News, Events and Blog Posts
CIGS reading group – Weds 2 February, 4-5.30pm
For this session, we will be reading and discussing Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again: Women and Desire in...
CIGS reading group – Semester 2 schedule
We are delighted to announce the schedule for this semester’s CIGS reading group. Below you can find a brief listing...
Work In Progress seminar – Weds 3rd Nov, 4-5.30pm
We are delighted to host the first of this year’s Work In Progress seminars on Weds 3rd November (4 –...
CIGS Reading Group – Weds 27th October, 4-5.30pm
The first CIGS reading group of the year is on Wednesday 27th October, 4-5.30pm. We will be discussing Sophie Lewis’...
Remembering Matthew Wilkinson (1972-2021)
CIGS members were deeply saddened by the loss of our colleague Matthew Wilkinson, who played a key role in the...
Coping With and Thinking About the Big C
Coping With and Thinking About the Big C: The Experience and Reflections of a Young Feminist after a Breast Cancer...
Intersectional Feminism in Action: Sisters Uncut Leeds
“I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept.” ― Angela...
#ComingOut: Wrestling’s #MeToo and a moment of reckoning
I spent 2019 conducting ethnographic fieldwork in and around professional wrestling as part of my project into concussion in contact...
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