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Interview – The Malcolm Effect
I was recently interviewed on The Malcolm Effect podcast by the fantastic Deej and Momodou – listen below or download from Apple, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. https://player.fm/series/the-malcolm-effect/ep-78-challenges-for-feminism-today-dr-alison-phipps-deej I hope you enjoy it!
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Open-access resources
Just a reminder that my website contains a number of resources that are free to download, adapt and use. Resources for lecturers: this is a portfolio of resources for fellow lecturers, which include a series of introductory lectures about feminism, and a gender theory syllabus for upper-undergraduate and postgraduate students. Resources for researchers: this is…
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From white feminism to abolition: a work in progress
Originally posted on Read and Resist!: Abolition Feminism keynote – Alison Phipps https://youtu.be/1WcOciF7yPQ I am not an organiser – I am a teacher, a scholar and a survivor. I have been an activist, but in circles very different to these. I came to abolition from the heart of white feminism – the movement against campus…
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From ‘sex-based rights’ to ‘become ungovernable’: from supremacy to solidarity
‘The inclusion of men who claim to have a female ‘gender identity’ into the category of women in law, policies and practice constitutes discrimination against women by impairing the recognition of women’s sex-based human rights. Organizations that promote the concept of ‘gender identity’ challenge the right of women and girls to define themselves on the…
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Writing up your methodology
Here are some suggestions on how the various sections of a dissertation methods chapter should be put together, expressed as question prompts for you to think about and respond to. This is not a definitive guide, and it does not replace careful reading on methodology and independent thought. You will need to cite academic literature to back…
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Writing your introduction and conclusion
One of the most difficult things to do in drafting any piece of writing (but especially a thesis or dissertation) is the introduction and conclusion. Students often try to tackle the introduction first; I usually advise them to write both the introduction and conclusion last, because they both have a summative function. I also advise…
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White feminism and the racial capitalist protection racket: from #MeToo to Me, Not You
Originally published on the Manchester University Press blog On May 25th 2020, Minnesota police officer Derek Chauvin murdered George Floyd, an act that precipitated a powerful wave of Black Lives Matter protests across the world. May 25th 2020 was also the day Amy Cooper (a white woman) called the police on birdwatcher Christian Cooper (a…
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Tackling sexual harassment and violence in universities: seven lessons from the UK
This is the text of an online keynote I gave, hosted by the Universidad Autónoma de Baja California and the Freie Universität Berlin, on February 5th 2021. It was the last in a series of sessions on sexual harassment and violence in universities; when I was invited to speak, I was honoured but also concerned…
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Gender, Violence and White Feminism: Q&A with Alison Phipps
This is an interview I did for the Climate Emergency Manchester blog. Could you tell us a little about yourself – where you grew up, went to school, how you came to be a Professor of Gender Studies? I was born in North Yorkshire, then lived in Teeside for a while before my family moved…
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What do we do?
‘What do we do?’ is the question I’m most frequently asked by readers of Me, Not You, and this question has become louder and more urgent in the past two weeks. Massive protests in the US and elsewhere against the police murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Tony McDade and countless others have brought the…
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