Thu, Sep 17
|Backstory English Bookshop
Book Launch: Sex and Dissent
Journalist Meaghan Beatley discusses feminist movements, the far right and the power of narrative
Time & Location
Sep 17, 2026, 6:00 PM – 7:30 PM
Backstory English Bookshop, Carrer de Mallorca, 330, Eixample, 08037 Barcelona, Spain
About the event
In her debut book, Sex and Dissent: Stories of Feminist Resistance in Argentina, Chile Mexico, and Spain, award-winning journalist Meaghan Beatley takes us to the frontlines to tell inspiring stories of resistance and political imagination that will be a vital roadmap in the years to come. The product of a decade of immersive reporting, Beatley captures the urgency and creativity of these movements and the women who led a motley crew of former guerrilla fighters, student occupiers, and mothers standing down narco violence. At once intimate and politically electric, Sex and Dissent reframes the global struggle for equality-and offers a model for building power, solidarity, and radical democratic change.
Beatley is a French and U.S. journalist whose reporting has appeared in Time, The Guardian, The Atlantic, The Nation, and Foreign Policy. She will be in conversation with Mariane Pearl, award-winning multimedia journalist and bestselling author of A…