Intersectional FeminismArticles

A UN Women-commissioned 2026 study examines online violence against women human-rights defenders, activists and journalists, including AI-enabled abuse, offline harm and self-censorship.

Developed from climate-activist sharing circles, this AWID zine connects ecological destruction with migration, livelihoods, care and local organizing - and asks how transnational solidarity can hold difference rather than erase it.

This article traces the evolution of feminist movements from the 19th-century suffrage campaigns to the digital activism of the #MeToo era. It explores the four waves of feminism, their historical contexts, and the persistent global challenges to gender equality, including political representation, reproductive rights, and social stigma.

Climate shocks, tech-driven discrimination, economic stress, and regressive politics are converging into a perfect storm hitting the most marginalized hardest. Intersectional analysis reveals how multiple oppressions interact.

MISA’s UNESCO-supported regional study records media workers’ experiences and observations of technology-facilitated gender-based violence, with a clear account of its sample limits.

Yarlenis M. Malfrán situates Black transfeminist thought in Brazil and asks how racialization and cisnormative gender shape both the category of women and intellectual authority.

An AWID co-created manifesto argues that a just care economy must recognize domestic workers’ labor rights and leadership, not treat care as an input to economic growth.

Through Latin American public-service cases, Joana Varon and Paz Peña ask who defines problems and bears the costs when algorithms allocate benefits or predict risk.

UNESCO and ICFJ combine survey, interview and social-media evidence to show how online violence silences women journalists and threatens the public’s right to know.

Plan International’s State of the World’s Girls 2020 report documents online harassment among girls and young women aged 15 - 25 and asks platforms, governments and communities to share responsibility.

A regional human-rights assessment of the gap between laws and lived protection, with specific attention to girls, reproductive rights, disappearances, femicide, and intersecting discrimination.

Activists from Afghanistan, Bangladesh, the Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka describe how rights work is sustained amid trafficking, autocracy, militarization, poverty, and gendered retaliation.

A regional report tracing how slavery’s colonial legacy persists through racialized poverty, labor, health, violence, and exclusion from decision-making for Afro-descendant women.

The Feminist Data Manifest-No pairs refusal with commitment, asking how data attaches to bodies, reproduces inequality and whether people can meaningfully say no.

Amnesty’s Troll Patrol turned crowdsourced Twitter labels into evidence of racialized abuse against women in public life - and offers a case study in the limits of samples, categories and automated inference.

Mingus names the structural experience of disabled people being forced to disclose bodies, needs, medical histories, and vulnerability in order to access basic survival.

Sins Invalid condenses disability justice into principles including intersectionality, leadership by those most impacted, anti-capitalism, cross-movement organizing, wholeness, interdependence, collective access, and collective liberation.

APC’s Feminist Principles of the Internet connect access, expression, privacy, consent and governance in one political framework for examining how technology distributes power.

Patty Berne's Sins Invalid essay distinguishes disability rights from disability justice, centering intersectionality, leadership by those most impacted, anti-capitalism, cross-movement organizing, collective access, and collective liberation.

Katherine Ronderos links personal, social and political care to show why activists’ wellbeing and security are part of sustaining feminist movements, not private concerns outside politics.

Mingus writes from disability justice to critique how beauty, normality, and desirability organize bodily value, proposing a liberatory politics of moving toward the ugly.

Mia Mingus explains why social justice movements must move from treating disability as an individual problem or single-issue rights concern toward understanding it as political experience, community history, and a framework for collective liberation.

Through a fictional roundtable dialogue, this article explores the diverse perspectives, internal tensions, and the profound impact of race, class, and gender identity on contemporary feminism.

Adopted in Accra in 2006, the Charter links bodily autonomy and material rights to feminist organizations’ accountability and shared leadership.

How the Combahee River Collective connected Black women’s lived experience to interlocking structures of race, gender, sexuality, and class - and made self-definition a collective politics of liberation and coalition.