Tag: sexual violence
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New paper out – using community power to tackle gender-based violence
I have a new open-access paper out with the brilliant Gabriella Mwedzi, called ‘Using Community Power to Tackle Gender-Based Violence: An Intersectional Theorisation.’ The abstract is below, and the paper is completely free to download and share. It’s intended as a friendly critique and perhaps even a first step to taking a more GBV-sensitive and…
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Paper out in Feminist Theory
My paper in Feminist Theory is finally officially out – it is fully open-access and can be downloaded at https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/14647001241232260. I am no longer on social media due to persistent harassment, so would appreciate any help at publicising it – these things take a long time to write and even longer to peer review, and…
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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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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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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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The political whiteness of #MeToo
This is an edited extract of a chapter from my forthcoming book Me, Not You: the trouble with mainstream feminism. It appeared in Red Pepper on June 4th 2019. On January 24th 2018, gymnastics coach Larry Nassar was sentenced to 40 to 175 years in a Michigan state prison for seven counts of sexual assault of…
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