Cartoon about the male friendship recession and ‘Mankeeping’ 🧵

Pleased to share our article on "Organised dispossession and development as disaster: Analysing caste and gender in disaster policymaking". This article will likely be of interest to social policy, gender & development, intersectional and anti-caste scholars www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Just learned about this recent case where a transgender person in Karnataka, India successfully challenged the Registrar to accommodate name and gender changes (not possible by prior law). Progress that I couldn't have imagined decades ago. clpr.org.in/litigation/m...

Look at how Ms. Tara K explains the need for affirmative action. This tackles gender but as she says, it applies to people marginalised by caste, religion, ethnicity, and other social indicators too (such as race for the West). Ask when you come across “neutral" policies: who does it benefit?

Call for book chapters (Decolonial and intersectional research) - publisher Palgrave Macmillan. Please contact [email protected] if you’re interested in contributing. Preference to scholars located in the global South(s)