A Brief History of the Fragile Male Ego is a riotous new feminist physical theatre show, from the maker's of Fringe First winning production Sanitise, that cuts to the bone of the current conversation around gender politics. Andrea has been giving her lecture but it’s not going well. Her previous events have been marred by protests and she’s…

This brief presentation will explore a few recent and recurring examples of gendered technology through the lens of media archaeology. Over the last two decades, media archaeology has emerged as an interdisciplinary field of research exploring different historical intersections of media old and new, digital and analogue, futuristic and anachronistic. Against many media archaeologists’ attempts…

This presentation will examine annotation, inscription and literary exchange among Catholic lay sisters in the early modern Dutch Republic. In a country where the public practice of Catholicism was illegal, these women created community through writing on and sharing devotional books and single-sheet prints. Using surviving examples of these sources in context, I will examine…

The University of Leicester is proud to be supporting the Students' Union in hosting Dr Zoe Shacklock and Dr Ana Sol Gonzalez Rueda of the University of St. Andrews' Institute for Gender Studies (StAIGS) as they dive into their academic work and how it relates to queerness and decolonising. Come join on us for this…

Streaming television is often seen as a progressive space for queer representation, due to the wealth of queer people and stories found across its programmes. Yet for queer people to be seen on streaming television, they must first be made visible at the level of the interface, which determines which programmes are presented to users…

In 2015, the ‘phenomenon’ of women traveling to join the Islamic State seemed to have taken over the news, with regular mentions of disbelief of why they would decide to leave their ‘ideal’ Western lives to join a ‘barbaric’ terrorist group. Various attempts to engage with the roles these women have played (and media coverage…