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The Evolution of Anti-Gender Movements: Colonial Echoes, Professionalized Advocacy and Co-Opting Human Rights Discourses, with Dr Lata Narayanaswamy

The Evolution of Anti-Gender Movements: Colonial Echoes, Professionalized Advocacy and Co-Opting Human Rights Discourses, with Dr Lata Narayanaswamy

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In this episode, Karima Cherif, UNRISD Head of Communications and Outreach, speaks with Dr. Lata Narayanaswamy, Associate Professor in the Politics of Global Development at the University of Leeds. They unpack the evolution of anti-gender movements and how they co-opt the language of human rights and development to legitimize regressive, exclusionary agendas in global policy spaces.


Dr. Narayanaswamy illustrates how anti-gender actors position themselves as defenders of religious freedom and the “global South,” while simultaneously undermining gender and LGBTQIA+ rights. She discusses the sophisticated discursive strategies these movements employ—blending academic authority, institutional participation, and populist storytelling to gain influence. By tracing the colonial continuities underpinning contemporary anti-gender ideologies, this episode calls for a decolonial, justice-driven reimagining of rights and development that challenges inequality at its roots and reclaims the narrative space.

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