Posts in "Equality and Diversity"

Hi all! As you may or may not know, it’s LGBT+ History Month! The celebration takes place in February in the UK because Section 28, which forbade any promotion of LGBT+ material, was abolished in February 2003. What better way to celebrate this anniversary than by reading some LGBT+ literature?…

What do you think of when you see a rainbow? Do you feel delighted? Suddenly happier? Mad that it may start raining cats and dogs in a while and you forgot your umbrella?

Depending on our actual mood and overall life values, one may feel not only…

LGBTQ alumni Dr Kevin Guyan discusses his research into Scotland’s 2022 census and the collection of gender, sex and sexuality data.

Imagine looking at a detailed illustration of society but failing to see yourself or anyone who resembles your life or experiences. Imagine sitting in class every day listening to…

Deborah Adepoju is a 3^rd year Medical student at the University of Aberdeen. She has taken a particular interest in promoting Equality and Diversity throughout the university and would like to see the changes she wrote about in this blog not only implemented in the short term, but maintained in…

As I frantically start writing this, it’s not because I’m late in creating the blog, it’s because it’s late afternoon, and I have about nine minutes before chaos arrives home from the childminder. If there’s one thing that having a small person around does, it’s magically disappear your time. What…

Christine (centre) with Ed Balls at a talk about his book "Lessons in Life and Politics". During this talk Ed Balls spoke about his own 'coming out' about having a stammer while he was Shadow Chancellor.

Back in the 80s…

Stephanie Kevin Halim graduated from the University of Aberdeen in 2018 with an MSc in Sex, Gender and Violence (Sociology). In this blog Stephanie gives an insight into a recent research report she worked on, which explored the experience of conversion therapy on transgender and gender diverse people in Indonesia.

Transgender people still face many extreme difficulties and experiences of discrimination in the workplace despite the Equality Act 2010 extending to protect transgender people. A report in 2018 by Stonewall discovered that 1 in 3 UK employers admitted they would be less likely to hire a transgender person. The report…

Rebecca, graduated from MA(hons) Religious Studies in 2014 and MSc Religion and Society (Sociology) in 2018, she now works at the University of Aberdeen.

To explain the unique oppression of African American Women, Kimberlé Crenshaw, created the term “intersectionality”. This is a theory for understanding how different aspects of a…