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• “The success of the global stocktake depends on putting people at the heart of the process”. Climate Outreach, 1 December 2023. https://climateoutreach.org/global-stocktake-people/

• “How do you solve a problem like Andrew Tate?”. ODI-ALiGN Platform, 27 February 2023. https://www.alignplatform.org/resources/blog-how-to-solve-problem-andrew-tate#:~:text=Work%20with%20gender%20experts%20or,to%20inspire%20alternative%20role%20models.

• “Gender, Environment and Climate Change: Connections and Stereotypes of the Third-World Woman”. Newsweek, 18 November 2022. https://www.newsweek.com/gender-environment-climate-changeconnections-stereotypes-third-world-woman-opinion-1760160

• “Single and Not Ready to Mingle: The Discrimination of Single Women in Singapore”. Newsweek, 6 October 2022. https://www.newsweek.com/single-not-ready-mingle-discrimination-against-single-women-singapore-opinion-1748458

• “The Pain Gap: Gender-Bias in Endometriosis Pain Management”. Ms. Magazine, 7 September 2022. https://msmagazine.com/2022/09/07/endometriosis-gender-bias-pain-management/

• “Incel Extremism in India: A View from the Global South”. Insight piece, Global Network on Extremism and Technology, 23 August 2022. https://gnet-research.org/2022/08/23/incel-extremism-in-india-a-view-from-the-global-south/

• “Narratives About Female Terrorists are Sexist and Misguided”.  Fair Observer, 16 July 2022. https://www.fairobserver.com/blog/narratives-about-female-terrorists-are-sexist-and-misguided/

• “Incel Extremism: Kenya’s and India’s Predisposition to Incel Extremism” (co-authored with Janet Kiguru). Global CT Analyst Magazine, Vol. 1 Summer 2022.

• “Paradoxical Rebellion: ISIS, Women and Traditional Gender Ideology”. Global CT Analyst Magazine, Vol. 1 Summer 2022.

“The Global Stocktake and Public Engagement”. Climate Outreach, 2023. https://climateoutreach.org/reports/gst-public-engagement/

“Care-full Climate Communication: A Guide to Communicating about Care-Centred Low-Carbon Societies” (co-authored with Suzie Wong). Climate Outreach in partnership with Hot or Cool Institute, 2023. https://climateoutreach.org/reports/care-full-climate-communication/

“Something to Talk About: Success Stories of Public Engagement to Tackle Climate Change” (co-authored with Deepayan Basu Ray and Alex Randall). Climate Outreach, 2023. https://climateoutreach.org/public-engagement-case-studies/

“Corporal Punishment in Islamic Law: Lessons for Sudan. A Comparative Study of Northern Nigeria, Pakistan, and Aceh, Indonesia” (co-authored with Danning He, Maram Tabidi and Norah al-Haqbani). REDRESS, 2022.

Ecologies in Southeast Asian Literatures: Histories, Myths and Societies (co-edited with Pham Phuong Chi and Chitra Sankaran) Vernon Press, 2019.

• “The Politics of Gender and Water in Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things” (in Vietnamese). Ecocriticism: Local and Global Voices. Ed. by Pham Phuong Chi et al. Social Sciences Publishing House, 2017. 1112-1141.

• “Postcolonial Ecofeminism”. Gender: Nature. Ed. by Iris Van der Tuin. Macmillan, 2016. 75-88.

• “Sohaila Abdulali’s Die Verruckte aus Jogare: Eine postkoloniale okofeministische Analyse” (in German). Just Politics: Okokritische Perspektiven im postkolonialen Raum. Ed. by Lina Fricke, Anna von Rath, Elisabeth Nechutnys and Christoph Senft (Hg.). UNRAST-Verlag, 2013. 263- 278.

• “Transnational Indian Films and Queer Female Identities”. Linguistics, Literature and Culture: Millennium Realities and Innovative Practices in Asia. Ed. by Shakila Abdul Manan and Hajar Abdul Rahim. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2012. 217-245.

Ecologies in Southeast Asian Literatures: Histories, Myths and Societies (co-edited with Pham Phuong Chi and Chitra Sankaran) Vernon Press, 2019.

• “The Politics of Gender and Water in Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things” (in Vietnamese). Ecocriticism: Local and Global Voices. Ed. by Pham Phuong Chi et al. Social Sciences Publishing House, 2017. 1112-1141.

• “Postcolonial Ecofeminism”. Gender: Nature. Ed. by Iris Van der Tuin. Macmillan, 2016. 75-88.

• “Sohaila Abdulali’s Die Verruckte aus Jogare: Eine postkoloniale okofeministische Analyse” (in German). Just Politics: Okokritische Perspektiven im postkolonialen Raum. Ed. by Lina Fricke, Anna von Rath, Elisabeth Nechutnys and Christoph Senft (Hg.). UNRAST-Verlag, 2013. 263- 278.

• “Transnational Indian Films and Queer Female Identities”. Linguistics, Literature and Culture: Millennium Realities and Innovative Practices in Asia. Ed. by Shakila Abdul Manan and Hajar Abdul Rahim. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2012. 217-245.

Ecocriticism: Local and Global Voices, Vietnam Institute of Literary Studies, Vietnam, December 2017. 

Spoke about women and water pertaining to the South Asian and Southeast Asian region to state actors 

Just Politics, University of Potsdam, Germany, September 2013.

Conducted a workshop on postcolonial ecofeminism with India as an example for environmental activism and women’s narratives for academic staff, government officials and students.

• ‘Postcolonial Ecofeminism, Water and Arundhati Roy,’ Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, November 2018, Green Humanities Seminar.

 

• Ecofeminism and Climate Change, 2021.

• The Journal of Commonwealth Literature, 2019.

• Southeast Asian Review of English (SARE), 2018.

• The Australian Journal of Anthropology, 2013.

• Invited Speaker, UN CSW68 on Sexual, Reproductive Health Rights, Period Poverty and Climate, UNCSW68 New York, In-Person, 20 March 2024.

• TEDx Speaker, TEDx Bristol, In-person, 18 November 2023.

• Invited Keynote Speaker, Women, Climate Change & the Sustainable Development Goals, International Women’s Peace Group UK, In-Person, 21 October 2023.

• Increasing crisis, decreasing budgets: the economic benefit of disability inclusive climate action, UNFCCC Bonn Climate Conference (SB58), In-person, 10 June 2023.

 

• Invited Speaker, Increasing crisis, decreasing budgets: the economic benefit of disability inclusive climate action, UNFCCC Bonn Climate Conference (SB58), In-person, 10 June 2023.

• Invited Keynote Speech, HWPL World Peace Declaration 10th Anniversary Celebration, The Royal Overseas League Overseas House, In-person, 27 May 2023.

• Invited Subject Matter Expert, “Climate Justice, Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights”. Society of Gender Professionals, Online, 16 April 2023.

• Invited Speaker, “Intersectionality and Gender as Frameworks in Disarmament”, United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs, Online, 25 March 2023.

• Invited Speaker, “Women, Peace and the Importance of Law”. International Women’s Peace Group (IWPG) Conference, In-person, 25 March 2023.

• Invited Speaker, “The Future of Endometriosis”. The Future of Endometriosis Conference, In-person, 11 March 2023. 

• Invited Panellist, ‘Today’s Era Must Not Be One of War’. SCRAP Weapons Hybrid Conference on Supporting a Call for the Next Special Session on Disarmament at the UN General Assembly.

• Invited Keynote Speaker, ‘Female Militancy, Violence and Prevailing Gender Stereotypes: Implications for the Security Sector’. Advancing Counter-Terrorism Strategies 2023. Institute of Government and Public Policy, Online, 18 January 2023.

• Invited Subject Matter Expert on Human Rights. Panel on Human Rights and Ethnocentrism Special Public Diplomacy Project. Global Counter-Terrorism Institute, Online, 14 January 2023.

• Panellist and Subject Matter Expert on ‘Creating a Safe Space for Women, Victims and Survivors of Domestic Abuse’, in partnership with Violet Simon (media company). In-person panel, 7 December 2022.

• Delegate with OWIT UK (Organization of Women in International Trade) to the WTO Public Forum in Geneva, ‘Towards a Sustainable and Inclusive Recovery: Ambition to Action’, 27-30 September 2022.

• “Gender Inequality and the Securitization of Gender”. Panel on Women in Security: Gender Inequality at The Global Counter-Terrorism Institute, Online, 19 August 2022.

• “The Figure of the Female Terrorist in International Human Rights Law”. Panel on Women in Counter/Terrorism at The Global Counter-Terrorism Institute, Online, 7 April 2022.

• “Paradoxical Rebellion: ISIS, Women and Traditional Gender Ideology”. The Global Counterterrorism Institute Webinar, Online, 4-5 December 2021.

• “Urban Postcolonial Ecofeminism, Cities and the Environment”. ASLE-UKI Biennial Conference, University of Plymouth, 4-6 September 2019. (Accepted for presentation but unable to attend).

• “Visible City, Invisible Flows: Singapore’s Water Trajectories”. 3rd ASLE-ASEAN Conference, University of Diliman, Philippines, 14-16 June 2019.

• “The Woman and Animal in Anita Desai’s Fire on the Mountain”. Multispecies Storytelling in Intermedial Practices. Linnaeus University, Vaxjo, Sweden. January 23-25, 2019.

• “The Bodily Registers of Women and Water in Gita Mehta’s A River Sutra”. ASLEC-ANZ/SEI 2016, Global Ecologies-Local Impacts. The University of Sydney, Australia. November 23-25, 2016.

• “Women, Animals and Violence: Anita Desai’s Fire on the Mountain and Lee Yew Leong’s Honey I’m Off To Be A Jellyfish Now”. Inaugural ASLE-ASEAN Workshop ‘Global in the Local’. National University of Singapore, Singapore. August 1-2, 2016.

• “The Woman and the Animal in Anita Desai’s Cry, the Peacock”. 9th Malaysia International Conference on Languages, Literatures and Cultures. Rainbow Paradise Beach Resort, Tanjung Bungah, Penang, Malaysia. August 16-18, 2016.

• “Women and Water-The Politics of Water and Gender in Literature”. 5th International Conference on Language, Literature, Culture and Education 2016. Royal Plaza on Scotts Hotel, Singapore. August 29-30, 2016.

• “Sohaila Abdulali’s The Madwoman of Jogare: A Postcolonial Ecofeminist Analysis”. ASLE Tenth Biennial Conference. Changing Nature: Migrations, Energies, Limits. University of Kansas, Lawrence, USA. May 28-June 1, 2013.

• “Through a Lens of Postcolonial Ecofeminism: Women and Land in Kamala Markandaya’s Nectar in a Sieve”. 11th Annual Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities. Hilton Hawaiian Village Hotel, Waikiki, Hawaii, USA. January 11-14, 2013.

• "Postcolonial Ecofeminism in Indian Novels in English". International Conference on Society, Humanity and History. Quality Hotel, Singapore. July 23-24, 2012.

• “An Exegesis of Postcolonial Ecofeminism in Contemporary Literature”. L3 2012: Annual International Conference on Language, Literature and Linguistics. Hotel Fort Canning, Singapore. July 9-10, 2012.

• “Women and Environment: Postcolonial Ecofeminism in Indian Women’s Writing in English”. Postgraduate symposium, University of Warwick, United Kingdom. June 27, 2012.

• “The Projection of Women in Indian Soap Operas”. 9th Annual International Conference on Arts and Humanities. Hilton Resorts, Waikiki, Hawaii, USA. January 9-12, 2011. (Accepted for presentation but unable to attend).

• “Transnational Indian Films and Queer Female Identities”. International Conference on Language, Literature and Culture 2010 (ICLLIC 2010). Eastin Hotel, Penang, Malaysia (organised by Universiti Sains Malaysia). June 1- 2, 2010.

• Institute of South Asian Studies (ISAS) seminar presentation on “Projection of women in audiovisual media in India: Soap operas and women”. National University of Singapore, Singapore. August 10, 2010.

• “The Issue of Lesbianism in Contemporary Indian Films: Can Bollywood Learn From Hollywood?”. Anything But Safe: Sex, Gender and Sexuality. University of South Florida. Tampa, Florida, USA. March 6-8, 2009.

The CRSV Observatory Podcast (by the gender security project)

Nexus between weapons and conflict-related sexual violence

https://castbox.fm/episode/Episode-23---Gurpreet-Kaur-id4945261-id605827802?country=in

Interview (by Dr. Begum Burak)

Connections between gender, climate and environment

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdXe7CAk0sg

Changing Suits (NGO)

The Pain of Endometriosis

https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-pain-of-endometriosis/id1583485444?i=1000619735269

Today I Am Alive!

The Hidden World of Endometriosis

https://omny.fm/shows/today-i-am-alive/the-hidden-world-of-endometriosis

Take it from the IRON WOMAN

Episode 367—Intersectional Gender Specialist/Endometriosis

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/take-it-from-the-ironwoman/id1483227257

Watch my live coverage of the Bonn Climate Change Conference (SB58) at the UNFCCC: Climate Outreach at the UN Bonn Climate Conference (SB58) - Climate Outreach (Videos can also be found on Youtube)

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