Silvia Díaz Fernández
@ilheenk.bsky.social
Researcher working on: anti-feminism, manosphere, digital culture & far-right politics. Queer/bi feminist🏳️🌈. Views my own
Why techni-legal solution ism won't save us ➡️ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Policy & Internet | PSO Journal | Wiley Online Library
As jurisdictions worldwide grapple with regulating social media's effects on youth, US state legislatures have emerged as important laboratories for “techno-legal solutionism”—the belief that complex...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
September 17, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Why techni-legal solution ism won't save us ➡️ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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🚨My first published article together with @galais.bsky.social is out:
“Beyond fear and anger: the demobilizing role of sadness in far right voting in Spain”
In this article we address the emotional dynamics behind support for Vox in Spain.
🧵What do we find?
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
“Beyond fear and anger: the demobilizing role of sadness in far right voting in Spain”
In this article we address the emotional dynamics behind support for Vox in Spain.
🧵What do we find?
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Beyond anger and fear: the demobilizing role of sadness in far-right voting in Spain
This study investigates emotional dynamics behind support for Vox in Spain, offering a case study of far-right support. It addresses prior research’s narrow focus on anger and fear, and its tendenc...
www.tandfonline.com
September 2, 2025 at 10:25 AM
🚨My first published article together with @galais.bsky.social is out:
“Beyond fear and anger: the demobilizing role of sadness in far right voting in Spain”
In this article we address the emotional dynamics behind support for Vox in Spain.
🧵What do we find?
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
“Beyond fear and anger: the demobilizing role of sadness in far right voting in Spain”
In this article we address the emotional dynamics behind support for Vox in Spain.
🧵What do we find?
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Reposted by Silvia Díaz Fernández
📣 Out on #FirstView 📣
For our upcoming special issue on feminist foreign policy, @tonihaastrup.bsky.social, in her piece "Contending with the Coloniality of Feminist Foreign Policy," explores the absence of African knowledge from FFP agendas.
gendersky polisky
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For our upcoming special issue on feminist foreign policy, @tonihaastrup.bsky.social, in her piece "Contending with the Coloniality of Feminist Foreign Policy," explores the absence of African knowledge from FFP agendas.
gendersky polisky
buff.ly/BPtbILd
August 26, 2025 at 1:06 PM
📣 Out on #FirstView 📣
For our upcoming special issue on feminist foreign policy, @tonihaastrup.bsky.social, in her piece "Contending with the Coloniality of Feminist Foreign Policy," explores the absence of African knowledge from FFP agendas.
gendersky polisky
buff.ly/BPtbILd
For our upcoming special issue on feminist foreign policy, @tonihaastrup.bsky.social, in her piece "Contending with the Coloniality of Feminist Foreign Policy," explores the absence of African knowledge from FFP agendas.
gendersky polisky
buff.ly/BPtbILd
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Could this new left-wing party transform British politics?
I sat down with @jeremycorbyn.bsky.social to discuss what's currently known as 'Your Party' - and what the future could bring.
Watch here 👇
www.youtube.com/watch?v=49jp...
I sat down with @jeremycorbyn.bsky.social to discuss what's currently known as 'Your Party' - and what the future could bring.
Watch here 👇
www.youtube.com/watch?v=49jp...
July 31, 2025 at 8:14 AM
Could this new left-wing party transform British politics?
I sat down with @jeremycorbyn.bsky.social to discuss what's currently known as 'Your Party' - and what the future could bring.
Watch here 👇
www.youtube.com/watch?v=49jp...
I sat down with @jeremycorbyn.bsky.social to discuss what's currently known as 'Your Party' - and what the future could bring.
Watch here 👇
www.youtube.com/watch?v=49jp...
It's out! So glad to see this article finally published with an amazing team of co-authors.
➡️How can we comprehend current "anti-gender" politics by looking at the histories shaping European democracies?
➡️Does the concept of anti-gender best reflect the current socio-political regressive context?
➡️How can we comprehend current "anti-gender" politics by looking at the histories shaping European democracies?
➡️Does the concept of anti-gender best reflect the current socio-political regressive context?
June 28, 2025 at 6:27 AM
It's out! So glad to see this article finally published with an amazing team of co-authors.
➡️How can we comprehend current "anti-gender" politics by looking at the histories shaping European democracies?
➡️Does the concept of anti-gender best reflect the current socio-political regressive context?
➡️How can we comprehend current "anti-gender" politics by looking at the histories shaping European democracies?
➡️Does the concept of anti-gender best reflect the current socio-political regressive context?
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‼️Un auténtico MUST este texto que nos deja Elisa Simó sobre los estereotipos machistas que se perpetúan en la Justicia. Lean y compartan.👇🏼
✍🏼 "Un sistema que perpetúa desigualdades desde sus cimientos no puede ofrecer respuestas equitativas ni democráticas."
ctxt.es/es/20250601/...
✍🏼 "Un sistema que perpetúa desigualdades desde sus cimientos no puede ofrecer respuestas equitativas ni democráticas."
ctxt.es/es/20250601/...
Estereotipos machistas en la Justicia
Un sistema que perpetúa desigualdades desde sus cimientos no puede ofrecer respuestas equitativas ni democráticas
ctxt.es
June 26, 2025 at 5:40 PM
‼️Un auténtico MUST este texto que nos deja Elisa Simó sobre los estereotipos machistas que se perpetúan en la Justicia. Lean y compartan.👇🏼
✍🏼 "Un sistema que perpetúa desigualdades desde sus cimientos no puede ofrecer respuestas equitativas ni democráticas."
ctxt.es/es/20250601/...
✍🏼 "Un sistema que perpetúa desigualdades desde sus cimientos no puede ofrecer respuestas equitativas ni democráticas."
ctxt.es/es/20250601/...
Gracias por este texto 💗
He escrito para @eldiario.es sobre la bifobia que impregna nuestra sociedad y sobre cómo se ha visto especialmente estos días en las artistas Billie Eilish, Fletcher y JoJo Siwa.
www.eldiario.es/era/billie-e...
www.eldiario.es/era/billie-e...
Billie Eilish, Fletcher y JoJo Siwa: lo que sus casos nos enseñan sobre la bifobia en pleno mes del Orgullo
"Supongo que ser bisexual es bastante guay… hasta que llega el momento de salir realmente con alguien del mismo género"; comentarios como este, dirigidos en redes a las artistas por sus actuales relac...
www.eldiario.es
June 26, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Gracias por este texto 💗
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💜So glad to see this collective @ccindle-eu.bsky.social article accepted in Women’s Studies International Forum!!
👉🏽‘Anti-gender politics and European democracies’ legacies of exclusion and violence’
✍🏽With Conny Roggeband Marta Rawłuszko Petra Meier @ilheenk.bsky.social @pcaravantes.bsky.social
👉🏽‘Anti-gender politics and European democracies’ legacies of exclusion and violence’
✍🏽With Conny Roggeband Marta Rawłuszko Petra Meier @ilheenk.bsky.social @pcaravantes.bsky.social
June 21, 2025 at 6:23 PM
💜So glad to see this collective @ccindle-eu.bsky.social article accepted in Women’s Studies International Forum!!
👉🏽‘Anti-gender politics and European democracies’ legacies of exclusion and violence’
✍🏽With Conny Roggeband Marta Rawłuszko Petra Meier @ilheenk.bsky.social @pcaravantes.bsky.social
👉🏽‘Anti-gender politics and European democracies’ legacies of exclusion and violence’
✍🏽With Conny Roggeband Marta Rawłuszko Petra Meier @ilheenk.bsky.social @pcaravantes.bsky.social
Can't wait to add it to my feminist killjoy collection🌈
Beginning to plan a book tour for No is Not a Lonely Utterance (UK/Ire). It means so much to share this work about our shared work! Let me know if there is somewhere I should go. The email for the book is the same as for the research complaintstudy@gmail.com www.penguin.co.uk/books/470363...
No Is Not a Lonely Utterance
‘Behind many disasters are unheard complaints’
To complain is an intimate, dangerous act. Whether it’s speaking up about racism in the workplace or taking a stand against sexual harassment at univers...
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June 23, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Can't wait to add it to my feminist killjoy collection🌈
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✨📣 Very happy that our article with @martijnmos.bsky.social "Opportunity beckons: the anti-gender movement at the European Parliament" is out @ifjpglobal.bsky.social. You can find it open access here: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/NNB93...
Opportunity beckons: the anti-gender movement at the European Parliament
The European Parliament (EP) is commonly viewed as the most progressive institution of the European Union (EU), given its historic promotion of gender equality and lesbian, gay, bisexual, and trans...
www.tandfonline.com
June 16, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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If you need radical comfort in times of structural stress, read Mark Fisher's"The Privatisation of Stress" to validate your rage towards a system that encourages you to look for individualised capitalist-supporting mechanisms of "resilience" to endure exploitation - meditation, yoga- list goes on...
June 3, 2025 at 8:22 AM
If you need radical comfort in times of structural stress, read Mark Fisher's"The Privatisation of Stress" to validate your rage towards a system that encourages you to look for individualised capitalist-supporting mechanisms of "resilience" to endure exploitation - meditation, yoga- list goes on...
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📄 REPORTAJE | @diegodelgom.bsky.social explica cómo Vox se ha sumado a nueva oleada neonazi europea a través del concepto de remigración.
✍🏼 "El núcleo irradiador de este giro filonazi está en el sector catalán, liderado ideológicamente por Jorge Buxadé e Ignacio Garriga." ctxt.es/es/20250501/...
✍🏼 "El núcleo irradiador de este giro filonazi está en el sector catalán, liderado ideológicamente por Jorge Buxadé e Ignacio Garriga." ctxt.es/es/20250501/...
Remigración: Vox se suma al resurgir neonazi en Europa
La manifestación convocada el 23 de mayo por Falange, emulando las propuestas de limpieza étnica de otras extremas derechas en la UE, muestra que la radicalización del partido de Abascal ya tiene cons...
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May 29, 2025 at 6:02 AM
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Check out this article on how ppl facing oppression enhance one another's agency, & how this can repair their own internalized oppression. I love how the author develops Qrescent Mali Mason's concept of "intersectional ambiguity" which we should cite more
Congrats Alycia LaGuardia-LoBianco!
Congrats Alycia LaGuardia-LoBianco!
Better Together: Intersubjective Agency Expansion as Resistance | Hypatia | Cambridge Core
Better Together: Intersubjective Agency Expansion as Resistance
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May 20, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Check out this article on how ppl facing oppression enhance one another's agency, & how this can repair their own internalized oppression. I love how the author develops Qrescent Mali Mason's concept of "intersectional ambiguity" which we should cite more
Congrats Alycia LaGuardia-LoBianco!
Congrats Alycia LaGuardia-LoBianco!
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El valor de la universidad pública no se puede despreciar y, sobre todo, someter a los caprichos del mercado. Por eso, os animamos a acompañarnos en las calles el próximo 28A.
#SalvemosLaPública
#SalvemosLoPúblico
#SalvemosLaPública
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April 22, 2025 at 2:53 PM
El valor de la universidad pública no se puede despreciar y, sobre todo, someter a los caprichos del mercado. Por eso, os animamos a acompañarnos en las calles el próximo 28A.
#SalvemosLaPública
#SalvemosLoPúblico
#SalvemosLaPública
#SalvemosLoPúblico
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"Cisness brutalizes us all. The border guards of sex are the enemies of human liberation, and we fight them best by refusing to debate the fairness, let alone the accuracy, of their borders in the first place."
By @reproutopia.bsky.social
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
By @reproutopia.bsky.social
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
The UK’s Anti-Trans Ruling Is a Defeat for All Women
Even the self-described feminists celebrating the Supreme Court’s attempt to banish trans people from womanhood will pay a heavy price.
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April 23, 2025 at 5:03 PM
"Cisness brutalizes us all. The border guards of sex are the enemies of human liberation, and we fight them best by refusing to debate the fairness, let alone the accuracy, of their borders in the first place."
By @reproutopia.bsky.social
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
By @reproutopia.bsky.social
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
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Next Wednesday we have the great @ilheenk.bsky.social at our @ipp-csic.bsky.social Seminars. If you happen to be in Madrid do not miss this opportunity to learn about digital anti-feminism
For our next #IPPSeminar, we’re pleased to welcome Silvia Díaz Fernández (@ilheenk.bsky.social) from @ucm.es
Wednesday, April 23 at 12:00 AM in Herbert Simon Room @cchscsic.bsky.social
If you can’t join us in person, don’t worry — you can follow the session live here:
tinyurl.com/29dqnogg
Wednesday, April 23 at 12:00 AM in Herbert Simon Room @cchscsic.bsky.social
If you can’t join us in person, don’t worry — you can follow the session live here:
tinyurl.com/29dqnogg
April 18, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Next Wednesday we have the great @ilheenk.bsky.social at our @ipp-csic.bsky.social Seminars. If you happen to be in Madrid do not miss this opportunity to learn about digital anti-feminism
¡Qué ganas del próximo miércoles!
1/ Empezamos el próximo miércoles 23 de abril con Silvia Díaz Fernández (@ilheenk.bsky.social) de la @ucm.es
"The affective politicization of the manosphere: victimhood, rage and digital anti-feminism".
Un análisis del discurso emocional que circula en las comunidades digitales antifeministas.
"The affective politicization of the manosphere: victimhood, rage and digital anti-feminism".
Un análisis del discurso emocional que circula en las comunidades digitales antifeministas.
April 16, 2025 at 2:21 PM
¡Qué ganas del próximo miércoles!
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Absolutely delighted that Working Women on Screen: Paid Labour and Fourth Wave Feminism, edited by @ellietomsett.bsky.social @nweidhase.bsky.social and myself, won the Best Edited Volume award from @baftss.bsky.social for 2025. Big thank you to all of our contributors! www.baftss.org/winners-pub-...
April 7, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Absolutely delighted that Working Women on Screen: Paid Labour and Fourth Wave Feminism, edited by @ellietomsett.bsky.social @nweidhase.bsky.social and myself, won the Best Edited Volume award from @baftss.bsky.social for 2025. Big thank you to all of our contributors! www.baftss.org/winners-pub-...
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🚨NEW ARTICLE ALERT🚨
@norocel.bsky.social & Iris Segers flip the coin on far-right research and look at far -right researchers themselves 🪞
"Researchers of the far right as intersectional subjects: three arenas for emotional labour"
It's ✨OPEN ACCESS✨
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@norocel.bsky.social & Iris Segers flip the coin on far-right research and look at far -right researchers themselves 🪞
"Researchers of the far right as intersectional subjects: three arenas for emotional labour"
It's ✨OPEN ACCESS✨
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Researchers of the far right as intersectional subjects: three arenas for emotional labour
This conceptual article examines the relational dynamic between the research field focusing on the far right and those critical scholars that endeavour to undertake these studies. It is theoretically…
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March 21, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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Hablamos de la amenaza anti-género al proyecto europeo supuestamente basado en la igualdad y los derechos humanos ¿Igualdad para quién? ¿Derechos humanos para quién? Lo anti-género se nos queda como un concepto limitado, y con unos enemigos casi per-determinados que invisibilizan otros.
🚷Bruselas anuncia un nuevo proyecto de ley para acelerar las deportaciones de personas migrantes.
✍🏼 @queraltcastillo.bsky.social
📷 @aminguito.bsky.social
https://www.elsaltodiario.com/migracion/bruselas-anuncia-nuevo-proyecto-ley-acelerar-deportaciones-migrantes
✍🏼 @queraltcastillo.bsky.social
📷 @aminguito.bsky.social
https://www.elsaltodiario.com/migracion/bruselas-anuncia-nuevo-proyecto-ley-acelerar-deportaciones-migrantes
March 12, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Hablamos de la amenaza anti-género al proyecto europeo supuestamente basado en la igualdad y los derechos humanos ¿Igualdad para quién? ¿Derechos humanos para quién? Lo anti-género se nos queda como un concepto limitado, y con unos enemigos casi per-determinados que invisibilizan otros.
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👋🌍the @men4dem.bsky.social website is online!
🧑🎓✊🎭🤹♂️Scroll, explore and find out what our consortium of academics, activists and artists is up to the coming 3 years.
🇪🇺 🇳🇱 🇸🇪 🇩🇪 🇬🇷 🇵🇱 🇮🇹 men4dem.eu
🧑🎓✊🎭🤹♂️Scroll, explore and find out what our consortium of academics, activists and artists is up to the coming 3 years.
🇪🇺 🇳🇱 🇸🇪 🇩🇪 🇬🇷 🇵🇱 🇮🇹 men4dem.eu
MEN4DEM
Masculinities for the Future of European Democracy
men4dem.eu
February 27, 2025 at 10:55 AM
👋🌍the @men4dem.bsky.social website is online!
🧑🎓✊🎭🤹♂️Scroll, explore and find out what our consortium of academics, activists and artists is up to the coming 3 years.
🇪🇺 🇳🇱 🇸🇪 🇩🇪 🇬🇷 🇵🇱 🇮🇹 men4dem.eu
🧑🎓✊🎭🤹♂️Scroll, explore and find out what our consortium of academics, activists and artists is up to the coming 3 years.
🇪🇺 🇳🇱 🇸🇪 🇩🇪 🇬🇷 🇵🇱 🇮🇹 men4dem.eu
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☀️Join us the 19th March for our Gender and Politics seminar! To discuss issues of masculinities and gendered political representa. Registration needed geypo.es/event/semina... 👇🏽👇🏽
February 25, 2025 at 9:47 AM
☀️Join us the 19th March for our Gender and Politics seminar! To discuss issues of masculinities and gendered political representa. Registration needed geypo.es/event/semina... 👇🏽👇🏽
Reposted by Silvia Díaz Fernández
Listen to the first three episodes of the #FeministFutures podcast anytime on our website, Spotify or Soundcloud channels.
February 20, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Listen to the first three episodes of the #FeministFutures podcast anytime on our website, Spotify or Soundcloud channels.
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Really looking forward to talking Platforms, Algorithms & Social Justice at this MIT workshop on Feb 21st alongside the wonderful @norasuren.bsky.social and @tomdivon.bsky.social!! ✨️✊️
If you're in Cambridge (the new one, not the old one) then you can register HERE: www.norasuren.com/workshopform
If you're in Cambridge (the new one, not the old one) then you can register HERE: www.norasuren.com/workshopform
February 6, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Really looking forward to talking Platforms, Algorithms & Social Justice at this MIT workshop on Feb 21st alongside the wonderful @norasuren.bsky.social and @tomdivon.bsky.social!! ✨️✊️
If you're in Cambridge (the new one, not the old one) then you can register HERE: www.norasuren.com/workshopform
If you're in Cambridge (the new one, not the old one) then you can register HERE: www.norasuren.com/workshopform