North-South Feminist Dialogue
The North-South Feminist Dialogue series was started by Dr Adrija Dey in 2020 with the aim of creating a decolonial, intersectional, feminist, and safer space where survivors, academics, activists, and organisers working in the area of sexual and gender-based violence in universities could come together across borders to learn, support each other, and show solidarity. The need for the series emerged from her research and activism, which showed that much of the research on issues of sexual and gender-based violence predominantly focuses on the global North with little to no knowledge exchange between the global North and South. The radical and innovative research and activism happening in the global South remain invisible in global conversations on these issues. Indeed, some of the emerging issues being discussed in the global North HE have already been discussed or addressed within the academic and activist communities in the South. So, in this series, we aim to disrupt colonial legacies of knowledge production and centre the voices of survivors and those who are pushed to the margins of our society.
Webinars and Reports
Silencing Sexual and Gender-based Violence Misconduct in Academia and Politics of Naming
This report marks the third instalment of the North-South Feminist Dialogues series. It reports on two webinars held in March 2024, aiming to foster transnational discussion about the politics and risks of naming perpetrators of SGBV in HE. These discussions examined the theme of silencing SGBV in academia through two lenses: naming perpetrators, and challenges in academic publishing about sexual violence. The report summarises key points from both discussions.
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Silencing Sexual and Gender-based Violence Misconduct in Academia, 5th March 2024
Silencing Sexual and Gender-based Violence and the Politics of Naming, 11th March 2024
Online Sexual Harassment in Higher Education (HE)
This handbook is a result of a one-day workshop on online sexual harassment in Universities. Along with sharing experiences and strategies, we collectively formulated a list of demands to address online sexual harassment that we can take to our institutions to urge transformation or even our organising spaces for further reflection. These demands and reflections for change (see pg. 10) are by no means comprehensive and we see this as a live document that others can add to.
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Sexual and Gender Based Violence in Higher Education - Report: Lessons from India and UK
This report is a result of a 3-day workshop that brought together academics, feminist activists and survivors working in the area of Sexual and Gender Based Violence (SGBV) in Higher Education (HE) from India and UK. The video of the report launch event, which was a conversation between Dr Anna Bull and Prof. Mary E. John (Centre for Women's Development Studies, Delhi), along with other videos from the event can be viewed below.
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