News, Events and Blog Posts
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...
Upcoming CIGS events – dates for the diary
We are pleased to announce an exciting programme of events for the coming semester. These talks are all part of...
Research Seminar: Dr Hongwei Bao (Nottingham), Weds 16th June, 12-1.30pm
We are delighted to welcome: Speaker: Hongwei Bao (University of Nottingham) to present Title: Digital Video Activism: Queer Media in...
Research Seminar: Dr Francesca Sobande (Cardiff) Weds 9th June, 12-1.30pm
We are delighted to welcome: Speaker: Francesca Sobande, University of Cardiff Chair: Kim Allen Title: The Internet’s “Transnational” Boyfriend: Digital...
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...
Convivial Encounters in Cosmetic Surgery Tourism
By Ruth Holliday – Professor of Gender and Culture. (This post was originally published by the Sociological Review ) Cosmetic...
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“For anyone missing @CIGSLeeds Writing Together Tuesdays, this looks great. twitter.com/Felicity_A95/s…”
“New @CIGSLeeds blogpost - a moving and thought-provoking first-person account of the experience of diagnosis and tr… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…”