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WHEN annual conference 2019: ''Who am I supposed to be?''
Aug 12, 2019
WHEN annual conference 2019 blog
By Madiha Sajid with contributions from Dr Susi Poli
On 20 June 2019, WHEN held its second annual conference around the theme of exploring intersectional identities through our labels. This year, we welcomed over 100 women from over 20 different universities around the UK, who set about embarking on journeys of self-exploration as we all attempted to demystify the concept of labels, both those that are given to us by others and the ones that we give to ourselves.
Labels - which ones do I want to own?
The conference opened with a video of women, including many of the WHEN volunteers, confidently sharing some of the labels that people had given to...
