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Using discourse analysis of online party media and parliamentary speeches, the article explores intersections of gender and race in Greek neo-Nazi women’s public positioning towards gender equality, showing how these seemingly contradictory positions align well with the party’s political vision. At a moment of pervasive racist uses of feminist discourse, Golden Dawn women supported an antifeminist position that re-signifies “women’s rights” as a racial issue, in order to construct political enemies and dismantle equality projects. By representing gender violence – as in debates on the Istanbul Convention – as exclusively committed by the “non-white”, “Muslim” male, and by rejecting “artificially constructed” equality rights in favour of “natural” rights, they have claimed Golden Dawn as the only political actor genuinely promoting women’s welfare.