Written by Seona Kehoe, undergraduate student at the University of Manchester studying Modern History and Politics. When the door opens, that’s when you shut down to me you ignore my presence, your package is important. It doesn’t matter if, with vulnerable body, I hold in my hands the weight of being a woman. This
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Now you can download or read the exhibition booklet: Who’s behind your order? Just click here Who’s behind your order? exhibition booklet offers a glimpse into the lives and the challenges faced by five Brazilian women working in the app-based delivery sector in London.They guide us – via their own photos, texts, and audio recordings
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By Moniza Rizzini Ansari, Julia Leal, Fernanda Vieira It has been often said that co-production is key in international research collaborations, particularly when investigating the urban margins of the Global South, so as not to reproduce colonial and imperial dynamics of data extraction. Perhaps it has been less usual, however, to find insights on co-production
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Thanks to everyone who came down to Brixton House for the launch of our exhibition Who’s behind your order? – It was such a joy to share the photo stories of Brazilian women working in the app-delivery sector in London. Almost 100 people popped in to see us, among artists, participants, activists, academics and service
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Exhibition, produced by NGO Migrants in Action and the Department of Geography, King’s College London runs from the 7th to 24th June at the Brixton House. Opening night will be hosted on the 13th June, from 6pm to 8pm. RSVP here “The Photovoice exhibition Who’s behind your order? provides a glimpse into the lives and
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Click on the link below to read the latest report, part of the research Resisting Violence, Creating Dignity: negotiating Violence Against Women and Girls through community history-making in Rio de Janeiro (2019-2021) CLICK HERE TO READ REPORT
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(EN) The audiovisual performance/installation We still fight in the dark was created as a response to the research We can’t fight in the dark – led by Professor Cathy McIlwaine between 2016-2018 in partnership with Latin American Women’s Rights Service (LAWRS) (funded by the ESRC) – as one of the first research projects to gather
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Blog Series: Methodological engagements for understanding violence against women and girls in cities “My family is also from here, so my relationship with the territory is, I think, really historical, my grandmother came here very young, my mother too, so everything that I have today came from here” Katia, is a 25-years-old black, cis woman
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If you didn’t manage to visit our exhibition, you can access the exhibition booklet, with all QR codes to access the materials presented here
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Click here to read the article recently published on Social and Cultural Geography Journal (April 2022) ABSTRACT Although the intensification of direct and indirect gendered violence against women during the COVID-19 pandemic has been extensively reported globally, there is limited research on women’s responses to it. Addressing calls to explore the relationships between emotional-affective atmospheres
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