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Colonial Cisnationalism: Notes on Empire and Gender in the UK’s Migration Policy
by Christopher Griffin Anti-immigration rhetoric is a notoriously reliable fixture of British politics, with Conservative politicians regularly turning to border controls to appeal to right-wing voters. ...more
Post-Disaster Rebuilding through a Feminist Lens
by Kaushambi Bagchi Disasters resulting from natural hazards wreak a multitude of havoc. Impacts of disasters are often differential across groups owing to pre-existing social and ...more
Kurdish Women in the UK Diaspora: Adversities & Challenges
By Shilan Fuad Hussain What does it mean to be in a "diaspora"? The term refers to a people who are dispersed, but often they are ...more
A love-letter to my Bookcase
by Ania Plomien About a year ago, on February 14th 2023, I read out this letter at a UCU Four Fights strike teach-out. The industrial action ...more
Redefining menstrual equity in prisons: Why menstrual equity demands prison abolition
by Regan Moss and Miriam Vishniac As the menstrual equity movement has diffused across the United States, public policy efforts have been directed towards period product provision ...more
Does access equal control for women with regards to land rights? Evidence from Punjab (Pakistan)
By Hana Zahir Protecting women’s land rights is a necessity for ensuring women’s empowerment (Agarwal, 2003). Land is a critical source of revenue through which women ...more
Navigating a labyrinth: Experiential realities of exploring how universities approach gender at the structural level
by Rabbia Aslam I would like to describe the disparate experiential realities and structural impediments related to gender and disciplinary boundaries that future scholars will continue ...more
The Many Partitions: Retrieving the Erased Experiences of Women
by Aarushi Anand and Parthika Sharma Content Warning: The following article contains sensitive content related to the Partition and engages with topics of violence, sexual assault, trauma, ...more
Anti-gender ideology and neo-liberal state grammar in Brazil
by Marco Aurelio Máximo Prado This contribution is based on the presentation given at the 11-12 April 2023 workshop on Mapping and resisting the gender phantasm in ...more
What does the French ban on wearing abayas tell us about the control of Muslim women's bodies?
by Elif Lootens France, home to Jewish and Muslim communities, has become a hostile place to be Muslim or Jewish. France is a former colonial power ...more
Palestine: A ‘Test’ for Feminist Foreign Policy
By Layla Saleh Introduction The war in Gaza has drawn extensive attention to human rights violations, student activism, and warring propaganda narratives. No amount of counting can ...more
Billion Dollar Doll
Plastic breaker of box office glass ceilings, Barbie was born a camp classic where even the patriarchy is rose-tinted. By Joanna Burigo Satirical self-awareness, countless references to ...more
An intersectional analysis of migrant women and the local South Tyrolean labour market in Italy
By Alexandra Tomaselli In this post, I focus on the gender employment gap of women with migrant backgrounds in a multilingual, small and rich province in ...more
Toward a Posthuman Time: Virtuality and Queerness in Taiwanese Science Fiction
By Hsin-Hui Lin This piece is part of the East Asia Solidarity blog series, “Look East”, which highlights gender knowledge and studies of the East and ...more
Gender as psychoanalysis’ act of citizenship
By Carolina Besoain In 2021, Avgi Saketopoulou and Ann Pellegrini received the first Tiresias Award from the Sexual and Gender Diversity Studies Committee (S&GDSC) of the International ...more
A Longstanding Fear: LGBT Panic, Conservative Islamic Backlash, and Queer Islamic Resistance in Indonesia
This piece is part of the East Asia Solidarity blog series, “Look East”, which highlights gender knowledge and studies of the East and Southeast Asia ...more
