Veranstaltung | 20.11.2025 | 10:00 - 13:00

Feminist futures – fighting fascism & building solidarities

Thank you for being with us at Feminist Futures – Fighting Fascism & Building Solidarities. Whether you joined us in person or online, the energy you brought made the day truly powerful. We felt the collective strength, care, and solidarity that this community carries — and it is exactly this spirit that gives us hope, courage, and determination for the work ahead.
We are grateful for your presence, your contributions, your voices, and the connections you created throughout the day.

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The extreme-right continues to grow in strength across Europe. The right continues to shift ever further towards extremist ideologies; ideologies that endanger the most vulnerable people in our society, women, migrants, racialized people, trans-women, people with disabilities, queer people and so many others. It is more important than ever that we come together to create new narratives and build bridges between our struggles, to build the resistance to these fascist powers and to provide true alternatives to their hate.

This conference seeks to bring together various feminist fighters and thinkers to create new narratives and to strategise together for a feminist future in the face of fascism. We aim to make the EP a space for collective reflection, networking, sharing of struggles and tools to face fascism and far-right movements from a feminist perspective.

Our feminism is inclusive, it is liberatory and it is built on the premise that none of us are free until all of us are free!

Interpretation will be provided in the following languages: English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, and Romanian.

PROGRAMME

10h - 10h45 Panel 1: Opening – The F wos - feminism vs fascism

Everywhere, illiberal regimes are attacking our rights, and the feminist response is getting organised. Throughout the world, feminist action is creating spaces for resistance and victory on the ground and at the ballot box. They are the main architects of change. How does feminist action today represent not only the main opposition to fascism, but also a real alternative?

With MEPs Melissa Camara and Nicu Stefanuta
Conversation between Maboula Soumahoro, French scholar, writer and recognized expert on issues related to racism and discrimination, and Mehreen Khan, Economics Editor for The Times of London and a former Europe correspondent for the Financial Times in Brussels covering UK and global macroeconomic policy and has written about racism and Islamophobia in Europe.

10h45 - 11h Coffee break

11h - 13h Panel 2 – None of us are free until all of us are free – connecting our feminist struggles (sharing of best practices and tools)

We will be looking at different feminist struggles across Europe and the world, especially the global south, workers, activists, politicians, journalists, mothers, lesbians, trans women, connecting the dots and exploring how we can work together to achieve our goals. We will explore concrete examples of links between different struggles with a specific focus on fights happening on the ground.

Opening by MEP Benedetta Scuderi, moderation by Mehreen Khan

With:

tèmítópé lasade-anderson (she/her) is a Nigerian-British-Canadian writer and researcher. She is the Executive Director at Glitch, and is completing her PhD on Black women’s digital intimacy in the Department of Culture, Media and Creative Industries at King’s College London. tèmítópé’s research interests are digital intimacies; Black feminisms, racialisation and gender on social media; diaspora; and platform governance. She is currently a 2025 affiliate at DISCO Network's Black Communication & Technology Lab, and was a Fellow at the Centre of Advanced Internet Studies in 2024. In 2023, tèmítópé was the inaugural research curator-in-residence at the Foundation of Art and Creative Technology, working on Black Futures. tèmítópé’s work has been published in academic journals (Feminist Media Studies; Television and New Media, and Journal of Global Black Thought) and independent media (DADDY Magazine; The Canary).
Jennifer Kamau is Researcher and Co-Founder of the International Women Space Berlin which was born from the 2012 Refugee Movement that confronted an Apartheid Asylum System in Germany. She is a Co-Lead in the Migrant Justice Community of Practise https://iwspace.de/migrant-justice/ and an Expert of the Advisory Board of the Anti Black Racism in Berlin. https://raa-berlin.de/projekt-2-3-3-2-1
Andreea Rusu is the Executive Director of FILIA Center, a feminist NGO making women’s voices heard through advocacy, activism, community work and research. FILIA’s work under her leadership focuses on women’s access to safety and reproductive health and rights. Andreea is the co-founder of the first initiative group in Eastern Europe to address and combat sexual harassment in universities. Her expertise is in gender inequalities with a focus on gender-based violence. She graduated from the Faculty of Political Sciences of the National School of Political and Administrative Studies (SNSPA) in Bucharest, Romania.
Marianna Kalonda Okassaka aka Marianna the Influenza, is a powerful voice in Italy's digital sphere. As a second-generation Italian with a background in communication, she uses her platform to challenge prejudice through an intersectional lens. Her activism is rooted in her own experiences with racism and fatphobia, driving her to create content that promotes anti-racism, feminism, and LGBTQIA+ rights
Anna Iványi is an International Relations and Advocacy Officer at EMMA Association, Hungary, focusing on women’s rights, sexual and reproductive health, and grassroots activism. Trained in both economics and midwifery, she brings over twenty years of experience in project management, fundraising, and advocacy, connecting community-driven initiatives to policy efforts that advance equality and justice.