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Who’s Afraid of Gender? In Conversation with Professor Judith Butler
Professor Judith Butler is a world-renowned philosopher and theorist whose writing has made them a household name. Their work has shaped...

Helena de Guise
30 min read


Rebel Rebel: In Conversation with Soheila Sokhanvari
Soheila Sokhanvari is a British-Iranian artist whose diverse practice delves into the complexities of identity, politics, and social...

Nancy Lura
23 min read


Precarity Squared: The Intersectional Lived Experiences of African Transgender Migrants in Sweden
Abstract Sweden is globally considered not only a country with generous refugee reception policies but also a leading example of...

Miles Tanhira
23 min read


That is the Work of Rohingya Women—It Cannot be Mistaken for Anyone Else’s Labour: In Conversation with Yasmin Ullah and Doreen Chen
Yasmin Ullah is a Rohingya author, poet, and human rights activist based in Canada. Born in the North Arakan state of Myanmar/Burma, she...

Alexandra Marcy Hall
31 min read


Afghan Women’s Rights to Education and Health Care in a Culture of Impunity
In the aftermath of the Second World War, just over seventy-five years ago the international community embraced the Universal Declaration...

Sima Samar
15 min read


Sexual Violence and Birth Prevention: Conceptualizing Beijing’s Attacks on Uyghur Reproductive Capacities as a Settler Colonialist Strategy of Attritional Genocide
NOTICE: This article contains information that some readers may find distressing. ‘Take her to the dark room’, said the Han Chinese man...

Adrian Zenz
25 min read


Self-Identity and the Politics of Latex: In Conversation with KV Duong
KV Duong was born in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, in 1980. He emigrated to Toronto, Canada with his family in 1987 and moved to London, UK...

Gabriella Kardos
7 min read


Lady in Blue, Trafalgar Square, London’s Fourth Plinth Commission for 2026: In Conversation with Tschabalala Self
Tschabalala Self (b. 1990 Harlem, USA) lives and works in Hudson Valley, New York. Tschabalala is an artist and builds a singular style...

Gabriella Kardos
5 min read


Defending Global LGBT Rights: In Conversation with Téa Braun
Téa Braun is the Chief Executive of the Human Dignity Trust. She oversees all of the core legal work of the Trust and has been involved...

Abi Dore
16 min read


The Power of Social Movements: In Conversation with Deva Woodly
Deva Woodly is a professor at Brown University. Her research covers media and communication, political understanding of economics, race,...

Eleanor Taylor
22 min read


An Avenue to Justice for Afghan Women: Bringing a CEDAW Case Before the International Court of Justice
An Avenue to Justice for Afghan Women: Bringing a CEDAW Case Before the International Court of Justice[1] In a tumultuous Afghanistan,...


Where are the Women? An Insight into their Presence in International Law
This article discusses international agreements such as the Declaration on the Elimination of Violence Against Women (DEVAW) and the...

Varda Saxena
14 min read


The Fight for Justice for Yazidi Women: In Conversation with Nadia Murad
Nadia Murad is a Yazidi human rights activist. In 2014, she was abducted from her hometown in Iraq, Kocho, by the Islamic State, as part...

Nadia Jahnecke
9 min read


Surviving Female Genital Mutilation: In Conversation with Marie-Claire Kakpotia Koulibaly
Marie-Claire Kakpotia Koulibaly is a feminist and activist fighting to end Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) and forced marriages....

Nadia Jahnecke
22 min read


Neither Maid nor Man: In Conversation with Alex Garden
A snapshot in time of English folk music, queer visibility, and gender non-conformity Alex Garden is a fiddle player, guitarist,...

Abi Dore
23 min read


Life as a Hazara Woman in Afghanistan: In Conversation with Soomaya Javadi
Soomaya Javadi is a Hazara human rights activist who fled Afghanistan with the help of the 30 Birds Foundation. Actively advocating...

Nadia Jahnecke
19 min read


Power and Performativity: In Conversation with Professor Judith Butler
A front-runner in the fight for equality and justice, Professor Judith Butler is one of the most influential philosophers of the past...

Teresa Turkheimer
26 min read


The Thin End of the Wedge: How Trans Rights Have Emerged as a Keystone in the Feminist Politics on Bodily Autonomy
As of this writing, an Alabama law that would have made it a felony in the state to provide a teenager with gender-affirming healthcare,...

Katherine Cross
17 min read


Notes on Counter-Archives: ‘Recovering’ Queer Memory in Contemporary Art
Introduction In Zoe Leonard’s photograph of Fae Richards and June Walker, two women wrap their arms around each other and gaze lovingly...
Sophia Dime
36 min read


The Cis-normativity of Consent in Deceptive Sexual Relations
1. Introduction The criminal law continues to grapple with the concept of ‘deceptive sex’ and struggles to draw the appropriate...

Juana de Leon
42 min read


Mary Wollstonecraft’s Political Philosophy: In Conversation with Sylvana Tomaselli
Sylvana Tomaselli is a historian and lecturer in political philosophy at the University of Cambridge, where she is a fellow of St John’s...

Maria Stella Sendas Mendes
10 min read


Bronzino’s Panciatichi and the Petrarchan Ideal
Fig 1. Portrait of Lucrezia Panciatichi (Bronzino 1545, oil on panel, 102 x 85cm). Uffizi, Florence. Wikimedia Commons....

Ruairi Smith
4 min read


A Queer Theory Reading of Christabel by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Elizabeth Susan Wahl suggests that during the eighteenth century, homosexual relations between women became an ‘open secret’ that was...

Lily-Rose Morris-Zumin
6 min read


Patriarchy and Politics: In Conversation with Professor Cynthia Enloe
Well-known for her book Bananas, Beaches and Bases , exposing the embedded systemic and institutionalised patriarchy that is evident not...

Teresa Turkheimer
13 min read
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