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Mobilizing Misogyny in the Service of Authoritarianism

A PRA Webinar Roundtable
Published on
October 15, 2020

 

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Mobilized in the 2016 election, An aggravated form of sexism that is a primary motivation for the Right, both as recruitment for and justification of its agenda. Learn more has become a defining characteristic of the past four years. Manifesting in mass shootings, endemic in the treatment of prominent female political leaders, and bolstering Both a system of beliefs that holds that White people are intrinsically superior and a system of institutional arrangements that favors White people as a group. Learn more , misogyny is contributing to the steady rise of A form of top-down political system that concentrates state power in the hands of a single leader and/or group of close allies. Learn more in the U.S. and abroad.

Join us for a discussion on how misogyny unites disparate sectors of the Right with experts and movement organizers who center feminist practice in building democracy.

Featuring

- Alex DiBranco, co-founder and Executive Director of the Institute for Research on Male Supremacism
Shereen Essof, Executive Director of JASS Just Associates
Isabel Marler, Advancing Universal Rights and Justice Coordinator for AWID or the Association for Women’s Rights in Development
Tarso Luís Ramos, Executive Director of PRA

Authors

Political Research Associates (PRA) is a social justice research and strategy center. Since 1981, we have been devoted to supporting organizations, civic leaders, journalists, and social sectors that are building a more just and inclusive democratic society.