Another round of congratulations to @smrodriguez.bsky.social on their promotion to Associate Professor! 👏🎉
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LSE Gender pioneers intersectional, interdisciplinary and transnational research and teaching ➡️ https://www.lse.ac.uk/gender
Catch @asiyaislam.bsky.social’s ‘A Woman’s Job’ and @rkdasgupta.bsky.social’s ‘Desi Queers’ in the lsereviewofbooks.bsky.social list of 10 great social science books for South Asian Heritage Month! blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofb...
Ten great social science books for South Asian Heritage Month - LSE Review of Books
To mark South Asian Heritage Month we've selected ten standout social science books that explore South Asian politics, history, culture and social change.
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🚨 Calling our alumni! Did you receive a scholarship or stipend when you were studying at the department? We’d love to feature you on our website! Like this if you’re interested 🙂
🚨 We’re hiring! Find all details here: jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/... All applicants must have the right to work in the UK.
We absolutely loved hosting @kimberlecrenshaw.bsky.social at LSE Gender for the launch of her newest book ‘Backtalker: An American Memoir’ Saying hi to the people you quote in your dissertation? LSE Gender makes it possible 💛
🚨Come work with us! We're hiring a new Communications and Events Officer! The post holder will take the lead on internal and external departmental-focused communications, and manage the department's public event programme. Apply now: jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...
Communications and Events Officer
Communications and Events Officer, , <p style="margin: 0cm; text-align: center;"><em><span>LSE is committed to building a diverse, equitable and truly inclusive university</span></em></p> <p style="ma...
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🚨 NEW BOOK ALERT Dr Sadie Wearing and Prof Yvonne Tasker reconsider Craigie’s place and reputation in the history of British Cinema in their new book. 🚨 KEEP YOUR EYES PEELED We’ll be celebrating the publication of this exciting new book with a launch event in Autumn Term. Details to follow soon!
New open access article out now co-authored by Dr Sharmila Parmanand! Read it here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Excited to announce that as of September 2026 students on our MSc Gender, Development and Globalisation degree will benefit from collaborative teaching across LSE Gender and @lseid.bsky.social 🤝 We will welcome expert faculty from LSE ID over the 2027 Winter Term. www.lse.ac.uk/study-at-lse...
Ahead of our next termly newsletter, we are looking for new contributions to our Alumni Spotlights! ⭐ Fill out an Alumni Spotlight form now and help us how off our amazing Gender community! tinyurl.com/2t5k922e
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How #resilient is #democracy in #SouthAsia? Here's this year's winning essay 🏆 by Tanishka Kalway @lsegender.bsky.social on 'The Resilience Paradox: How South Asian Democracy Survives its Own Erosion' blogs.lse.ac.uk/southasia/20...
LSE South Asia Centre@lsesouthasia.bsky.social · 3mo agoHUGE Congratulations 💐 to Tanishka Kalway @lsegender.bsky.social for winning @lsesouthasia.bsky.social's 'Vera Anstey South Asia Essay Competition', 2025-26. Your prize of £250 @waterstones.bsky.social book 📚 vouchers is on its way to you.
Despite the gloomy London skyline, we had a blast at last night’s LSE Gender Spring Party! 🌷🌼🪩 Absolutely loved toasting to our amazing 2025-26 cohort and their great work during this acadmic year, as well as our tireless faculty and PSS team, who make LSE Gender the very special place that it is 💘
We’re still not over having hosted the amazing @kimberlecrenshaw.bsky.social last week! 💘 Watch the recording now! youtu.be/B4Jw-NhM7mk
Backtalker: An American Memoir with Kimberlé Crenshaw
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New publications! 🚨 ➡️ @smrodriguez.bsky.social ‘Enforcing the “Unnatural Offence”: Sodomy Legislation and Anti-Queer Panoptic Policing in Uganda': lnkd.in/eKKgtdfp ➡️ @aikoiiris.bsky.social 'The Institutional Politics of WPS: Three Lessons on Resistance from Feminist: lnkd.in/d-RxXBz2
@smrodriguez.bsky.social featured on Runway to Feminist Justice podcast by The Feminist Centre for Racial Justice! Listen now 🎧 open.spotify.com/episode/1BpZ...
Episode 33: 10 Questions with Dr. SM Rodriguez
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We were honoured to host the great Prof Kimberlé Crenshaw this week to launch her memoir BACKTALKER. Kimberlé called LSE Gender her third home, and this event felt like a homecoming in may ways. Thank you to Kimberlé, Clare, @aikoiiris.bsky.social and @hsw.bsky.social for making it happen 💘
Virginia Woolf & People's Suffrage Federation @lselibrary.bsky.social event volunteered addressing envelopes! @lse.library has PSF digital.library.lse.ac.uk/Documents/De... @womenshistnet.bsky.social @fotwl.bsky.social @lsegender.bsky.social @scotsuffragette.bsky.social
Applications to our Summer School course are open now! ☀️🍦 Find out more: www.lse.ac.uk/study-at-lse...
We‘re delighted to host friend of the department Prof Kimberlé Crenshaw for the launch of her new book BACKTALKER: An American Memoir! In Backtalker, Crenshaw traces her journey to becoming one of the most influential legal thinkers today. 🚨 Please note that this event is via invite only.
“This is why they’ve gone after critical race theory, because critical race theory says… discrimination, exclusion can happen in any number of ways that are presumably race-neutral”. Thrilled of course, that Professor Crenshaw is coming to @lsegender.bsky.social to launch her new book ‘Backtalker’!
The New Republic@newrepublic.com · 3mo ago“Anyone who has been following the Supreme Court’s jurisprudence over the last two decades knows that we are looking at a deliberate, devastating approach to the infrastructure of the civil rights movement.” — Kimberlé Crenshaw trib.al/aD0HcAw
The symposium ‘Tensions of Care’ co-edited by @asiyaislam.bsky.social focuses on inherent ’tensions' of care, with particular attention to the dynamics of care in the Global South. ⬇️ antipodeonline.org/2026/04/22/t...
Symposium — “Tensions of Care” - Antipode Online
Organised by Jules Allen, Yasmeen Arif, Asiya Islam, Clare Walsh, and Sibylla Warrington This Symposium examines the “tensions of care” that permeate the everyday practices, politics and infrastructur...
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We’re excited to announce that we’re hosting the @womensbudgetgrp.bsky.social Early Career Network Spring Conference on 27 May at LSE! 💜 Join scholars, practitioners and policymakers for a day of networking, a panel discussion and interactive workshops! Find out more and sign ip via the QR code!
Our Research Officer @ruhikhan.bsky.social has offered an intervention in an article on the implicit sexism in advertising AI employees. Read it here: metro.co.uk/2026/04/15/o...
An 'obscene' advert has appeared at Bristol Airport and we should all be worried
'Regression in disguise'.
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One week to apply in time to be considered for the LSE Graduate Support Scheme! Time to get that application in 🙂↕️
lsegender@lsegender.bsky.social · 5mo ago🫶 The LSE Graduate Support Scheme is open! The application for means-tested funding up to £20k is open to all offer holders until 23 April 2026. Make sure you have submitted your MSc study application in time! Find out more at: www.lse.ac.uk/study-at-lse...
The systemic intersecting oppressions experienced by Palestinian refugee women are “underpinned by [an] anti-Palestinianism, a settler-colonial framework that normalizes Palestinian displacement, erases their history, silences their narratives, and subjects them to structural violence”. 👇🏽👇🏽
lsegender@lsegender.bsky.social · 4mo agoVisting Fellow @afafjabiri.bsky.social has published a chapter in the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Migration Studies titled 'Palestinian Refugee Women: The Nakba as Juncture-Point and Jordan‘s Response' ⬇️ Read here: academic.oup.com/edited-volum...
Visting Fellow @afafjabiri.bsky.social has published a chapter in the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Migration Studies titled 'Palestinian Refugee Women: The Nakba as Juncture-Point and Jordan‘s Response' ⬇️ Read here: academic.oup.com/edited-volum...
Palestinian Refugee Women: The Nakba as Juncture-Point and Jordan’s Response
Abstract. This article argues that any study of Palestinian refugee women must center the Nakba—the 1948 “catastrophe”—as a juncture-point and ongoing rupt
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