In my work, I critically assess the process of institutionalizing feminist ideas into state policy, seeking to understand what it means to 'be' a feminist state and interrogating the capability for state feminism to achieve transformative outcomes for intersectionally marginalized groups. My interdisciplinary work brings the perspectives of grassroots activists and institutional insiders into conversation with one another, revealing power dynamics that complicate the progressive feminist framing of state policies, particularly in the Nordic context. Using interdisciplinary methodologies from gender studies, political science, and anthropology, my scholarship has engaged questions around the complexities of intersectional policy practice in Europe, the limitations of feminist foreign policy programs, and Black feminist knowledge production regarding the impact of Swedish state feminist policy.