Something is Rotten in the State of Europe: Femicide in the EU

The Italian government contextualised femicide as a violent expression of misogyny. This echoes the common acknowledgement amongst international organisations, including UN Women, that femicide is a fatal consequence of gendered discrimination. Despite this understanding actions to enact systematic change, beyond superficial promises of educational reform, have not been taken.

Generation Z and the Great Gender Divide

Young women are more liberal than ever, but the same cannot be said for young men. Why has this gap emerged, and is it too late to close it?

Motherhood and Feminism in Giorgia Meloni's Italy

In Meloni’s Italy, to be a woman is to be a mother, and the duty of motherhood is ensuring the continuation of a Christian, Italian nationhood through future generations. Immigrant or LGBTQ+ families are not part of this political imagination. They are instead treated as ideological threats to this unified identity.

In Conversation with Hannah Smith: Erdoğan the ‘Original Modern-Populist’

Elections are just the tip of the iceberg, underneath all that there’s so much that you need, you need a healthy civil society, you need people who are educated enough to make the right decisions, you need a political culture which isn’t just about worshiping the strongest guy.

Part III - A Spectre is Haunting Europe: Consequences and Calamity

The third of a three-part series into the rise of right-wing youth in Europe.