), a no-holds-barred celebration of the achievements of LGBT+ people – and their allies – across business, the media and politics.
🧑🏻🤝🧑🏾INvolve People (Abre numa nova janela) helps firms drive cultural change and create inclusive workplaces where any individual can succeed. See their annular role model lists (Abre numa nova janela).
In Poland
💩 Stop Bzdurom / Stop Bullshit (Abre numa nova janela), a radical, feminist and queer collective fighting the "Stop Pedophilia" disinformation campaign (Abre numa nova janela) and advocating for LGBT+ rights.
🧃🌈 Rainbow4.love (Abre numa nova janela), an original aid fund campaign powered by the sale of the Yerba Mate Rainbow drink (Abre numa nova janela) to help projects related to psychological and legal support for LGBT+ people.
👐 Kampania Przeciw Homofobii / Campaign Against Homophobia (Abre numa nova janela) 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 (Abre numa nova janela), a non-profit platform that aims to push Feminism forward in society through communication, creativity and education. ➡ See #stopnipplecensorship (Abre numa nova janela) and @nipplemagazine (Abre numa nova janela), one of their many campaigns calling to revisit the way women are portrayed on social networks.
✍️ The only woman in the room (Abre numa nova janela), article by Marta Buces (Abre numa nova janela) 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 (Abre numa nova janela), a free database of women experts in many fields to improve diversity in policy and media debates.
👮♀️ Women In International Security Global (Wiis) (Abre numa nova janela) dedicated to advancing the leadership and professional development of women in the field of international peace, security and defence.
In Germany
⚕️ LEVY Health (Abre numa nova janela), 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 (Abre numa nova janela), 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 (Abre numa nova janela)”, article by Rachel Volgelstein and Alexandra Bro for Foreign Policy in Sweden on 30 January 2019. To date, 98 countries (Abre numa nova janela) 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 (Abre numa nova janela) (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) (Abre numa nova janela) 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 (Abre numa nova janela)).
La Fabuleuse (Abre numa nova janela) (FR), five young, queer and unfiltered influencers (led by Bilal Hassani) who talk about fashion, sex or friendship with a claimed kindness.
Camille (FR) (Abre numa nova janela), 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 (Abre numa nova janela) (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 (Abre numa nova janela) (DE) talks about self-love, feminism & sustainability with their very Mediterranean swag (also on Steady (Abre numa nova janela)).
We presented these two changemakers in the previous edition but make sure to tune in for I Weigh (EN) by Jameela Jamil (Abre numa nova janela) and Gurls talk (Abre numa nova janela)(EN) by Adwoa Aboah.
Media for your eyes 📰 📹
Openly News (EN) (Abre numa nova janela)is an initiative of the Thomson Reuters Foundation dedicated to impartial coverage of LGBT+ issues from around the world.
Unbias the News (EN) (Abre numa nova janela)is a feminist cross-border newsroom by Hostwriter (Abre numa nova janela), working towards a more equitable and inclusive world of journalism.
Ideologia LGBT by Are We Europe (EN) (Abre numa nova janela), and their latest Queer issue (Abre numa nova janela) to get a glance at what it feels to be queer in all corners of the continent.
Gal-dem (EN) (Abre numa nova janela) 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 (Abre numa nova janela)).
Stream’Her (Abre numa nova janela) (FR), provides a safe space for (future) women streamers with access to advices, testimonials and discussion areas on Discord.
PAINT Youtube Channel (Abre numa nova janela) (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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