Podcasts
FIERCE Dialogues is the official podcast series of the FIERCE project – an innovative platform designed to reach diverse audiences and share feminist knowledge in an accessible, engaging way. Through interviews with voices from eight European countries, each episode offers rich, nuanced conversations that connect past experiences with present realities and future feminist strategies. Themes range from feminist movements and gender equality to women’s and LGBTQ+ rights, addressing both country-specific challenges and solutions, as well as broader EU-level issues.
Hosted by FIERCE partners, the episodes feature members of civil society organisations, feminist activists, gender experts, researchers, and academics. Recorded in English or in the partner’s national language, the podcasts bring authentic, context-specific perspectives while fostering cross-border knowledge exchange.
🎧 You can listen on our Spotify or watch all episodes with English subtitles on our YouTube channel.
8th Podcast | July 2025
This Greek speaking episode explores “The feminist politics of the body as pivotal to the struggle for social justice in our times”.
Alexandros Kioupkiolis from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, member of the FIERCE team in Greece interview Nina Seferiadou, feminist and anti-racist activist, and member of the feminist collective Meduses and the Anti-racist Initiative in Larisa, central Greece.
The discussion explores:
- The broader significance of feminist struggles that place the body at the centre of politics and articulate gender, class, and racial dimensions of resistance.
- The challenges of anti-feminist and anti-gender politics in Greece and beyond, and the wider “reactionary turn”.
- Turning points in the resurgence of feminist and LGBTQ+ movements in Greece.
- The core challenges of contemporary feminist politics—from gender-based violence to labour inequalities.
- The repertoires of feminist action today: increasing visibility of gender-based violence, empowering survivors, building communities of solidarity, and envisioning a world beyond patriarchy and capitalism.
- Structural gaps and injustices in Greece’s legal and institutional responses to gender-based violence, including the revictimization of survivors and the financial burdens of seeking justice.
The speaking language is Greek.
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7th Podcast | May 2025
This Turkish-speaking episode explores legal feminism and feminist advocacy, which aim to promote gender equality in Turkey through policymaking and court proceedings.
Deniz Bayram, a practicing lawyer actively engaged in civil society, shares her insights with Bertil Emrah Oder from Koç University about the legal achievements of feminist organizations and the challenges faced by feminist lawyers. Deniz also discusses her legal experience with environmental pollution, disasters, and climate change to highlight the intersectional aspects of gender equality.
The episode emphasizes the legal strategies of feminist resilience designed to advance gender equality, foster democratic citizenship, and protect livelihoods.
The speaking language is Turkish.
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6th Podcast | Apr 2025
This Spanish-speaking episode explores “Anti-Racist Perspectives on Feminist Activism in Spain”.
Elin Peterson and Inés Campillo, researchers at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid and members of the Spanish FIERCE Team, interview Tatiana Romero, who is a feminist activist in the Migration and Anti-racism Commission of the 8M Commission of Madrid, about the anti-racist perspectives on feminist activism in Spain.
During the interview, Tatiana Romero highlights:
- The complexities of mainstreaming anti-racism in mostly white feminist spaces
- The biases of a white feminism that is too much concern on extending formal rights to regular citizens
- The sidelining migrant women in an irregular situation
- The different understandings of intersectionality, and
- The relevance of working and creating alliances from a bottom-up community level.
The speaking language is Spanish
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5th Podcast | Sep 2024
This interesting episode explores “Cybersexism and Democracy.”
Gabrielle Jourde from the FIERCE project meets with Laure Salmona, co-founder of the French feminist organization Féministes contre le cyberharcèlement, and co-author with Ketsia Mutombo of the 2023 book Politiser les cyberviolences: une lecture intersectionnelle des inégalités de genre sur internet.
Laure Salmona also led the #TwitterAgainstWomen campaign, raising awareness about cyberbullying and the lack of moderation on social networks.
Together, they delve into the complex connections between cyberviolence, gender inequality, systemic racism, and democracy. The insightful discussion highlights:
- The disproportionate impact of cyberviolence on racialized and gendered minorities, and how anti-feminist actors suppress their online presence
- The rise of generative AI and its inherent biases
- The dangers of automated content generation and the urgent need for regulation
- The importance of uniting feminist and democratic movements to create safe, inclusive spaces both online and offline.
The speaking language is French.
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4th Podcast | Sep 2024
In this episode, Anastasia Barone and Giada Bonu Rosenkranz, postdoctoral researchers of the Scuola Normale Superiore and members of the Italian Fierce Team, dialogue with Aurora Perego, who is a member of the sister project Ccindle – Co-creating Inclusive Intersectional Democratic Spaces Across Europe.
During the conversation, Anastasia, Giada and Aurora discuss the current wave of feminist mobilization in Italy, its innovative character and the challenges it faces. They examine the issues that have been more contested in the last years, especially the right to abortion and lgbtq rights, and they examine the role of anti-gender and anti-choice actors in the country.
The speaking language is English.
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3rd Podcast | July 2024
This episode’s topic is about “Reproductive Rights and Interactions with the Political System”. In this interesting intreview Grzegorz Piotrowski from the University of Gdańsk and researcher of the FIERCE project talks to Prof. Elżbieta Korolczuk from the University of Södertörn and the University of Warsaw. Prof. Korolczuk, known for her research on Poland and co-author of the book Anti-Gender Politics in the Populist Moment, shares her insights about: Recent political developments in Poland, the impact on the feminist movement, lessons activists from other countries can learn from the Polish case.
* Prof. Korolczuk, in addition to her work at the University, also works in the Co-Creating Inclusive Intersectional Democratic Spaces Across Europe project, or CCINDLE studying the Swedish case (Poland is studied by Dr. Marta Rawluszko with her team).
The speaking language is Polish.
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2nd Podcast | Apr 2024
This episode is about “Feminism from the Perspective of People with Disabilities.”
Andreas Beyer Gregersen, researcher from the FIERCE project, sits down for an interesting interview with Gertrud Magnusson, a volunteer at the Danish NGO Tegnbuen, a unique organization representing LGBTQ+ individuals with hearing disabilities and/or those who use sign language. Gertrud highlights, what unites members of Tegnbuen is their sexuality and shared use of sign language. Also, among many other things discussed, we learn about the fascinating origin of Tegnbuen: a clever blend of Danish terms for ‘sign language’ and ‘rainbow’!
The speaking language is Danish.
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1st Podcast | Jun 2023
The discussion involved Dr. Mojca Pajnik, Dr. Metka Mencin, Tea Hvala, and Tija Jakič, with moderation by Dr. Roman Kuhar. It highlighted the challenges faced by feminist movements against opposing movements and their impact on protests against abortion rights, the Istanbul Convention, and sex education restrictions in public schools.
The speaking language is Slovenian.