by Niharika Pandit Photo credit: Zahra Amiruddin. Republished with permission for this blogpost. This piece is an attempt to think through the complexities and disjunctures in ...more

by Senel Wanniarachchi   “Your victory Was so complete Some among you Thought to keep A record of Our little lives The clothes we wore Our spoons, our knives”  —Lenard Cohen, Nevermind   I am at the ...more

by Paula Hollstein Barría This article was written during the first days of November 2019, approximately two weeks after the so-called social unrest in Chile had ...more

by Aastha Malhotra and Arshia Roy Recently, there has been an increased emphasis on an individual’s right to privacy, with more and more nations jumping into ...more

by Ghaidaa Motahar There is a consensus that war and conflict bring pain and despair, and simultaneously solicit destructive social change. In Yemen’s conflict, where men ...more

by Manjari Sahay To mark 30 years of ‘intersectionality’ since Professor Kimberlé Crenshaw coined the concept in her article ‘Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex’, ...more

by Asmat Kakar Patriarchy and sociocultural constraints, chronic poverty, limited access to financial institutions and lack of financial control means women in Pakistan face a litany of ...more

by Angana Narula 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

by Maria Brock Awareness of increasing (and increasingly politicised) sentiment against so-called ‘gender ideology’ is spreading, and no longer merely confined to academic and activist circles. ...more

by Samreen Mushtaq On August 14 this year, a solidarity team comprising four Indian civil society activists held a press conference at the Press Club of ...more

by Priyadarshee Mukhopadhyay   Are they listening? The dreadful condition of sex-workers in India has always been a burning issue. While gender equality and human rights movements in ...more

by Senel Wanniarachchi 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 conference ...more

by Alev Özkazanç Having been inspired by the great victory of the opposition against Islamist AKP in Istanbul municipal elections in 23 June 2019, several municipalities dared ...more

by Yasmin Gunaratnam  To mark 30 years of ‘intersectionality’ since Professor Kimberlé Crenshaw coined the concept in her article 'Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex', ...more

by Chelsea Szendi Schieder Note: Following Japanese conventions, Japanese names are listed family name first. I met Professor Andrea Peto (CEU) in fall 2018 in Budapest, when ...more

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