Welcome back! This week's article in focus is brought to us by Maedbh Pierce and speaks on how Vaginismus is more than a pelvic tensing

Currently studying an MA in Journalism, Media and Globalisation (Charles University, Prague), Maedbh Pierce (she/her) is an English and Philosophy graduate (UCD, Dublin) and freelance writer. To date, her writing explores and celebrates queer identity, life and culture. Amongst others, her work has been featured in Material Queer, COVEN BERLIN, Unicorn Magazine, Nonchalant London, and The Single Supplement.

What can you do?

• Try a free feelnorma six-part intimate well-being course or book a free online workshop!
• Watch Sex Education, ELITE and Unorthodox — three shows where you’ll find diverse representations of vaginismus.
• Give Gráinne Byrne’s chat with Keelin Moncrieff a listen.
• Check out this podcast and/or Vaginismus Research Ireland to learn more about Dr Maria McEvoy and her research!
• If you’re curious about the cultural dynamics of Catholicism in Ireland mentioned in this article Diarmaid Ferriter’s Occasions of Sin: Sex and Society in Modern Ireland provides expansive historicising and insight.

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Welcome back! This week's article in focus is brought to us by Larissa Kennedy and speaks on how Leah Cowan explores the realities of, and possibilities for, British feminism.

Larissa Kennedy is a writer, movement griot/jali (storyteller), and community organiser from South London with roots in Jamaica, Barbados, and St. Vincent & the Grenadines. She has a BA in Politics, International Studies and Hispanic Studies from the University of Warwick, where her research focused on historicising climate justice in the Anglophone and Hispanophone Caribbean. During her time as an undergraduate, Larissa was formerly President of the National Union of Students, and of Students Organising for Sustainability. She also lived and organised in Buenos Aires, Argentina and Santiago, Chile. For her Master’s degree, Larissa is studying Global Affairs at Tsinghua University in Beijing. In her organising, Larissa has been part of challenging structural injustice, and building collective power at all levels - from the grassroots to the UN. Larissa is founding chair of TALAWA, a Black-led collective of racialised students and young people focused on political education and transformative action at the nexus of Black feminism, climate justice and liberated education. At shado, Larissa is a writer, editor, and co-host of the shado-lite podcast which discusses a number of the world’s biggest global injustices, supporting our community to move from apathy and overwhelm to collective action and hopeful pathways forward.

What can you do?

Read:

• Why Would Feminists Trust the Police? By Leah Cowan
• Abolition. Feminism. Now. by Angela Y. Davis, Gina Dent, Erica Meiners, and Beth Richie
• Become Ungovernable : An Abolition Feminist Ethic for Democratic Living by H.L.T. Quan
• Abolition Revolution by Aviah Sarah Day and Shanice Octavia McBean
• Abolition Feminism is the only solution for the criminalisation of gender-violence survivors by Marcela Onyango
• What is Abolition? By Sara Bafo

Listen:

• shado-lite podcast episode: How do we make ourselves and our community ungovernable? With guest Dr Aviah Sarah Day
• Surviving Society podcast episode 161: Abolition Feminism with Nikki Godden-Rasul, Tina Sikka & Alison Phipps

Get involved:

• Join an Abolitionist Futures reading group
• Find your local Cop Watch

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Welcome back! This week's article in focus is brought to us by Adebayo Quadry-Adekanbi and describes How Khalid Albaih navigates the role of art in political resistance in Sudan

Adebayo Quadry-Adekanbi (he/him) is a Sociology PhD candidate at the University of Warwick. His research focuses on the intersectional politics of queer activism and feminism in Nigeria, along with principles of postcolonial and Black queer feminist theory. He analyses the cultural and socio-political dimensions of various subjects, from mainstream pop-culture, politics, art to academic debates.

• Check out some of Khalid’s works
• Watch Sudan: History of a Broken Land
• Support the Sudan Artist Fund
• Check out the Postcards from Khartoum page (@khartoum.postcards on instagram) started and curated by Ala Kheir and André Lützen

Read:

• The Satir Sisters: two artists inspiring change through illustration
• These Hallowed Halls: Sudanese protest art inside the British Parliament
• #sudanrevolts: contesting power & violence through art
• Find out more about artists on the front lines of a changing Sudan here and here

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