16.10.2025 | Online webinar
3rd October 2025
What’s at Stake?
Join us for a live webinar on Thursday, 16 October, from 16:30–18:00 CEST on Zoom as part of Erasmus+ Days. The session brings together youth workers, researchers, and activists from Erasmus+ projects across Europe. Drawing on the storytelling focus of the Future Narratives Project and the feminist knowledge creation approach of the WeFrame project, we will explore how ‘gender’ is negotiated in today’s media landscape and how storytelling can be used to reclaim space for inclusion.
Media, from newspapers to YouTube, have a decisive influence on what we think, believe, and act upon. Yet, from an intersectional perspective, media knowledge is often shaped by few influential voices: for instance, women comprise only 30% of quoted experts in European media. In this environment, stories about gender are rapidly reshaping online spaces, daily interactions and may well shape public policy across Europe. We are seeing resistance to feminist and queer narratives, along with a rise of both longstanding and emerging perspectives such as ‘tradwives’, ‘incels’, and ‘red pill’ movements. There are also narratives in-between, like ‘crunchy moms’ and ‘gender-critical feminists’, that do not fit easily into right- or left-wing categories.
Why Join?
Young people now encounter these conflicting ideas both online and offline. Each narrative shapes standards for behaviour, belonging, and recognition. As professionals, how do we help youth safely and critically engage with these polarising stories? As activists, what stories do we reinforce? This panel talk offers insights from across the EU, focusing on storytelling as a means of navigating polarising debates and supporting the creation of more inclusive gender narratives.
Attend
The event is free and open to youth workers, gender researchers, activists, educators, students, and all those passionate about diversity and inclusion. The conversation will be moderated by Tatiana Migaesi and Sebastian Mellgren from Traces&Dreams. It will be held in English. Zoom offers language translation with AI for accessibility. Sign up to receive the webinar invitation.
The event will be attended by:
🎤 Tatiana Migaesi, from Traces&Dreams | WeFrame [moderation]
🎤 Sebastian Mellgren, from Traces&Dreams | Future Narratives [moderation]
🎤 Tonya Blowers, Coordinator at Organization for Women in Science for the Developing World (OWSD)
🎤 Erika Ruonakoski, from Háskóli Íslands | Gender and Philosophy Project
🎤 Irene Kamba, from The Serendipitous Black Cloud
🎤 Amalia Ranieri, from Sinergie | Future Chronicles Project
🎤 Ingrid Dyrnes Svendsen, from JM Norway | LOUD! Bandcamp Youth Worker Exchange
🎤 Joschka Köck, from Theater der Unterdrückten Wien
🎤 Aroa Carmona Valero, from Ocean Znanja u Republici Hrvatskoj | SHENARRATOR
🎤 Hara Papadatou, from Inter Alia | Mothers of Europe
More info on Erasmus+ Days Platform.
The program belongs to WP11 – Online Event for disseminating the project during the Erasmus+ Days.