News

Latest News from the Lesbian Genius Fund

Our new call is now open: Lesbian Economic Power (EU&Non-EU)

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 Dykebrary – Reviving Dyke Resistance Strategies

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 – Advocating for Lesbian-Friendly Healthcare in Romania

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 – Claiming Space for Romani Lesbian Voices

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 – No Lesbian Left on the Margins

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 – Creative Resistance Against Lesbian Invisibility

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 Funding Lesbian Power Across Europe

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...

LORI: Opening Doors for lesbian* GBV Survivors in Croatia

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....

Lesbiche Bologna: Supporting Survivors of Violence in Lesbian Relationships

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...

Labris: Let’s Talk About Violence in Lesbian Relationships

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...

Institute My Rainbow: Liberating Lesbian Love in Slovenia

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...

ERA WLW Caucus: Balkans Should Confront Violence Against Lesbians

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...