Gender and Sexuality

Sydney Stevenson

Feminism: Definitions Have Power

Feminism is a buzzword in the field of international development. After the Truman doctrine in 1949, many Western nations followed the...

Jiwoo Jeong

Comfort Women and Historical Amnesia

Throughout history, pursuits of hegemony have often been trailed by the perpetuation of systematic rape and sexual violence. Exploitation...

Ella Wischnewsky

LGBTQ+ Social Strife in Bolsonaro’s Brasil

Brazilian president, Jair Bolsonaro, who was elected in January of 2019, has already become known for his conservative policies in...

Nicole Houdelot

Empowering Women in the Healthcare Sector

Health, as well as gender, are not solely biologically determined, but also socially constructed. Indeed, the existing healthcare system...

Su Ning Goh

Transgender Athletes: A League of Their Own?

Where queer individuals have achieved increasing recognition in many societies around the world, there has been a consequent rise in...

5,191 views1 comment

Marilou Cameron

The Perpetuation of Systemic Inequality Through Female Genital Mutilation

Female genital mutilation (FGM) is a practice that “comprises all procedures that involve partial or total removal of the external female...

Grace Hu

"Leftover Women" and Gender Relations

China’s one-child policy was introduced in 1979, which stipulated that each family was legally limited to having one single child, and...

Lucy Brock

The Pink Tax

I have a friend who’s had short hair for a while now--“boy-short” or a “pixie cut”. Last summer she recounted a story to me of when her...