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In this talk, I argue that consent has been asked to do too much in contemporary sexual ethics. While consent is legally important and morally significant, I suggest that treating it—especially in the familiar “consent as permission” model—as the central concept for understanding sexual violence and sexual ethics distorts the phenomena it is meant to explain.

This workshop explores how Afghan women activists use social media platforms, particularly X, to construct narratives of resistance in response to the Taliban’s gender apartheid regime following August 2021. The workshop aims to examine the role of digital spaces in fostering transnational solidarity, political visibility, and resistance, while also critically engaging with narratives of abandonment and geopolitical indifference. The workshop will allow for reflections on how Afghan women position themselves as political actors within global feminist and transnational networks.

In this meeting for knowledge-sharing within GRADE Center Gender, we will address the challenge of doing gender studies in current times. Dr. Katharina Hoppe, director of GRADE Center Gender, and Dr. Johanna Leinius, scientific manager of the Cornelia Goethe Center for Gender Studies, will present existing guidelines and share best-practice-examples for preventing and countering attacks on gender studies and those doing gender studies before we open a space for mutual and solidarity-based exchange and dialogue.