Upcoming Events
GFGRG Call for Event Proposals 2025/2026
The GFGRG welcomes proposals for events that align with our aim to support and promote feminist geographical research and practice. We can offer sponsorship of up to £300 for workshops, panels, reading groups, creative projects, or community collaborations that advance feminist and gender-focused geographical work, but we welcome proposals below that amount.
If you would like to submit a proposal, please use the below form and send to Cordelia Freeman (c.freeman@exeter.ac.uk) by 15 January 2026. Depending on the number of requests we receive, we may be able to reopen the call later in the year.
Launch of the GFGRG Online Seminar Series
The GFGRG committee is delighted to announce our brand new online seminar series. These seminars will take place once or twice a term, and if you have anyone you would love to hear speak, please do let us know.
Our next seminar will be delivered by Eden Kinkaid with the title ‘Transgender experience and the question of space‘.
This seminar will take place online on Friday, 6 February 2026, 13:00-14:00 (UK).
Please register here to receive the Zoom link for the seminar. We look forward to seeing you there!
Click here to learn more about the seminar and our speaker
What theory of space emerges from transgender experience?
In this webinar, as part of the Gender and Feminist Geographies Research Group (GFGRG) online seminar series, Dr Eden Kinkaid develops a critical phenomenology of space, starting from trans experience.
While the focus is on transgender experiences of space, Kinkaid sketches a broader, intersectional theory of space that begins from the lifeworlds of variously minoritized subjects, building on the work of scholars of race, gender, sexuality, and disability.
Drawing this scholarship together with the spatial theories of Henri Lefebvre and Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Kinkaid explores the implications of this theory of space for transgender being-in-the-world and looks to transgender experience as an opportunity to imagine and enact space otherwise.
About the speaker
Dr Eden Kinkaid (they/them) works at the intersection of geography, gender studies, and philosophy. Their research and writing focus on themes of embodiment, epistemology, space, and queer/trans experience, through the lens of phenomenology and poststructural theories of subjectivity and space.
Eden’s creative practice experiments with themes of trans embodiment, queer space, and epistemology. Eden has served as editor of various academic journals and is a co-founder and operator of GEOZONe (The Geography Zine Organizing Network).
Check out their website, or find them on BlueSky and Instagram.
Past speakers:
- Walaa Alqaisiya (Northwest University, People’s Republic of China)
‘Against the genocidal function of liberal feminism: lessons from Palestine’s resistance’
Listen back to this seminar below:
Past Events
Against the genocidal function of liberal feminism: lessons from Palestine’s resistance, Walaa Alqaisiya (GFGRG Seminar Series)
Our first speaker on 18 December 2025 was be Walaa Alqaisiya (Northwest University in the People’s Republic of China) and the title of her talk was ‘Against the genocidal function of liberal feminism: lessons from Palestine’s resistance‘.
The Gaza genocide is a revelatory moment that exposes the structural relationship between Western liberal feminism and imperialist accumulation. This talk extends my work on gendered ecologies of waste in Palestine to argue that Gaza’s genocide demonstrates how imperial value extraction operates through the simultaneous elimination of Palestinian reproductive capacity and the mobilization of liberal feminist discourse to legitimize this elimination. I then examine how, from the 1936-39 Great Revolt to the Intifada, Palestinian women revolutionaries developed anti-imperialist praxes refusing both colonial domination and Western feminist frameworks. I explore how women in besieged Gaza enacted this revolutionary praxis, transforming genocide into sites of disobedience, which demonstrates anti-imperialist feminist pedagogy produced through revolutionary struggle rather than academic abstraction. These practices centre national liberation, reject liberal inclusion within imperial structures, and offer revolutionary lessons for confronting US-led imperialism’s gendered violence across the Global South.
A Sense of the Possible: Trans Geographies in Dystopian Times
13 November 2025, 12:00-13:30 (GMT)
Online – sign up for the Zoom link here.
GFGRG Annual General Meeting 2025
17 September 2025, 14:00 (BST)
Online (Zoom): Meeting ID 821 0266 7547, Passcode 810 943
RGS-IBG Annual Conference 2025 – GFGRG Sponsored Sessions
26 – 29 August 2025
University of Birmingham and online
