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This text examines the global movement against "gender ideology" and its connection to various political movements. It discusses how feminist and queer theories have challenged traditional notions of gender and sex, leading to a backlash from religious and political forces. The article explores the rise of the anti-gender movement worldwide, linking it to economic insecurity and populist rhetoric. It highlights the targeting of LGBTQ individuals, feminists, and gender activists as enemies of the state. The article also explores the role of social media in amplifying and spreading anti-gender sentiments. It concludes by discussing the resistance against the anti-gender movement, including a new wave of feminist and queer resistance that rejects elitist liberal feminism and embraces populism. The text emphasizes successful resistance strategies such as solidarity, coalition-building, and acts of care and kindness. It concludes with poems that highlight the power of art in creating a more feminist and queer future. [Extracted from the article]

While much has been said about the diversity industry and about transexclusionary radical feminists (TERFs), little has examined their relationship to one another or to academic feminist, queer, and trans studies. This article considers a "queer attack on feminist studies" at our small liberal arts college as a case study for thinking through these relations. A handful of students and diversity staff termed feminist studies faculty TERFs not because of any actual transphobic behavior, but because of our work to question gender systems and ideologies. By examining how some students and diversity office staff alike mobilized the TERF, as well as the ideologies that allow for slippages among the terms "lesbian," "feminist," and "TERF," we outline how the lesbian and the feminist are in danger of becoming permanently reactionary figures. In so doing, we reflect on the relationship between performing diversity work and policing academic studies of gender and sexuality, ultimately arguing that the mobilization of the TERF can function both to further extend the work of the diversity industry and also to call into question academic feminist, queer, and trans studies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]