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1. International Women’s Day Annual Lecture 2025: Only a day, only a theme and an initiative?

   … Professor Lesley McAra. Then, Dr Radhika Govinda, the Director of GENDER.ED, announced the winners of the Yuan Changying Prize 2025. The Yuan Changying Prize recognizes outstanding ‘gender observations’ written by students (and nominated by tutors) in the pre-Honours … Maya Bayliss, Rodd Friswell, Anna Jefferies, Charlotte Genevieve Natusch and Emily Maria Hazim were nominated for the prize. Congratulations to the prizewinners, winners Anna Jefferies and Mara Bentzin for their excellent gender …

2. Mother? I Hardly Know Her!: Manipulating Gendered Language and ‘Mothering’ in the LGBTQ+ Community

   … In this runner-up Queer Futures Prize-winning essay, Lucy Wilson offers a historical analysis of current social media use of the term ‘mother’, arguing … trans people of colour organised themselves into houses and competed against each other in balls  for trophies and cash prizes. This subculture emerged from the discrimination LGBTQ+ people faced in their own families, wider society, and the … defined familial relationships.     Author biog: Lucy Wilson wrote this essay, which won the runner-up Queer Futures Prize 2025, in their second year of Sociology and Politics at the University of Edinburgh for ‘Introduction to Queer …

3. The making of a truly ‘Intersectional Environmentalist’

   … Bradley Stevens’ essay received an Honourable Mention in the 2024 Queer Futures Prize for the undergraduate course, Introduction to Queer Studies.  This prize seeks to acknowledge and celebrate thoughtful and innovative work in queer studies inspired by classroom …

4. GENDER.ED Annual Research Showcase 2025

   … then announced the winners of the GENDER.ED-EUSA Undergraduate Feminist Trailblazers Awards 2025. The joint first prize went to Rutendo Hoto and Claudia Efemini for their co-founding of Black Women* at Edinburgh Society. Thulsa Miqdhaadh Moosa and Aagoon Chakraborty won second and third prizes, and Emmi Wilkinson an honorable mention. We’ll hopefully get to hear from each of them individually via the …

5. ‘Doing gender’ in a private, single-sex primary school in Zimbabwe: personal observations

   … Tanatsei Gambura *1 out of 2 winners of the Yuan Changying Prize, sponsored by GENDER.ED In this essay, originally written for the Understanding Gender in the Contemporary World … correct cutlery in the dining hall. As an incentive, at the end of each academic year, the school awarded the Deportment Prize to the student who displayed the most decorum. That is to say, the school celebrated the student who had …

6. Queering Femininity One Camp Gesture at a Time

   … Irene Neophytou's blog, adapted from her essay which won first prize in the 2025 Queer Futures competition, analyses how artists queer gender by appropriating its coded gestures, …

7. Cardi B's WAP through a gender lens

   … Sasha Halfon-Delay *1 out of 2 awardees of the Yuan Changying Prize, sponsored by GENDER.ED In the piece written as a Gender Observation Assignment for the course Understanding Gender …

8. Looking Back, Looking Ahead

   … the year by marking the winners of the 2024 Undergraduate EUSA-GENDER.ED Feminist Trailblazer Awards and Queer Future Prizes and awarding them their certificates. I was also grateful to hear the award-winning poet, author, and storyteller, …

9. Understanding Gender course – new award for co-production research

   … and former students by GENDER.ED 2019 Summer Intern  (and UGCW alumna) Abrisham Ahmadzadeh. And read the  Yuan Changying prize winning UGCW gender observations from 2020-21 (sponsored by genderEd)   here and here . …

10. Chandreyee Goswami – ECR Spotlight

    … extended families and friends from school and college, as well as new friends from the university. They put up artwork, prizes or trophies they might have won at a university event. The two constant pieces of decorative items were fairy …

11. Rosa Luxemburg at 150: A Podcast with Dr Mihaela Mihai, Dr Maša Mrovlje, and Dr Jamie Allinson

    … The Social Origins of Alliances in the Middle East , which was a co-winner of the 2016 Political Economy Project Book Prize. Jamie has also worked as an external consultant with the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation. …

12. GENDER.ED-EUSA Undergraduate Feminist Trailblazers Awards 2021-2022

    … has coordinated a research project into stealthing and organised a campaign to criminalise the practise in Scotland The prize included a Blackwell’s book voucher worth £50 from GENDER.ED for each of the three award winners. Look out for the …