On Monday, 20 April 2026, more than 60 participants joined our webinar on Gender and Urbanism in Southeast Asia! Our heartfelt gratitude to all of those who participated.
We had the pleasure of hosting two early-career researchers, Amiel Lopez and Wenjing Qiu, for a powerful session that pushed us to rethink what cities are — and who they are for.
From queer indigenous experiences of mobility and survival in urban Mindanao, to the everyday rhythms of waiting, care, and labour among women mussel processors in coastal Jakarta, the discussion centred urban life as fluid, unequal, and deeply gendered.
Key questions that animated our conversation:
❓ How do cities produce gendered violence?
❓ Who gets to move, and who is made to wait?
❓ When does "agency" obscure deeper structural inequalities?
❓ What would urban theory in Southeast Asia look like if it began from gendered experience?
But equally important was a question that often goes unspoken: What does it mean for early-career researchers to carry these stories? The session opened space to reflect on how care, proximity, and vulnerability shape knowledge production and how academic spaces might better support researchers doing emotionally difficult ethnographic work.
A huge thank you to our speakers, Aireen Grace Andal for her valuable reflections, and Latrell Felix for organizing and moderating. Special thanks to the Global South Urban Lab in the Philippines.
Did you miss the webinar? You can still watch the recording here: https://lnkd.in/e8wXByEj
UrbanStudies Gender Philippines SouthEastAsia
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