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
