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Category: My Feminisms

Reclaiming the Muslim Woman’s Body by Faiqa Mansab

5th July 20225th July 2022  Faiqa Mansab

Faiqa Mansab discusses the prejudice and oppression – patriarchal, Islamophobic and colonial – that Muslim women face the world over and asks for a form of feminism which centres their needs and experiences too.

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Posted in My Feminisms, Opinion, PoliticsTagged: Bodies, Faiqa Mansab, Feminism, menstruation, Muslim Women, My Body's Bodies Editorial, opinion piece, Rawdah Mohamed, Shamsia Hassani, the hijab

Are Black Women Academics Really Included in Women’s Month Celebrations?

10th April 201922nd April 2019  Furaha Asani

UK universities are celebrating International Women’s Month (IWM), but Black women academics are still getting left behind, writes our contributor Dr Furaha Asani.

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Posted in My Feminisms, Opinion, Postgraduate CornerTagged: Academia, Athena SWAN, Black Early Career Researchers, Dr Furaha Asani, Dr Nicola Rollock, Feminism, Higher Education, International Women's Month, Intersectional Feminism, Race Equality Charter, Universities

They say it is love. We say it is gendered labour.

8th March 20198th April 2019  Harriet Thompson

Gender disparity doesn’t just exist in the home and workplace, but in university classrooms too. Our contributor Harriet Thompson considers the imbalance of gendered admin labour in higher education and calls for institutional change.

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Posted in My Feminisms, Opinion, Postgraduate CornerTagged: Academia, Doctoral Study, Emotional Labour, Emotional Work, Gender disparity, gendered admin labour, gendered labour, Mental Load, unpaid work, Wages for Housework
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