In the third guest blog from our MA placement students, Emma Allen reviews Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s We Should All Be Feminists....
Review: Trap Door: Trans Cultural Production and the Politics of Visibility edited by Reina Gossett, Eric A. Stanley and Johanna Burton.
This guest post comes from Joanna Gammon, an MA student at the Institute of Cultural Practices at the University of Manchester. ...
Transracial Adoption: Negotiations between Heritages
Earlier this year a group of MA students from the Institute of Cultural Practices at the University of Manchester undertook work placements here at th...
Visit to Wellcome Institute Collection
Laila Benhaida, Community Archivist, reflects on our visit to London....
‘The language may be different but the feelings we share as women survivors are mutual.’ – Safety4Sisters Writing Group
The This Is We anthology is a manifesto for migrant women speaking their truth to power, sharing experiences of gender-based violence, migration, raci...
Women’s Activism in Our Archives
Even a quick glance at our collections shows that women’s stories form a significant proportion of the material. The content of these collections be...
International Women’s Day 2022 – AIU Reading List!
At the moment, we’re developing and updating the AIU Library collections, going through each section book by book to see what we have, and to en...
Review: “I Hear You All Hate Black People”
This unassuming pamphlet from 1981 examines the state of anti-black prejudice in Britain based on the author’s experiences as a community worker....
Holocaust Memorial Day
For Holocaust Memorial Day (27 January) we shared some book suggestions from our library....
The Year of Our Moss Side 1981: “We believe Black History should be taught to prevent events being repeated”
A project working with young people using our archive records around the 1981 uprisings in Moss Side....