LGBTQ – GENDER.ED

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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The Queer and Trans Theory We Love

Leave a Comment / Blog, feminist classrooms, LGBTQ / By Hemangini Gupta

It’s LGBT+ History Month and GENDER.ED asked some of our friends to reflect on the queer and trans theory that they love. Here’s celebrating scholarship that shapes our lives and work! Dr. Merlin Seller is a Lecturer in Design & Screen Cultures, teaching theory and historical/cultural context at ECA, working across Film, Comics, Media and Game …

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LGBT+ History Month: Challenging sexual humanitarian bordering through co-creative ethnographic filmmaking

Leave a Comment / LGBTQ, Update / By Hemangini Gupta

As part of LGBT+ History month, we’re revisiting past blogs from our recently-concluded Blogathon. In this post, Nick Mai shares the trailer to CAER, made in collaboration with Colectivo Intercultural Transgrediendo, and argues for the importance of co-creative ethnographic filmmaking as a strategic methodological approach to challenging the spectacle of victimhood, allowing migrant sex workers and …

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Kate Holliday's poster from genderED's Annual Research Showcase

Annual Research Showcase Highlights: Kate Holliday

Leave a Comment / Annual Research Showcase, Blog, feminism, gender and politics, LGBTQ, student researchers, Update, women / By Shy Zvouloun

In this Annual Research Showcase Highlight, doctoral candidate Kate Holliday writes about her research on framing and political polarisation in contentious policy debates, focussing primarily on debates over proposed reforms to the Gender Recognition Act.

More than maps: The potential of queer geographical inquiry – Dr Rae Rosenberg

Leave a Comment / Blog, LGBTQ, Update / By Shy Zvouloun

Marking Pride Month 2022 and Edinburgh’s Pride March on the 25th of June, Dr Rae Rosenberg writes about his research, the potential of queer geography, and queer geography’s ability to “engage with and question the messy matters of living.”

Multicolor image of soap bubble under a miscroscope.

Queer Theory and Physics Education: Dr. Pablo Schyfter speaks with Prof. Ramón Barthelemy

Leave a Comment / Blog, gender and race, intersectionality, LGBTQ, Update / By Shy Zvouloun

Pablo Schyfter (University of Edinburgh) and Ramón Barthelemy (University of Utah) discuss the challenges of queering physics education research, bringing ideas of queerness, race and class to the study of science, and highlighting experiences of institutional pushback. Shared as part of LGBT+ History Month.

Chase Ledin – ECR Spotlight

Leave a Comment / Blog, ECR Spotlight, LGBTQ, PhD and Postdoc Spotlight, queer health / By Shy Zvouloun

For the ECR Spotlight, PhD Candidate Chase Ledin argues that effective health promotion is a collective and everyday practice in which marginalised communities, activists and artists as well as health professionals, data modellers and officials must be equal partners in imagining healthy futures.

Women’s History in the Department of Economic and Social History. Rosalind Mitchison (1919-2002) and Leah Leneman (1944-1999).

Leave a Comment / Blog, feminism, intersectionality, LGBTQ, Projects, Update, Voices from the Early Days, women / By Fiona Mackay

It is Women’s History month and as part of GENDER.ED’s ongoing project Voices from the Early Days, which seeks to capture the stories of pioneers of women’s, gender and feminist studies at University of Edinburgh, Stana Nenadic reflects upon the work and legacies of two leading women social and economic historians Rosalind Mitchison and Leah Leneman.

Women’s, Gender and Feminist Studies at Edinburgh: A Window On Journeys Undertaken

Leave a Comment / Blog, feminism, intersectionality, LGBTQ, Projects, Voices from the Early Days, women / By Aerin Lai

Radhika Govinda kicks off the Voices from the Early Days series with her post exploring the history and future of Women’s, Gender and Feminist studies (WGFS) at the University of Edinburgh. She provides an overview of the various journeys undertaken by feminist academics at the University of Edinburgh.

Upcoming International Women’s Days Events

Leave a Comment / Events, LGBTQ, News / By Aerin Lai

For International Women’s Day 2021, GENDER.ED has co-organised and co-supported two events focusing on feminist classrooms and the role of women in HIV and LGBTQ+ activism. Feminist Classrooms: Past, Present and Future is co-organised with EUSA, the Student Union at the University of Edinburgh, while The Role of Women in HIV and LGBTQ+ Activism is organised by the Staff Pride Network, while supported by GENDER.ED and IASH.