Gendering Social Movements
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By Marie Berry. This chapter provides an overview of women’s contributions to civil resistance in the world.
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This presentation from past IGLI summer institutes highlights the unique role women play in movements for peace and social change.
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This report by One Earth Future uses the ‘Women in Resistance’ (WiRe) dataset to provide a comprehensive look at various dimensions of women’s participation in both violent and nonviolent campaigns.
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By Shaazka Beyerle. This article traces the women’s movement in Iran over the years and how it has creatively taken shape to counter repression.
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This toolkit by We Rise offers activities for groups to understand how patriarchy has influenced their attitudes and behaviours in conflict situations.
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The report offers documentation of violations and violence against women’s human rights defenders.
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By Pam McAllister. This chapter provides a perspective into the connection between nonviolence and women’s movements.
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By We Rise. This exercise allows participants to identify different forces that hold them down and deepen their analysis of the interlocking web of patriarchy and other forms of power.
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By ICNC. This summary traces the movement of the Mothers of The Plaza de Mayo in Argentina and their fight for justice for their disappeared family members.
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This Special Report from USIP examines the influence of gender dynamics on women’s contributions to nonviolent movements, and how women capitalize on these dynamics to create special opportunities for participation and tactical innovation.
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This interview with Prof Marcia Chatelain brings attention on how police brutality impacts black women and others on the margins of today’s national conversation about race, such as poor, elderly, gay, and trans people.
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By We Rise. This tooklit provides an activity to situate women’s movements in a historical timeline of different movements over the world.
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A primer explaining Queer Joy and the role it plays in mobilizing gender and LGBTQ+ activists.
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By National LGBTQ Task Force. This advocacy tool is intended for reproductive rights, health, and justice advocates who want to gain an understanding of reproductive issues within an LGBTQ context. It is also intended to help LGBTQ advocates frame their current work within a reproductive justice framework in order to build crucial alliances and advocate for the repro* needs of LGBTQ people.
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A toolkit that provides a deeper understanding of LGBTQ issues to activists working on human rights issues.
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This article considers how the legalist approach taken so far with respect to LGBTQ movements has marginalised more radical possibilities of resistance. It compares the trajectories of the LGBT movement in comparison with the civil rights movement and local case studies to understand the “lost” possibilities.
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This toolkit is designed to support the difficult and messy task of working through gendered violence can be identified, prevented and challenged, and how survivors can be supported, in activist contexts.
Alexa Z., 2019 IGLI Participant
Bairavi P., IGLI 2019 Participant