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CONFERENCE FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES FOR UK BASED FEMINIST GEOGRAPHERS We are delighted to announce two funding opportunities,  supported by RGS-IBG in collaboration with the Gender and Feminist Geographies Research Group (GFGRG), in order to facilitate conference attendance and the organisation of in person, virtual or hybrid events to be held in the UK during the time…

We have been told repeatedly that this virus is a great leveller, that it does not discriminate; but it does. The death rate from the disease is twice as high for men as women, Black men in the UK are 4.2 times as likely to be killed by the disease than white men of the same age, Black women 4.3 times as…

Jess Bostock is a member of ‘Misogyny IS Hate’, a student led activist group working with Greater Manchester Citizens to improve the lived experience of women in the city through legislative equality. Jess presented her research on Misogyny hate crime in Greater Manchester in the GFGRG session ‘New and emerging research in gender and feminist…

The GFGRG is pleased to announce its sponsored sessions at the RGS IBG annual conference 2020. Please see the CPFs outlined below, with links to further information and deadlines for submitting an abstract. We look forward to seeing you at the conference in August 1. The politics of terminology within resistance geographies: Revisiting Katz’ distinctions…

GFGRG dissertation joint 1st prize winner Isobel Phillips, University of Nottingham With the best piece of pre-dissertation advice ringing in my ears – “Write about something you enjoy”, I decided to focus my research on a sport I have grown up loving, football. Combined with an interest in gender geographies that had developed through lectures,…

GFGRG dissertation joint 1st prize winner Tabitha Shell, QMUL The World Health Organisation (WHO) recommends that all new mothers breastfeed their child exclusively for 6 months and states the factors that a woman needs to successfully breastfeed: consistent and correct information, personal, professional and societal support. However, these have also proven to be the root…

GFGRG dissertation 3rd prize winner Bronwen Butler, UCL Menstruation, somewhat unexpectedly, has become a high-profile issue in the UK over the last couple of years. From ‘the pink protest’ outside the Westminster Parliament in December 2017 to Bodyform’s advert campaign #bloodnormal, from tampon selfies and campaigns against the luxury taxing of tampons, to a day…

We are delighted to announce the winners of the GFGRG’s dissertation prize for 2019. We received a number of fantastic dissertations for consideration for this year’s award and want to thank all of the entries for their hard work and thorough engagement with feminist geography. As always, the standard for the competition was very high…

The GFGRG is proud to be involved with the RGS-IBG annual conference 2019. https://www.rgs.org/research/annual-international-conference/  The conference will take place at the RGS-IBG in London from 28-30th August 2019. The GFGRG are proudly sponsoring 12 sessions which cover a range of topics including family, race and nation, geographies of trouble and hope, hydrofeminism, migration, fertility, reproduction…