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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...
CIGS Statement on Black Lives Matter
CIGS members want to express our solidarity with all those involved in, or affected by, recent Black Lives Matter protests...
CIGS Writing Together Tuesdays….
For the last couple of months, we’ve been running the CIGS Writing Together Wednesdays, attracting gender studies students and scholars...
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...
Sexual violence at gigs
Rosemary Lucy Hill discusses sexual harassment, assault and groping at live music events, and what can be done about it....