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 …
Recognition for gendered work: A post-pandemic hope and demand Read More »
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 …
Saigol’s Pakistan: a feminist reading of the nationalist project Read More »
Image: Sharessa Naidoo creatively represents her response to the event; pictured from left to right Jaspreet Kaur, Dr Kaveri Qureshi, Pooja Marwaha, Sharessa Naidoo and Dr. Radhika Govinda discussing ‘Brown Girl Like Me: The Essential Guidebook and Manifesto for South Asian Girls and Women’ co-sponsored by GENDER.ED. Credit:Tulsa Moosa. When I think about my unique journey …
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 …
Curating the #MeToo in China Exhibition and South-South Feminisms Read More »
GENDER.ED and Strathclyde University Feminist Research Network (SUFRN) organised a workshop ‘Doing Feminist Research’ as part of the annual SGSSS-SGSAH funded Spring into Methods series. This post features a summary of the feminist methods presented by team members and participants’ feedback on the workshop.
This blog series showcases the student winners of the Yuan Changying Prize, sponsored by GENDER.ED and SPS’s Gender Politics Research Group. The prize recognises outstanding ‘gender observations’ written by students (and nominated by tutors) in the pre-Honours course Understanding Gender in the Contemporary World, convened by Dr. Meryl Kenny and Dr. Sarah Liu. Gender observations require students to link material from the course to their own day-to-day experiences and observations of ‘doing gender’. The prize is named after Yuan Changying in consultation with students, in recognition of the first female Chinese graduate in the University of Edinburgh’s history. In the first of two winning essays, Heidi Hafner explores the portrayal of masculinities in ‘Montero (Call Me By Your Name)’ by Lil Nas X.
An invitation to GENDER.ED’s upcoming event, ‘Disrupting Coloniality in the Classroom? Decolonisation, Feminism and Critical Pedagogies’, organised on the occasion of International Women’s Day.
Together with IASH, GENDER.ED presents ‘Rediscovering Feminist Histories’, an event that will be running as part of the Being Human Festival 2021, on Thursday 18 November 2021 at 17.00 GMT. This hour-long online discussion explores how women’s histories are often forgotten, overlooked or actively suppressed. Bringing together historians, lawyers and literature experts, we will explore …
Upcoming GENDER.ED Event: Rediscovering Feminist Histories Read More »
The final blogpost for our Voices from the Early Days series features 50 years of feminist classrooms – Marta Kowalewska demonstrates how exactly did the feminist labour taken on by feminist academy translate to a transformation of university classrooms.
GENDER.ED is looking for applications for our summer internship 2021. Our 2020 communication intern Iz Gius talks here about her experiences last Summer.
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