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Black Women at Edinburgh's logo. The logo is a circle that features a graphic of three black women. The logo also reads 'Black Women at Edinburgh'. The text is written in a cursive-like font.

The rise of Black femicide in the United Kingdom

Ruweyda Ahmed discusses the rise of Black femicide in the United Kingdom, emphasizing the urgent need for increased media coverage, culture-specific policies, and the validation of Black women and girls’ vulnerability.

Photo of co-presidents Wardah and Kaashvi at the Student Awards. Wardah is holding an award made of glass and Kaashvi is holding a certificate that reads 'Student Awards: Winner: Brown Girl Society'. They are both smiling and wearing beautiful, ball-like dresses.

A Year in Gatherings: Brown Girl* Society’s First Year of Community

Avani Tilekar reflects on Brown Girl* Society's (BG*S) very first full year as an official society at the University of Edinburgh.

Portrait of Maria Tsuma smiling. She is wearing a sparkly turtleneck jumper and has her arm crossed.

International Women’s Day 2025 “Beyond Numbers: Reimagining True Systemic Change for Gender Equality.”

Maria Tsuma, MSc student in Africa and International Development at the University of Edinburgh, reflects on International Women's Day, systemic change vs. individual responsibility, and what a feminist future would look like.

On the left, there is a status of Elsie Inglish and on the right, there is a plaque marking the centenary year of Dr Elsie Inglis death. At the top of the plaque, there is a University of Edinburgh logo, beneath that, the plaque reads: 'The Dr Elsie Inglis Quadrangle: 1864-1917: Founder, Scottish Women's Suffrage Federation and Scottish Women's Hospitals, philanhtropist, and graduate of the University.

The Elsie Inglis statue ‘controversy’: gender and empire in Edinburgh’s built environment

The erection of new statues is often as contentious as the removal or recontextualisation of old ones. Edinburgh City Council is under fire for plans for a statue on Edinburgh’s […]
Poster of the boundary crossing seminar listing all the speakers. It reads Boundary Crossing: The Transnational Travels of Social Reproduction at the top.

Boundary Crossings: The Reproductive Work of Thinking Together

Our day-long seminar provided a unique opportunity to engage with state-of-the-art discussions on different aspects of the social reproduction debate.
On the left side of the photo, a woman is standing with her arms crossed. On the right side, a woman is standing and smiling. In each of her hands, she is holding the hand of a child. All people in the photo are covered by shadows, so it is difficult to tell their exact facial expressions.

Care Inc. Testimonies of care home and nursery workers

Sara Farris, one of the participants in our conference, shares her hard-hitting film on social reproduction and racialized migrant life: Care Inc. Testimonies of care home and nursery workers
informal conversations before the seminar on social reproduction

Climate Change in the Indian Subcontinent: Crises of Social Reproduction under Capitalism

In 2015, the city of Chennai, with a population of population of 12 million suffered one of the worst floods that affected the Coromandel coast of South India. More than […]
Display of art works at the Old College of the University of Edinburgh. The display is located below a staircase and consists of a variety of vibrant and colourful pieces. There is a plant across the artwork.

Curating collections in the Old College campus

Claire Walsh revisits her presentation at the Boundary Crossing Seminar in May 2024, reflecting on how curatorial practice can engage with social reproduction themes. She focuses on a display of artworks installed at the Old College last year and how this navigates institutional power and heritage spaces.

A still from an NHS facility from Alberta Whittle

Curating Social Reproduction

In the call for papers for this event Hemangini and Tatiana asked for creative or artistic provocations which address themeans through which our scholarship might capture issues of social reproduction.
the poster in a shade of pink featuring the speakers at the seminar

Boundary Crossings: A seminar on the transnational travels of social reproduction

This is a brief dossier featuring panelists from the Sociological Review Foundation-sponsored seminar on social reproduction hosted by Tatiana Sanchez-Parra and Hemangini Gupta at the University of Edinburgh. We had […]
Anonymous Flemish master, 'Young woman on her deathbed', c.1621. The woman is lying in a bed underneath a blanket with her hands on top of the blanket. Her head is rested on a big pillow.

3 Funerals and a Wedding? A Seventeenth-century Woman’s Reasons for Writing

This post asks what motivated a Yorkshire gentlewoman, Alice Thornton, to write four accounts of her life in the late seventeenth century. From losing her own mother to wanting to […]
Photo of Dr Lucía Berro Pizzarossa and another person talking next to two screens before the lecture. Behind them are three screens that read 'Unruly abortions: Between refusal and prefiguration'. The screen also has photos of slogans/posters by self-managed abortion collectives.

Unruly Abortions: Between Refusal and Prefiguration

In the second of two blogs about the Reproductive Justice network of the Edinburgh Centre for Medical Anthropology, GENDER.ED’s Undergraduate Intern, Mouna Chatt reflects on a seminar by Lucía Berro […]

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