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LSE Inequalities @lseinequalities.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Brands market garments as “handcrafted” or “traditionally made”, often to justify premium prices. But how are such claims verified and how are the proceeds shared? @rkdasgupta.bsky.social @nazlialimen.bsky.social & Diviani Chaudhuri on “craftwashing” #LSEInequalitiesBlog buff.ly/xIorT8d
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Craftwashing: Misleading claims about artisanship, heritage or working conditions
Claims about artisanship, heritage and sustainability are used to justify premium prices. But are they verified - or is there a risk of “craftwashing”?
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lsegender @lsegender.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
📕 BOOK LAUNCH 📕 Join us on 14 October for the official launch of Creative Critical Interventions for Social Justice, co-edited by @natashatanna.bsky.social, @abeyamiortega.bsky.social, and our faculty member, @hsw.bsky.social Find out more here: www.lse.ac.uk/gender/event...
A graphic showing the cover of Creative Critical Interventions for Social Justice
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Heather Dawson @socialscience2.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Welcome, @lselibrary.bsky.social Here is a quick look at @lseanthropology.bsky.social @lsepbs.bsky.social @lsegender.bsky.social @lsehealthpolicy.bsky.social @lseid.bsky.social As I am lucky enough to be the Librarian. More help here www.lse.ac.uk/library/abou... Hope to see you soon.
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lsegender @lsegender.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
We’re delighted to welcome Prof Susan Stryker back to LSE Gender to launch her new book “Changing Gender” published with @serpents-tail.bsky.social Get your free ticket now! ⬇️
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lsegender @lsegender.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
We're delighted to announce that Professor Wendy Sigle has been elected as a Fellow of the Academy of Science for her work advancing the field of critical and feminist demography. So many world-leading academics call LSE Gender their professional home 🎉 www.lse.ac.uk/news/lse-aca...
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Fellows | Academy of Social Sciences | LSE academics
Three LSE academics - Professor Tania Burchardt, Professor Coretta Phillips and Professor Wendy Sigle - have been elected Fellows of the Academy of Social Sciences for their impactful research.
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LSE Blogs @lseblogs.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
"A traditional academic book morphed into a political memoir, with a title that traces Crenshaw’s own trajectory of “backtalking” – refusing to quietly accept injustice." Backtalker, reviewed by Clare Hemmings and @aikoiiris.bsky.social @lsegender.bsky.social for @lsereviewofbooks.bsky.social
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Kimberlé Crenshaw – becoming a “backtalker” and a life fighting injustice - LSE Review of Books
A new memoir by Kimberlé Crenshaw – the feminist scholar behind critical race theory & intersectionality – on the experiences that shaped her intellectual life.
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LSE Review of Books @lsereviewofbooks.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
NEW: Kimberlé Crenshaw – becoming a “backtalker” and a life fighting injustice Backtalker: An American Memoir by @kimberlecrenshaw.bsky.social, the thinker behind critical race theory and intersectionality. Review by Clare Hemmings and @aikoiiris.bsky.social @lsegender.bsky.social
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Kimberlé Crenshaw – becoming a “backtalker” and a life fighting injustice - LSE Review of Books
A new memoir by Kimberlé Crenshaw – the feminist scholar behind critical race theory & intersectionality – on the experiences that shaped her intellectual life.
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lsegender @lsegender.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Congratulations to our wonderful 2025-26 cohort on submitting their dissertation yesterday! 🎉 It’s always a delight celebrating this milestone 👏🏻🥂
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Heather Dawson @socialscience2.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Women are not to be eclipsed! cartoon @lselibrary.bsky.social Votes for Women April 12, 1912. on 17/4/12 there was a solar Eclipse digital.library.lse.ac.uk/Documents/De... #eclipse @lsegender.bsky.social @womenshistnet.bsky.social @scotsuffragette.bsky.social
Front page of the Votes for Women newspaper dated 12 April 1912, displayed as an open page from a bound volume. A large illustration beneath the headline “Not to be Eclipsed!” shows a figure riding a broomstick and carrying a flag, flying across a darkened sky beside an eclipse, with the Houses of Parliament silhouetted below. The lower half of the page contains columns of news text and a contents list.
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LSE Blogs @lseblogs.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Women are disproportionately impacted by climate change and biodiversity loss – but they are also leading the way when it comes to innovative solutions to the ecological crisis, writes Zainab Salbi on @lseinequalities.bsky.social
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How women are healing the planet from the ground up
Women are leading when it comes to innovative solutions to the ecological crisis, based on a relationship with nature grounded in care and stewardship
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lsegender @lsegender.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Another round of congratulations to @smrodriguez.bsky.social on their promotion to Associate Professor! 👏🎉
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lsegender @lsegender.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
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...
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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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lsegender @lsegender.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
🚨 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 🙂
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lsegender @lsegender.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
One week left to apply!
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lsegender @lsegender.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
🚨 We’re hiring! Find all details here: jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/... All applicants must have the right to work in the UK.
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lsegender @lsegender.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
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 💛
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lsegender @lsegender.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
🚨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/...
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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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lsegender @lsegender.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
🚨 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!
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lsegender @lsegender.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
New open access article out now co-authored by Dr Sharmila Parmanand! Read it here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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lsegender @lsegender.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
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...
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lsegender @lsegender.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
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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LSE South Asia Centre @lsesouthasia.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
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...
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lsegender @lsegender.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
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 💘
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lsegender @lsegender.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Students! Sign up via the newsletter! 🙂‍↕️
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Kimberlé Crenshaw @kimberlecrenshaw.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Thank you for having me! ❤️
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lsegender @lsegender.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
We’re still not over having hosted the amazing @kimberlecrenshaw.bsky.social last week! 💘 Watch the recording now! youtu.be/B4Jw-NhM7mk
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Backtalker: An American Memoir with Kimberlé Crenshaw
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lsegender @lsegender.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
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
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lsegender @lsegender.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
@smrodriguez.bsky.social featured on Runway to Feminist Justice podcast by The Feminist Centre for Racial Justice! Listen now 🎧 open.spotify.com/episode/1BpZ...
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Episode 33: 10 Questions with Dr. SM Rodriguez
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lsegender @lsegender.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
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 💘
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Heather Dawson @socialscience2.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
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
typewritten letter heading peoples suffrage foundation
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lsegender @lsegender.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Applications to our Summer School course are open now! ☀️🍦 Find out more: www.lse.ac.uk/study-at-lse...
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lsegender @lsegender.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
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.
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Sumi Madhok @sumimadhok.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
“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’!
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lsegender @lsegender.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
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...
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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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lsegender @lsegender.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
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!
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lsegender @lsegender.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
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...
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An 'obscene' advert has appeared at Bristol Airport and we should all be worried
'Regression in disguise'.
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lsegender @lsegender.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
One week to apply in time to be considered for the LSE Graduate Support Scheme! Time to get that application in 🙂‍↕️
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Sumi Madhok @sumimadhok.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
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”. 👇🏽👇🏽
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lsegender @lsegender.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
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...
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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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LSE Department of Government @lsegovernment.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
📢 Public Event Announcement Join us for the launch of "Tribal Politics: How Brexit decided Britain" on Tuesday 5 May at 6.00pm Further details and tickets available 👇 www.lse.ac.uk/government/e... #LSEEvents @lseevents.bsky.social @sarahobolt.bsky.social @anandmenon.bsky.social
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Tribal Politics
A free public event hosted by the Department of Government launching Professor Sara Hobolt and Professor James Tilley's new book, Tribal Politics.
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lsegender @lsegender.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Happening now! Trans Lives: In conversation with Raewyn Connell joined by @smrodriguez.bsky.social and @hsw.bsky.social 🫶
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lsegender @lsegender.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Last chance to join our conversation with Raewyn Connell and @smrodriguez.bsky.social tonight! Free tickets here: www.lse.ac.uk/gender/event... @hsw.bsky.social
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lsegender @lsegender.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
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...
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lsegender @lsegender.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Meet Mahnoor, our GPS student who has recently been honoured by @time magazine as one of its Women of the Year 2026! LSE Gender students change the world ❤️ If you would also like to learn invaluable knowledge and skills to make the world a better place, visit the link in bio 🔗
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lsegender @lsegender.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Dr Zeynep Kilicoglu has published an articld with the International Feminist Journal of Politics 👏 Read it here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Coming back to life from “social death”: creating and regulating women-only/feminist spaces with/for women refugees in the UK
Refugeehood may epitomize what Achille Mbembe (2003, “Necropolitics.” Public Culture 15 (1): 11–40) refers to as “death worlds,” where individuals are dehumanized and excluded from everyday spaces ...
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lsegender @lsegender.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Two days to go until our event with the amazing Raewyn Connell and @smrodriguez.bsky.social 🫶 Grab your free ticket now: www.lse.ac.uk/gender/event...
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lsegender @lsegender.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
We loved hosting Dilar Dirik, Farangis Ghaderi, Elif Sarican yesterday with @lsemiddleeast.bsky.social 🫶 @hsw.bsky.social
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lsegender @lsegender.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Meet Simone, our MSc Gender, Development and Globalisation student who’s studying at the department by way of Denmark and New York! Being a student at LSE Gender opens up incredible opportunities in a variety of fields! Find out more about studying at LSE Gender at the link in bio! 🔗
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lsegender @lsegender.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
🚨 We have a few tickets left for tomorrow’s exciting event with @lsemiddleeast.bsky.social ⬇️ Grab your tickets now: www.lse.ac.uk/gender/event...
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