This is gender, exhibition reception

This special evening event coincides with the launch of Power, Privilege and Priorities, the 2020 Global Health 50/50 Report and will provide a creative and social space to encounter the many faces of gender and to ponder the relationship between gender, global health and the politics of representation all accompanied by an open bar and live jazz music.

Gender permeates all aspects of our lives, it stratifies society, defines opportunities and shapes our identity. And yet there is a global tendency to reduce the dynamic, varied and complex nature of gender to a singular image of woman-as-other. In contemporary consciousness, gender’s face is invariably female. This exhibition is a challenge to this rigid and reductive way of seeing gender.

Drawn from over 400 submissions from 53 different countries, This is Gender brings together the work of 22 photographers selected by a panel of international experts. Mobilised into dialogue with one another these works challenge, confront and complexify the lens through which we envision our gendered world. They hold up a mirror to the diverse ways gender norms - rigid and fluid, traditional and progressive – are lived and challenged by men, women, transgender and non-binary people.

Together they tell a different story of gender.

The exhibition runs from 9th March to 20th March at UCL and is open to all without registration. However, registration for the evening event on 13th March is essential. To attend the official launch of Power, Privilege and Priorities, the 2020 Global Health 50/50 Report, featuring an exploration of the report findings, an interactive panel discussion, and an audience Q&A, register here.

About Global Health 50/50

Global Health 50/50 is an emerging global leader in pushing forward conversations around gender and its interactions with health and opportunity, in organisations and more generally in public discourse.