What Kind of Feminism? the Women’s Platform for Equality, Turkey (EŞİK) and the Struggle for the Istanbul Convention, Human Rights, the Rule of Law, and Democracy

How do feminist organizations respond to the authoritarian politics of gender? What organizational and political strategies do they employ to counter the backlash against women’s rights in a world ridden by multiple and intersecting crises? This recently published article answers these questions through a case study of the Women’s Platform for Equality (EŞİK), a novel organization founded during the pandemic in Turkey to counter concerted attacks on women’s rights. In this presentation, I would like to rethink how we can conceptualize feminist/women's struggles in our dark times.