Thread by @EszterKovats

The study soon online, we've had a nice launch/discussion. I have tried to highlight 4 points related to the study: 1) we need to address the demand side: better understand what possible blindalleys of the progressive agenda drive the support for anti-gender actors. /1

https://twitter.com/HeidiHautala/status/1333758891696545795

2) We need to address poor labour conditions and tensions between care and paid labour, and the related class and EU-internal inequalities. These are one of the main drivers that make the right's messages relatable. /2

3) The term gender: The definition of the Istanbul Convention doesn't question the sex binary (humans are born male or female, except the few intersex), but another definition (felt sense of identity) is also gaining traction in the EU - an ambiguity the right instrumentalizes./3

4) We shouldn't have these debates in culturalist/ civilizational terms; in many aspects various progressives don't agree: economic inequalities, recognition of care, queer understanding of gender, prostitution, etc. We need these debates before the right takes all room for it./4

And here is the study by @elenazzzz online: heidihautala.fi/wp-content/upl…