Blog posts by Mouna Chatt

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Reflections from the GENDER.ED Interns

To conclude their internships with GENDER.ED, PhD Intern, Maéva Thibeault, and Undergraduate Intern, Mouna Chatt sat down and reflected on what they have accomplished and learnt during their time with GENDER.ED.
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Reflecting on the Mini-Undergraduate Dissertation Showcase

This year, GENDER.ED was able to host a Mini-Undergraduate Dissertation Showcase as part of our Annual Research Showcase. In this blog, Undergraduate Intern Mouna Chatt, and Kaveri Qureshi, Associate Director, converse about what they saw as the highlights and significance of the mini-showcase.

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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, […]
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.

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Unruly Abortions: Between Refusal and Prefiguration

In the second of two blogs about the Reproductive Justice network of the Edinburgh Centre for Medical Anthropology, GENDER.ED’s Undergraduate Intern, Mouna Chatt reflects on a seminar by Lucía Berro […]
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Misoprostol: Toxicity or Liberation?

In the first of two blogs about the Reproductive Justice network of the Edinburgh Centre for Medical Anthropology, GENDER.ED’s Undergraduate Intern, Mouna Chatt reflects on a seminar by Cordelia Freeman […]
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Muslim Women and Gender Equality: An International Women's Day Event 2025

On Friday 7 March, GENDER.ED and IASH co-hosted the event "Muslim Women and Gender Equality: An International Women's Day Event" that featured a panel discussion with Dr Qazi Sarah Rasheed, […]
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International Women’s Day Annual Lecture 2025: Only a day, only a theme and an initiative?

On Friday 7 March, GENDER.ED and IASH co-hosted an Annual International Women’s Day Lecture by Naeema Yaqoob Sajid, Founder of Diversity+. GENDER.ED’s Undergraduate Intern, Mouna Chatt, reflects on the lecture […]
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Looking Back, Looking Ahead

To welcome the new year, GENDER.ED’s former Associate Director, Hemangini Gupta, and undergraduate intern, Mouna Chatt, look back on all that GENDER.ED accomplished in 2024, sharing their favourite events from the past year and excitement for what lies ahead in 2025.

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Sisterhood* in the Ghorba

For Islamophobia Awareness Month, Mouna Chatt revisits her journals of the past year to reflect on sisterhood*, estrangement, and anti-Muslim racism. 
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GENDER.ED – Announcing the GENDER.ED - EUSA Undergraduate Feminist Trailblazer Awards

GENDER.ED and EUSA are delighted to announce the winners and honourable mentions of the GENDER.ED-EUSA Undergraduate Feminist Trailblazer Awards! Interviews with the winners and honourable mentions will be posted as a GENDER.ED blog series over the coming weeks.
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GENDER.ED’s New Interns: Maéva Thibeault and Mouna Chatt

Mouna and Maéva are GENDER.ED’s Undergraduate Communications and Events Intern and PhD Research and Communications Intern. They met to get to know each other and discuss their research interests, what […]

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