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Engenderings stands in solidarity with Aurat Azadi March organisers in Pakistan
As gender and feminist scholars, and some of us members of the Engenderings collective, we express full solidarity with organisers of Aurat Azadi March in ...more
Queering or De-Queering the European Space? Reflecting on the European Parliament Declaration of the EU as an ‘LGBTIQ Freedom Zone’
By Francesca Romana Ammaturo Photo by Sijmen van Hooff on Unsplash A Divided Union? On 11th March 2021, the European Parliament adopted a Declaration that designates the ...more
A Cursory Glance at Hawaii’s Economic Revival Policy: The Intersection of Feminist Economics and Good Governance.
by Isha Prakash and Tamanna Meghrajani The battle against the ongoing COVID-19 crisis has effectively incapacitated economies of over 180 countries. This pandemic has adversely affected ...more
Viva la Vulva: the advertisement that divides Italian women
By Giorgia Baldi It is ironic that a simple TV advertisement should create such a controversy in Italy in 2020. Nuvenia, a company producing female sanitary ...more
Mobile toilets and the urgent need for reflexivity in social entrepreneurship
by Isabel Medem Nine years ago I co-founded an organisation to design a novel toilet service for poor urban households in Lima, Peru. For a monthly ...more
Kashmiri Women’s Songs of Resistance
by Samreen Mushtaq Photo credit: Showkat Nanda from Watergam, Baramulla, 2009. Republished for this post with permission On 23 February, 2020, over six months into fast pacing ...more
Dismantling Prisons: Abolitionist Feminism, Women, Incarceration and #MeToo
by Philippa Greer “Lisa Montgomery is mentally ill. Presently her mental condition results in her inability rationally to understand she will be executed, why she will ...more
Using Automated Technologies to Assess LGBTI+ Status
by Lotte Wolff Automated technology is increasingly part of the decision basis for refugee status. Alongside this, many countries in the ‘Global North’ grant individuals’ asylum ...more
"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
