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28/07/2025

Research is increasingly confirming something many intuitively know – that climate anxiety is a normal response to a devastating crisis and can be a force for good.

Clara Kühner and her colleagues reviewed 94 studies on climate anxiety, representing a total of 170,747 people from 27 countries. They found that climate anxiety is significantly more likely among those who are younger, female, politically left-leaning, more emotionally sensitive, strongly connected to nature, and deeply concerned about the future and the environment.

The research also shows that although climate anxiety is negatively related to well-being, it could also serve as a driver for climate action.

Read The Evidence, a newsletter by Josephine Lethbridge, sponsored by 🔗 https://lesglorieuses.fr/climate-anxiety-is-normal/

21/07/2025

The Impact newsletter is approaching its annual summer break. As we do every year, we will take a pause in August to recharge our batteries. But there is a difference this time around — as things stand, we do not have the funding to return in September.

Since 2021, our team has brought the latest in feminist news from around the world to your inbox. We would love to keep doing this work. But at the start of the year, our major funder, the Gates Foundation, informed us that they would no longer support our essential, bilingual journalism on gender inequality.

There is some good news. The Evidence, our monthly supplement on research into gender inequality, written by Josephine Lethbridge and supported by Sage, will continue — you'll receive the latest edition next week. In September, The Evidence newsletter will move from the final Monday of the month to the final Wednesday. You can also subscribe to Les Glorieuses for a weekly dose of feminist arts and culture (in French, for now).

This might not be the end of Impact forever. If we raise enough funds to relaunch your favourite feminist newsletter, you’ll be the first to know. But either way, our dear will be moving on from her role as editor.

Thank you to everyone who subscribed to Impact, to everyone who read and shared our work, and to every activist, writer, researcher, photographer and illustrator who contributed to Impact over the years, from all corners of the world.

08/07/2025

🇺🇸 The Wisconsin Supreme Court in the US has struck down an 1849 law banning access to abortion, which was reinstated when the US supreme court overturned Roe v. Wade, the decision that protected reproductive rights in the country for almost 50 years.

The law punished doctors who performed the procedure with up to six years in prison except in cases of risk to the patient’s life. But according to the judges, the law had already been repealed de facto by legislation passed after the ruling, including laws allowing abortion up to 20 weeks or requiring 24-hour waiting periods.

🗽 Democrat governor Tony Evers had already said he would not apply the 176-year-old state law. A prosecutor brought the case to the state supreme court, where it was ruled legally ineffective.

03/07/2025

🇮🇳 The high court of Andhra Pradesh, India, ruled on June 28 that trans women must be legally recognised as women, regardless of their ability to give birth. Otherwise, the court found, it would violate the Indian Constitution’s articles on dignity, equality, and personal identity.

🏳️‍⚧️ The court also said that trans women should have the same legal protections as cisgender women under the section 498A of penal code, which punishes cruelty or abuse to a married woman by her husband or his relatives.

Activists hope the ruling helps to open the door to more progressive laws and policies on LGBTQIA+ rights in a country where same-sex marriage is still illegal.

02/07/2025

🌈 More than 100,000 people celebrated Budapest Pride in Hungary on 28 June, defying a ban imposed by prime minister Viktor Orbán's government. Organisers say the rally was the largest ever held in the country.

🇭🇺 In April, the Hungarian parliament passed a ban on all LGBTQIA+ demonstrations, with fines of up to 500 euros. The bill also allows for the use of facial recognition technology to identify organisers and attendees.

The anti-Pride law was the latest attack on the q***r community by Orbán's government. But this didn’t stop people from celebrating, in a major blow to the prime minister’s anti-LGBTQIA+ agenda.

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30/06/2025

A new study of 15,000 adults in France finds that men’s combined food‑and‑transport footprint is 26% higher than women’s.

🔎 Why do men emit more?

The problem is not men; it is high‑consumption masculinity bound up with wealth. The richest 1% now emit more than the poorest two‑thirds of humanity combined. These people are often white, male, with large carbon footprints and are often heavily invested in fossil‑fuel capital.

💌 Find out more in the last issue of The Evidence, a newsletter by Josephine Lethbridge sponsored by Sage 🔗 https://lesglorieuses.fr/carbon-emissions-gap

27/06/2025

🇨🇱 The Parliament passed a Comprehensive Reform to the Adoption System in Chile that facilitates adoption procedures for same-sex families. The bill, which had already received preliminary approval from the Senate, eliminates from Article 11 the phrase stating that "if the child or adolescent expresses their desire to have both a father and a mother, the judge must give preferential consideration."

Although filiation through adoption or assisted reproduction was recognised when same-sex marriage was passed in 2021, same-sex families were disadvantaged by the adoption system.

The comprehensive reform not only solves this failure, but also reinforces the child or adolescent interest as the guiding principle of the adoption process, and reduces the waiting time from eight to two years.

24/06/2025

🇯🇵 The Japanese National Diet passed a revision to the Basic Act on Sport (2011) requiring national and local government to take measures to protect athletes from any form of physical, verbal or sexual abuse.

Specifically, article 29 states that athletes must not be subjected to violence, verbal or physical actions that are based on superior-subordinate relationships or verbal or physical sexual actions, including recordings of sexual assaults or harassment online.

The country, which hosted the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games during the pandemic, had received a warning from the International Olympic Committee to end abuse and harassment in Japanese sports after the report of several cases of abuse denounced by Human Rights Watch.

23/06/2025

⚽ The English and Scottish football associations have banned trans women from playing football at any level.

🏛️ The decision is part of a rising environment of transphobia in the UK, following a Supreme Court judgment that restricted trans rights.

🏳️‍⚧️ But footballers are fighting back. We speak to two players about their drive to play the beautiful game.

Read the newsletter by Megan Clement - lesglorieuses.fr/let-the-dolls-play

20/06/2025

Today is World Refugee Day. There are 122 million uprooted or stateless* people worldwide; 49% are women and girls.

According to , they might face several challenges in their integration process, such as limited access to clear and verified information, language barriers, social isolation, and complex administrative procedures.

Specifically for women, one issue comes up in countries such as France: childcare. The lack of childcare solutions hinders learning another language in a new country, returning to school, or finding employment.

Despite these obstacles, refugee women demonstrate great resilience and actively participate in the society. Some are students, volunteers, and professionals; others have become public figures and athletes, such as Masomah Ali Zada, an Afghan refugee and Olympic athlete, and Zakia Khudadadi, an Afghan refugee and Paralympic athlete, both in France.

*Uprooted: refugees, internally displaced persons or asylum seekers / stateless: not recognized by any State.

Image : Peter Kellfur / Pexels

18/06/2025

🇸🇾 The government of the Islamic rebels, who took control of after the fall of Bashar al-Assad's regime, has announced a new conservative dress code requiring women to wear or full-coverage swimsuits on public beaches and pools, in order to defend the "public interest."

Both locals and tourists must wear dresses over their swimsuits outside the bathing area, covering their shoulders and ankles, and avoid tight or transparent clothing. The measures are supposedly only for vacation areas.

🩱 Although penalties were not announced, the tourism minister said on social media that there will be lifeguards and beach supervisors to ensure that the guidelines are followed.

13/06/2025

🇵🇷 In a landmark decision, the US District court of Puerto Rico ruled that the country’s birth certificate policy violates the 14th Amendment of the constitution by not allowing non-binary and gender-nonconforming people to change their gender marker to an X on their birth certificates.

📝 The lawsuit was filed by six non-binary individuals, who claimed that the current policy arbitrarily discriminated against those who did not identify as male or female. From now on, the Demographic Registry must include the X as a third choice in the gender marker, ordered the judge María Antongiorgi Jordán.

👏 As an unincorporated territory of the United States, Puerto Rico joins 17 states and the District of Columbia where gender-neutral or non-binary markers are allowed on birth certificates.

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