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Published in: 50.50Ten resources if you’ve experienced targeted hate onlineOnline abuse of women and LGBTQ people is relentless. But there are resources to support you, from digital security...
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Published in: 50.50The Backlash podcast episode 5: targeted hateSocial media propaganda. Data-mining. Foreign interference in Ireland's abortion referendum. The backlash against...
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Published in: 50.50Online platforms have enabled ‘deluge of hatred against trans women’ in the UKSocial media platforms have policies against discriminatory and hateful content – but LGBTQ+ rights activists say...
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Published in: 50.50Trans rights: Woman’s Place UK responds to 50.50’s reportA co-founder of the women’s group responds to openDemocracy’s report analysing opposition to potential gender...
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Published in: 50.50UK sexual politics have become ‘profoundly authoritarian’ says Beatrix CampbellI interviewed the prominent feminist amid ‘heated and toxic’ debates over proposed reforms to the UK’s Gender Recognition Act
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Published in: 50.50This is how anti-abortion propaganda gets into US cinemasAmid open war on reproductive rights, anti-choice supporters of the new ‘Gosnell’ film want it to change hearts and...
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Published in: 50.50Attacks on women’s ministries are a threat to democracyWomen’s ministries in Brazil and elsewhere have been under attack from the Right for years – foreshadowing wider...
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Published in: 50.50UK Christian ‘reactionaries’ mark 10 years of lobbying against women’s and LGBT rightsAt Christian Concern’s birthday party in London, lobbyists talked about their expansion plans and work to recruit...
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Published in: 50.50Why UK trans rights debates are so frustrating, but I won’t give up hopeProposed reforms to the Gender Recognition Act have led to a vile backlash in the media. But we all deserve freedom
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Published in: 50.50Christian Right and some UK feminists ‘unlikely allies’ against trans rightsNew analysis shows that groups that traditionally disagree are now on the same side – against reforming the Gender...
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Published in: 50.50‘Gay cake’ cases show strength of Christian Right legal armies on both sides of the AtlanticIn UK and US supreme courts, freedom of speech has been the defence of bakers who oppose same-sex marriage. It’s no...
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Published in: 50.50Romanians didn’t show up to an anti-LGBT referendum. But the battle for equality continuesA vote to make legalising equal marriage even harder was defeated this weekend. It’s a victory for progressive...
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Published in: 50.50‘Sexual liberation, socialist style’: an overlooked women’s rights story?New research by Kateřina Lišková places eastern bloc countries at the forefront of the 20th-century push for gender equality
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Published in: 50.50US and Russian religious Right unite against ‘invasion of radical liberalism’Anti-abortion and anti-LGBTIQ rights activists, politicians and religious leaders met in Moldova this month for the...
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Published in: 50.50‘Feminism is cancer’: the angry backlash against our reporting on the men’s rights movement50.50's recent dispatch on this movement received hundreds of comments and messages on social media. We read them so...
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Published in: 50.50The Backlash podcast episode 4: The men’s rights movement50.50 attended an international gathering of men’s rights activists in London and spoke to some of the men, and...
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Published in: 50.50Argentina abortion vote divides the nation, from senators to doctorsThe senate votes this week on a potentially groundbreaking bill to legalise voluntary abortion. Opponents include...
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Published in: 50.50US evangelicals targeted LGBT young people with ‘dehumanising’ Facebook and YouTube adsSocial media giants acknowledge that Anchored North video ads violated their rules to protect users – but not until...
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Published in: 50.50This ultra-conservative institute has infiltrated the Polish state, on a relentless quest to ban abortionOrdo Iuris is an extreme anti-choice group whose founders were ‘inspired’ by a controversial Catholic fundamentalist...
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Published in: 50.50Why is the US government meeting LGBT ‘hate groups’ and dangling money in front of them?Anti-abortion and anti-LGBT ‘extremists’ attended a high-level summit on religious freedom this week, where...
