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Bleeding Free – advocacy and activism in the production of a student led documentary on period poverty and menstrual health education (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
MacLeod, K. (2021, October). Bleeding Free – advocacy and activism in the production of a student led documentary on period poverty and menstrual health education. Paper presented at Menstruation in the Media (in collaboration with Menstruation Research Network), Sheffield Halam University

This paper will discuss the a university produced social impact documentary, Bleeding Free, produced by an advocacy and impact collective, Bleedin Saor . The collective (meaning Bleeding Free in Scots & Gaelic) aimed to increase access to period prod... Read More about Bleeding Free – advocacy and activism in the production of a student led documentary on period poverty and menstrual health education.

Film4Gender (2019)
Digital Artefact
MacLeod, K., Crook, T., Sar, L., Ryan, J., & Boodoosingh, R. (2019). Film4Gender. [Digital video]

Films made by Pacific Filmmakers, members of Pacific Community Filmmaking consortium. Executive produced by Dr. Kirsten MacLeod. These films, made with the communities they represent, tackle gender based violence and the impact of the covid pandemic... Read More about Film4Gender.

Bleeding Free (2021)
Exhibition / Performance
MacLeod, K. Bleeding Free. [Digital video]. Exhibited at Hobnobben Film Festival, Hobnobben, USA. 15 October 2021 - 17 April 2022. (Unpublished)

Screening of documentary film, Bleeding Free at Hobnobben Film Festival, 2021. https://cinemacenter.org/hobnobben-2021-films/bleeding-free

Dangerous Liaisons: Neoliberal Tropes of the ‘Normal’ and ‘Middle-Class Respectability’ in the Post-socialist LG(BT) Activism (2022)
Book Chapter
Kulpa, R. (2022). Dangerous Liaisons: Neoliberal Tropes of the ‘Normal’ and ‘Middle-Class Respectability’ in the Post-socialist LG(BT) Activism. In M. Blidon, & S. D. Brunn (Eds.), Mapping LGBTQ Spaces and Places. A Changing World (279-291). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-03792-4_17

This chapter explores the emerging, post-1989 logics of neoliberalisation of gender and sexuality activism in Central-Eastern Europe (CEE). By looking at a case study from the early 2000s LG(BT) activism in Poland (the impactful “Niech Nas Zobaczą” /... Read More about Dangerous Liaisons: Neoliberal Tropes of the ‘Normal’ and ‘Middle-Class Respectability’ in the Post-socialist LG(BT) Activism.

Participant-centred planning framework for effective gender balance activities in tech (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Taylor-Smith, E., Barnett, C., Smith, S., Barr, M., & Shankland, C. (2022, September). Participant-centred planning framework for effective gender balance activities in tech. Presented at The United Kingdom and Ireland Computing Education Research (UKICER) conference from the UK ACM Special Interest Group in Computing Science Education Chapter (UKICER 2022), Mountmellick, Ireland

The gender imbalance in the tech industry [21], mirrored in computing education [13], is problematic in terms of providing appropriate products and services for the whole population. This lack of diversity and inclusion is also self-perpetuating thro... Read More about Participant-centred planning framework for effective gender balance activities in tech.

Mobilising more women into computing (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Taylor-Smith, E., Shankland, C., Smith, S., & Barr, M. (2022, December). Mobilising more women into computing. Paper presented at Mobilities in Higher Education: SRHE International Conference 2022, Online

According to HESA data, UK universities' computing departments continue to suffer from a gender imbalance, where at present only 21% of students are female. This imbalance can deter women and non-binary people from applying and also be challenging fo... Read More about Mobilising more women into computing.

Sexual Violence and Restorative Justice: Addressing the Justice Gap (2022)
Book
Keenan, M., & Zinsstag, E. (2022). Sexual Violence and Restorative Justice: Addressing the Justice Gap. Oxford: Oxford University Press

Concerned by the high attrition rates for sexual crime and the secondary victimization experienced by victims during their participation in the criminal justice system, this book analyses the extent to which restorative justice can address the justic... Read More about Sexual Violence and Restorative Justice: Addressing the Justice Gap.

Spaces and Places of Friendship. Thinking about Geo-spatiality in Practices of Friendship (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Kulpa, R. (2019, September). Spaces and Places of Friendship. Thinking about Geo-spatiality in Practices of Friendship. Paper presented at European Geographies of Sexualities Conference, Prague, CZ

Presentation titled: "Spaces and Places of Friendship. Thinking about Geo-spatiality in Practices of Friendship". To: 5th European Geographies of Sexualities Conference. Prague, Charles University. https://2019.egsconference.com

Friendship as Method? Friendship as Epistemology? (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Kulpa, R. (2022, June). Friendship as Method? Friendship as Epistemology?. Paper presented at 11th European Feminist Research Conference: "Social Change in a Feminist Perspective", Universita di Milano-Bicocca, Milano, IT

Friendship gained across years some traction in kinship research, recently especially within the ‘queer kinship’ debates, as a strong manifestation for the need and drive of alternative ‘families of choice’. With this presentation I want to focus on... Read More about Friendship as Method? Friendship as Epistemology?.

The Potential of Friendship: A Case for Social Resilience (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Kulpa, R., & Ludwin, K. (2021, April). The Potential of Friendship: A Case for Social Resilience. Paper presented at 70th Annual Conference of the British Sociological Association, London, UK

The consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic mark a crisis of neoliberal ideologies of entrepreneurial individualism underpinning global precarity globally, nationally, and at the level of personal and community networks and relation(ship)s. In Poland a... Read More about The Potential of Friendship: A Case for Social Resilience.

Surveying Friendship. What the Quantitative Data Tell Us About Friendship among LGBT Communities (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Kulpa, R. (2018, October). Surveying Friendship. What the Quantitative Data Tell Us About Friendship among LGBT Communities. Paper presented at Queering Friendship: Citizenship, Care and Choice (‘Intimate’ Project), University of Lisbon, Lisbon, PT

2018, Surveying Friendship. What the Quantitative Data Tell Us About Friendship among LGBT Communities. To: Queering Friendship: Citizenship, Care and Choice (‘Intimate’ Project), University of Lisbon. https://www.ces.uc.pt/intimate/index.php?id=1... Read More about Surveying Friendship. What the Quantitative Data Tell Us About Friendship among LGBT Communities.

Press Release. EU Funded Project "Fostering Queer Feminist Intersectional Resistances against Transnational Anti-Gender Politics (RESIST)" Launches (2022)
Other
Boulila, S., Browne, K., Chauvin, S., Filep, K., Blidon, M., Zarate, M., Akyuz, L., Titley, G., Carastathis, A., & Kulpa, R. (2022). Press Release. EU Funded Project "Fostering Queer Feminist Intersectional Resistances against Transnational Anti-Gender Politics (RESIST)" Launches. Dublin

Anti-gender politics pose a grave threat to modern democratic formations because they challenge people's everyday survival, bodily integrity, and self-determination. Anti-gender spans the political spectrum and manifests not only in illiberal and aut... Read More about Press Release. EU Funded Project "Fostering Queer Feminist Intersectional Resistances against Transnational Anti-Gender Politics (RESIST)" Launches.

Queer Politics of Post-Enlightenment (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Kulpa, R. (2021, December). Queer Politics of Post-Enlightenment. Presented at Working transnationally beyond comparative hierarchies: Exploring relationalities, solidarities and changing conditions in transnational research and pedagogies, Lund University, Sweden

This invited presentation reflected on the contemporary queer studies and the geo-temporal ‘unsettlement’ of Central and Eastern Europe in the occidental (and occidentalist) imaginary. Dr Kulpa pointed to the uncanny possibilities for queer studi... Read More about Queer Politics of Post-Enlightenment.

Post-Enlightenment: Can We Go Beyond Occidentalist Epistemologies and Geo-Politics in Queer Studies? (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Kulpa, R. (2022, December). Post-Enlightenment: Can We Go Beyond Occidentalist Epistemologies and Geo-Politics in Queer Studies?. Presented at Go West! Conceptual Explorations of “The West” in History of Education, University of Münster, Germany

The invited lecture reflected on the contemporary queer studies and the geo-temporal ‘unsettlement’ of Central and Eastern Europe in the occidental (and occidentalist) imaginary. Dr Kulpa pointed to the uncanny possibilities for queer studies eme... Read More about Post-Enlightenment: Can We Go Beyond Occidentalist Epistemologies and Geo-Politics in Queer Studies?.

‘Raw Sex?’: An Exploration of the Political Potential of Lacan’s Non-conclusive Binary (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Neill, C. (2023, January). ‘Raw Sex?’: An Exploration of the Political Potential of Lacan’s Non-conclusive Binary. Presented at International Psychoanalytic University Berlin, Berlin

The Lecture will explore Lacan’s reformulation of two of Freud’s key myths- that of Oedipus and that of the primal horde- and will show how Lacan fruitfully offers us a radically new conception of gender. This new conception not only contests the nat... Read More about ‘Raw Sex?’: An Exploration of the Political Potential of Lacan’s Non-conclusive Binary.

“The Crown” - Princess Diana and the Cinderella Dream (2021)
Newspaper / Magazine
Kulpa, R. (2021). “The Crown” - Princess Diana and the Cinderella Dream. [Magazine article]. Warsaw

A week after the premiere of the fourth season of "The Crown", the British media announced that viewership records were broken. Diana's story is the main theme in it. What is it about her character that attracts the attention of filmmakers, the media... Read More about “The Crown” - Princess Diana and the Cinderella Dream.

We Speak: On the Cinematic Representation of South Asian Women in Scotland (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Bilgrami, S., & Thambar, N. (2022, September). We Speak: On the Cinematic Representation of South Asian Women in Scotland. Paper presented at MeCCSA 'Silenced Voices' September 2022, Aberdeen

We Speak (Documentary Film, 6 minutes, 2022) is an audio-visual conversation between filmmaker Sana Bilgrami, and composer and musician Niroshini Thambar, about the experience of claiming space in a post-colonial world. The film reflects on the possi... Read More about We Speak: On the Cinematic Representation of South Asian Women in Scotland.

Gender and Sexuality Performances Among LGBT+ Equality Dancers: Photo-Elicitation as a Method of Inquiry (2023)
Journal Article
Wong, Y. N. (2023). Gender and Sexuality Performances Among LGBT+ Equality Dancers: Photo-Elicitation as a Method of Inquiry. International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 22, https://doi.org/10.1177/16094069231182015

In its classical form, ballroom dancing constitutes heterosexual dance couples enacting conservative forms of masculinity and femininity. A normative focus, both in scholarship and in practice, on the classical form in competitive ballroom dancing (a... Read More about Gender and Sexuality Performances Among LGBT+ Equality Dancers: Photo-Elicitation as a Method of Inquiry.