
Cathy McIlwaine (@cathymcilwaine.bsky.social)
@mcilwainec
Prof in Geography @KCL. Feminism, development, migration. Latin Americans in London. Creative work in London/Rio.Trustee/council member @LatinElephant @LatAmB.
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Join our #esrcfestival event with MinA_Migrants in Action ! 📽️Special film screenings: ‘We still fight in the dark’ and ‘When the lights go off…and the cleaners get in’ 🎨And creative workshop building collective care through different creative arts kcl.ac.uk/events/creatin… 6 Nov, 6-8pm

‘Students, academics and activists came together to hear about many different forms of violence against women and the ways women have found to resist.’ Learn about ‘Gendered urban violence among Brazilians’ by Cathy McIlwaine (@cathymcilwaine.bsky.social) and our event feat. in Latin America Bureau (LAB) lab.org.uk/painful-truths…

Thx Marilyn Thompson Rebecca Wilson Latin America Bureau (LAB) for this great blog. Wonderful to have Gaël & Simone from MinA_Migrants in Action perform & Adriana from MinA_Migrants in Action lead a workshop. Check out beautiful pictures produced. Thx Yara Evans Moniza Rizzini Suzanne Hall

Next week! Join our #esrcfestival for film screenings and a creative workshop building collective care through different arts with MinA_Migrants in Action 📽️ 📅6 Nov, 6-8pm, Strand Everyone is welcome, whatever your experiences Sign up 👉 bit.ly/4f0mET4



New OA paper Urban Geography on 'embodied counter-mapping' approach to gendered urban violence & resistance based on body-territory & participatory territorial mapping in Mare, Rio de Janeiro. King's Geography Redes da Maré UFRJ Moniza Rizzini shorturl.at/woPOv


The amazing IRMO – Indoamerican Refugee & Migrant Organisation is looking for an Operations Manager! IRMO is a local, walk-in org based in Brixton, supporting 4K migrants, asylum seekers and refugees every year - A powerhouse, which is why I'm a volunteer 😉 Info 👇🏽 irmo.org.uk/about-us/get-i… #Jobvacancy Please RT!

For anyone interested in the Latin American community in London. New open access paper based on research since 2004. Draws on lots of collaborations (with thanks as ever) Latin American Women's Rights Service - LAWRS Latin Elephant, MinA_Migrants in Action Latin America Bureau (LAB). King's Geography doi.org/10.1111/blar.1…




Mujeres resistiendo la violencia - Women Resisting Violence Read a powerful book about ways women in Latin America are confronting and resisting forms of intersectional gendered violence Co-authored by the WRV Collective incl Cathy McIlwaine (@cathymcilwaine.bsky.social) @jelkeboesten in partnership with Latin America Bureau (LAB)


🚨NEW BLAR's ARTICLE🚨 'Cartographies of Emergence of Latin American Communities and British Latinx Imaginaries in London' by Cathy McIlwaine (Cathy McIlwaine (@cathymcilwaine.bsky.social)). KCL Latin America Bureau (LAB) #OpenAccess #LatinAmericanStudies READ HERE onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…


So important to translate our research. Thanks Latin America Bureau (LAB) and the WRV team @jelkeboesten Rebecca Wilson Andrea Espinoza Carvajal Moniza Rizzini Marilyn Thomson and Patricia Munoz Cabrera. And King's Social Science & Public Policy for translation funds


New Publication Alert! Excited to share our latest paper led by Prof. Cathy McIlwaine (@cathymcilwaine.bsky.social) (King's Geography ) on feminist participatory arts & how migrant women survivors of violence reclaim dignity, based on the research with MinA_Migrants in Action. 📖 Read it here: 🔗 doi.org/10.1177/147447…