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"Let me fix my weave": Ethical business, redemption, and the transnational human hair trade
"Let me fix my weave”: Ethical business, redemption, and the transnational Human Hair Trade by Solène Bryson Earlier this year, US customs seized an 11.8 tonne shipment of ...more
LGBTQ+ issues as Electoral Fuel: Insights from a Polarized Poland
by Selen Eşençay “To me, it was so humiliating Like in 2020, I have to say I am human? It’s horrible.” As the COVID-19 pandemic restrained the traditional ...more
Aborting in Isolation: Observations on Argentine abortion activism during COVID-19
By Lea Happ Over the past months, as Argentina has been in lockdown due to COVID-19, the feminist network Socorristas en Red has tried to make ...more
Why white women crying is still racist: The work of trauma narratives in self-stories of transracialism
by Alanah Mortlock The thing about writing your PhD on transracialism is that whenever one of these stories breaks, you’re the first person everyone you know ...more
Straddling the line between gender and sex: How racism, misogyny, and transphobia intertwine to define notions of womanhood in the world of elite sports
by Astha Madan Grover The world of elite sports is one wherein women of color are discriminated against. The definitions of femininity are restricted to those ...more
Work From Home and Masculinity in a Pandemic World
By Ria Chauhan Can unpaid (domestic and care) work culture in India change under COVID? With the onset of the pandemic, the amount of unpaid work needed ...more
The Impact of the Coronavirus Pandemic on Refugee Women and Girls
by Angelina Dash As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to expose power disparities in society, it has become clear that refugees are experiencing a unique set of ...more
When Solidarity Comes to the Rescue, We Need to Ask if it’s Equitable
By Ján Michalko A wooden spoon. This humble kitchen utensil became the symbol for this year’s protest campaign of gender equality activists in Slovakia. At its ...more
Conflict and Gender: Understanding the intersections
by Arshi Showkat Conflict is not unidimensional; it is not bidirectional either. It manifests in more ways than that may be perceptible at a time. Indeed, these ...more
Online conferences: opening opportunities or reproducing inequality?
by Dr. Catherine Oliver In our recent paper ‘(dis-)belonging bodies’, my co-author (Amelia Morris, University of Law) and I contended that academic conferences are spaces that centre ...more
Indian Apathy and Systemic Violence against Women in Kashmir
by Zohra Batul Violent discourse legitimizes violence and creates incentives for the populist government to make vindictive policies. The reality of Indian democracy is most conspicuously exposed ...more
The interplay between gender and culture: How the African human rights system sought to accommodate universality and cultural relativity of women’s rights
by Temelso Gashaw Image credit: Yohannes Moges Belay International and regional human rights law—including the CEDAW, the ACHPR and the Maputo protocol—calls for transforming customary and traditional practices ...more
Reproductive Rights amid COVID-19
by Aarushi Gupta and Hardeep Singh Introduction Due to the restrictions of the Covid-19 pandemic, sexual and reproductive rights are at peril. As women are left ...more
Policing the borders of sex/gender in Kuwait: on transmisogyny and state-mediated violence
by Nour Almazidi Designed by Nour Almazidi for this blogpost “Have you heard about Maha?” On June 5, 2020, I woke up to a flood of messages asking ...more
Understanding the Adverse Effects of Stereotypes on Sexual Minorities in International Refugee Law Frameworks
by Shubham Tiwary Despite the gradual acceptance and recognition of rights of sexual minorities, more than 68 countries still criminalize consensual same-sex sexual acts, with severity of ...more
“Gender Equality as Smart Economics”: Questioning the Assumptions behind the Claim
by Cecilia Berlanga Alessio Robles Image credit: Ana G. Urdaneta The “business case” for gender equality and women's empowerment has become widely internalized, pursued and institutionalized by development ...more