by Jessica Albrecht
It has been about five years that the pandemic started. Five years since I started to revive Engendering the Past and created En-Gender. Five years since I asked around for people to join me and since Leandro asked to write a blogpost and since I then basically catched him and bound his life trajectory to En-Gender as much as mine.
So much has happened. We started a conference (5 year anniversary here as well – do join!), a podcast (always looking for people to come on), and the journal and blog are still going.
Sadly endeavours like the mentoring program and the network have not yet really hit it off. But we tried. And we will continue to try.
When I thought about asking some of our hero(*in)es to join the En-Gender conference for a keynote this year, Leandro jokingly said this might be very ambitious. But then Dean replied:
The whole idea of En-Gender is ambitious!
And Dean is right. It was and is ambitious. The world has not made it easier for academics working on topics such as we do to survive, much less strive.
But this is precisely why we need En-Gender. Why I need En-Gender.
I have spent much of time in the last year to do other projects, to evolve in other regards. But this is my basis, this is where I need to come back when the world is falling apart. And that she does.
So join, come, stay, work with us, meet people and give us suggestions on where to improve and what to do.
I will soon work on the Network to make it a bit more accessible – but please send in your information and connect with others!
En-Gender is supposed to be a space where gender studies and its researchers can strive, where we can learn, connect and grow – individually and as a collective.
So do not miss out on the writing groups, subscribe to the mailing list and become a part of En-Gender!
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