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24 April 2023

On Menstrual Justice

Professor Marcy Karin shares her remarks from the GENDER.ED-IASH event on Reproductive Justice to mark International Women’s Day in 2023. We don’t talk about menstrual injustice enough, she writes. On […]

21 April 2023

Period Poverty, University of Edinburgh

17 April 2023

Introducing the Feminist Dossier on Reproductive Justice

One of the reasons that people access our blog is to read and hear about academic work that is written for broad audiences. Our blogs can be used in classrooms […]

14 April 2023

Supporting inclusive peace through technology: PeaceFem app V2 now live

The PeaceFem mobile app provides insights and strategies to support women’s inclusion in peacebuilding. Version 2 is now live with additional case studies and translations into French and Indonesian, alongside […]

10 April 2023

Actors of change: female activists fight for peace in the DRC

Caption: Peacebuilder Madeline Akida speaks during a meeting between local women and the families of a Congolese army commando unit stationed at a nearby garrison, Beni, July 2022. Photo credit: Hugh […]

07 April 2023

72 Hours in Canberra: The Feminist Imperative and the Dilemmas of the Contemporary Academic’s Impactful Labour

In our Friday long read, Professor Sarah Childs explains her ground-breaking work on Gender-Sensitive Parliament audits and invites us into the backstage life of a feminist academic out to both study and change the world.

04 April 2023

Blackness, Pan-African Consciousness and Women’s Political Organising through the Magazine AWA

In this blog, cross-posted from African Arguments and part of Rosebell Kagumire’s African Feminisms series examining social and feminist movements on the continent, the authors analyse the role of the […]

31 March 2023

A must read for ECAs: Advice on writing and disseminating your research through a feminist lens

Image: Panelists at the GENDER.ED panel on writing and disseminating research in gender and sexuality studies

27 March 2023

Ensure Empathetic Understanding of Women’s Safety for Gender-Responsive Public Transport Futures

In the last post of our dossier on Building Feminist Cities, Swati Kumari from the Edinburgh Earth Initiative shares her research that complicates ideas of safety. Adopting an intersectional approach […]

The team at Safetipin (11 people) standing in a semicircle and smiling at the camera

24 March 2023

Safetipin: Building a world where everyone can move without fear

The team at Safetipin

13 March 2023

Strut Safe – The phone service dedicated to helping you get home safely

Image sourced from Strut Safe Twitter https://twitter.com/strutsafe?lang=en 

10 March 2023

Building Feminist Cities: A Transnational Conversation

GENDER.ED sat down with two groups who work on building feminist cities to ask them what they do and how they do it!

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