Gender & Disability @GenDisability
GENDER AND DISABILITY: Asking Difficult Questions. An event for discussion and debate on themes relating to gender & disability. Sheffield, 10 May 2014. genderanddisability.wordpress.com Sheffield, UK Joined December 2013-
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Free & open to all - Toilet Talks: A Speaker Event on Bodies, Identity & Design #cctoilettalk wp.me/P67jDI-l via @wordpressdotcom
Have you seen a toilet you’d like to share with us? Use #cctoilettalk to share a photo or story. More info here: aroundthetoilet.wordpress.com/2015/05/11/pho…
Today we're celebrating the launch of our blog and our arrival on Twitter! Please share us around. aroundthetoilet.wordpress.com #cctoilettalk
We're a cross-disciplinary, arts-based research project exploring the toilet as a place of exclusion and belonging, funded by @ahrcconnect.
Details of the next postgrad gender reading group @sheffielduni on 23rd June now up on our new blog: pgrnsheffield.wordpress.com/2014/06/20/rea…
Details of our next postgraduate gender reading group on our new blog: pgrnsheffield.wordpress.com @ICOSSshefuni @SocStudiesShef
The Postgraduate Gender Research Network (PGRN) at @sheffielduni now has a blog! Check it out for info on events etc! pgrnsheffield.wordpress.com
Theorising Bisexuality with Dr. Surya Monro, 1pm, tomorrow (5th June), Boardroom, ICOSS, Sheffield. All welcome! tinyurl.com/nnksm3r
Seminar: Theorising bisexuality, Dr. Surya Monro, Thurs 5th June, 1pm, Sheffield University wp.me/p14sbp-qA @SHU_SIoE @GenDisability
A report from the Gender and Disability event: thinking about 'access', written by @shudisability disabilityresearchforum.wordpress.com/2014/05/22/eve… #gendisability
I got around to writing up a report from our #gendisability event the other week: disabilityresearchforum.wordpress.com/2014/05/22/eve… @GenDisability
Gender + Dis/ability Conference (co-organised by the DRF @shudisability) gets press coverage #gendisability wp.me/p14sbp-qk @SHU_SIoE
Jenny Slater's review of Feminist queer crip by Alison Kafer in Disabiltiy & Society bit.ly/1lU8GAY @shudisability #gendisability
News: Gender and Dis/ability conference gets press coverage #gendisability wp.me/p14sbp-qk
Public lecture in Manchester Jasbir Puar: A Body With New Organs: Becoming Trans, Becoming Disabled events.manchester.ac.uk/event/event:ay…
Interested in #disability, #gender, #feminism & #sexuality? Check out the lovely @frances__ryan #gendisability newstatesman.com/society/2014/0…
Why mainstream feminism must include disabled women. A great @NewStatesman article by @frances__ryan newstatesman.com/society/2014/0… #gendisability
@shudisability @GenDisability Finally got the piece done! You're mentioned mid-way: newstatesman.com/society/2014/0… Was great event; thank you.
Feedback on the Gender & Disability event at @sheffielduni. Please let us know your thoughts. surveymonkey.com/s/2B79CVC #gendisability
Listen to the amazing Fashion, Disability & Norms Panel from the #gendisability day last Saturday here: tinyurl.com/ougexa4 @cat_sierra

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