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Strut Safe – The phone service dedicated to helping you get home safely

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Image sourced from Strut Safe Twitter https://twitter.com/strutsafe?lang=en  Amidst public conversations around gendered safety in light of the Nicola Bulley case, GENDER.ED asked a broader question: how do we build feminist cities? We had a special transnational conversation inviting two groups to share their ground-breaking work on gendered safety. In this blog-post, we recognise the trailblazing …

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Undergraduate Feminist Trailblazer Awards 2022 – Pia Wahi-Singh, Honorary Mention

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  This year, GENDER.ED and the Edinburgh University Students Association (EUSA) came together for the launch of the Undergraduate Feminist Trailblazers Awards and Blog Series. The Awards seek to recognise and celebrate the contribution of undergraduate students from the University of Edinburgh who are furthering the cause of feminism through important and impactful work. The judges …

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Undergraduate Feminist Trailblazer Awards 2022 – Shy Zvouloun, 3rd Prize

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This year, GENDER.ED and the Edinburgh University Students Association (EUSA) came together for the launch of the Undergraduate Feminist Trailblazers Awards and Blog Series. The Awards seek to recognise and celebrate the contribution of undergraduate students from the University of Edinburgh who are furthering the cause of feminism through important and impactful work. This year, the …

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Undergraduate Feminist Trailblazer Awards 2022 – Jaime Llorente Prada, 2nd Prize

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This year, GENDER.ED and the Edinburgh University Students Association (EUSA) came together for the launch of the Undergraduate Feminist Trailblazers Awards and Blog Series. The Awards seek to recognise and celebrate the contribution of undergraduate students from the University of Edinburgh who are furthering the cause of feminism through important and impactful work. This year, the …

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Annual Research Showcase Highlight: Gabriela Loureiro

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Gabriela Loureiro – Embodied emotions and collective struggle: feminism, hashtags and digital consciousness-raising in Brazil Feminism and the importance of sharing feelings and narrating our own stories   A powerful, emotionally charged snapshot of the slut walk in Recife, in the North-East region of Brazil. Photo credit: Flora Negri The last decade was marked by …

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Agency and Precarious Life: Reflections on the relevance of Butler’s scholarship to feminist activism in the Latin American context

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Vanessa Rubilar/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Gretty Images Chilean women protesting, while they are wearing green scarves in women’s rights mobilisations spread in Latin America and elsewhere. These scarves are a resistance symbol. Carla Quiroz   In May 2022, the Gender Politics Reading Group launched its Deep Dive series, led by Dr Rebecca Hewer, and supported by …

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Undergraduate Feminist Trailblazer Awards 2022 – Katie Horsburgh, 1st Prize

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This year, GENDER.ED and the Edinburgh University Students Association (EUSA) came together for the launch of the Undergraduate Feminist Trailblazers Awards and Blog Series. The Awards seek to recognise and celebrate the contribution of undergraduate students from the University of Edinburgh who are furthering the cause of feminism through important and impactful work. The judges were …

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An annotated page from Judith Butler’s 2003 article, “Violence, Mourning, Politics”.

Socialities of Reading: Reflections on the 2022 Judith Butler ‘Deep Dive’

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Image by Aiswarya Jayamohan   Aiswarya Jayamohan   I am often alone when I read Judith Butler. This is sometimes by necessity – I can get quite rambunctious in front of Bodies That Matter (1996). Book open, pen in hand: I read sentences out loud, mutter rebuttals, let out a hmm or an oh, of …

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Reflections on Reading for Reading’s Sake and the Judith Butler ‘Deep Dive’

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Dr Rebecca Hewer   Reading is an important task for academics. And yet, we rarely discuss it or plan for it as such. Reading is subsumed into other tasks: we read to teach, to write; rarely do we read to read. When we subsume reading into other tasks we necessarily think of it as instrumental …

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