Intersectionalising hatred: how multiple antagonisms reinforce reactionary coalitions

This article analyzes the contemporary anti-abortion movement in Quebec to explore how reactionary movements are being reconfigured. Using a qualitative corpus that combines focus groups, participant observation, and online data collection, it shows how antifeminism serves as a central vector of ideological articulation across otherwise heterogeneous repertoires. Rather than constituting a unified bloc, the movement employs tactical agnosticism, rhetorical mimicry, and discursive violence. These strategies allow it to borrow selectively from progressive, nationalist, conspiracist, and religious registers while maintaining antifeminism as a stable antagonistic core. This dynamic exemplifies the ‘intersectionality of hatreds’: a coalition-building process where hostility towards women, LGBTQ+ people, immigrants, and minority religious groups is aggregated into a broader antagonism against gender equality. Unlike related notions such as convergence, hybridization, or ‘salad bar ideology’, this framework highlights the capacity to combine flexibility with cohesion. Digital infrastructures are crucial to this process, enabling the circulation of hostile discourses, amplifying affective publics, and sustaining coalition logics that transcend traditional ideological divides. By theorizing the intersectionality of hatreds, the article underscores its analytical value not only for understanding the centrality of antifeminism but also for tracing other points of intersection whose accumulation strengthens the resilience of reactionary coalitions.