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Militarisation, misogyny and gendered violence in Kashmir
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
Silence of the Indian sex-workers: Dissecting the eternally suppressed perspective
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
Of Butterfly Assemblages and Constitutional Coups : Invention and Intersection of Heteromasculinity and Class in Post-Colonial Sri Lanka
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
'Global gay conspiracy' and misogyny in Turkish anti-gender narratives
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
Night Writing: breath, love, wings
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
From “Gender Bashing” to the Dangers of Co-Optation: Gender Studies in Japan
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
Confronting My Anti-Vitruvian Self in Creepy Dolls and a Discussion about Dominatrices
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
Queering the ‘Global Gay’: How Transnational LGBT Language Disrupts the Global/Local Binary
By Khin Su 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
Hijras and the legacy of British colonial rule in India
by Sophie Hunter On 6 September last year the Supreme Court of India struck down Section 377 (S377) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), decriminalising homosexuality. ...more
How Media and Police Still Fail London’s Queer and Trans* Residents When Dealing With Hate-Motivated Violence
by Sean Cartwright Each year students on the LSE Gender MSc course Sexuality, Gender and Globalisation present independent research papers at an all-day student conference. This ...more
Nike’s “Dream Crazier”- A new brand of Self Objectification
by Anupriya Dhonchak Nike’s 90 seconds “Dream Crazier” advertisement, released last month during the Oscars stirred a multitude of emotion and introspection in both female and ...more
What do we mean when we talk about ‘survivors’? Perspectives on the exclusions of the ‘trauma of sexual assault’ discourse
by Aude Langlois 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
The new episode of anti-gender politics in Turkey
by Alev Özkazanç As we approached the 8 March 2019 International Women's Day, an unexpected and novel occurrence appeared on the horizon of Turkish (anti)gender ...more
KADEM’s ‘Gender Justice’ or the Momentum of Anti-genderism in Turkey
by Tutku Ayhan Sumeyye Erdogan, daughter of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and the vice-chair of pro-government women’s organization KADEM said the following during the ...more
‘What really draws men to war?’ Masculinity and conflict in the work of Tim Hetherington
by Daniel Cullen On 20 April 2011, photojournalist Tim Hetherington was killed while on assignment in Libya, amid government forces’ shelling of the besieged city of ...more
Fighting for and against (homo) sexualities in Chile: The case of reparative practices
by Tomás Ojeda I am writing this piece in the aftermath of a series of attacks against women and LGBTQ people in Chile. Numbers speak for themselves: ...more
