Ten Things I’ve Learned from Studying Parler’s Far Right

A genocide prevention expert lays out her thoughts after examining the activity of the far right on Parler. 1: Expose the Lies Without Feeding Persecution Narratives People believe, many quite genuinely, that they are freedom fighters defending the constitution against an evil, global cabal of elites who also comprise the deep state in America. The […] Read more

India’s Anti ‘Love-Jihad’ Law – Regressive and Misogynist

The paranoia among India’s Hindu Right about ‘Love Jihad’ reflects age old patriarchal notions of women as the property of men. The planter class which had entrusted its wives and daughters to male slaves when the masters went off to fight the Civil War was now in near hysterics over the slightest interaction between white […] Read more

Tommy Robinson and the Weaponisation of Women’s Trauma

Tommy Robinson, recently made adviser to UKIP on the subject of grooming gangs, is just another in a long list of men exploiting women’s trauma to score political points. Written by Melanie Gardner Over the last few days there have been two instances of the rape or sexual assault of women being used to advance […] Read more