Dr Rachele Girardi

✨Reading and Practising Abolition✨

Join us for this pilot project on creative methods and abolitionist scholarship in collaboration with Abolitionist Futures!

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Coming soon………

Navigating Mental Health in the Male Open Prison: Pains, Power and Peer Support

Introducing: Love in a F*cked Up World | Podcast with Dean Spade YouTube video by Dean Spade

I am so excited to announce Love in a F*cked Up World, the podcast! The first episode is out today — a conversation with adrienne maree brown — and I'll be releasing new episodes every two weeks for the next few months.

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Recently presented my work on #queer #resistance and #prison heterotopias at the London Conference in Critical Thought 2025 & I am still thinking about the amazing conversations we had on everyday resistance, the power of the erotic, queer affect, and empathy and cringe for knowledge production ✨

Beyond the Surface: Diving into Digital Human Milk Sharing and Reality of Women's Prison This event promises to provide a thought-provoking look at the intersections of health, gender, and societal norms. <br /> <br /> First we explore the growing trend of…

If you are in London next Wednesday (21/05), and you'd like to listen to some interesting stuff about prisons, gender, societal norms, punishment and health, join us for a pint at this year's @pintofscience.uk event! 🍺

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Heartened to see that close to 900 fellow academics and educators have already signed our letter in support of trans rights, trans wellbeing & trans inclusion, and against essentialist, anti-scientific, racialised & regressive views of womanhood. Please do read, share & sign! tinyurl.com/mud7va29

Who's side are you on?
First photo, Terf rally in Parliament Square with 3 attendees (25th January 2025)
Second photo, Trans rally in Parliament Square with 30,000 attendees (19th April 2025)

Two days ago I passed my Viva! What an intense/empowering journey!

Thank you to my brilliant supervisors, Dr Alex Fanghanel Dr Madeline Petrillo & Dr Giulia Zampini, to my amazing PhD group, to my wonderful examiners, Dr Michael Fiddler and Prof Kath Browne, and to my colleagues at Greenwich ✨

I have been awarded the PGR Research Award 2024 by University of Greenwich FLAS! 🏆

Extremely thankful to the inspiring environment at the School of Law and Criminology, especially to my fabulous supervisors! Dr Alex Fanghanel, Dr Giulia Zampini & Dr Madeline Petrillo ✨

Sometimes as a lecturer you get to teach the most amazing students. Super pleased for @alexbrunoo.bsky.social and their first academic article based on the undergraduate thesis. journals.gre.ac.uk/index.php/co...

Insecurity and Fragility: The Perpetual Duo of Precarity for ‘Convict Criminologists’ in a Risk Averse Academy - Critical Criminology Risk management in the criminal justice system reflects a wider societal risk consciousness. People with criminal records are seen as risks requiring governance. Despite the recent interest in embeddi...

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My latest offering…..

🔔 "The ubiquity of gender and the hiddenness of agency: looking inside women’s prisons in England"

In my latest article, I am exploring issues of #gender, space and agency through a document analysis on women's #prisons in England

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