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Poster for the Queering Research Method event. The poster reads 'Queering Research Methods' and has a circular photo of all the panelists below. At the bottom of the poster is the time and date for the event (Feb 4th) and a QR code to book your space at the event. At the right-hand side of the poster is a photo of some wooden panels/doors in the colours of the rainbow.

Queering – research – methods: a conversation; an act of queer politics of citation

At the GENDER.ED/IASH event on queering research methods earlier this semester, panellists and IASH fellows Dr Alex Brostoff, Dr Alice Parrinello and Dr Evelyn Whorrall-Campbell sought repeatedly to go back to their pre-roundtable brainstorming meeting, as an act of queer politics of citation, offering us a collectively authored text not full of answers, but of further questions. In this blog, they do us the honour of talking us through their ‘pre-conversation conversation’ once more.
Poster for the Queer Data Showcase. The poster reads: Queer Data Showcase: 5 June 2025, 5PM, Cabaret Bar, Pleasance, Edinburgh. At the bottom right corner, there is a photo of Mystika Glamoor.

The Queer Data Showcase: queer data as an adjective and as a verb

Kaveri Qureshi reflects on how the Queer Data Showcase organised by the Gender + Sexuality Data Lab, Pride in STEM and AI Ethics & Society addressed queer data as an adjective and as a verb.
Picture of the asexual flag in the shape of a heart embraced by two hands.

Queering Methods Through Absence: the Asexual-Spectrum and the Politics of Not-Knowing

What does it mean to centre absence, ambiguity, and refusal in research? This blog post explores how queering methods through the lens of the asexual-spectrum and the right to opacity invites us to read absence not as lack, but as an alternative form of presence and resistance.
An abstract photo of some doors/door frames in rainbow colors.

Queering research methods

This piece introduces a blog series on queering research methods, extending out of a roundtable GENDER.ED hosted on this topic back in LGBT+ History Month.

Table with postcards, lined paper, pens, scissors, tea and water, and a halfwritten poem

Exploring contracepting through poetry: a creative, arts-based methods workshop

Earlier this month, Marie Larsson and Autumn Roesch-Marsh hosted a workshop using poetry to explore contraception – an extension of Marie’s research on young people’s contraceptive negotiations, and Autumn’s work using creativity and the arts to co-create research. In this blog, Kaveri Qureshi sits down with them to discuss their collaboration, and how the workshop went.
Three people dressed as 'Handmaids' from Margaret Atwood's 'The Handmaid's Tale'. They are wearing red long robes and white head wear that covers their hair and faces. They are holding a piece of paper that reads 'Scrap the Rape Clause'

Critically Interrogating the ‘Rape Clause’

Rebecca Hewer summarizes her important new report exploring UK health and social care professionals’ thoughts about assessing and certifying eligibility for the two-child limit’s ‘non-consensual conception’ exception, colloquially known as the ‘rape clause’.
Photo of Dr Alice Hovorka talking at the lecture. She is wearing a dress with a pattern and has her hand out while talking. There is a screen behind her that reads 'visioning healthy more than human cities'. There are two chairs in front of her and a window behind the screen.

Visioning Healthy More-than-Human Cities

Earlier this month, Dr Alice Hovorka from York University in Canada gave a lecture on visioning healthy more-than-human cities. Feminist posthumanist conceptual frames help to articulate these possibilities. GENDER.ED’s intern, […]
Photo of Radhika Govinda, director of GENDER.ED, speaking in front of rows of people at the Annual Research Showcase. She is holding a microphone. To her right, there is a screen that with a slide that reads 'GENDER.ED'.

GENDER.ED Annual Research Showcase 2025

Kaveri Qureshi, Associate Director of GENDER.ED, reflects on this week’s Annual Research Showcase - the highlight of the yearly calendar for GENDER.ED's community – and the different levels at which we see that the work of GENDER.ED matters.
7 members of Black Women* at Edinburgh's Committee on a stage at the Magazine Launch Event. Above them are some strings of fairy lights. Behind and to the left of them, there is a cross and some posters. One of the committee members, Maryam Yusuf, is speaking into a microphone. There is an audience across the stage.

Looking back: Nurtured Magazine Launch Event

Mouna Chatt, GENDER.ED's Undergraduate Intern, reflects on Black Women* at Edinburgh’s Nurtured Magazine Launch Event that took place in March 2025.

Black Women at Edinburgh's logo. The logo is a circle that features a graphic of three black women. The logo also reads 'Black Women at Edinburgh'. The text is written in a cursive-like font.

Across Country Lines: Connection in Times of War

Hanaa Yousuf reflects on receiving the news that there is war in Sudan and what it means to be separated from your country, not knowing when you can see it again.

Black Women at Edinburgh's logo. The logo is a circle that features a graphic of three black women. The logo also reads 'Black Women at Edinburgh'. The text is written in a cursive-like font.

The rise of Black femicide in the United Kingdom

Ruweyda Ahmed discusses the rise of Black femicide in the United Kingdom, emphasizing the urgent need for increased media coverage, culture-specific policies, and the validation of Black women and girls’ vulnerability.

Photo of co-presidents Wardah and Kaashvi at the Student Awards. Wardah is holding an award made of glass and Kaashvi is holding a certificate that reads 'Student Awards: Winner: Brown Girl Society'. They are both smiling and wearing beautiful, ball-like dresses.

A Year in Gatherings: Brown Girl* Society’s First Year of Community

Avani Tilekar reflects on Brown Girl* Society's (BG*S) very first full year as an official society at the University of Edinburgh.

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