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Black and white caricature drawing of President Nixon, with an American flag behind him.

Nixon’s war on the media and the supposed crisis of masculinity in post-WWII America

In our 'feminist dissertating' series, Ruweyda Ahmed explores Nixon’s criticisms of the American media, discussing how Nixon made use of a perceived crisis of masculinity in post-WWII America to negotiate successive political challenges.
A male Community Health Volunteer in Isiolo, northern Kenya, bends down to assess a seated pregnant patient.

Stepping Up or Stepping Down? Gendered Health Labour in Kenya

The face of care work, both paid and unpaid, is famously female. However, in northern Kenya, the majority of Community Health Volunteers are men. Kathy Dodworth and Brenda N. Mukungu explore shifting labour norms in this part of Kenya.
Purple screen split between Dr Hemangini Gupta and the cover image of Experimental Times

Book Forum: Hemangini Gupta's Response to Readers - Experimental Times

Dr Hemangini Gupta reflects on three readers' generous and productive engagements with Experimental Times, which GENDER.ED, CRITIQUE and the Critical Data Studies Cluster of EFI launched last year.
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Book Forum: Alex Taylor on Hemangini Gupta's Experimental Times

Dr Alex Taylor shares memories of his own research in Bangalore and how it relates to Hemangini Gupta’s new book Experimental Times, which GENDER.ED, CRITIQUE and the Critical Data Studies Cluster of EFI launched last year.
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Book Forum: Rahul Rao on Hemangini Gupta's Experimental Times

Dr Rahul Rao engages with the core arguments and theoretical framework of Hemangini Gupta’s new book Experimental Times, which GENDER.ED, CRITIQUE and the Critical Data Studies Cluster of EFI launched last year.
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Book Forum: Janaki Srinivasan on Hemangini Gupta's Experimental Times

Last year, GENDER.ED, CRITIQUE and the Critical Data Studies Cluster of EFI hosted a book launch for Hemangini Gupta’s new book Experimental Times. In this blog, Dr Janaki Srinivasan discusses her own experiences of researching start-up capitalism and ethnographic research.

Donald Trump holding up the Board of Peace Charter amid a crowd of board members on stage in front of a media crowd at the Announcement and Signing Ceremony in January 2026

Reconstructing Gaza: The Board of Peace and the Politics of Masculinity

Piper Tozer gives a gendered critique of the Board of Peace’s plans to reconstruct Gaza, exposing the exclusion of women and the hierarchies of militarised and racialised masculinities.
Photograph of Claudia and Rutendo, GENDER.ED-EUSA Undergraduate Feminist Trailblazer Awards 1st Prize Winners, at the Nurtured Magazine Launch, March 2025.

GENDER.ED - EUSA Undergraduate Feminist Trailblazer Awards: 1st Prize Winners

The winners of the 2025 GENDER.ED-EUSA Undergraduate Feminist Trailblazer Award 1st Prize were Rutendo Hoto and Claudia Efemini, co-founders of Black Women* at Edinburgh. We asked them to reflect on their feminist work, and what motivates them.

Thulsa Receiving Feminist Undergraduate Trailblazer Award Second Prize at the Annual GENDER.ED Showcase 2025. She Received the from Fiona Mackay.

GENDER.ED - EUSA 2025 Undergraduate Feminist Trailblazer Awards: Second Prize Winner

“Finding and building feminist communities of solidarity was one of the most meaningful aspects of my entire university journey”, says Thulsa Miqdaadh Moosa, second prize winner in the GENDER.ED-EUSA 2025 Undergraduate Feminist Trailblazer Award.

Photo of Aagoon in front of a ferris wheel at night.

GENDER.ED - EUSA 2025 Undergraduate Feminist Trailblazer Awards: Third Prize Winner

Aagoon Chakraborty - who won third prize in the 2025 GENDER.ED-EUSA Undergraduate Feminist Trailblazer Award - reflects on her journeys in feminism prior to, and after joining the University.
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GENDER.ED - EUSA 2025 Undergraduate Feminist Trailblazer Awards: Honourable Mention

Emmi Wilkinson won 2025 GENDER.ED-EUSA Undergraduate Feminist Trailblazer Award 1st Prize. We asked them to reflect on their feminist work, and what motivates them.

Photo of Raad Khair Allah presenting her research at a seminar

Contemporary Arab Diasporas: Reimagining Nationhood in Arab Cultural and Digital Feminism

Dr. Raad Khair Allah, Postdoctoral Fellow in Digital Humanities during 2025-26, tells Kaveri Qureshi about her research on Palestinian and Syrian women's diasporic digital activism.

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