Iskra’s work examines how anti-gender politics are translated, interpreted, and mobilized within the Dutch socio-political context. Drawing on feminist and post-structuralist theories, the research focuses on three discourses related to gender/sex and sexuality to interrogate how meanings are constructed, naturalized, and contested. This approach explores how such discourses reproduce normative social orders, shape subjectivities, and work to secure ideological consent within shifting national and cultural imaginaries.

ERC Abortion Figurations, University of Warsaw

As a research assistant, I explore how human rights’ meanings are construed in Ireland and Poland. Abortion Figurations scrutinizes the communication processes that use human rights as arguments to change abortion laws. We contrast abortion debates from the last ten years in pairs of countries that represent three regional human rights systems: Mozambique and Senegal (the African Union), Poland and Ireland (the Council of Europe), and Argentina and Honduras (the Organization of American States).