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Welcome to our Gender, Intersectionality & Health blog. Here, members from the Gender Centre alongside guest writers and students reflect on their own work, events we have hosted, current affairs and debates in the realms of Gender and Health. We aim for a diverse range of perspectives on these complex yet productive intersections, including; colonialism, violence and conflict, migration history, nutrition patterns and globalisation.
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We always welcome contributions, and if you are interested in writing for us, please get in touch at [email protected] or send us your submission.

February 10, 2021

Gender & Health in the Global Economy of Knowledge - Raewyn Connell

Imogen Bakelmun

A reflection on the first seminar from the Lancet Commission on Gender and Global Health with Commissioner Raewyn Connell, whose presentation questioned where gender and health are positioned within the global economy of knowledge, coloniality and inequality.

February 1, 2021

Reflections on the Borders: Is Migrant Health Racialised?

Imogen Bakelmun

From dialectics of disease to racial states, neo-racism to cultural competency, Imogen Bakelmun reflects on the second webinar in the Borderings series and the complex, entangled ways that migrant health is racialised.

November 30, 2020

Canada’s dark side: Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, state violence, and intersectionality

Vera Lopez Fernandez

Global Health 50/50 undergraduate dissertation prize winner Vera Lopez Fernandez applies an intersectional methodology to explore the political, social and historical dimensions of the ongoing epidemic of missing and murdered Indigenous women.

November 17, 2020

Reflections on the Borders: Are Single Male Labour Migrants Being Neglected?

Imogen Bakelmun

Are single male migrants and their health needs neglected? If yes, then why? And if not, then who is charged with looking after their health? Imogen Baklemun reflects on the first webinar of the Borderings series.

November 3, 2020

A Case for Positionality

David Swanson

David Swanson makes a case for a critical and reflective positionality that helps you to better understand the influences, biases, and privileges that frame your understanding of the world around you.

October 19, 2020

A doctor’s Survival Kit for the Hostile Environment and Racism in the UK

Roghieh Dehghan

'How can I stay sane and thrive in a society populated by racism and many other forms of oppression? That is the question I was asking myself.' Dr Roghieh Dehghan unpacks her personal experience of prejudice in her survival kit for health workers who are forced to endure racism.

July 16, 2020

Silence and Stillness—A Virus, Voices, and Violence.

Ayesha Ahmad

Ayesha Ahmad poetically reflects on her role as a researcher on gender-based violence and mental trauma.

July 3, 2020

Nothing to Lose

Lillian Noeli

Lillian Noeli, founder of Sauti Dada Africa, takes a look at how COVID-19 has impacted the lives of women and girls living in the Pokot community in the Eastern part of Baringo County, Kenya

June 25, 2020

US Global Gag Rule- How is it crippling women’s health in Nepal?

Kusum Wagle

Kusum Wagle explores how the US Global Gag Rule has affected women's health in Nepal and considers the role of government, international donor agencies, NGOs and INGOs play in mitigating its impact.