How Eugenics Shaped the U.S. Prenatal Care System
Black women in the U.S. are far more likely to die from complications related to pregnancy and birth than White women. Two scholars explore how the discrediting of…
Tag: Gender
Female Truck Drivers in China Navigate Gender Norms on Douyin
It’s dark outside: 4:34 AM. I am peering through a truck’s windshield, gazing at a seemingly endless stretch of highway. “Female truck driver Li Ping is live streaming,”…
Madam Cistern
The following monologue was originally written in Portuguese for the ongoing theatrical project Dramaturgias da água e da seca (Water and Drought Dramaturgies), developed by Pavilhão da Magnólia,…
#nachgefragt: Das Podcastformat des Genderblogs
Episode 7 (engl.): Transcendance, Time, and Feminism – An Interview on Simone de Beauvoir with Kate Kirkpatrick and Martina Bengert https://genderblog.hu…
The Urgency of Envisioning a World Without Police
An anthropologist working in Baltimore argues that safety for Black communities requires an end to policing. That also means taking a hard look at how policing intersects with…
Waiting as Productive Fieldwork
Several weeks into my fieldwork at one of the Integrated Tribal Development Agencies (ITDA) in Telangana, a federal state in India, I couldn’t shake the feeling that I…
A knot in the throat, or that time a gangster died of appendicitis
Based on “Fools Banished from the Kingdom: Remapping Geographies of Gang Violence between the Americas (Los Angeles and San Salvador)” by Zilberg Elana. I had spent the last…
Diskriminierung überwinden: Diversität in der Forschungsförderung
Wie kann neben der Förderung der Gleichstellung der Geschlechter in der Wissenschaft auch die der Forschenden mit Diversitätsmerkmalen sichergestellt werden? Und wie kann neben geschlechterwissenschaf…
Diskriminierung überwinden: Diversität in der Forschungsförderung
Wie kann neben der Förderung der Gleichstellung der Geschlechter in der Wissenschaft auch die der Forschenden mit Diversitätsmerkmalen sichergestellt werden? Und wie kann neben geschlechterwissenschaf…
Book Review: Gender, Race, Identity & Batman in Gotham City Living
By Alissa Whitmore McCrystal, Erica. 2021. Gotham City Living: The social dynamics in the Batman comics and media. New York: Bloomsbury. Erica McCrystal’s ambitious Gotham City Living:…
Becoming a Socialite: How Virtual “Fakeness” Produces Material Realities among Urban Chinese Gay Men
Real, Unreal, and Whatever Else In-between On Chinese gay dating apps, “fake profiles” are a constant concern: photos might have been altered or biometrics might have been fabricated.…
Von oben und unten: Politische und aktivistische HIV/AIDS-Dokumente aus Dänemark im European HIV/AIDS Archive der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Ab Sommer 2023 wird im European HIV/AIDS Archiv (EHAA) eine Sammlung über Dänemark verfügbar sein. Sie umfasst Resolutionen und Gesetzesvorschläge des dänischen Parlaments zu HIV/AIDS im Zeitraum 1985…
Excavating a 19th-Century Detroit Saloon
A filmmaker highlights the work of urban archaeologists digging a woman-owned business opened in the late 1800s. In this short documentary, Wayne State University archaeologist Krysta Ryzewski and…
#nachgefragt – Das Podcastformat des Genderblogs
Folge 6: „Made in Chima“ – wie aus einer Dissertation eine Performance wird mit Yumin Li und Kira Jürjens https://genderblog.hu-berlin.de/wp-content/uplo…
Why I Ask My Students to Swear in Class
An anthropologist uses explicit insults to get students thinking about gender and power in everyday language. Plus, a brief explainer on the slang term “sus.” ✽ “Insult me,”…
Lesestunde. Importierte Queerfeindlichkeit und rechter Kulturkampf an den Schulen
Die CSU skandalisiert Lesungen von Drag-Künstler*innen als angebliche Gefährdung des Kindeswohls, die SVP attackiert Gender-Tage. Sie übernehmen dabei die brandgefährliche queerfeindliche Agenda der U…
#MeinSchreibtisch: Liesbeth Schoonheim
In Queer Phenomenology, Sara Ahmed reflects on all kinds of tables: work tables, dining tables, but most of all kitchen tables and desks. She reminds us that a…
Das Mentoring-Programm für Studierende der Gender Studies – Warum es für mich wichtig war
„Lasst uns das Wissen aus den Gender Studies genau an die Orte bringen, wo wir noch wenig davon gehört haben!“. Das ist der Ansatz von Lia Lang, Diversity…
What It Means to be Human in an Asylum
A sociocultural anthropologist from Pakistan speaks to how women in asylums in a patriarchal culture are in a battle between their realities and their lost dreams. Yet those…
Violence/Freedom: Gender and the Politics of Surveillance in Public Parks
Cities all over the world have witnessed a surge in the use of surveillance technologies, such as data-gathering phone apps, facial recognition software, and closed-circuit television (CCTV) cameras…
Joan of Arc in Germany: (Trans)National Adaptations in German-Language Texts and Films
Jeanne d’Arc, the fifteenth-century Maid of Orleans who led France to victory against England during the Hundred Years’ War, was burnt at the stake as a heretic on…
Two Myths Fueling the Conservative Right’s Dangerous Transphobia
An anthropologist attends the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC)—ground zero for the current onslaught of anti-trans rhetoric and legislation in the U.S. HOW THE RIGHT DEMONIZES TRANS PEO…
Gender und Macht in der Klimakrise
Der Klimawandel mit seinen extremen Auswirkungen auf Menschen und Umwelt wie Hitzewellen und Dürren, Überschwemmungen, Eis- und Gletscherschmelzen sind in allen Weltregionen zu erleben. Klima-Aktivism…
The full frontal attack on nonbinary and other ‘woke’ matters
By Michiel Baas. The University of Amsterdam has appointed a committee to investigate academic freedom within its institution. The reason for this is a complaint from lecturer Laurens…