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Feminist Movements Around the World: Creating feminist community during COVID-19
by Milena D’Atri When I decided to come to London to do my masters in the middle of COVID-19 pandemic, I knew it was going ...more
Vibrant lockdown walks
by Daniela Meneses Sala In March 2020, the government announced that individuals in England were allowed to leave home only for the purpose of shopping for ...more
Who is afraid of the rainbow? The politics of LGBTQ symbols in Turkey
by Tunay Altay On 14 April 2021, a group of students from Turkey’s Middle East Technical University (Ortadogu Teknik Universiversitesi, ODTÜ) gathered at a staircase on campus ...more
Has the pandemic revealed the gendered fault-lines in India’s labour markets?
By Mitali Nikore and Poorva Prabhu In a recent piece on India’s labour markets, The Economist noted, “During the pandemic, women have typically been the first in ...more
Feminist solidarity after the Swiss referendum: Islamophobia and the politics of veiling
by Hasret Cetinkaya Photo by Teycir Mastour and Aïda Hammad, sourced from https://lesfoulardsviolets.org and used with permission in this blogpost On the 7th of March 2021, Switzerland voted in ...more
The Hidden Masculinization and Militarization of the Canadian Citizenship Guide
by Sarah Chudleigh The Canadian Citizenship Guide seeks to characterise Canada by its ideals of peace and gender equality. However, its language, imagery and layout paint ...more
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
