SPN at Pride Edinburgh We invite members, allies and students to join us for the Pride Edinburgh March on Saturday 25 June! The SPN marching troupe will be meeting at 11:30 on the day at Levels Café on Holyrood Road. Speeches start at 12:30 and the march moves off at 13:00. If you can’t make… Continue Reading Join us at Edinburgh Pride 2022

IDAHOBIT 2022 (International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia, & Transphobia is coming up next week. The Staff Pride Network are marking the date with an online event: IDAHOBIT: Becoming and Being Gay Parents Tues 17 May, 17:30 – 18:30 BST Register to attend via Eventbrite / find out more See below for a blog post from… Continue Reading Shared Parental Leave: Another Perspective

She’s the enfant terrible of Trans academia, described in her book as “the David Bowie of Californian English professors.” Grace Lavery is at the University of Edinburgh to promote her memoir, Please Miss: a heartbreaking work of staggering penis, and like Bowie, the book constitutes in its diversity of styles and switches of voice a marmite quality you’ll… Continue Reading Grace Lavery at the University of Edinburgh

Edinburgh LGBT+ Medics Society invite you to our first event of LGBT+ History Month – ‘Tell Me About It’. Meet us in Room G.01, 50 George Square at 7.30pm on this Monday 7th. This is a great opportunity to meet members of our society and build connections with LGBT+ people and allies across the year… Continue Reading Edinburgh LGBT+ Medics Society Event: ‘Tell Me About It’

  This year’s theme in Scotland is Blurring Borders: A World in Motion. Please consider using our Philadelphia flag logo version in your email signature this month. Some event details will be updated throughout the month. Please check the SPN member SharePoint for the most up-to-date calendar of events. Information and updates can also be found… Continue Reading LGBT+ HISTORY MONTH CALENDAR OF EVENTS

The SPN Book Group is one of the lesser known SPN regular events. It is a casual book group run by the SPN (currently led by Zahra Massoud, SPN BAME Rep), and is open to all staff and PhD students at the University of Edinburgh who are LGBTQ+ or allies. We meet from 5:45pm –… Continue Reading SPN Book Group

by Tracy Noden (she/her) Tracy is an LGBTQ+ Advocate at the School of Law, SPN Events Team volunteer and staunch ally to LGBTQ+ people. She regularly attends SPN events and training and we are very grateful for her significant contribution to the Staff Pride Network. This opened with two excellent speakers (Dr Kamilla Kamaruddin and… Continue Reading First Steps to Trans Inclusion; Stonewall Workshop 29/6/21

Now, more than ever, we need to talk. So the Staff pride Network has set up Rainbow Office Hours. A chance to make a connection with another LGBTQ+ staff member, or PG student, at the University. Each month*, the last Friday of the month at 12-1pm, a few of our members will be standing by… Continue Reading Rainbow Office Hours

It’s that time again when we commemorate and celebrate LGBT+ history. Once again the Staff Pride Network team have put together another series of fascinating events on a range of topics, further details available on our EventBrite.   1st Feb: ‘Legal for 40 Years: A snapshot from someone who was there’ Interview with lawyer Terry… Continue Reading LGBT+ History Month Events 2021

Representations of trans women in the Americas through the prism of neoliberal society a seminar with Gina Gwenffrewi My PhD thesis deals with the impact of the Americas on our conception in Scotland and the UK regarding trans identity, specifically trans female identity. This is partly the intellectual and activist legacies from mainly North America… Continue Reading Research Seminar: Transgender Gaze, Neoliberal Haze