By Rukmini Sen and Aishwarya Rajeev Indian community health workers (or ASHAs), provide essential forms of care and labour during a health crisis. Yet their own lives are not safeguarded and they struggle for access to the very resources they need to do their jobs. How are they protesting and what are their demands? This …
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by Sarah Childs In our Friday long read, Professor Sarah Childs explains her ground-breaking work on Gender-Sensitive Parliament audits and invites us into the backstage life of a feminist academic out to both study and change the world. Caption: Prof. Sarah Childs The text came in around 11am on the Thursday; by Sunday I was …
Image sourced from Strut Safe Twitter https://twitter.com/strutsafe?lang=en Amidst public conversations around gendered safety in light of the Nicola Bulley case, GENDER.ED asked a broader question: how do we build feminist cities? We had a special transnational conversation inviting two groups to share their ground-breaking work on gendered safety. In this blog-post, we recognise the trailblazing …
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