News, Events and Blog Posts
Work-in-progress seminar – 20th July, 1.45-2.45pm – CANCELLED
APOLOGIES: THIS EVENT HAS HAD TO BE CANCELLED AND WILL BE RESCHEDULED (TIME / DATE TBC) We’re delighted to announce...
CIGS reading group – Weds 4th May (4-5.30pm)
We are looking forward to the final CIGS reading group for this academic year on Wednesday 4th May (4-5.30pm). We...
CIGS reading group – Weds 16th March, 4.00-5.30pm
We’re delighted to invite you to our next reading group, which will be held on Weds 16th March (4 –...
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...
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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