Analysis – GENDER.ED

Actors of change: female activists fight for peace in the DRC

Leave a Comment / Analysis, feminism, gender and politics, intersectionality / By Hemangini Gupta

Caption: Peacebuilder Madeline Akida speaks during a meeting between local women and the families of a Congolese army commando unit stationed at a nearby garrison, Beni, July 2022. Photo credit: Hugh Kinsella Cunningham Camille Maubert, a PhD student in International Development at the University of Edinburgh recently published a photo essay in the Guardian: here’s a …

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Strut Safe – The phone service dedicated to helping you get home safely

Leave a Comment / Activism, Analysis, Blog, Feminist Dossier, Update / By Lauren Galligan

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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Building Feminist Cities: A Transnational Conversation

Leave a Comment / Analysis, Blog, feminism, Feminist Dossier / By Hemangini Gupta

GENDER.ED sat down with two groups who work on building feminist cities to ask them what they do and how they do it! Check out this transnational conversation bringing together Safetipin and Strutsafe to talk about safety, the work of care, and a collective commitment to building feminist cities. Here’s the transcript! For the audio, listen …

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Saigol’s Pakistan: a feminist reading of the nationalist project

Leave a Comment / Analysis, feminism, gender and politics, History / By Hemangini Gupta

By Kaveri Qureshi and Laila Rajani What archives and methods do we need to conduct a feminist analysis of nation-building? How do feminist movements locate themselves in relation to religious politics? This review of the late Pakistani feminist scholar Rubina Saigol’s work offers us a rich sense of what she left us to think with. In August …

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Sacrificeable bodies: gender-based violence against LGBTIQ+ people and displacement

Leave a Comment / 16 Days Blogathon, Analysis, LGBTQ / By Hemangini Gupta

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 …

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Educating Afghan Girls: Will it be possible to move from the confines of cages towards the sky?

Leave a Comment / Analysis, Blog, women / By Hemangini Gupta

At the end of last year, Afghanistan’s Taliban-run higher education ministry said that female students would not be allowed access to the country’s universities until further notice. In light of this decision, we invited Anushka and Tasha Agarwal to share excerpts from their research on experiences of accessing education for Afghan refugee women who resettled …

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The Kigali Declaration: (Re)Committing to Gender-Sensitive Parliaments

Leave a Comment / Analysis, doing gender sensitive research, gender and politics, intersectionality / By Hemangini Gupta

The Inter-Parliamentary Union’s (IPU) 145th Assembly recently held in Rwanda was on ‘Gender equality and gender-sensitive parliaments as drivers of change for a more resilient and peaceful world’. It resulted in the Kigali Declaration and a recommitment for parliaments to achieve gender sensitivity, writes Sarah Childs who offers a brief summary of the Assembly deliberations for us. Image: …

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Curating the #MeToo in China Exhibition and South-South Feminisms

Leave a Comment / Analysis, Events, feminism, gender and politics, intersectionality, Update / By Hemangini Gupta

GENDER.EDs five year anniversary reception was accompanied by the launch of a student-curated, travelling exhibition on #MeToo in China, supported by GENDER.ED and the SPS EDI Committee. A poster-based timeline, video work, and black boxes with objects belonging to survivors of sexual assault were on display in the CMB Foyer 26-29 Sept. to explore the impact of #MeToo …

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Women, Life, Freedom: The Backlash against Compulsory Hijab in Iran

Leave a Comment / Analysis, Update / By Hemangini Gupta

As State forces in Iran continue to violently suppress protestors, we invited Prof. Nacim Pak-Shiraz to offer context on the political battles being waged on women’s bodies. The Islamic Republic of Iran has not shied away from using brutal force in enforcing hijab on its reluctant population since it came to power in 1979. Through …

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Keeping Women Safe from the Back-Streets: The 1967 Abortion Act

Leave a Comment / Analysis, History / By Hemangini Gupta

To mark Safe Abortion Day, we invited Professor Gayle Davis to share her research and analysis of abortion law in Britain. The current turmoil of American abortion politics invites us to reflect on how abortion law has been interpreted in Britain, with its very different political landscape. Britain’s 1967 Abortion Act – the legal framework …

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