Name: [Talk] The emotion and passion of gender policy: The medium is the message
Start: 2026-04-07T15:00:00+08:00
End: 2026-04-07T16:30:00+08:00
Location: Penang Institute

[Talk] The emotion and passion of gender policy: The medium is the message Dr. Azza Basarudin
About this Event

Title: The emotion and passion of gender policy: The medium is the message
Date: 7 April 2026
Time: 3:00 pm to 4:30pm
Discussant: Dr. Azza Basarudin
Azza Basarudin is Associate Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at California State University, Long Beach (CSULB). She writes and publishes on social and legal regimes of gender, feminist theories, Islam and gender, and transnational feminisms, with a special focus on Southeast Asia. Her book, Humanizing the Sacred: Sisters in Islam and the Struggle for Gender Justice in Malaysia, was published by the University of Washington Press (2016). Her current research explores transgender lives and communal intimacies of Muslims in contemporary urban Malaysia. She is a Visiting Researcher at the Centre for Research on Women and Gender (KANITA) at USM and Penang Institute.