Call for Papers: "Beyond Avatars: Exploring LGBTIQ+ Narratives, Representation, and Communities in Video Games"

We invite contributions exploring LGBTIQ+ identities, representation, and communities in video games. This special issue seeks interdisciplinary perspectives on how video games reflect and shape gender and sexual diversity, and how queer communities engage in cultural activism through this medium

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The 11th International Congress of the International Society for Gender Medicine

The 11th International Congress of the International Society for Gender Medicine (ISGM), organized by the German Society for Gender-Specific Medicine (DGesGM), will take place on September 18–19, 2025, in Magdeburg, Germany. Following the success of the 10th Congress held in Padua, Italy, this event

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About Gender - Unforeseen future: gender, sexuality, politics. Historical perspectives and critical views on the present

A new online issue of the AG About Gender, International Journal of Gender Studies entitled ‘Unforeseen future: gender, sexuality, politics is available. Historical perspectives and critical views on the present’ by Prof. Mariella Poppa and Prof. Michela Mariotto. The editorial reflects on the

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The Discursive Construction of Contemporary Family Types

A new online issue of degenere - Journal of Literary, Postcolonial and Gender Studies entitled "The discurisive Construction of Contemporary Family Types" by Prof. Giuseppe Balirano, Jai Mackenzie and Angela Zottola is available. The tenth issue focuses on exploring the social norms, structures and

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Fierce Campaign

Fierce aims to revitalise the alliances between the feminist movement, civil society and political decision makers. They envision to rekindle the movement-institution relationship by means of a multidimensional, bottom-up and impact-oriented approach.The FIERCE Charter was co-written with feminist

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Feminist Economics Courses & Syllabus: Guide and Knowledge Base

IAFFE views universities and educational institutions as sites where economics is learned, economists are produced, and economic thought is reproduced. Only a few universities and departments of economics provide training in feminist economics. People interested in studying feminist approaches to

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Enculturating Men, Cultivating Masculinity

by Sam de BoisePages 57-62 | Published online: 16 Apr 2024Very few terms are as fiercely fought over and so readily used but so causally underdeveloped as that of ‘culture’. The concept has a range of different interpretations but can be broadly divided between aesthetic and anthropological uses.

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Climate Resilience and the Role of Five Indigenous Women

By Lucia Lupotti With the beginning of 2024, we have entered the second year of the International Decade of Indigenous Languages 2022-2032, established by the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues to prevent the extinction of 50-90% of spoken languages that are spoken today. Estimates claim that this

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Gender in Medical Treatment: Invisible Illnesses

by Francesca Tosi and Lucia LupottiGender-specific medicine, according to the World Health Organization, consists in studying the influence of biological (sex-defined) and socio-economic and cultural (gender-defined) differences of the state of health and disease of each person. These differences

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