Dr Maria BrockResearch fellow, School of Arts and Communication, Malmö University, SwedenEmail: brock.maria@gmail.comProfilePublicationsExpertiseProfileI am a researcher affiliated with Malmö University's School of Arts and Communication. In my recently completed Marie Curie Fellowship entitled 'The child as cipher for a politics of ‘traditional values’ in the anti-gender movement: A comparative study of Russia and Germany', I investigate how the figure of the innocent and vulnerable child is mobilised by conservative, right-wing, and anti-gender actors and movements to intervene in education, healthcare, and equality legislation. ResearchPublications Brock, M. (2023) ‘The Necropolitics of Russia’s Family Values’, Special Issue on Anti- gender Politics & Queer Theory, Lambda Nordica, 27:3-4, 173-178. Brock, M., Askanius, T. (2023) ‘Raping turtles and kidnapping children: Fantasmatic logics of Sweden in Russian and German anti-gender discourse’, Issue theme: ‘The Return of Propaganda’, Nordic Journal of Media Studies, 5:1, 95-114. ExpertisePsychosocial Studies, Gender Studies, Media and Communication Studies