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📣 Dispatch 11 of #VoicesOfResistance is here!
In #Bangladesh, women’s absence from public life is treated as “normal”—a silence that hides a growing right-wing backlash before the election.
Tasaffy Hossain shows how invisibility becomes exclusion & how men’s silence drives anti-democratic futures.
In #Bangladesh, women’s absence from public life is treated as “normal”—a silence that hides a growing right-wing backlash before the election.
Tasaffy Hossain shows how invisibility becomes exclusion & how men’s silence drives anti-democratic futures.
Normalised Invisibility - The Path Towards Exclusion - Noor
If you pass through certain parts of Bangladesh, especially in bazaars or marketplaces, some of us will instantly notice the lack of women. And that usually means no women shopkeepers, no women shoppe...
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February 11, 2026 at 1:34 PM
📣 Dispatch 11 of #VoicesOfResistance is here!
In #Bangladesh, women’s absence from public life is treated as “normal”—a silence that hides a growing right-wing backlash before the election.
Tasaffy Hossain shows how invisibility becomes exclusion & how men’s silence drives anti-democratic futures.
In #Bangladesh, women’s absence from public life is treated as “normal”—a silence that hides a growing right-wing backlash before the election.
Tasaffy Hossain shows how invisibility becomes exclusion & how men’s silence drives anti-democratic futures.
✨ 1st article from our Feminist Journalist Fellowship is out now!
By Enas Kamal, in collab with @untoldmag.org
A powerful look at how queer Egyptians navigate connection, surveillance & digital risks.
#FeministJournalism #LGBTQ #Egypt #DigitalSafety #QueerVoices #SWANA
By Enas Kamal, in collab with @untoldmag.org
A powerful look at how queer Egyptians navigate connection, surveillance & digital risks.
#FeministJournalism #LGBTQ #Egypt #DigitalSafety #QueerVoices #SWANA
For LGBTQ+ People in Egypt, the Internet is Both a Lifeline and a Trap - Noor
Social media offers connection for queer Egyptians, but also exposes them to surveillance, entrapment, and harassment under expanding cybercrime laws This story was produced under the Feminist Journal...
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February 10, 2026 at 12:30 PM
✨ 1st article from our Feminist Journalist Fellowship is out now!
By Enas Kamal, in collab with @untoldmag.org
A powerful look at how queer Egyptians navigate connection, surveillance & digital risks.
#FeministJournalism #LGBTQ #Egypt #DigitalSafety #QueerVoices #SWANA
By Enas Kamal, in collab with @untoldmag.org
A powerful look at how queer Egyptians navigate connection, surveillance & digital risks.
#FeministJournalism #LGBTQ #Egypt #DigitalSafety #QueerVoices #SWANA
🔥 #VoicesOfResistance is back for 2026 – #11 drops this Wed!
In #Bangladesh, women are disappearing from streets, markets & politics but this silence is not natural. Men in power normalize their absence.
Women refuse to disappear. Visibility is resistance. Resistance is survival.
In #Bangladesh, women are disappearing from streets, markets & politics but this silence is not natural. Men in power normalize their absence.
Women refuse to disappear. Visibility is resistance. Resistance is survival.
February 9, 2026 at 1:50 PM
🔥 #VoicesOfResistance is back for 2026 – #11 drops this Wed!
In #Bangladesh, women are disappearing from streets, markets & politics but this silence is not natural. Men in power normalize their absence.
Women refuse to disappear. Visibility is resistance. Resistance is survival.
In #Bangladesh, women are disappearing from streets, markets & politics but this silence is not natural. Men in power normalize their absence.
Women refuse to disappear. Visibility is resistance. Resistance is survival.
Noor is proud to support the @tninstitute.bsky.social’s State of Power 2026 report on the rise of fascism & the far-right.
The report highlights the economic, social & political forces driving far-right movements and offers insights on how we can respond.
Read here: www.tni.org/en/publicati...
The report highlights the economic, social & political forces driving far-right movements and offers insights on how we can respond.
Read here: www.tni.org/en/publicati...
Fascism | Transnational Institute
Fascism and the far right are on the rise. TNI’s 14th State of Power report looks behind the news headlines at the underlying reasons for their rise, the economic interests that support them, the ways...
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February 4, 2026 at 11:32 AM
Noor is proud to support the @tninstitute.bsky.social’s State of Power 2026 report on the rise of fascism & the far-right.
The report highlights the economic, social & political forces driving far-right movements and offers insights on how we can respond.
Read here: www.tni.org/en/publicati...
The report highlights the economic, social & political forces driving far-right movements and offers insights on how we can respond.
Read here: www.tni.org/en/publicati...
This #HumanRightsDay, Noor and WHRD MENA honour Queer HRDs across the Global South — too often erased, yet still fighting, building, imagining freedom.
Our queer stories are political.
Coming soon…
#QueerHRDs #GlobalSouthQueer #LGBTQRights #QueerJustice
Our queer stories are political.
Coming soon…
#QueerHRDs #GlobalSouthQueer #LGBTQRights #QueerJustice
December 10, 2025 at 2:03 PM
This #HumanRightsDay, Noor and WHRD MENA honour Queer HRDs across the Global South — too often erased, yet still fighting, building, imagining freedom.
Our queer stories are political.
Coming soon…
#QueerHRDs #GlobalSouthQueer #LGBTQRights #QueerJustice
Our queer stories are political.
Coming soon…
#QueerHRDs #GlobalSouthQueer #LGBTQRights #QueerJustice
Noor will be in Kathmandu from Dec 8–10 for CREA’s #ReConference2025!
We’ll be engaging on disability justice, anti-carceral futures, digital rights, climate justice & movement solidarity.
Keen to connect with network members & allies — DM us 💬
#NoorAtReCon
We’ll be engaging on disability justice, anti-carceral futures, digital rights, climate justice & movement solidarity.
Keen to connect with network members & allies — DM us 💬
#NoorAtReCon
December 5, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Noor will be in Kathmandu from Dec 8–10 for CREA’s #ReConference2025!
We’ll be engaging on disability justice, anti-carceral futures, digital rights, climate justice & movement solidarity.
Keen to connect with network members & allies — DM us 💬
#NoorAtReCon
We’ll be engaging on disability justice, anti-carceral futures, digital rights, climate justice & movement solidarity.
Keen to connect with network members & allies — DM us 💬
#NoorAtReCon
📢 Noor is hiring!
We are seeking researchers for our #RootsOfHate mapping in #SouthernAfrica — analysing authoritarian resurgence, anti-gender campaigns, extractivism & racial capitalism - amplifying feminist alternatives.
Scan the QR for more details.
We are seeking researchers for our #RootsOfHate mapping in #SouthernAfrica — analysing authoritarian resurgence, anti-gender campaigns, extractivism & racial capitalism - amplifying feminist alternatives.
Scan the QR for more details.
November 27, 2025 at 2:15 PM
📢 Noor is hiring!
We are seeking researchers for our #RootsOfHate mapping in #SouthernAfrica — analysing authoritarian resurgence, anti-gender campaigns, extractivism & racial capitalism - amplifying feminist alternatives.
Scan the QR for more details.
We are seeking researchers for our #RootsOfHate mapping in #SouthernAfrica — analysing authoritarian resurgence, anti-gender campaigns, extractivism & racial capitalism - amplifying feminist alternatives.
Scan the QR for more details.
(1/2): ✨ Meet the inaugural cohort of our Feminist Journalist Fellowship!
These incredible feminist journalists are exposing anti-gender propaganda, investigating FFs, and amplifying voices often unheard across the Global South.
#FeministJournalism #NoorFJF #AmplifyVoices
These incredible feminist journalists are exposing anti-gender propaganda, investigating FFs, and amplifying voices often unheard across the Global South.
#FeministJournalism #NoorFJF #AmplifyVoices
November 20, 2025 at 3:04 PM
(1/2): ✨ Meet the inaugural cohort of our Feminist Journalist Fellowship!
These incredible feminist journalists are exposing anti-gender propaganda, investigating FFs, and amplifying voices often unheard across the Global South.
#FeministJournalism #NoorFJF #AmplifyVoices
These incredible feminist journalists are exposing anti-gender propaganda, investigating FFs, and amplifying voices often unheard across the Global South.
#FeministJournalism #NoorFJF #AmplifyVoices
🌱 Online Cross-Movement Dialogue on #Ecofascism
Building on our #COP30 Belém session on Resisting Ecofascisms, join Noor & collaborators for an online dialogue uniting feminist, queer, climate & ecological justice movements against fascist narratives driving ecocide.
Scan the QR code to register.
Building on our #COP30 Belém session on Resisting Ecofascisms, join Noor & collaborators for an online dialogue uniting feminist, queer, climate & ecological justice movements against fascist narratives driving ecocide.
Scan the QR code to register.
November 19, 2025 at 2:28 PM
🌱 Online Cross-Movement Dialogue on #Ecofascism
Building on our #COP30 Belém session on Resisting Ecofascisms, join Noor & collaborators for an online dialogue uniting feminist, queer, climate & ecological justice movements against fascist narratives driving ecocide.
Scan the QR code to register.
Building on our #COP30 Belém session on Resisting Ecofascisms, join Noor & collaborators for an online dialogue uniting feminist, queer, climate & ecological justice movements against fascist narratives driving ecocide.
Scan the QR code to register.
(1/2): ✨ Meet the mentors of #FeministJournalistFellowship: Journalism as Resistance!
These incredible storytellers driving change will guide our fellows as they investigate fascist & fundamentalist movements, counter #antigender propaganda & amplify frontline voices across the #GlobalSouth.
These incredible storytellers driving change will guide our fellows as they investigate fascist & fundamentalist movements, counter #antigender propaganda & amplify frontline voices across the #GlobalSouth.
November 18, 2025 at 3:20 PM
(1/2): ✨ Meet the mentors of #FeministJournalistFellowship: Journalism as Resistance!
These incredible storytellers driving change will guide our fellows as they investigate fascist & fundamentalist movements, counter #antigender propaganda & amplify frontline voices across the #GlobalSouth.
These incredible storytellers driving change will guide our fellows as they investigate fascist & fundamentalist movements, counter #antigender propaganda & amplify frontline voices across the #GlobalSouth.
(1/3): Noor will be in Belém, Brazil on Nov 11 for a Cross-Movement Dialogue on Resisting Ecofascisms, on the margins of #COP30 🌿
Activists from diverse movements will gather to resist far-right & ecocidal agendas and build solidarity. DM if you’ll be there 💬
Activists from diverse movements will gather to resist far-right & ecocidal agendas and build solidarity. DM if you’ll be there 💬
November 5, 2025 at 3:32 PM
(1/3): Noor will be in Belém, Brazil on Nov 11 for a Cross-Movement Dialogue on Resisting Ecofascisms, on the margins of #COP30 🌿
Activists from diverse movements will gather to resist far-right & ecocidal agendas and build solidarity. DM if you’ll be there 💬
Activists from diverse movements will gather to resist far-right & ecocidal agendas and build solidarity. DM if you’ll be there 💬
(1/3): At our Sept 2025 Climate Week dialogue with JFC, participants traced how the push for “world-class cities” and “clean environments” often comes at the cost of those made most precarious — migrants, Indigenous peoples, waste workers, and street vendors.
#ClimateWeekNYC #COP30
#ClimateWeekNYC #COP30
October 30, 2025 at 1:51 PM
(1/3): At our Sept 2025 Climate Week dialogue with JFC, participants traced how the push for “world-class cities” and “clean environments” often comes at the cost of those made most precarious — migrants, Indigenous peoples, waste workers, and street vendors.
#ClimateWeekNYC #COP30
#ClimateWeekNYC #COP30
(1/4): In Sept 2025, Noor joined activists, researchers & organizations from around the world in Estoril, Portugal, at the #GlobalGathering2025 — exploring the intersections of tech, digital rights & human rights, and the narratives shaping our shared futures.
October 21, 2025 at 12:08 PM
(1/4): In Sept 2025, Noor joined activists, researchers & organizations from around the world in Estoril, Portugal, at the #GlobalGathering2025 — exploring the intersections of tech, digital rights & human rights, and the narratives shaping our shared futures.
(1/2): Noor’s #KnowYourEnemy Popular Education School held its 4th session on Sept 26! 🌍 We unpacked the political economy of illicit funding - hidden flows, party financing & crowdfunding powering anti-gender + far-right movements & blocking gender justice. #NoorSchool #FeministEducation
October 3, 2025 at 1:47 PM
(1/2): Noor’s #KnowYourEnemy Popular Education School held its 4th session on Sept 26! 🌍 We unpacked the political economy of illicit funding - hidden flows, party financing & crowdfunding powering anti-gender + far-right movements & blocking gender justice. #NoorSchool #FeministEducation
(1/3): In "Between Erasure and Resistance", Tesneem Elhassan shows how Sudanese women turn erasure into defiance. From blockaded cities to exile, their bodies, stories, and memories are sites of resistance against state repression and Islamist authoritarianism.
October 1, 2025 at 1:39 PM
(1/3): In "Between Erasure and Resistance", Tesneem Elhassan shows how Sudanese women turn erasure into defiance. From blockaded cities to exile, their bodies, stories, and memories are sites of resistance against state repression and Islamist authoritarianism.
September 29, 2025 at 2:04 PM
(1/3): #TheNoorNetwork is LIVE! 🌍💜
A translocal space led by the Global South, connecting feminist movements across Asia, SWANA, Africa, Latin America & the Caribbean. Together we build power, share knowledge & strategize against fascism, fundamentalisms & authoritarianism.
#FeministSolidarity
A translocal space led by the Global South, connecting feminist movements across Asia, SWANA, Africa, Latin America & the Caribbean. Together we build power, share knowledge & strategize against fascism, fundamentalisms & authoritarianism.
#FeministSolidarity
September 29, 2025 at 1:34 PM
(1/3): #TheNoorNetwork is LIVE! 🌍💜
A translocal space led by the Global South, connecting feminist movements across Asia, SWANA, Africa, Latin America & the Caribbean. Together we build power, share knowledge & strategize against fascism, fundamentalisms & authoritarianism.
#FeministSolidarity
A translocal space led by the Global South, connecting feminist movements across Asia, SWANA, Africa, Latin America & the Caribbean. Together we build power, share knowledge & strategize against fascism, fundamentalisms & authoritarianism.
#FeministSolidarity
📣 #VoicesOfResistance #10 is here!
In #Sudan, women’s bodies, stories & memories have been weaponized & erased under fascist Islamist regimes. Amid war & repression, women resist feeding communities, archiving testimonies & teaching the next generation.
Read more wearenoor.org/between-eras...
In #Sudan, women’s bodies, stories & memories have been weaponized & erased under fascist Islamist regimes. Amid war & repression, women resist feeding communities, archiving testimonies & teaching the next generation.
Read more wearenoor.org/between-eras...
Between Erasure and Resistance: Women’s Bodies, Memories, and Narratives under Sudan’s Fascist Islamist Regime By Tesneem Elhassan - Noor
“I was attacked, accused of being corrupt, and there was no recognition of my role.” — A Sudanese activist This article will examine the dialectical relationship between erasure and resistance under ...
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September 24, 2025 at 4:05 PM
📣 #VoicesOfResistance #10 is here!
In #Sudan, women’s bodies, stories & memories have been weaponized & erased under fascist Islamist regimes. Amid war & repression, women resist feeding communities, archiving testimonies & teaching the next generation.
Read more wearenoor.org/between-eras...
In #Sudan, women’s bodies, stories & memories have been weaponized & erased under fascist Islamist regimes. Amid war & repression, women resist feeding communities, archiving testimonies & teaching the next generation.
Read more wearenoor.org/between-eras...
🔥 #VoicesOfResistance #10 – stay tuned!
In #Sudan, women’s bodies, stories & memories are under attack. From dress laws to militias silencing voices, they resist through education, food networks, digital storytelling & archiving. Survival is #resistance.
Out on Wednesday!
#SWANA #StandWithSudan
In #Sudan, women’s bodies, stories & memories are under attack. From dress laws to militias silencing voices, they resist through education, food networks, digital storytelling & archiving. Survival is #resistance.
Out on Wednesday!
#SWANA #StandWithSudan
September 22, 2025 at 3:26 PM
🔥 #VoicesOfResistance #10 – stay tuned!
In #Sudan, women’s bodies, stories & memories are under attack. From dress laws to militias silencing voices, they resist through education, food networks, digital storytelling & archiving. Survival is #resistance.
Out on Wednesday!
#SWANA #StandWithSudan
In #Sudan, women’s bodies, stories & memories are under attack. From dress laws to militias silencing voices, they resist through education, food networks, digital storytelling & archiving. Survival is #resistance.
Out on Wednesday!
#SWANA #StandWithSudan
🌍 Noor at #ClimateWeekNYC 2025
Next week in NYC, Noor + JFC are hosting a cross-movement dialogue centering feminist decolonial & community-rooted perspectives in climate justice — building momentum toward #COP30 in Belém.
💬 DM to connect!
#ClimateJustice #ClimateAction #Ecofeminism #Ecofascism
Next week in NYC, Noor + JFC are hosting a cross-movement dialogue centering feminist decolonial & community-rooted perspectives in climate justice — building momentum toward #COP30 in Belém.
💬 DM to connect!
#ClimateJustice #ClimateAction #Ecofeminism #Ecofascism
September 19, 2025 at 3:47 PM
🌍 Noor at #ClimateWeekNYC 2025
Next week in NYC, Noor + JFC are hosting a cross-movement dialogue centering feminist decolonial & community-rooted perspectives in climate justice — building momentum toward #COP30 in Belém.
💬 DM to connect!
#ClimateJustice #ClimateAction #Ecofeminism #Ecofascism
Next week in NYC, Noor + JFC are hosting a cross-movement dialogue centering feminist decolonial & community-rooted perspectives in climate justice — building momentum toward #COP30 in Belém.
💬 DM to connect!
#ClimateJustice #ClimateAction #Ecofeminism #Ecofascism
On Sept 12, Noor’s #KnowYourEnemy School dove into #antigender movements as #transnationalnetworks framing “gender ideology” as threat, forging unholy alliances & waging battles at the UN.
We reflected on their narratives, risks for activists & need for solidarity + creative resistance.
#NoorSchool
We reflected on their narratives, risks for activists & need for solidarity + creative resistance.
#NoorSchool
September 19, 2025 at 9:31 AM
On Sept 12, Noor’s #KnowYourEnemy School dove into #antigender movements as #transnationalnetworks framing “gender ideology” as threat, forging unholy alliances & waging battles at the UN.
We reflected on their narratives, risks for activists & need for solidarity + creative resistance.
#NoorSchool
We reflected on their narratives, risks for activists & need for solidarity + creative resistance.
#NoorSchool
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We’re partnering with @noornetwork.bsky.social to mentor journalists from the global South in reporting on authoritarianism and other issues affecting the region.
If you’re eligible, do apply!
If you’re eligible, do apply!
🚨 Applications Open!
We are seeking 3 journalists from the #GlobalSouth to report on fascist & fundamentalist movements.
💡 Pitch your story & bring it to life.
📌 Apply: wearenoor.org/feminist-jou...
#JournalismAsResistance
@globalvoices.org @untoldmag.org @jamhoor.org @designaction.bsky.social
We are seeking 3 journalists from the #GlobalSouth to report on fascist & fundamentalist movements.
💡 Pitch your story & bring it to life.
📌 Apply: wearenoor.org/feminist-jou...
#JournalismAsResistance
@globalvoices.org @untoldmag.org @jamhoor.org @designaction.bsky.social
September 18, 2025 at 1:07 PM
We’re partnering with @noornetwork.bsky.social to mentor journalists from the global South in reporting on authoritarianism and other issues affecting the region.
If you’re eligible, do apply!
If you’re eligible, do apply!
🚨 Applications Open!
We are seeking 3 journalists from the #GlobalSouth to report on fascist & fundamentalist movements.
💡 Pitch your story & bring it to life.
📌 Apply: wearenoor.org/feminist-jou...
#JournalismAsResistance
@globalvoices.org @untoldmag.org @jamhoor.org @designaction.bsky.social
We are seeking 3 journalists from the #GlobalSouth to report on fascist & fundamentalist movements.
💡 Pitch your story & bring it to life.
📌 Apply: wearenoor.org/feminist-jou...
#JournalismAsResistance
@globalvoices.org @untoldmag.org @jamhoor.org @designaction.bsky.social
September 17, 2025 at 2:35 PM
🚨 Applications Open!
We are seeking 3 journalists from the #GlobalSouth to report on fascist & fundamentalist movements.
💡 Pitch your story & bring it to life.
📌 Apply: wearenoor.org/feminist-jou...
#JournalismAsResistance
@globalvoices.org @untoldmag.org @jamhoor.org @designaction.bsky.social
We are seeking 3 journalists from the #GlobalSouth to report on fascist & fundamentalist movements.
💡 Pitch your story & bring it to life.
📌 Apply: wearenoor.org/feminist-jou...
#JournalismAsResistance
@globalvoices.org @untoldmag.org @jamhoor.org @designaction.bsky.social
(1/2): In “Women’s Resistance against Economic Inequality, State Violence & Corrupt Elites in Indonesia”, Siti Yunia Mazdafiah & Amar Alfikar show how the viral image of a mother in a pink hijab facing riot police came to embody public defiance.
September 17, 2025 at 11:43 AM
(1/2): In “Women’s Resistance against Economic Inequality, State Violence & Corrupt Elites in Indonesia”, Siti Yunia Mazdafiah & Amar Alfikar show how the viral image of a mother in a pink hijab facing riot police came to embody public defiance.
Protests across #Indonesia are met with brutal crackdowns, arrests & killings.
Yet women are at the frontlines — turning grief into defiance.
Dispatch 9 of #VoicesOfResistance by Siti Yunia Mazdafiah & Amar Alfikar.
🔗 Read now: wearenoor.org/womens-resis...
Yet women are at the frontlines — turning grief into defiance.
Dispatch 9 of #VoicesOfResistance by Siti Yunia Mazdafiah & Amar Alfikar.
🔗 Read now: wearenoor.org/womens-resis...
Women's Resistance against Economic Inequality, State Violence and Corrupt Elites in Indonesia By Siti Yunia Mazdafiah and Amar Alfikar - Noor
A mother in a pink hijab is standing unfazed before a group of police officers in armored suits. She grips a bamboo pole with the red-and-white Indonesian flag fluttering at the top, waving in the bre...
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September 10, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Protests across #Indonesia are met with brutal crackdowns, arrests & killings.
Yet women are at the frontlines — turning grief into defiance.
Dispatch 9 of #VoicesOfResistance by Siti Yunia Mazdafiah & Amar Alfikar.
🔗 Read now: wearenoor.org/womens-resis...
Yet women are at the frontlines — turning grief into defiance.
Dispatch 9 of #VoicesOfResistance by Siti Yunia Mazdafiah & Amar Alfikar.
🔗 Read now: wearenoor.org/womens-resis...