International Dir @WilliamsPolicy. LGBTI politics, human rights. PhD @Northwestern. @CFR_org Term Mbr. @TrumanProject Fellow. Tweets my own. (he/him) 🏳️🌈
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Proud to share our new report from @WilliamsPolicy on "Democratic Backsliding and LGBTI Acceptance"
With Andrew Flores and @MiguelFuca we find evidence that attacks on #LGBTI people can be a canary in the coalmine signaling deeper erosion of dem norms and practices.
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27 Sep 2023
Our new study shows countries that are highly accepting of LGBTI people tend to have high levels of liberal democracy, higher GDP per capita, and larger populations living in urban areas. bit.ly/GAIdemocracy
@AstraeaUpdates @ArcusLGBT @sida @FandMcollege @GAC_Corporate
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Ari Shaw retweeted
22 Jul 2025
In today’s #MustRead, @arimshaw argues that attacks on LGBTQ rights are part of a larger assault on democracy—authoritarians use anti-LGBTQ sentiment to gain power and erode institutions, making LGBTQ rights central to the fight for democracy. @ForeignAffairs
foreignaffairs.com/united-st…
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Ari Shaw retweeted
18 Jul 2025
Read @arimshaw on how authoritarians can consolidate power by undermining LGBTQ rights—and how the Trump administration has made “these rights more fragile around the world.”
foreignaffairs.com/united-st…
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Ari Shaw retweeted
9 Jul 2025
🎙️This week, @arimshaw spoke with @CNN about his latest piece for The World Today, exploring how rising attacks on LGBT rights around the world are tied to democratic backsliding.
📖 Read the story: chathamhouse.org/publication…
📺Watch the interview: edition.cnn.com/2025/07/04/T…
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Ari Shaw retweeted
26 Jun 2025
This Pride month, @ChathamHouse is hosting an event about how platforms can better protect minority groups online. 🏳️🌈
Our recent story by @arimshaw sets the stage for some of these conversations around global erosions of minority rights. Read here > chathamhouse.org/publication…
25 Jun 2025
Event | Battling disinformation: How can digital spaces be made safe for the LGBTIQ community?
This panel assess how policy and platforms can better protect minority groups online.
🗓️26 June
⌚️17:00
More info👇
chathamhouse.org/events/all/…
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Ari Shaw retweeted
14 Nov 2024
Con mi colega @arimshaw escribimos sobre el uso del derecho internacional para la expansión de los derechos LGBTIQ en Colombia y las implicaciones para América Latina. Si lo quieren leer y no tienen acceso me pueden escribir a mensaje directo. academic.oup.com/edited-volu…
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Ari Shaw retweeted
5 Sep 2024
ILGA World and @GPP_Updates are seeking applications from eligible organisations to submit expressions of interest for the Regional Lead Organisation in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) for the LGBTI Pathways Project. Read more: ilga.org/vacancies/tor-lgbti…
ALT The image details the terms of reference for the LGBTI Pathways Latin America and Caribbean regional lead organisation, and offers details on the expression of interest, who can apply, and the deadline to do so. The logos of LGBTI Pathways, ILGA World, and Global Philanthropy Project (GPP) are at the bottom centre of the image
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4 Sep 2024
🏳️🌈 What is it like to pursue a career in academia researching LGBTQ politics?
🗣 We met @Phillip_Ayoub, a well-known researcher in the field and currently a professor at University College London.
🎙️ Reporter: @enriqueanarte in Berlin.
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Only a couple of events this week so be sure to check them out!
8/28- @Phillip_Ayoub discusses The Global Fight Against LGBTI Rights w/ @arimshaw
8/29- Patrick Canning discusses For Your Benefit w/ @EmmyLaybourne
Both events at 7pm!
More details at booksoup.com/event
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Ari Shaw retweeted
20 Aug 2024
Coming up this Thursday:
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Over half of the Chinese people we surveyed for our recent report said LGBTQ people should be accepted by society. Join us on August 22 for a discussion on the results of our survey and their implications for LGBTQ people in Mainland China. RSVP today: bit.ly/LGBTQChinawebinar
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Ari Shaw retweeted
25 Jul 2024
🚨¡Lanzamos con el @WilliamsPolicy y el acompañamiento de @INEGI_INFORMA, el 1er informe estadísticamente representativo de personas no binarias en México! 📊💛🤍💜🖤 Gracias @canalcatorcemx por amplificar estos datos‼️
🙏 @jabrambila @arimshaw @MiguelFuca
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24 Jul 2024
#Reportaje14: Identidades no binarias. Otros colores del arcoíris | ¿Qué desafíos enfrentan las personas no binarias en una sociedad que no acepta la diversidad?
📺14.1📱@MxPlusTV
🔴youtu.be/wrmeKehbAJg x.com/i/broadcasts/1mnxeAMwO…
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Ari Shaw retweeted
2 Jul 2024
‼️Mainland Chinese respondents in new @WilliamsPolicy survey (n=2926) showed high levels of acceptance of LGBTQ ppl: williamsinstitute.law.ucla.e…. 52% of respondents “agreed” & 37% “somewhat agreed” w/ legalizing same-sex marriage. Similar %s were accepting of same-sex parents🧵
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Pleased to share a new report by @WilliamsPolicy and @ilanmeyer that finds a majority surveyed from mainland China agree that LGBTQ people should be accepted by society, able to marry, treated fairly at work, and free from bullying at school.
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Important new piece from @_kvelasco @NancyYunTang @BaralSiddhartha on reframing the link btwn democracy and LGBT rights. “Rather than seeing LGBT rights as the consequence of liberal democracy, we need to see…LGBT rights AS democracy.”
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Ari Shaw retweeted
27 Jun 2024
We were so excited to have our Development Director Jason Rizzi and Senior Fellow and Director of International Programs @arimshaw representing the Williams Institute at the White House 2024 Pride Celebration yesterday.
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Queer Communities Brace for Supercharged Hurricane Season
Thanks to @AtmosMag for chatting with me about our work @WilliamsPolicy and the urgency of climate change as it impacts #LGBTQ communities atmos.earth/queer-communitie…
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Out now at @NYUpress, @StoecklKristina and I are happy to share our new book "The Global Fight Against LGBTI Rights" nyupress.org/9781479824793/t… A decade in the making, it offers in-depth look at the global movement to curtail LGBTI rights—and how the LGBTI movement responds to it.
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Ari Shaw retweeted
3 Jun 2024
Many thanks to moderator @mojism as well as co-panelists @toddsears, @arimshaw and @NLD09.
#ShareAriel #PrideMonth
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