Carlos Halaburda's Presentation: Queer/ Crip Theory Workshop
We are deligthed to shared Dr. Carlos Halaburda presentation "Sentimental Disability: Queer Melodrama and Crip Bodies in 20th Century Argentine Theatre." - this presentation was...
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BSA X CIGS: Researching feminism in East and south-east Asia (ESEA)
BSA X CIGS Postgraduate forum regional event: Researching feminism in East and south-east Asia (ESEA) by Taoyuan Luo The British Sociological Association (BSA) postgraduate...
Feminist History at Leeds
Feminist History at Leeds By Dr Jill Liddington, Honorary Research Fellow. I am a feminist historian, inspired by Sheila Rowbotham’s pioneering text, Hidden from...
Students' Zines about the International Women's Day
We are pleased to share a collection of Zines produced by the students of the Sociology of Gender. In this opportunity, we reimagined International Women's...
#MeToo in China Exhibition at the University of Leeds (5-9 December)
A new exhibition demonstrating the history of the Chinese #MeToo movement since 2018 is coming to the University of Leeds campus. It tells a history...
New ESRC-funded research project exploring young women's working lives.
New research led by CIGS members Dr Kim Allen and Dr Kate Hardy will examine how women’s early experiences of employment shape long-term career paths...
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 centre over the years. Here,...
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 Diagnosis ‘It is cancer’. An...
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 Y. Davis As many of...
#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 sport. Wrestling is an unusual...