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The Gender & Sexualities Research Centre is based at City, University of London.
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I just realised the book launch video for our fab collection Feminism and Protest Camps is online, for your delectation and delight. Check out mighty contributions from Mahealani Ahia, Kahala Johnston, Niamh Moore Dr Anastasia Kavada (Mastodon: @anakavada) youtu.be/U3fD_IVZ4Io Bristol Uni Press abartlett
My article on how working-class women became early users of TikTok in Pakistan is now out Social Media+Society. I do fun things like analyzing class dynamics, 'digital purdah', 'half-videos' and TikToks made to the Bollywood item number Garmi. Read here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20…
“The authors identify (and critique) the confidence imperative as a new strand of popular ‘feminism’ retrofitted for today’s neoliberal paradigm.”
Iana Robitaille reviews “Confidence Culture” by Shani Orgad & Rosalind Gill (2022, Duke University Press).
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It was a pleasure to review Dr Koen Slootmaeckers's book 'Coming In: Sexual Politics and EU Accession in Serbia' for the LSE Review of Books. Highly recommended read!🌈
I'm thrilled to announce the new journal 'Feminist Translation Studies', to be published by Taylor & Francis (Taylor & Francis) in 2024. For more info & Call for Papers for inaugural issue: warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/moder… So happy to be working with María Laura Spoturno & Vasiliki Misiou! Taylor&Francis News
New on the Feminist Futures Programme blog❗
🚨 'Mapping the Asylum-Industrial Complex' 🚨
With Migrants Organise, Helen Brewer explores how the UK’s asylum regime is shaped by spatial, institutional and financial structures of private contracting and political neglect
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Very excited for the opening of the Exhibition “Sheltered Pride”/“Zaštićeni Praijd” this Wednesday in Belgrade.
#Europride22 #BelgradePride #LGBTRights #SchelteredPride #ZesticeniPraijd
A great review of Jo Littler's book 'Left Feminisms' from Marin Scarlett in the latest Red Pepper.
Order Left Feminisms here 👉bit.ly/3WuD7pc
Great to read this thoughtful and engaged review of Left Feminisms in the new Red Pepper - thanks Marin Scarlett
The cult of being confident and why it doesn’t help women Psyche Magazine: tinyurl.com/2mdys6zn
By making women solely responsible for their own empowerment, the culture of confidence masks the true causes of inequality - #ShaniOrgad LSE Media & Communications & #RosalindGill GSRC
New #OpenAccess publication 📢 In this paper, I argue that racism in Turkey is intertwined with the biological reproduction of the Turkish and Sunni-Muslim population, enabling patriarchal political actors to reinforce essentialist notions of 'sex' and 'gender'. ++
Huge congrats to ℤ𝕠𝕖 𝔾𝕝𝕒𝕥𝕥 ✨️ for passing her viva today with no corrections! ✨She'll be joining Microsoft Research New England as a Postdoc Researcher in July!👏
🤳Zoe's PhD is concerned with understanding the lived experiences of aspiring & professional YouTube content creators: lse.ac.uk/media-and-comm…
Looking forward to our upcoming 20th anniversary conference #LSEMediaFutures
📅 15-16 June 2023
A fantastic lineup of speakers & great opportunity to meet leading experts & scholars in the field.
Access the conference outline & registration here: lse.ac.uk/media-and-comm…
Thanks to Dave O'Brien for interviewing me about the Left Feminisms book!
(I thought there was no way we could cover that many questions in half an hour, but I was wrong..)
Brilliant presentation by Xintong who explores how we can do non-exploitative interviews in social research by seeking to understand pts’ experiences rather than interrogating them for data #DifficultConversationsFeministDialogues #britsoc23