La Tortiteca, a migrant-led lesbian dykebrary based in Barcelona, confronted the erasure of lesbian resistance histories amid rising far-right threats across Europe. Their Fight Like a Dyke project surveyed past advocacy strategies
VULGAR, a Bucharest-based queer feminist organisation, confronted the hidden traumas sapphics face in Romania’s healthcare system amid rising far-right threats. Their project “Advocating for systematic change to improve services for lesbians” bridged gaps between
Romnja Feminist Library, a transnational platform led by Romani lesbians in Bucharest, addressed the double erasure of Romani lesbians from both mainstream LGBTQ+ spaces and Roma advocacy. Their “Where We Belong:
Luki Massa tackled a tough truth: lesbians facing disability, neurodivergence, poverty, migration or fatphobia are routinely sidelined even within queer cultural spaces. Their project made intersectional accessibility a political priority
DAWA 2.0, a Brussels-based non-profit championing queer and racialised women artists, transformed artistic creation into political resistance against lesbian erasure in performing arts. Their “Caillasses Live” project mobilised an album through slams, podcasts,
EL*C’s Strengthening the Lesbian Movement grant-making programme is more than a funding line; it is a collective investment in our communities’ power, creativity and resilience across Europe. From festivals and
Proposals due to be debated in Portugal on 19 March and voted on 20 March could pave the way for rollbacks to legal gender recognition, bodily autonomy, and other existing
EL*C welcomes explicit recognition and calls for strong action on violence, health, care, economic justice, and democracy The EuroCentralAsian Lesbian* Community (EL*C) welcomes the new EU Gender Equality Strategy as an overall
With this new report, EL*C brings attention to a reality that remains largely invisible in both disability policy and gender equality policy: the lived experiences of LBQ women and nonbinary persons with disabilities in Europe.
MARCH 8th 2026. By Carla M. Reale Last spring, during the first Italian Dyke March in Rome, between chants and the collective joy of our slogans, we soon understood that
