News, Events and Blog Posts
CIGS reading group – Alison Kafer’s “Feminist Queer Crip”: CANCELLED
** As a result of the UCU strike action on 1-3 December, this event is now cancelled. We will add...
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’...
Upcoming CIGS events
We are excited to announce our programme of events for this term. All events will be online and all are...
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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