Latest News from the Lesbian Genius Fund
The Lesbian Genius Fund is officially launching its new Call for Proposals dedicated to supporting lesbian organisations, communities and movements across Europe and Central Asia....
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...
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...
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...
Luki Massa tackled a tough truth: lesbians facing disability, neurodivergence, poverty, migration or fatphobia are routinely sidelined even within queer cultural spaces. Their project...
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...
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, many gender-based violence (GBV) services say they are open to everyone. Yet for lesbian and non-binary survivors, that promise often falters in practice....
Across Europe, violence in lesbian relationships is still too often minimised as a private conflict rather than recognised as gender-based violence. In Bologna, a small...
Imagine a Europe where lesbian and bisexual women, queer and non-binary people no longer have to hide the scars of gender-based violence. That ambition sits...
Imagine a Europe where lesbians and non-binary people do not have to negotiate their safety every time they step into the street, a clinic, a...
Imagine policies on violence against women that include lesbians. Not as a footnote. Not as an afterthought. Not as a polite acronym added at the...