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Feminist Perspectives

Feminist Perspectives is a blog created to publish research-based work as well as art-based and activist contributions that use gender as a category of analysis or explore it as part of a creative process. It aims to bring together students, scholars, artists and activists, and to create an outlet to discuss gender from a multidisciplinary and intersectional perspective. We aim to contribute to understanding the complexities of our gendered, classed, and racialised social, cultural, and political lives.

Feminist Perspectives’ purpose is to put forward work that studies, analyses, and reflects on gendered, racialised, and class politics and, as a publication, is ideologically committed to transforming those politics through research and art. This publication aims to encourage an anti-racist and decolonial discourse as well as support LGBTQIA+ communities.

Feminist Perspectives is a project created by the King’s Gender Studies Network and is run by our Editorial Collective. If you are interested in sharing your work, contact the Editorial Collective at feministperspectiveskcl@gmail.com.

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Stories

2 May 2023

Feminist Futures Series

We are delighted to share the booklet we collectively created to bring Feminist futures pieces to…

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1 December 2022

No more privacy

Valentina Chiofalo, research assistant and PhD-candidate at Freie Universtität Berlin, discusses the…

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11 June 2021

Rethinking Home

The Pandemic has forced a re-examination of the home as a ‘safe place’.

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People

Phoebe Martin

Phoebe Martin

Phoebe Martin is a postdoctoral researcher whose work focused on the visual and embodied politics of feminist activism. Her PhD research looked at how feminist activists in Peru use creative interventions around gender violence and reproductive justice. These actions, including art, performance and audiovisual media, target cultural and societal change. Her research interests include social movements, artistic activism, and the feminist politics of representation and visibility.

Saskia Zielińska

Saskia Zielińska

Saskia Zielinska is a lecturer in Gender and Development in the Department of International Development at KCL. Her research looks at adolescent pregnancy and motherhood from a framework of multisided violence (sexual and gender-based, structural, institutional, and symbolic). She principally focuses on Peru, but has also worked in Cuba, Colombia, and Mexico as part of the APLA (Adolescent Parenthoods in Latin America) project at the University of Sheffield. She completed her PhD in Development Studies at KCL in 2024.

Jennifer Bates

Jennifer Bates

Jennifer Bates is an ESRC-funded doctoral candidate at the Department of War Studies, investigating the political agency of female ex-combatants from the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) in post-conflict Colombia. Her research interests include Latin American feminism, decolonial and postcolonial feminist theories and feminist IR.

Andrea Espinoza Carvajal

Andrea Espinoza Carvajal

Andrea is a feminist researcher focusing on women’s rights in Latin America, particularly in Ecuador and the Andean region. Her work aims to understand how women interact with laws, projects, and institutions. She is interested in how women react, adapt, and/or normalise behaviours to survive, endure or disrupt hierarchical and subordinative power structures. Andrea's research follows a feminist and decolonial epistemology and relies on ethnographic and arts-based research methods. She has an MSc in Latin American Development and a PhD in Gender and Development from King’s College London. Before working as an academic, Andrea worked as a journalist in Ecuador (2009-2016).

Lea Happ

Lea Happ

Lea Happ is a PhD candidate at King’s College London, based at the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine. Her PhD research investigates feminist activism, the experience of abortion, and political subjectivities in urban and rural Argentina. She is particularly interested in affective communities and the biopolitics of pharmaceutical abortion.

Chloé Locatelli

Chloé Locatelli

Chloé Locatelli is a PhD candidate in the Digital Humanities department at King’s College London. She completed her Gender Studies Masters at the University of Granada, Spain and University of Bologna, Italy with the Erasmus Mundus programme. Her research looks at constructions of femininity in sextech and their posthuman potential. She is interested in sextech, ‘sex robots’, affinity with digital characters and other places where sex, intimacy and digital technologies meet – topics she also covers as a contributor to Futureofsex.net.

Julia Martins

Julia Martins

Julia just finished her PhD in History at King’s. Her thesis was about the translation of ‘Secrets of Women’ from Italian into French and English in the 16th and 17th centuries, and how the circulation of knowledge about sex and reproduction shaped the way the body was understood. Her general research interests are gender history, history of medicine, and feminism. She is an Activism Outreach Supporter with The Vavengers and a member of the Charity Committee of the FGM Education Project. Julia is Brazilian and lives in Hertfordshire with her husband, their daughter, and their cat Pancake.

Hana Riazuddin is a PhD candidate in the Department of Geography. She is also a writer and the Director of The Body Narratives, an arts organisation that supports storytelling and women of colour creatives. Her research reflects on questions of young people’s mental health and wellbeing within the wider debate on urban and social transformation.

Rosa dos Ventos Heimer is a PhD candidate in the Department of Geography. She holds a BSc in Sociology from UFBA and an MSc in Gender, Policy and Inequalities from the LSE. Through a decolonial feminist approach to knowledge production, her doctoral research explores the ways in which coloniality is embedded in the ways in which Latin American migrant women experience intimate partner violence, starting from the body as their first territory-scale.

Natali Cinelli Moreira is a joint PhD student in International Relations with King’s and University of São Paulo. She was a Junior Visiting Fellow at the Gender Centre of the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, Switzerland (2021-2022). She holds a M.Sc. in International Relations from the University of São Paulo (2019), a LL.M. in International and Comparative Dispute Resolution from Queen Mary, University of London (2012), a B.A. in Law from Mackenzie Presbyterian University (São Paulo, 2010), and a B.A. in International Relations from the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo (2007). Natali researches the diplomatic history of women’s rights at the United Nations in the context of the Cold War (1970s).