The Women of Golden Dawn
“Golden Dawn Girls,” Håvard Bustnes’ 2017 documentary on the lives of three Golden Dawn women, is a great example of the difficulties in navigating the issue of gender in far…
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Miranda Christou
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How The Radical Right Is Mansplaining Black Lives Matter
The Black Lives Matter movement is monumental not only because it has challenged the significance of material monuments to historical racism, but also because it has sparked multiple globalized campaigns…
Nihilism And Hypocrisy Is The GOP’s COVID-19 Response
Calls to sacrifice lives for the economy. Funding protests that endanger public health. The radical right is highlighting their “pro-life” hypocrisy. The so-called “anti-lockdown” protests around the USA have brought…
COVID-19 has exposed the odd conspiracy links between left and right
The COVID-19 conspiratorial cesspool is populated by both right-wing extremists and parts of the liberal left that views itself as woke, progressive and definitely anti-racist. In his recent article on openDemocracy,…
Is the radical right spreading the coronavirus?
The radical right has always been good at spreading misinformation; now they might be spreading Covid-19. It is easy to look at the core ideology of the radical right—nativism, white…
How To Debunk Coronavirus Conspiracy Theories
From lies about 5G to vast conspiracies of a Bill Gates vaccine plot, COVID-19 has sparked an avalanche of conspiracy theories. Here’s how to spot them. Did you know that…
#TradWives: sexism as gateway to white supremacy
The TradWives debate is a new and effective recruiting tool for the growing intersection between toxic masculinity and white supremacy. When BBC Stories aired in January 2020 the short documentary…
How The Radical Right Distorts The Science Of Gender
In his book “The Attack on the Family and the European Response,” Roberto Fiore launches a homophobic tantrum and distorts the science of gender. “Never has the institution of the…
Turning Family Into a Political Weapon
A descriptive and benign term, “family” has been turned into the primary frontier of social wars by the radical right. In March 2019, the World Congress of Families (WCF), in…
The Fragile, Toxic Masculinity Of White Supremacy
The Proud Boys march in Portland, Oregon in August, 2019, as well their participation in past marches like the one in Charlottesville, was a bitter reminder that racism and sexism…