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GENDER.ED Newsletter - Autumn 2024

This semester we said goodbye to some of our team and now get ready to welcome others. Click here to read more news and updates in our newsletter! Have a […]
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The Digital Economy and Cultural Change in India

How do startups and digital economies come to acquire their value? In a recent EFI article, Dr. Gupta shares her research on the gendered and racialized labor sustaining transnational techno capitalism.
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Alt text as Poetry

To mark the recently passed International Day of People with Disabilities, the GENDER.ED team want to highlight the Alt-text as Poetry initiative between artists Bojana Coklyat and Finnegan Shannon, and […]
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Supporting Women in Peace Processes as Civic Space Shrinks

Laura Wise reflects on how external actors can support women in a shrinking civic space, emphasizing the importance of context. Civic space worldwide is undergoing significant changes, with growing concerns about the shrinking or shifting environments in which citizens, particularly women, can engage in political and civic activities. This blogpost explores how restrictive civic environments, coupled with patriarchal repression, create unique challenges for women’s participation in peace processes.
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An Evening of Queer and Trans Poetry

Transgender Day of Remembrance, celebrated every year on November 20 since 1999, commemorates the lives of transgender people who have lost their lives due to anti-transgender violence.
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Asexual-spectrum identities – ‘invisible’ yet contested

In the last of our ECR Spotlight Series posts for this year, PhD student Alex Nevins shares what they worked on during the Academic Writing for the Public workshops— a […]
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'Come as you are': Reflections on queer Christianity

Today, at the end of Transgender History Month, Victoria Amos a graduate student in Anthropology reflects on their changing relationship with Christianity and rediscovering it queerly.
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Sisterhood* in the Ghorba

For Islamophobia Awareness Month, Mouna Chatt revisits her journals of the past year to reflect on sisterhood*, estrangement, and anti-Muslim racism. 

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