In einer Zeit, in der rechte Parteien erstarken und sich die politische Mitte ihnen zunehmend annähert, verändert sich das gesellschaftliche Klima spürbar. Dazu zählt die wachsende Salonfähigkeit von…
Like a kaleidoscope, popular culture reflects a fast-changing colourful world, combining many pieces, representations, meanings and emotions depending on both its structure and how you view it. With…
An archaeologist unspools the story of a female leader buried over 1,000 years ago on the Tibetan Plateau. A TOMB IN THE HIGHLANDS In 2005, a truck rumbled…
Episode 12: Methoden und Praktiken in den Gender Studies: Reflexionen zur Autumn School des ZtG. Yumin Li im Gespräch mit Suse Brettin, Yannik Ehmer und Esto Mader https://genderblog.hu-berlin.de/wp-…
An anthropologist traces how transgender women navigate state-sponsored religious programs aimed at “rehabilitating” LGBTQ+ Muslims. ✽ Dora and I walked through the quiet nighttime streets of Chow Ki…
What provisions does it take to live in temporal and spatial in-betweenness, never quite knowing when, or if, return is possible – or even where to? How do…
Hormonal Theory: A Rebellious Glossary by Andrea Ford, Roslyn Malcolm, Sonja Erikainen, Lisa Raeder, and Celia Roberts (eds.) (Bloomsbury: 2024) Far beyond fitness tips about “boosting testosteron…
What does it mean to survive, to resist, to care and connect through music, sound, and queer practice and how can scholarly work engage with this? These questions…
A former National Health Service doctor and multidisciplinary scholar explores how Black women in the U.K. manage reproductive risks and anxieties. ✽ I sit at my laptop, debating…
Ob in den militärischen Rechenzentren Virginias oder in den High-Tech-Labors von Bell: Die Anfänge der Computernutzung waren von männlichen Denk- und Handlungslogiken dominiert. Aus der strukturellen …
Uterus transplantation has been touted as one of the most innovative reproductive technologies in recent years (Brännström 2018). The procedure allows women without a uterus to become pregnant…
Gender Relations in Ancient India: An Anthropological Study of Women’s Position in the Vedic Period and its Contemporary Legacy For the Youtube class video click here or follow…
An anthropologist participates in the Houston Pride Parade, offering dance, music, and prayer with others to counter intensifying oppression faced by queer and Latine communities. ✽ Along Allen…
Zwischen Bücherstapeln zu materialistischem Feminismus, europäischen Hexenverfolgungen, Kolonialismus und Schlangensymboliken kreuzen sich auf meinen Schreibtischen verschiedene Diskurse. Fragen, die …
In this series we invite anthropologists to share stories of growth, change, and discovery throughout their careers. By reflecting on the life choices that shaped them, the unexpected…
Im Wintersemester 2025/26 veranstalten Lisa Cordes und Giulia Maria Chesi in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Zentrum für transdisziplinäre Geschlechterstudien und dem Berliner Antike Kolleg eine Ringvorlesung …
An anthropologist fighting cancer navigates the social pressure to get breast reconstruction after a mastectomy. ✽ “I’ve decided to go flat.” I said these words aloud for the…
Im Sommer 2025 konnten viele Christopher-Street-Day-Paraden nur unter massivem Polizeischutz stattfinden. Bereits im Vorfeld wurden sie von rechten, gewaltbereiten Gruppierungen bedroht. Damit wird ge…
Was passiert nach dem Gender Studies Studium? Lässt sich von den Inhalten und Werten aus dem Studium überhaupt etwas in der Arbeitswelt anwenden oder sind meine Schlussfolgerungen aus…
An anthropologist explores how the COVID-19–era surgical face mask went from a health precaution to a fashion choice among women in Peshawar, Pakistan. ✽ ON A HOT AFTERNOON…
In this live discussion with Agustín Fuentes about his new book, Sex Is a Spectrum: The Biological Limits of the Binary, the Princeton University professor shares his groundbreaking examination…
An anthropologist highlights the revolutionary role of food processing and dietary diversity—practices often led by women—that were just as crucial to humans surviving and thriving as hunting. ✽…
A blood test can reveal important information about your risk of breast cancer — but the law hasn’t fully caught up with its consequences. BRCA1 and BRCA2 –…
I. Hair as an Opening I first met her in the summer of 2020. An elderly woman, her silver hair […] The post She braids, I listen appeared…