7 October Combat Cuties: the (self)weaponization of Israeli women soldiers’ image • Disclaimer: This blog post adopts a critical perspective on tweets and online content that explicitly trivialize and hyper-sexualize women's bodies, essentially amounting to sexual harassment. It includes such ⋙
gender The Beauty and The Beast: The Obsession Over the Body and Physical Appearance in The Far-Right Traditionally, the far-right communities have been male-dominated spaces, while women have remained largely underrepresented. This tendency goes hand in hand with the prevalence of gendered narratives praising traditional gender roles: ⋙
Field Ukraine’s women at arms by Guntaj Mirzayev. Seven years into the war in Donbass, Ukraine is undergoing reforms in its security and defense sectors, also for what concerns women’s participation in the military. ⋙
asylum seeker Designating ‘vulnerability’: the asylum claims of women and sexual minorities The Refugee Convention was not designed with the persecution of women and sexual minorities in mind. But times change and today most would agree that women at risk of Female ⋙
Islamic State It's not all about violence: the Islamic State and Nutella “I’m making pancakes, and there’s Nutella, come up in a bit” “oi … you have my back dont snake it” “come b4 I finish dem mwhaha :p” These tweets, ⋙