Women have been central in many fights for democracy around the world. Yet, when protest shifts to policymaking, it seems time and again that their role is diminished and their demands sidelined. If we trained our reporting prowess on revolutions, what would we find?
02.After court records burned and prosecutions stalled following Gen Z protests, survivors found their own ways of achieving justice
03.Acclaimed Turkish journalist and author Ece Temelkuran talks to Fuller’s editor-in-chief Eliza Anyangwe about her new book, Nation of Strangers, the protests in Minneapolis, and why naming fascism matters
07.They risked their lives in the student uprising, yet despite a new government, the future of women in Bangladesh’s garment sector remains uncertain
08.Digital tech is being used to intimidate women activists beyond national borders. It’s called gender-based digital transnational repression. Here’s what you should know
09.Nuria Tesón considers why the deaths of eight women in childbirth in Agadir, Morocco, started a mass uprising.
Fire was a central motif of this edition, but what was the spark for visuals editor, Ethan Caliva? Here, he shares some of the source material, his intentions behind his choices for Revolutions' look and feel, and what he learned along the way about women's role in protests and mass movements.
What did you want the visuals to tell the reader about revolutions?
Ethan Caliva: That women are not adjacent to revolutions, they are integral to them. They organize, mobilize, sustain, and often absorb the consequences, yet they’re frequently pushed out of the frame once history gets written. The visuals are meant to challenge that erasure by centering women in moments of action, confrontation, and aftermath.
What images or ideas were you most surprised by in your research?
I was surprised by how rarely we see the aftermath. We’re used to the spectacle of protests. The flames, the crowds, the confrontation. But less visible are the moments that come after. The quiet streets. The debris. The women picking up what’s left, physically and emotionally. Seeing those images alongside the chaos changed how the protests read. Revolutions don’t end when the crowd disperses; someone always stays behind to deal with the consequences, and that labor is often invisible.
What was the most euphoric moment you had while creating this edition?
The moment the connections clicked; when the collage stopped feeling like separate images and started reading as one visual argument. Seeing a historical image sit next to a contemporary protest and realizing they were saying the same thing, just decades apart. That was the high point. It felt like the visuals weren’t just supporting the journalism, they were extending it.
Edited by: Charlie Brinkhurst-Cuff, Erica Hensley
Edited by: Charlie Brinkhurst-Cuff, Erica Hensley
This edition asks what it means to report globally on revolutions through a gender lens. The resources shared below, including music, films, arts and reporting that shaped our work, offer a window into how Fuller’s team approached these questions across different contexts, from courts and factories to digital spaces and the streets.
Books
If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution | Vincent Bevins
Insurrection | Liam O’Flaherty
Las estructuras elementales de la violencia | Rita Segato
Men in Dark Times | Hannah Arendt
Surveillance Capitalism | Shoshana Zuboff
The spirit of Hope | Byun Chul Hang
You have not yet been defeated | Alaa Abd el-Fattah
Art
Freedom and Resistance: 1619 | Exhibition
Nine Eyes by Jon Rafman | Exhibition
Women in Recent Revolutionary Iconography | IWM WEBSITE
Subh-e-Aazadi | Poem by Faiz Ahmad Faiz
Watch
Gender-Based Digital Transnational Repression Explained | Video from The Citizen Lab
Gidam: Drums of protest in Khartoum | Documentary by Arthur Larie and Bastien Massa
Improving the Life of Bangladeshi Garment Workers | Kalpona Akter at #BoFVOICES 2018
Rana Plaza Collapse: The Deadly Cost of Fashion | Documentary by The New York Times
The Dark Side of Bangladesh’s Garment Industry | Documentary by Real Stories
The Lives of Others | Film by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
Listen
Civicus Voices, a podcast on the right to Freedom of Peaceful Assembly
Exposing Pegasus podcast: How the State Spies on You | John Scott-Railton
EFF's Eva Galperin Is Not the Pope of Fighting Stalkerware (But She Is) podcast | What the hack
Ron Deibert: ‘We’re living in a Philip K. Dick novel’ podcast - Click here | Recorded Future News
Dastoor [Habib Jalib] | Ammar Rashid
Rebeca Lane | Ni encerradas ni con miedo
Maya Shenfeld | Voyager & Album “In Free Wall”
Chico Buarque | Apesar de Você
Lila Downs | La Patria Madrina
Read
Bangladeshi Women Turned a Movement Into a Revolution. Then They Disappeared. | The Fuller Project
Civicus Monitor tracks civil space globally | Data
Computer vision dazzle as resistance to facial recognition tech | Dazed
Gaza as an AI lab for Israel | The Cairo Overview of Global Affairs
Gender-based violence & psychosocial support | Irish Consortium on Gender-based Violence
How effective is protesting? According to historians and political scientists: very | The Guardian
ICE just bought a scary amount of surveillance tech | Electronic Frontier Foundation
Mothers of the revolution | New Internationalist
Seeing the world through Sudan | Curated by Bayan Abubakr Sudan’s story is far from a tragedy | Prospect Magazine
The Arab uprisings: A decade of struggles | Longreads
The inside story of how Gen Z toppled Nepal’s leader and chose a new one on discord | Wired
The mass protest decade: why did the street movements of the 2010s fail? | The Guardian
“They Tried to Bury Us, They Didn’t Know We Were Seeds” | Hyperallergenic
Time and the 1947 Abeokuta Women’s Revolt | History Workshop
Where Do We Go From Here? | Acai Magazine
Curated by: Ester Pinheiro
Editor: Charlie Brinkhurst-Cuff
Visuals editor: Ethan Caliva
Curated by: Ester Pinheiro
Editor: Charlie Brinkhurst-Cuff
Visuals editor: Ethan Caliva
You can find the full playlist in the top-right corner (or bottom right on mobile) of the video, and keep it playing in the background as you explore the rest of the edition.
Curated by: Alsarah
Producer: David Roberts
Copy editor: Charlie Brinkhurst-Cuff
Visuals editor: Ethan Caliva
Curated by: Alsarah
Producer: David Roberts
Copy editor: Charlie Brinkhurst-Cuff
Visuals editor: Ethan Caliva