Forging solidarity in the anti-extradition movement in Hong Kong by Fiona Wong ‘Fight for Freedom, Stand with Hong Kong!’ – a slogan resounding through Hong Kong in 2019. A large-scale anti-extradition movement was unfolding that brought Hong Kong into the global spotlight. As protestors lined the streets and fought off tear gas and grenades, many …
The making of Brahmin womanhood by Sambhavi Ganesh Me – “Hello, I would like to book a place at your training event.” Organiser – “How old is your child?” Me – “I am asking for myself, and I am 24.” The same conversation played out yet again as I tried to negotiate the booking process …
Pic: Aiden Frazier, used with the UnSplash license. A Threat and a Promise: Abortion’s History in the Twenty-First Century by Alisha Palmer In 1929, Marie Stopes, famous birth control advocate, claimed that ‘an epidemic of abortions’ was sweeping England. As the unofficial figurehead of the British birth control movement and founder of the UK’s first …
Last year, GENDER.ED launched an ECR Spotlight Series to showcase the cutting-edge research being done by ECRs at the University of Edinburgh. This year, our series focuses on PhD researchers. Their posts offer some fascinating new research from gendered political protest in Hong Kong to what an analysis of abortion discourses in the early twentieth century can …
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