Who Shapes the Gender Stories in 2025 | 16 October 2025

On 16 October 2025, the online panel ‘Who Shapes the Gender Stories in 2025’ was held as part of WP11 of the WE Frame project. The webinar was presented during the Erasmus+ Days 2025.

On this page, you can find information and materials about the webinar.

Drawing on the storytelling focus of the Future Narratives Project and the feminist knowledge creation approach of the WeFrame project, we explored 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.

The event was 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