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In the UK and beyond, austerity and the erosion of state welfare systems have made sectors like health, housing and education increasingly precarious within our society.

Our analysis looks at the intersections of gender, race and class, and how social movements – old and new – can offer support, action and solidarity beyond electoral politics.

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In the UK and beyond, austerity and the erosion of state welfare systems have made sectors like health, housing and education increasingly precarious within our society.

Our analysis looks at the intersections of gender, race and class, and how social movements – old and new – can offer support, action and solidarity beyond electoral politics.

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  • Photo collage combining various photos of children in institutional settings and a portrait of Hans Asperger in the centre of the collage

    Who counts as autistic?

    ‘Autism Awareness Month’ fails to give autistic people any influence over discussions of their neurology, argues Gerry Hart

  • A screenshot from the video game Disco Elysium, showcasing some of the game's dilapidated architecture

    Pixels and mortar: The politics of video game worldbuilding

    With the worlds of architecture and video games becoming increasingly intertwined, Gerry Hart examines how video games communicate through their design

  • A banner on the gates of a university building read: Academic Boycott in Progress

    Universities, financialisation and the fightback at Goldsmiths

    Vincent Møystad argues that as higher education institutions are pitted against each other, students, staff and activists must come together to resist a costly race to the bottom

  • Hungarian Prime Minister speaking behind a lectern with the logo of the European People's Party (EPP) on it

    Hungary’s illiberal education

    Victor Orbán’s far-right government in Hungary sees higher education as critical to the consolidation of the ruling Fidesz party’s grip on society. Dorit Geva reports

  • The Transgender Pride Flag – white, blue and pink stripes – flies at on a pole over a grand looking building

    The long road to gender recognition reform

    From bans on trans athletes to violence in the streets and attacks in the legislature, Jamie Jewkes traces the normalisation of transphobia in Britain

  • A modern, white apartment building set against a blue sky in the Aspern Seestadt neighborhood of Vienna, Austria

    Building feminist cities

    Patriarchal violence is built into our cities but, as Marion Roberts argues, urban designers from around the world are finding ways to unravel it

  • In a snowy scene, a person in a holly hats holds up signs in Chinese writing

    Fighting for LGBTQ+ rights in China

    Qiuyan Chen sued the Chinese ministry of education over homophobic textbooks. She writes about her battle for LGBTQ+ rights in China and the UK

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