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Articles by Massimo Prearo

July 2, 2026

🌈 The political fatigue of doing feminist and queer research in anti-gender times

Massimo Prearo
Anti-gender politics does not only attack rights. It attacks the knowledge that makes those rights intelligible. Massimo Prearo argues that anti-gender politics is an epistemic conflict as much as a political one. This conflict generates political fatigue among researchers engaged in feminist and queer work. We must address such fatigue through distance, care and collective reflection
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Massimo Prearo
Assistant Professor, University of Verona

Massimo holds a PhD in Political Studies from the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences, Paris.

He is Scientific Coordinator of the Research Centre PoliTeSse (Politics and Theories of Sexuality).

His research focuses on LGBTIQ+ politics and anti-gender mobilisations.

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Anti-Gender Mobilizations, Religion and Politics: An Italian Case Study Routledge, 2024

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