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The Saturday Mothers in Turkey as a Maternal Movement: A Feminist Critique
by Güneş Daşlı The public attention to motherhood and the maternal aspect of collective activism on the issue of enforced disappearances is not unique to Turkey. Similar to ...more
The many faces of feminism in Eurasia
by Karolina Kluczewska and Laura Luciani In many countries around the world, feminist politics are marginalised or face resistance from governments and societies alike - and this is ...more
Wednesday, the 28th of June, 2023: Anti-Gender Violence in Canada
by Emily Sams-Harris On Wednesday, the 28th of June, 2023, in the city colonially known as Ottawa, Canada, far-right anti-gender protestors stood outside the National Arts ...more
Who can afford to commodify women's bodies?
by Kashi Syal In September 2017, Kim Kardashian and Kanye West announced that their third child would be carried by a $45,000 surrogate. Only, it wasn’t ...more
Solidaristic coalitions and ‘unbudgeable conviction in justice’ in the face of transnational anti-gender movements
by Sumi Madhok This blogpost is based on comments given at the following events: AHRC Network workshop on Transnational Anti-Gender Politics: Narratives and Resistance held at ...more
Book Review: Subverting the Norms and Constructs of Gender - The Hunt by Mahasweta Devi
By Aadya Narain Mahasweta Devi (1990) The hunt. Women & Performance: a journal of feminist theory, 5:1, 61-79. Photo of The Hunt by Mahasweta Devi, taken by the author Mahasweta ...more
Letters to Myself: Trans Joy in Troubling Times
by Cal Brantley Mural from Austin, TX, USA, April 2023 Why does the LGBTQ+ community unify the most during queer/transphobic tragedy or political attacks? It is true ...more
The threats and possibilities awaiting the gender-equal democracy in Turkey after the 2023 general elections
by Didem Unal The parliamentary and presidential elections on 14 May 2023 mark a turning point in Turkey for gender-equal democracy. As the country enters its ...more
When the local feminist group sounds like the far-right: Femonationalist and Islamophobic messages in Femen-France
by Eréndira Derbez Femen France claims to be a radical feminist activist group. It was founded in Ukraine in 2008 by Anna Hutsol and, allegedly, Viktor Sviatsky. ...more
Nunneries of Tibetan Tsunmas in Exile as Socio-Economic Knowledge Hubs Accelerating Women’s Empowerment in the Indian Himalayas
by Sourajit Ghosh Exploring the Identity of a Buddhist Nun in a Merit-Based Economy: The term ‘Bhikkhunī’/Bhikṣuṇī or dgeslong ma (also called Tsunma), literally translates to spiritual ...more
Non-Obvious Connections: How Feminism Becomes Transphobic?
by Olga Plakhotnik and Maria Mayerchyk Queer Festival in Kherson (Ukraine), 2021. Photo credit: Stanislav Ostrous. Published with permission from the author. Why are some feminists transphobic? How ...more
An exercise in looking
by Anna Blus (all photography and text) Image 1. Balloons after a celebration in front of a block of flats, South London, 2021 Image 2. Window sign, ...more
Hindu supremacism, 'anti-gender' politics, and feminist resistance
by Kalpana Wilson This contribution was first presented at the 2 December 2022 workshop on Transnational “Anti-Gender” Politics and Resistance, part of the AHRC-LSE project on ...more
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
