We are revisiting our Annual Blogathon with today’s post! “Writing about motherhood in the asylum system, I’ve come to realize, requires thinking about forms of life that survive, resist, and often also thrive in vulnerablizing and harmful spaces; and about the care practices that enable them to do so, even amidst fear” says Júlia Fernandez in …
Care, fear and mothering in the British asylum accommodation system Read More »
Today, as part of our LGBT+ History month series, we’re revisiting a powerful piece from our recently concluded Blogathon in which Tina Dixon shows how the subject of gender-based violence is often consolidated in the figure of the heterosexual, cis-gender woman. What’s at stake in how we imagine those subjected to violence? Read her piece …
Sacrificeable bodies: gender-based violence against LGBTIQ+ people and displacement Read More »
Each year GENDER.ED hosts an annual Blogathon in collaboration with colleagues at Ambedkar University, Delhi, and the University of New South Wales, Australia. The Blogathon marks the global 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-based Violence campaign and our theme this year is migration, mobilities, and displacement. Our first invited blogger is Urvashi Butalia, noted feminist …
Our Annual Blogathon on 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence is Here! Read More »
Coming soon! The 16 Days Blogathon is back for 2021, with a focus on histories, legacies, myths and memories, led from Edinburgh by the Histories of Gender and Sexualities Research Group. The blogathon is a collaborative project between the University of Edinburgh, Dr B R Ambedkar University Delhi, and University of New South Wales. Starts November 25, can’t wait!
In Brazil – a country that kills more trans women than anywhere else – performing trans art as resistance can be a matter of life and death. Jo Clifford, renowned playwright, writes about the power of trans art in challenging homophobic politics and the risks it entails (Reblogged as part of LGBTQ history month highlights).
.In the early 1990s, during the conflict in Northern Ireland, Prof Bell conducted some interviews with gay men and lesbian women, on police harassment for human rights research project (McVeigh, ‘Harassment – Its Part of Life Here’, 1992), which was to feed into police reforms as part of the eventual peace process. Her article illustrates the need for more awareness about the failure of peace processes and post-confllict environments to seriously addess LGBT security and peace for LGBT people. This is especially since in times of conflict, LGBT communities are often targeted in violent attacks in particular ways.
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