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Noor is a global feminist & movement-driven think & do tank, devoted to building the power of gender justice & progressive movements.
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📢 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.

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Call for researcher. Roots of Hate, Souther Africa. Application deadline: 15 Jan 2026.
November 27, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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(2/2): With guidance, training & transnational feminist networks, our fellows are ready to produce bold, rigorous journalism that challenges harmful narratives and sparks real change.

#InvestigativeJournalism #GlobalSouthStories #FeministFellowship #NarrativePower
Nicole Froio - Brazil Nicole Froio is a Brazilian-Colombian journalist and feminist cultural critic based in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Her work has been featured in international outlets including The Guardian, Xtra Magazine, The Verge, Bitch Media, Prism Reports, Dame Magazine and Yes! Magazine, among others. She writes on the intersections of gender, politics, and culture, with particular focus on the weaponization of womanhood by far-right parties, trans moral panics, and abortion misinformation. Froio is the co-founder of The Flytrap, a feminist, worker-owned, and non-hierarchical newsletter. Outside of her professional work, she enjoys dancing, sewing, crochet, and reading feminist theory. Alifya Sohail - Pakistan Alifya Sohail reports on the machinery of power in Pakistan and those crushed beneath it. Her work traces disappearances as governance, and the women who refuse to be governed by it. She has documented the rise and persecution of the BYC from Karachi’s streets to the 74-day sit-in in Islamabad, mapping routine violence against the families left behind. Her fellowship project interrogates the patriotism in disappearance; how obfuscation has become Pakistan’s native tongue. It also follows the women who reject that syntax: building archives from wreckage and keeping a record most deny or distort. Enas Kamal - Egypt Enas Kamal is a freelance journalist and podcaster with a strong focus on gender, civil rights, LGBTQ+ issues, digital rights, and women’s empowerment. In 2020, she won First Place in a competition organized by the Ministry of Social Solidarity in collaboration with Plan International, recognizing the best journalistic story highlighting young women’s issues. Her work and commitment have been further recognized through fellowships, including the KAICIID Fellowship in 2023 and a 2024 fellowship from ARIJ addressing digital violence against women. Additionally, she is the only Egyptian member of WIN Allies, contributing to supporting and reporting on the LGBTQ+ community.
November 20, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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(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
MEET THE FELLOWS. Feminist Journalist Fellowship
November 20, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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🌱 Diálogo en línea sobre Ecofascismo

Tras nuestro encuentro en COP30 Belém sobre Resistiendo el Ecofascismo, únete a un diálogo en línea que reúne movimientos feministas, queer, climáticos y de justicia ecológica frente a narrativas fascistas.

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Diálogo intermovimientos en línea sobre ecofascismos. 26 de noviembre, 2025 13:00 UTC Habrá interpretación en español e inglés. Escanea para registrarte
November 19, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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🌱 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.

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Online Cross-Movement Dialogue - Resisting Ecofascisms. November 26th, 2025 At 1pm UTC Interpretation available in Spanish & English. Scan to register.
November 19, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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(2/2): Grounded in feminist political education & transnational solidarity, our mentors bring expertise & networks to help fellows produce impactful journalism.

Together, they’re shaping the next generation of feminist journalists challenging harmful narratives.

#GlobalSouthStories
Fernanda Canofre - Global Voices. Fernanda Canofre is a reporter based in Southern Brazil. She is currently the Southern Cone Regional Editor and Lusophone sub-editor at Global Voices, and works as a freelancer with stories published in national and international news outlets such as Valor Econômico, Folha de S. Paulo, O Globo, Agência Pública and The Guardian. She covered developments from tragedies such as the recent floodings in the South of Brazil, dam bursts in Minas Gerais and the fire at the Kiss nightclub in Rio Grande do Sul, stories on the recent past of the military dictatorship and many others focusing on human rights. Canofre graduated in Social Communications - Journalism (2009) and has a M.A. in History -- Thoughts and Cultures, from the University of Coimbra (2012). She was born in Passo Fundo, Rio Grande do Sul. Hadia Akhtar - Jamhoor Media Hadia is an economic and feminist anthropologist of rural Pakistan. Her research is on migration, the family and agrarian change in Khyber Pukhtunkhwa. She is part of the editorial collective at Jamhoor. She is also currently a Postdoctoral Associate at the School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University. Walid El Houri - Untold Mag Walid El Houri is a researcher, journalist and media specialist from Lebanon. He is Co-founder & Editor in Chief of UntoldMag.org, West Asia & North Africa Editor at Global Voices, and Senior Media & Communications Specialist at the Centre for Lebanese Studies. He holds a PhD in Media Studies from the University of Amsterdam and works at the intersection of academia, media, and advocacy, with a focus on social and political movements, and the geographies of war and violence.
November 18, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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(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.
MEET THE MENTORS. Feminist Journalist Fellowship.
November 18, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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(3/3): ¡Noor estará en Belém, Brasil, el 11 de noviembre para un Diálogo Intermovimientos sobre la Resistencia a los Ecofascismos, en los márgenes de la #COP30 🌿

Activistas se unirán para resistir agendas ecocidas y de extrema derecha. ¡DM si vas a estar allí! 💬
Resistiendo los ecofascismos: Un diálogo intermovimientos presencial en los márgenes de la COP30 en Belém do Pará, Brasil. 1 de noviembre de 2025 De 9:00 a.m. a 4:30 p.m.
November 5, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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(2/3): A Noor estará em Belém, Brasil, no dia 11 de novembro para um Diálogo Intermovimentos sobre Resistir aos Ecofascismos, às margens da #COP30 🌿

Ativistas se reunirão para enfrentar agendas de extrema direita e ecocidas. Mande uma DM se estiver por lá 💬
Resistindo aos Ecofascismos: Um diálogo intermovimentos presencial às margens da COP30 em Belém do Pará, Brasil. 11 de novembro 2025 9:00 am até às 16:30hs Beira Rio Hotel, Belém, Pará
November 5, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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(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 💬
Resisting Ecofascisms: An in-person cross-movement dialogue on the margins of COP 30 in Belém do Pará, Brazil. 11 November, 2025 9:00am to 4:30pm At Beira Rio Hotel, Belém, Brazil
November 5, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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(3/3): Amid the urgency, there was hope — a collective practice of imagining feminist, decolonial resistance to ecofascism. Across Pakistan, Nairobi, Seattle & Kampala, we began to map common enemies and nurture solidarity.
#FeministFutures #DecolonialClimateJustice #COP30
Narrow economic models justify dehumanization. This tactic is used to then gain control of land and natural resources. Ecofascism is scale orientated. In India, Rohingya refugee women work in green waste segregation. Those often stigmatized as “carrying diseases” are, in fact, the ones most exposed to toxic waste hazards.
October 30, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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(2/3): We unpacked how the language of sustainability is being weaponized to advance fascist agendas — defining who is “pure” enough to belong, and who must be erased in the name of progress. From borders to prisons, these struggles are deeply intertwined.
#CounterEcofascisms #Ecofeminism
80% of anti-trans fundraising comes from fossil fuels or billionaires to distract from climate crises, we can no longer focus on single group and expertise. The floods in Pakistan tripled sexual violence this year. Women gave birth amid collapsing healthcare, while young women shoulder survival in a male-dominated system.
October 30, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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(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
Noor & Just Futures Collaborative. CLIMaTE WEEK DIALOGUE. Cross-Movement Strategies to Counter Ecofascisms
October 30, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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(4/4): By refuting the inevitability of surveillance, we affirmed that transformation is not only possible — it’s already underway. Together, we can demand accountability and reimagine digital futures.

#DigitalRights #InternetFreedom #Disinformation #Surveillance #Censorship #CyberSecurity
Zine: Hacking prejudice. Facade of harmlessness. Camouflage, spirituality... We must be cautious of internalising surveillance within our movements as a strategy of the oppressor.
October 21, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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(3/4): Participants got creative: they co-created zines mapping surveillance in their own contexts & imagined what collective feminist resistance could look like — from campaigns & boycotts to solidarity networks & legal action.
Photograph of Hilal Tekmen and Aarushi Mahajan We look at tech solutions for tech problems, but maybe the solution lies elsewhere…
October 21, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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(2/4): Ahead of the Gathering, Noor led a workshop with the Nebula Fund on Strategizing Against Big Tech & Surveillance. Hilal Tekmen & Aarushi Mahajan unpacked how Big Tech & far-right actors co-produce surveillance infrastructures that enable disinformation, harassment & authoritarian control.
Zine: "All we have left is fear" If Big Tech and states are fused, then what remains is us and the solidarities we can build.
October 21, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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(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.
Noor at the Global Gathering 2025
October 21, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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(2/2): Participants reflected on these dynamics and explored ways forward together. Next up: Law as a Weapon, Law as a Shield ⚖️ on how legal systems can both challenge and reinforce power. Stay tuned! #CounterAntiGender #TransnationalSolidarity #PopularEducation
Global Architecture of Funding Funds from the Global North to the Global South are often presented as aid or cultural cooperation, but they can serve other strategic or ideological purposes. Right-wing governments redirect public resources to conservative institutions. Anti-gender funding blocks progressive laws and criminalizes sexual diversity. Mapping key organizations and channels is critical to understanding influence. Why It Matters These financial networks strengthen anti-gender movements and extremist agendas. Understanding the architecture of funding is key to defending rights and advancing gender justice. Awareness of these flows informs strategic advocacy and global solidarity.
October 3, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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(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
Noor Popular Education School on Countering the Far Right - KNOW YOUR ENEMY. Session 4 Political Economy: Investigating the undercurrents of illicit funding, political party financing, and the rise of crowdfunding as key players in today’s political landscape Financial Networks & Strategies Illicit financial flows often operate in legal gray areas to influence politics. Funds are deliberately structured to support anti-gender and extreme-right agendas. Mechanisms include cryptocurrencies, digital crowdfunding, religious institutions, and redirected public development funds. Donor-advised funds and private foundations can be used to obscure the source or purpose of funding, including for ideological agendas.
October 3, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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(2/3): Every meal cooked, every testimony archived, every lesson taught is a refusal to be invisible. Their acts of survival and storytelling are not just survival—they are collective liberation. #VoicesOfResistance #Sudan #WomenResist #MemoryAsPower #RightToSurvive
“Every meal cooked in a blockade, every testimony archived, and every digital story shared is a refusal to be erased.” “Resistance is not only about protest in the streets. It is also the quiet, sustained labor of survival, memory, and knowledge production under conditions of erasure.” “Sudanese women’s resistance is both material and symbolic. It feeds bodies, preserves stories, and contests ideological domination.” “Erasure and resistance are not separate phenomena. They are intertwined in a continuous cycle: regimes erase, women resist, repression intensifies, and resistance adapts.”
October 1, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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(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.
“Women’s erasure in Sudan is not incidental; it is systematic, deliberate, and ideological.” “Memory becomes a site of struggle: against forgetting, against distortion, against erasure.”
October 1, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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(2/3): Through joint campaigns, resources, learning spaces & cross-movement connections, we’re shaping feminist futures rooted in solidarity, care & transformative action.

#GlobalSouthFeminism #TranslocalFeminism #CollectivePower #FeministFutures
What Members Gain: Joint Campaigns & Working Groups - lead or join collective actions, solidarity campaigns, and member-led working groups. Shared Resources - access reports, toolkits, case studies, and regular updates on analysis, events, and opportunities. Holistic Security - specialized support on digital and holistic security. Connections Across Movements - build ties with organizers, journalists, artivists, scholar-activists, and Noor’s fellows. Learning & Capacity Building - workshops, peer learning circles, and political education spaces. What the Network Builds Together: Collective Knowledge - collaborative research, strategic analysis, and shared reports. Strategy & Convenings - joint strategy meetings, fellowships, and cross-regional action planning. Base-Building & Campaigns - a united front against fascism and fundamentalisms through advocacy, rapid response, and joint campaigns. Community of Care - a safe and brave space for solidarity, well-being, joy, and accountability. Get involved with The Noor Network https://wearenoor.org/get-involved/
September 29, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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(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
NOOR NETWORK IS LIVE Our aim is to build our collective power by supporting and connecting frontline feminist and progressive efforts translocally. Together, we strive to counteract the powerful fascist, fundamentalist and authoritarian forces opposed to feminist futures - to plan and implement joint campaigns, co-build plans of action, foster our narrative power, and exchange and build knowledge, working collaboratively towards transformative change. The Noor Network is: Led by the Global South, with a focus on South–South solidarity. Centering invisibilized movements across Asia, SWANA, Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean. Translocal lens: grounded in frontline and grassroots struggles against fascism and fundamentalisms. Dreaming and strategizing long-term together to shape feminist futures. Cross-movement collaboration to confront shared threats. Shared political commitments to define what solidarity means in practice. Breaking siloes through connection and meaningful exchange. Holistic, anti-colonial, anti-capitalist lens, centering racial and migrant justice and advancing feminist analysis of fascism’s political economy.
September 29, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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🔥 #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
Between Erasure and Resistance: Women’s Bodies, Memories, and Narratives under Sudan’s Fascist Islamist Regime By Tesneem Elhassan
September 22, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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🌍 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
Noor x Just Futures Collaborative. Climate Week Dialogue: "Cross-Movement Strategies to Counter Ecofascisms". 24 Sept 2025
September 19, 2025 at 3:47 PM