Feminist Dossier – GENDER.ED

On reproductive justice in Colombia: gendered victimhood and forced parenthood

By Tatiana Sanchez Parra Despite an active domestic reparation programme in Colombia, children born of conflict-related sexual violence remain largely invisible in the country’s human rights and transitional justice agendas. There are no policies in place to address their situation and needs, and there are no organizations or networks dedicated to working with or for …

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Making life possible: mothering and caring in the British asylum accommodation system

By Júlia Fernandez Molina Reproductive justice frameworks need to include the power of care to reproduce life under the gendered and racialised conditions of asylum accommodation, writes Júlia Fernandez. Image: Rayan’s accommodation, a small studio flat where she lives with her two children since they were moved to a very isolated area in the outskirts of …

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On Menstrual Justice

Leave a Comment / Feminist Dossier, reproductive health and rights / By Hemangini Gupta

By Prof. Marcy Karin Professor Marcy Karin shares her remarks from the GENDER.ED-IASH event on Reproductive Justice to mark International Women’s Day in 2023. We don’t talk about menstrual injustice enough, she writes. On the rare occasions we do talk about menstruation in public, we view it as something dirty and don’t consider the varied …

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Period Poverty, University of Edinburgh

Leave a Comment / feminism, Feminist Dossier, reproductive health and rights / By Hemangini Gupta

by Lauren Galligan Image: The Period Poverty Facebook page Lauren Galligan shares her comments from the Reproductive Justice roundtable on March 8 hosted by GENDER.ED and IASH. She talked about Period Poverty Edinburgh, which is a grassroot non-profit organisation that was set up on campus in 2018 to end period poverty and the stigma surrounding periods. …

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Introducing the Feminist Dossier on Reproductive Justice

Leave a Comment / Events, Feminist Dossier, reproductive health and rights, women's health / By Hemangini Gupta

One of the reasons that people access our blog is to read and hear about academic work that is written for broad audiences. Our blogs can be used in classrooms and by activists, artists, scholars, and practitioners who are looking to engage feminist issues and access new research. With this in mind, we’re introducing a …

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Ensure Empathetic Understanding of Women’s Safety for Gender-Responsive Public Transport Futures

Leave a Comment / Feminist Dossier, intersectionality / By Hemangini Gupta

by Dr. Swati Kumari In the last post of our dossier on Building Feminist Cities, Swati Kumari from the Edinburgh Earth Initiative shares her research that complicates ideas of safety. Adopting an intersectional approach to safety, she argues, helps us see it as more than protection from sexual harassment alone. Image: Traffic in New Delhi. …

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Safetipin: Building a world where everyone can move without fear

Leave a Comment / Feminist Dossier / By Hemangini Gupta

Caption: The team at Safetipin by Geetika Sharma for the Safetipin team Feeling safe and secure in the city is a fundamental right that every citizen should be entitled to. Freedom of accessing and using public spaces freely enables everyone, especially women, to truly enjoy their “Right to the City”. However, in today’s world, there …

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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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