Aerin Lai

GENDER.ED-EUSA Undergraduate Feminist Trailblazers – Call for Nominations

GENDER.ED and EUSA are pleased to announce this year’s Undergraduate Feminist Trailblazers call for nominations! In 2022, we introduced the Undergraduate Feminist Trailblazers series to showcase the brilliant feminist work of undergraduate students at the University of Edinburgh. We took seriously all kinds of work: activism, volunteering, academic, or otherwise. This year too, the winners …

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‘Disrupting Coloniality in the Classroom’: Reflections by Aerin Lai and Dr Radhika Govinda

Aerin Lai and Dr Radhika Govinda In March this year, GENDER.ED celebrated International Women’s Day (IWD) with a roundtable on ‘Disrupting coloniality in the classroom’, featuring Dr Sara de Jong (University of York), Dr rashné limki, Mukai Chigumba (Women’s Officer, Edinburgh University Students Association) and Aerin Lai, and Dr Radhika Govinda as chair. This roundtable was …

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Reflections: ‘What does feminist research mean to you?’

In this reflective piece, Elisa Sajed writes about feminist research and what it means to her. Elisa was one of the participants of the SGSSS-SGSAH funded Spring Into Methods workshop on Doing Feminist Research, jointly hosted by GENDER.ED and SURFN, 4-6 May 2022. She shares her experiences as a participant of the workshop and her explorations of doing feminist research in her own work.

Walking the tightrope between tradition and taboo: Gender, cemeteries and the City

“Jama Masjid, Delhi” by souravdas is marked with CC BY 2.0. Swati Mohana Krishnan Swati Mohana Krishnan is pursuing her PhD from the School of Development Studies, Ambedkar University, Delhi. Her research work is to understand the shrinking spaces for the dead in the city of Delhi. Places are never empty, there are no voids. …

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16 Days Blogathon 2021 Update: Gender-Based Violence: histories, legacies, myths and memories

Coming soon! The 16 Days Blogathon is back for 2021, with a focus on histories, legacies, myths and memories, led from Edinburgh by the Histories of Gender and Sexualities Research Group. The blogathon is a collaborative project between the University of Edinburgh, Dr B R Ambedkar University Delhi, and University of New South Wales. Starts November 25, can’t wait!

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