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Transnational “Anti-Gender” Politics and Resistance: Introduction to the 2 December 2022 AHRC Workshop, LSE
by Clare Hemmings This introduction is based on the initial comments given at the above workshop as part of Transnational 'Anti-Gender' Movements and Resistance: Narratives and ...more
The International of Antifeminists
By Leandra Bias This essay was originally published in German on 6 June 2022 in the Swiss magazine Republik. I thank the LSE Engenderings collective for accepting ...more
The UK government’s response to the Scottish Gender Recognition Act
by Claire Thurlow In this post, Claire Thurlow, a doctoral candidate in the School of Law & Politics at Cardiff University, discusses the UK government’s response to the ...more
Presenting our pronouns: When feminist politics pull in different directions
by Davina Cooper Pronoun sharing has become an increasingly mainstream practice. Today, pronouns appear in automatic email signatures, in online meeting names, and pinned to clothing ...more
Book Review: What Is Sexual Capital? Dana Kaplan and Eva Illouz. Polity Books. 2022.
by Sevde Nur Unal In What is Sexual Capital, Dana Kaplan and Eva Illouz (2022) present a thought-provoking debate around a sociological metaphor, namely sexual capital. The ...more
Why don’t women leave? Domestic Abuse and Economic Justice for Survivors
by Sofia Ercolessi In 2021, in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, I began to work as a support worker in refuges supporting women and children who ...more
From Discourses to Actors: How Analyzing the Christian Right Can Further Our Understanding of Anti-gender Mobilization
By Ivan Tranfi and Timo Koch The study of anti-gender movements highlights the discursive dimension of opposition to gender and sexual equality (GSE). The ‘gender ideology’ ...more
Returning to Paracas: a phenomenology of trauma
by Daniela Meneses I must have been four or five, but I have always thought of it as something without a beginning, something that always already ...more
Sexuality, Masculinity, and Populist Radical Right Leadership
by Nik Linders Populist radical right parties (PRR) are often classified as gender-conservative. But the role of gender and sexuality in their discourse is actually complex and ...more
On/Off Her Way Home
by Wen Wen The legendary sea surfaces That meteoric stones have rolled over An establishing shot, takes only one flash Thinking of you, murmuring to you, Until some tears run ...more
Time and Space for Embodied Feminist Pedagogies in the Classroom?
by Aisling Walsh For the Spanish language version of this text, please go to page 2 (navigation below "Related" articles) Late one afternoon in the final semester of ...more
Reconsidering the relationship between domestic workplaces and ‘homes’ in Chile during COVID-19
by Carol Chan The COVID-19 pandemic gave rise to the 'shadow pandemic' of domestic violence, where, due to the fears of contagion and mobility restrictions in ...more
Liminalities of time and its flashes
by Kashi Syal 1. Blossom acts as a seasonal clock even before daylight savings. Spring comes and the days stretch. Every April, I think about T.S Eliot’s ...more
Apostrophe
by Claire Wilmot i. polemic Look I know this one hits different, but I’m writing to tell you I’m tired of asking ...more
The X marks us all: the lingering, living liminalities we write with
by Q Manivannan “The code-name losses and compensations Float in and around us through the window. It helps to know what direction the body comes from. It isn’t absolutely clear. ...more
Clubbing without the club
by Nina Bo Wagner NB: see at the bottom of this article for a mix from the London rave scene, for optional listening while reading. The club as ...more