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Confronting My Anti-Vitruvian Self in Creepy Dolls and a Discussion about Dominatrices
by A. Rahman Ford After years of being ashamed of my body, for some strange reason I decided one day to take some semi-nude photos of ...more
Queering the ‘Global Gay’: How Transnational LGBT Language Disrupts the Global/Local Binary
By Khin Su Each year students on the LSE Gender MSc course Sexuality, Gender and Globalisation present independent research papers at an all-day student conference. This year’s ...more
Hijras and the legacy of British colonial rule in India
by Sophie Hunter On 6 September last year the Supreme Court of India struck down Section 377 (S377) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), decriminalising homosexuality. ...more
How Media and Police Still Fail London’s Queer and Trans* Residents When Dealing With Hate-Motivated Violence
by Sean Cartwright Each year students on the LSE Gender MSc course Sexuality, Gender and Globalisation present independent research papers at an all-day student conference. This ...more
Nike’s “Dream Crazier”- A new brand of Self Objectification
by Anupriya Dhonchak Nike’s 90 seconds “Dream Crazier” advertisement, released last month during the Oscars stirred a multitude of emotion and introspection in both female and ...more
What do we mean when we talk about ‘survivors’? Perspectives on the exclusions of the ‘trauma of sexual assault’ discourse
by Aude Langlois Each year students on the LSE Gender MSc course Sexuality, Gender and Globalisation present independent research papers at an all-day student conference. This year’s ...more
The new episode of anti-gender politics in Turkey
by Alev Özkazanç As we approached the 8 March 2019 International Women's Day, an unexpected and novel occurrence appeared on the horizon of Turkish (anti)gender ...more
KADEM’s ‘Gender Justice’ or the Momentum of Anti-genderism in Turkey
by Tutku Ayhan Sumeyye Erdogan, daughter of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and the vice-chair of pro-government women’s organization KADEM said the following during the ...more
‘What really draws men to war?’ Masculinity and conflict in the work of Tim Hetherington
by Daniel Cullen On 20 April 2011, photojournalist Tim Hetherington was killed while on assignment in Libya, amid government forces’ shelling of the besieged city of ...more
Fighting for and against (homo) sexualities in Chile: The case of reparative practices
by Tomás Ojeda I am writing this piece in the aftermath of a series of attacks against women and LGBTQ people in Chile. Numbers speak for themselves: ...more
What the media circus surrounding Shamima Begum can teach us about gender and nation
by Harriet Farnham As the so-called caliphate defends its last stronghold in the town of Baghuz, Shamima Begum is back in the media spotlight. Four years since ...more
Is a picture really worth a thousand words? Posters In and About the British Women’s Suffrage Movement
by Dean Cooper-Cunningham In 2018, the UK celebrated the centenary of (some) women’s suffrage. This came on the back of the Global Women’s Marches that protested ...more
In Defence of Women: Anti-gender Campaigns and Abortion in Chile
by Lieta Vivaldi In Chile the bill that allows abortion on three grounds - when a woman’s life is in danger, when there are foetal anomalies incompatible ...more
Brazilian presidential election: a perfect catastrophe?
by Sonia Corrêa Time to mourn Politics is both reasoning and affect. This is how a first version of this essay, written in the immediate aftermath of ...more
Using Gender to Understand how Daesh/Islamic State Governs
by Katherine E. Brown A destroyed part of Raqqa. Photo Credit: Mahmoud Bali (VOA) Since I wrote that so-called Islamic State (known as Daesh or ISIS) is ...more
LGBT activism and the census: A battle half-won?
by Laurence Cooley In December, the British government published its plans for the next census of England and Wales, to be held in 2021. The white paper ...more
