francesca barca
@francesca-b.bsky.social
editor, journalist @voxeurop.eu
— social and gender issues | Editorial board @rivistailmulino
2021/23 | @nothing2hide.bsky.social
http://francescabarca.medium.com
— social and gender issues | Editorial board @rivistailmulino
2021/23 | @nothing2hide.bsky.social
http://francescabarca.medium.com
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Live | Is the Orbán era finally ending in Hungary?
How is democracy faring in Hungary, and who is the autocratic Orbán’s challenger? Is there still support for the EU and a European identity? What of press freedom and the independent media that still ...
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December 8, 2025 at 3:12 PM
🎙️ We'll be discussing all this with Hungarian journalists Boróka Parászka and Gyorgy Folk from HVG on 9 December at 1:30pm CET. The chat will be in English and moderated by Catherine André and Gian-Paolo Accardo.
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"Masculinist terrorism should challenge us to rethink our collective representations of what terrorism is”
Important @voxeurop.bsky.social article on a phenomenon that still gets too little attention in Europe.
Beyond the incel: Europe in the face of masculinist terrorism
Violent attacks against women by radicalised men are multiplying on European soil. With the phenomenon only partially understood, an adequate response remains to be found.
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December 8, 2025 at 12:53 PM
"Masculinist terrorism should challenge us to rethink our collective representations of what terrorism is”
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In #Bologna, where the struggles of #transgender people are already deeply rooted, shelters that specialise in welcoming trans migrants have produced a model that is being replicated across Italy.
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In Bologna, the history of the trans movement intersects with the reception of migrants
In Bologna, where the struggles of transgender people are already deeply rooted, shelters that specialise in welcoming trans migrants have produced a model that is being replicated across Italy.
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December 8, 2025 at 12:50 PM
In #Bologna, where the struggles of #transgender people are already deeply rooted, shelters that specialise in welcoming trans migrants have produced a model that is being replicated across Italy.
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#PulseEurope
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"The feminist movement is entirely moderate, considering the situation of women throughout history and even today."
The status of masculinity in today's world and how certain men demonize feminism.
From @voxeurop.bsky.social
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The status of masculinity in today's world and how certain men demonize feminism.
From @voxeurop.bsky.social
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‘The crisis of masculinity’, a long-lasting myth – A conversation with Francis Dupuis-Déri
Is masculinity really experiencing a “crisis”, as we so often hear? Has feminism gone too far? Behind such ideas lie prejudices – not just misogyny and anti-feminism, but also misplaced masculinism an...
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December 4, 2025 at 12:46 PM
"The feminist movement is entirely moderate, considering the situation of women throughout history and even today."
The status of masculinity in today's world and how certain men demonize feminism.
From @voxeurop.bsky.social
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The status of masculinity in today's world and how certain men demonize feminism.
From @voxeurop.bsky.social
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Musulmans de France, religiosité, islamisme : les chiffres contestés de l’enquête Ifop
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Musulmans de France, religiosité, islamisme : les chiffres contestés de l’enquête Ifop
Selon un sondage controversé de l’Ifop, une islamisation serait à l’œuvre chez les musulmans de France. D’autres enquêtes proposent un tout autre tableau. Un droit de réponse de l'Ifop suit cet articl...
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December 6, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Musulmans de France, religiosité, islamisme : les chiffres contestés de l’enquête Ifop
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#PulseEurope #FGM
For French pioneer healers, female genital mutilation is part of the ‘continuum of sexual violence’
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For French pioneer healers, female genital mutilation is part of the ‘continuum of sexual violence’
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December 1, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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For French pioneer healers, female genital mutilation is part of the ‘continuum of sexual violence’
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For French pioneer healers, female genital mutilation is part of the ‘continuum of sexual violence’
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It's time to start thinking about my annual "looking-ahead" piece for @voxeurop.bsky.social - it's going to be a crucial year for (U.S.) democracy and will EUrope finally move on?
This is what I wrote when looking ahead to 2025...
This is what I wrote when looking ahead to 2025...
Cas Mudde: In 2025, Europe must learn to stand on its own two feet
The EU faces a turbulent 2025 as internal divisions, weakened leadership in France and Germany, and Trump’s return strain its unity, says the far-right expert.
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November 30, 2025 at 3:02 PM
It's time to start thinking about my annual "looking-ahead" piece for @voxeurop.bsky.social - it's going to be a crucial year for (U.S.) democracy and will EUrope finally move on?
This is what I wrote when looking ahead to 2025...
This is what I wrote when looking ahead to 2025...
Radicalités religieuses. Au cœur d’une mutation mondiale (Albin Michel, 352 pages, 24,90 euros).
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Alain Dieckhoff, sociologue : « L’espace public mondial est bouleversé par l’irruption des radicalités religieuses »
Contre le constat longtemps admis de la modernité comme sortie des religions, une radicalisation et une « déprivatisation » de la foi à l’échelle mondiale s’observent aujourd’hui, selon le sociologue ...
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November 30, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Radicalités religieuses. Au cœur d’une mutation mondiale (Albin Michel, 352 pages, 24,90 euros).
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Sept Français sur dix affirment qu’il est devenu difficile de se loger dans leur commune
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La pénurie de logements nourrit le vote d’extrême droite
ANALYSE. En France, une part grandissante de la population rencontre des difficultés pour se loger. Cette situation, qui concerne particulièrement les classes populaires et les classes moyennes, provo...
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November 30, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Sept Français sur dix affirment qu’il est devenu difficile de se loger dans leur commune
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The argument that immigration has a negative impact on public safety has become a running theme in public debate, and goes hand in hand with the old stereotype of violence against “our” #women. By @francesca-b.bsky.social
#RightWatch #endviolenceagainstwomen
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#RightWatch #endviolenceagainstwomen
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November 25, 2025 at 11:48 AM
The argument that immigration has a negative impact on public safety has become a running theme in public debate, and goes hand in hand with the old stereotype of violence against “our” #women. By @francesca-b.bsky.social
#RightWatch #endviolenceagainstwomen
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#RightWatch #endviolenceagainstwomen
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#25november
The #MeToo movement and feminist activism thrown the spotlight back onto one of feminism's historic slogans: ‘The personal is political’. How can we talk about femicide and patriarchy without taking into account the powerful – even structural – relationship between love and violence?
#25november
The #MeToo movement and feminist activism thrown the spotlight back onto one of feminism's historic slogans: ‘The personal is political’. How can we talk about femicide and patriarchy without taking into account the powerful – even structural – relationship between love and violence?
Lea Melandri: ‘Love has been a veil’ for domestic violence - Voxeurop
The #MeToo movement and feminist activism around the world have thrown the spotlight back onto one of feminism's historic slogans: ‘The personal is political’. How can we talk about femicide and patri...
voxeurop.eu
November 25, 2025 at 8:40 AM
#25november
The #MeToo movement and feminist activism thrown the spotlight back onto one of feminism's historic slogans: ‘The personal is political’. How can we talk about femicide and patriarchy without taking into account the powerful – even structural – relationship between love and violence?
#25november
The #MeToo movement and feminist activism thrown the spotlight back onto one of feminism's historic slogans: ‘The personal is political’. How can we talk about femicide and patriarchy without taking into account the powerful – even structural – relationship between love and violence?
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#PulseEurope
#endviolenceagainstwomen #25november
Is masculinity really experiencing a “crisis”, as we so often hear? Has feminism gone too far? Behind such ideas lie prejudices – not just misogyny and anti-feminism, but also misplaced masculinism and even violence.
#PulseEurope
#endviolenceagainstwomen #25november
Is masculinity really experiencing a “crisis”, as we so often hear? Has feminism gone too far? Behind such ideas lie prejudices – not just misogyny and anti-feminism, but also misplaced masculinism and even violence.
‘The crisis of masculinity’, a long-lasting myth – A conversation with Francis Dupuis-Déri
Is masculinity really experiencing a “crisis”, as we so often hear? Has feminism gone too far? Behind such ideas lie prejudices – not just misogyny and anti-feminism, but also misplaced masculinism an...
voxeurop.eu
November 25, 2025 at 8:41 AM
#PulseEurope
#endviolenceagainstwomen #25november
Is masculinity really experiencing a “crisis”, as we so often hear? Has feminism gone too far? Behind such ideas lie prejudices – not just misogyny and anti-feminism, but also misplaced masculinism and even violence.
#PulseEurope
#endviolenceagainstwomen #25november
Is masculinity really experiencing a “crisis”, as we so often hear? Has feminism gone too far? Behind such ideas lie prejudices – not just misogyny and anti-feminism, but also misplaced masculinism and even violence.
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November 24, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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💌 Your favourite #newsletter is out later today! This week, our inequalities editor @francesca-b.bsky.social and her partners from #PulseEurope delve into gender-based violence and #masculinism, and how to prevent young men from becoming violent partners.
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November 20, 2025 at 10:53 AM
💌 Your favourite #newsletter is out later today! This week, our inequalities editor @francesca-b.bsky.social and her partners from #PulseEurope delve into gender-based violence and #masculinism, and how to prevent young men from becoming violent partners.
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Sur le Danube, entre la Bulgarie et la Roumanie, l’île de Béléné a été choisie par le Parti communiste bulgare pour accueillir un camp de travail destiné aux opposants politiques.
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Sur le Danube, entre la Bulgarie et la Roumanie, l’île de Béléné a été choisie par le Parti communiste bulgare pour accueillir un camp de travail destiné aux opposants politiques.
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Sur l’île de Béléné, la mémoire emprisonnée du communisme bulgare
Sur le Danube, entre la Bulgarie et la Roumanie, l’île de Béléné a été choisie par le Parti communiste bulgare pour accueillir un camp de travail destiné aux opposants politiques.
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November 19, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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Sur le Danube, entre la Bulgarie et la Roumanie, l’île de Béléné a été choisie par le Parti communiste bulgare pour accueillir un camp de travail destiné aux opposants politiques.
voxeurop.eu/fr/belene-bu...
Sur le Danube, entre la Bulgarie et la Roumanie, l’île de Béléné a été choisie par le Parti communiste bulgare pour accueillir un camp de travail destiné aux opposants politiques.
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Merci à @stephlamy.bsky.social et Francis Dupuis-Déri
Cet article a été réalisé dans le cadre de #PulseEurope: Lola García-Ajofrín et Ana Somavilla (El Confidencial, Espagne), Petra Dvořáková (Deník Referendum, République tchèque) et Claudia Torrisi ont contribué à sa rédaction.
Cet article a été réalisé dans le cadre de #PulseEurope: Lola García-Ajofrín et Ana Somavilla (El Confidencial, Espagne), Petra Dvořáková (Deník Referendum, République tchèque) et Claudia Torrisi ont contribué à sa rédaction.
En cette journée des chouineries masculinistes, je vous propose de lire un excellent article sur ces milieux radicaux et les angles morts de la lutte contre le terrorisme.
Merci @francesca-b.bsky.social & team, pour cet travail remarquable.
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Merci @francesca-b.bsky.social & team, pour cet travail remarquable.
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Au-delà des incels : l'Europe face au terrorisme masculiniste
Les attaques violentes contre les femmes par des hommes radicalisés se multiplient sur le sol européen.
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November 19, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Merci à @stephlamy.bsky.social et Francis Dupuis-Déri
Cet article a été réalisé dans le cadre de #PulseEurope: Lola García-Ajofrín et Ana Somavilla (El Confidencial, Espagne), Petra Dvořáková (Deník Referendum, République tchèque) et Claudia Torrisi ont contribué à sa rédaction.
Cet article a été réalisé dans le cadre de #PulseEurope: Lola García-Ajofrín et Ana Somavilla (El Confidencial, Espagne), Petra Dvořáková (Deník Referendum, République tchèque) et Claudia Torrisi ont contribué à sa rédaction.
"Tanta fantasia per formulare ipotesi apparentemente sofisticate, ma anche tanto impegno per dimenticare un fatto relativamente semplice: filosofo o no, marxista o no, pazzo o no, Althusser non è né più né meno che uno dei tantissimi uomini che, ogni anno, uccidono la propria moglie o ex moglie".
Il 16 novembre 1980 il filosofo marxista Louis Althusser ha ucciso la moglie, la sociologa Hélène Rytmann.
Ci sono voluti oltre quarant’anni perché questo omidicio venisse definito un femminicidio.
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Ci sono voluti oltre quarant’anni perché questo omidicio venisse definito un femminicidio.
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Sul femminicidio di Hélène Rytmann-Legotien. Come Louis Althusser ha ucciso la moglie
Il 16 novembre 1980 il filosofo marxista Louis Althusser ha ucciso la moglie, la sociologa Hélène Rytmann.
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November 16, 2025 at 12:30 PM
"Tanta fantasia per formulare ipotesi apparentemente sofisticate, ma anche tanto impegno per dimenticare un fatto relativamente semplice: filosofo o no, marxista o no, pazzo o no, Althusser non è né più né meno che uno dei tantissimi uomini che, ogni anno, uccidono la propria moglie o ex moglie".
La logistique revient au cœur des priorités occidentales face à la menace russe.
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Déployer les armées européennes en quelques jours : le défi de l’OTAN face à la Russie
Longtemps négligée, la logistique revient au cœur des priorités occidentales face à la menace russe. Entre investissements tardifs, lourdeurs administratives et dépendance vis-à-vis des Etats-Unis, le...
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November 16, 2025 at 12:25 PM
La logistique revient au cœur des priorités occidentales face à la menace russe.
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"the practice, known as punitive psychiatry, allowed authorities to lock up critics in mental hospitals, discredit them publicly, and silence their voices under the guise of ‘treatment’."
The Soviet Union’s toxic legacy of conflating dissent with mental ‘instability’ is remerging in the Georgian government’s attitudes towards protesters.
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How political psychiatry is finding a new life in Georgian propaganda
The Soviet Union’s toxic legacy of conflating dissent with mental ‘instability’ is remerging in the government’s attitudes towards protesters.
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November 13, 2025 at 10:05 AM
"the practice, known as punitive psychiatry, allowed authorities to lock up critics in mental hospitals, discredit them publicly, and silence their voices under the guise of ‘treatment’."
Sul Danubio, tra Bulgaria e Romania, l'isola di Belene è stata scelta dal Partito comunista per ospitare un campo di lavoro per gli oppositori politici. Oggi l'isola è un penitenziario, un parco naturale e una memoria che fatica a farsi strada. Reportage. @voxeurop.bsky.social
In Bulgaria, l'isola di Belene, conserva la meprigione politica del comunismo bulgaro
Sul Danubio, tra la Bulgaria e la Romania, l'isola di Belene/Persin è stata scelta dal Partito comunista bulgaro per ospitare un campo di lavoro destinato agli oppositori politici. Oggi la prigione è ...
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November 13, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Sul Danubio, tra Bulgaria e Romania, l'isola di Belene è stata scelta dal Partito comunista per ospitare un campo di lavoro per gli oppositori politici. Oggi l'isola è un penitenziario, un parco naturale e una memoria che fatica a farsi strada. Reportage. @voxeurop.bsky.social
"Les entreprises du numérique explorent et exploitent ces paysages sociaux comme si nos informations sociales étaient une sorte de diamant, de minerai ou de pétrole."
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Fred Turner : « Le Texas devient une techno-théocratie »
Fred Turner, professeur à Stanford, continue de décrypter les idéologies et imaginaires à l’œuvre dans les industries du numérique avec un livre intitulé « Politique des machines ». Pourquoi la tech …
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November 13, 2025 at 8:28 AM
"Les entreprises du numérique explorent et exploitent ces paysages sociaux comme si nos informations sociales étaient une sorte de diamant, de minerai ou de pétrole."
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