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29 January 2024

GENDER.ED - EUSA Undergraduate Feminist Trailblazer Awards: 3rd Prize

Introducing our third winner of the GENDER.ED-EUSA Undergraduate Feminist Trailblazer Awards - Maggie Lin.

An image of Aarti in a flowery top and necklace

26 January 2024

GENDER.ED - EUSA Undergraduate Feminist Trailblazer Awards: 2nd Prize

Introducing our second winner of the GENDER.ED-EUSA Undergraduate Feminist Trailblazer Awards - Aarti Mukhedkar.

an image of Sharessa holding a protest sign that reads "Why is our identity political"

22 January 2024

GENDER.ED - EUSA Undergraduate Feminist Trailblazer Awards: 1st Prize

Introducing our first winner of the GENDER.ED-EUSA Undergraduate Feminist Trailblazer Awards - Sharessa Naidoo.

a collection of event posters from the year 2023 featuring film screanings, seminars and our welcome event

19 January 2024

Looking Back, Looking Forward: GENDER.ED in 2023

In this blog, we take a look back at GENDER.ED's highlights from the year 2023 as well as looking forward to the year ahead.

18 December 2023

Winter Break

Our blog is taking a winter break, off in search of some sun and some rest, we’ll see you in 2024!

15 December 2023

Ash Jayamohan – ECR Spotlight

Ending our ECR Spotlight Series for 2023, Ash Jayamohan shares their research on queer erotics, assembling a Modernist archive of “fretwork” through attention to the often feminized and overlooked affects of […]

12 December 2023

Victim Blame: Not about victims, not about blame

By Dr Amy BeddowsRecent research into professional responses to survivors of sexual violence show that the process of victim blame is more complicated than assumed. While awareness campaigns and training […]

08 December 2023

What Black Feminist Praxis and Mouna Chatt’s (Re)Wayat Can Teach Us About Resistance

Hosted as part of Islamophobia Awareness Month, I recently attended a workshop led by Mouna Chatt, a current undergraduate Sociology and Politics student, around her research project under the OUR MIND […]

04 December 2023

The #16DaysofActivism Against Gender Based Violence Blogathon 2023

This year’s annual blogathon brings together voices from research, student activism, and institutional perspectives to raise awareness of the #16DaysofActivism Against Gender Based Violence global campaign. The blogathon marks a […]

01 December 2023

Over Our Dead Bodies: World AIDS Day of Action at Edinburgh College of Art

To mark World AIDS Day on the 1st of December, Gay Club – an LGBTQIA group at Edinburgh College of Art, run by myself – in partnership with the Staff […]

27 November 2023

Mindful Protesting: Creating Spaces for Trans Solidarity and Joy

At a time when considerable disinformation is being spread in the press, in the parliament and on university campuses about trans and non-binary identities, University of Edinburgh’s staff networks came […]

23 November 2023

Marking Trans Remembrance Day

To mark Trans Remembrance Day, the Student and Staff Solidarity Network (SSSN), the Staff Pride Network (SPN) and the UCU held a collaborative event entitled Trans Lives: Poetry, Videogames and […]

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