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Showcasing excellence in gender and sexuality studies teaching, research and KEI at @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social. Hosted by @iashedinburgh.bsky.social, powered by @uoe-sps.bsky.social #UoE_genderED
ICYMI!
Book Launch - Unwilling to Know: Male Homosexuality at the Crossroads of Europe, 1870 - 1965, with the Histories of Gender and Sexualities Research Group.
With author Wannes Dupont
16 March, 12:30, CMB
Register: edin.ac/4sNTI8v
New event announcements!
International Women’s Day Book Event: Feminism for the World - 19 March edin.ac/4sm4SjA
Creative methods across disciplines: From peace building in Colombia to storytelling in Scotland - 24 March edin.ac/4rMccoJ
ECR Spotlight series: Meenal Rawat explores how caste and gender shape ritual authority in the Indian Himalayas, through the lens of deity possession. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork, it reveals how sacred spaces mirror social hierarchies, even as they promise healing.
edin.ac/40D9WnL
Nominations for the 2026 GENDER.ED - EUSA UG Feminist Trailblazers Awards are now open!
This award seeks to recognise extraordinary commitments to feminist scholarship and change on campus.
To nominate yourself or others by 13 April, visit: forms.office.com/e/AwJ4Z5wyjg
More from our ECR Spotlight blog series: Justine Chemin critiques Robert Bly’s mythopoetic mission for its symbolic revision of masculinity as a solution against an assumed masculine unease, asking how the mythopoetic narrative redefines masculinity according to “new” standards.
edin.ac/3KuKufy
Today is the day!
LGBTQ+ History Month: Scottish Trans Pasts, Useable and Otherwise?, with HCA.
Fri 27 Feb, 5.15pm - 6.45pm, EFI
Register: edin.ac/4bHIoVh
New on the blog!
Continuing our ECR Spotlight blog series, here Mano Mandal reflects on ‘belonging’ through ambiguous linguistic categories, while doing ethnographic fieldwork as a transgender researcher, working with cisgender people.
edin.ac/3OCiLeU
You can still register for LGBTQ+ History Month: Scottish Trans Pasts, Useable and Otherwise?, with @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social
TOMORROW, Fri 27 Feb, 5.15pm - 6.45pm, EFI
Register:
Last chance to apply!
As part of our Annual Research Showcase on 26 May, we will be celebrating UG research in gender and sexuality studies!
Edinburgh Uni UG students, fill out this form by Friday 27 Feb to express interest in featuring your research: edin.ac/461lynG
Apply for the IASH/GENDER.ED Communications and Events Internship!
ONLY open to 2nd year to penultimate year UG UoE students.
Closing Date: 18 March 2026, 23:59.
Click for more info and to apply.
edin.ac/3OVlEaG
New on the blog!
Continuing our ECR Spotlight series, Bryony Nisbet discusses her research with forcibly displaced lone parents, and how gender impacts invitations to support and research.
edin.ac/4pRnKX7
Women in Politics and International Relations are hosting a book launch for Chrystal Macmillan: Campaigner for Equality, Justice and Peace, and GENDER.ED are honoured to co-badge.
25 Feb, 3-5pm, G.03 - Doorway 6 (Medical School, Teviot)
Tickets: www.eusa.ed.ac.uk/shop?activit...
ICYMI!
As part of our Annual Research Showcase on 26 May, we will be celebrating UG research in gender and sexuality studies!
Edinburgh Uni UG students, fill out this form by 27 Feb to express interest in featuring your research: edin.ac/461lynG
New on the blog!
Continuing our ECR Spotlight series, Prerna Singh challenges the dominance of “hygiene” in menstrual health discourse, showing how it erases lived realities and imposes one-size-fits-all solutions. Based on ethnographic research in an informal settlement in Delhi.
edin.ac/3ZAmX17
On the blog!
Again approaching Valentine’s Day with critical feminist and queer insight – and kicking off our ECR Spotlight blog series – Abby McCutcheon delves into the debates surrounding ‘ethics’ and ‘consent’ in non-monogamous relationships. Enjoy!
edin.ac/4o0zncG
Just announced!
LGBTQ+ History Month: Scottish Trans Pasts, Useable and Otherwise?
27 Feb, 5.15 - 6.45pm, 2.55, EFI
Organised by @@hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social and co-badged by GENDER.ED.
More info and register:
On the blog!
Approaching Valentine’s Day with feminist political economy sass, Zeynep Temel critiques the “love languages” therapeutic framework for obscuring gendered emotional labour and structural inequality.
edin.ac/4tl4wet
This week! Book Forum: Janet Carsten’s Marriage and the Moral Imagination
Friday 13 Feb, 3pm-5pm, Violet Laidlaw Room, Chrystal Macmillan Building.
Co-badged with @crfr.bsky.social, Social Anthropology, and the Kinship Hub.
Register here: edin.ac/4qnMKVW
New on the blog!
More LGBTQ+ History Month! In this blog Poppy Watson delves into Edinburgh’s queer history, unveiling the story of two school teachers, accused by their pupil of having 'inordinate affection' for each other in the early 19th century.
edin.ac/4qNKjw5
Next week! Book Forum: Janet Carsten’s Marriage and the Moral Imagination
Friday 13 Feb, 3pm-5pm, Violet Laidlaw Room, Chrystal Macmillan Building.
Co-badged with @crfr.bsky.social, Social Anthropology, and the Kinship Hub.
Register here: edin.ac/4qnMKVW
On the blog!
To kick off LGBTQ+ History Month, in this blog Alexandra Wallace summarises her undergraduate research, which explored how young people first learnt about queer identity in postwar Britain, and the implications of her findings for how we think about identity.
edin.ac/45JMkkr
We were delighted to host Charlotte Bosseaux's book launch of A Voice of Their Own. Encouraging Caring and Ethical Practices in Trauma Screen Translation on Friday, alongside LLC, IASH and EFI.
Check out our events page to see what else we have coming up. www.gender.ed.ac.uk/events
Read Irene Neophytou's blog, which won first prize in the 2025 Queer Futures competition! Irene analyses how artists queer gender by appropriating its coded gestures, amplifying them to the point of rupture, and thereby generate a liminal, defiant space.
edin.ac/4bRYbAI
As part of our Annual Research Showcase on 26 May, we will be celebrating UG research in gender and sexuality studies!
Edinburgh Uni UG students, fill out this form by 27 Feb to express interest in featuring your research: edin.ac/461lynG
There is still time to register!
Professor Charlotte Bosseaux's book launch A Voice of Their Own. Encouraging Caring and Ethical Practices in Trauma Screen Translation.
Fri 30 Jan, 2-5pm, CMB / online
Visit: edin.ac/4jLfqFI
Join us for the launch of East African Queer & Trans Displacements, an open-access collection exploring migration, belonging and resistance amid rising homophobia and transphobia in East Africa.
23 March, 11am-12.30pm, CMB or online
Register here: edin.ac/4rdZxub
Read Lucy Wilson’s runner-up Queer Futures Prize-winning essay, offering a historical analysis of current social media use of the term ‘mother’, arguing how LGBTQ+ subcultures manipulate gendered language to subvert conventional understandings of family and create community.
edin.ac/49GsN6X
New on the blog!
Elisha Sellick explores how Sappho’s voice reaches across millennia to challenge our modern habits of seeing and performing, offering instead a lyric of presence, tenderness, and reciprocity.
Read: edin.ac/3LyAy5F
ICYMI!
Charlotte Bosseaux's book launch A Voice of Their Own. Encouraging Caring and Ethical Practices in Trauma Screen Translation.
With @uoe-llc.bsky.social, @iashedinburgh.bsky.social and @edfuturesinstitute.bsky.social
Fri 30 Jan, 2-5pm, CMB/online
Register: edin.ac/4jLfqFI
New on the blog!
Mia Smith argues that the Women, Peace and Security agenda must move beyond crisis response to confront the structural injustices driving climate insecurity.
Read: edin.ac/4jVYLj6