Voices Of Resistance

Unmaking a Revolution: Fascist Logics and the New Authoritarian Order in Tunisia

When a Revolution Unravels As a Black Tunisian feminist who lived through the revolution and now navigates the attempts to undo it, I have witnessed the promise of 2011 steadily unravel into a new authoritarian order. Before 2011, Ben Ali’s dictatorship had extinguished nearly every form of hope and community organizing (Amnesty International, 2022). And […]

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Normalised Invisibility – The Path Towards Exclusion by Tasaffy Hossain

If you pass through certain parts of Bangladesh, especially in bazaars or marketplaces, some of us will instantly notice the lack of women. And that usually means no women shopkeepers, no women shoppers, and no women walking on the sidewalk or standing and waiting for a bus. I have often crossed districts and major business

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Between Erasure and Resistance: Women’s Bodies, Memories, and Narratives under Sudan’s Fascist Islamist Regime By Tesneem Elhassan

Between Erasure and Resistance: Women’s Bodies, Memories, and Narratives under Sudan’s Fascist Islamist Regime By Tesneem Elhassan | بين المحو والمقاومة: أجساد النساء و ذكرياتهن و سردياتهن في ظل النظام الفاشي الإسلامي في السودان

This article is available in both English and العربية (Arabic) below. “I was attached, accused of being corrupt, and there was no recognition of my role” — A Sudanese activist. This article will examine the dialectical relationship between erasure and resistance under Sudan’s fascist Islamist regimes. It traces how women’s bodies and narratives have been

Between Erasure and Resistance: Women’s Bodies, Memories, and Narratives under Sudan’s Fascist Islamist Regime By Tesneem Elhassan | بين المحو والمقاومة: أجساد النساء و ذكرياتهن و سردياتهن في ظل النظام الفاشي الإسلامي في السودان Read More »

Women's Resistance against Economic Inequality, State Violence and Corrupt Elites in Indonesia By Siti Yunia Mazdafiah and Amar Alfikar

Women’s Resistance against Economic Inequality, State Violence and Corrupt Elites in Indonesia By Siti Yunia Mazdafiah and Amar Alfikar

A mother in a pink hijab is standing unfazed before a group of police officers in armored suits. She grips a bamboo pole with the red-and-white Indonesian flag fluttering at the top, waving in the breeze. She seems to be shouting at a line of police officers clad in black armor. Behind her, rainwater pools

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War, (Anti)Fascism, and The Political Task of Emancipatory Social Movements By Abdul Vajid

War, (Anti)Fascism, and The Political Task of Emancipatory Social Movements By Abdul Vajid

The brief but highly volatile flare-up of armed conflict between India and Pakistan brought several key political contradictions and dynamics in South Asia to the forefront: colonial occupations of frontier regions, militarization of politics and fascization of postcolonial national identities  (Clary, 2025.) Particularly within India, the escalation of fascism ever since the Narendra Modi-led Bharatiya

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