'Gender and diversity: what's at stake?' is the central question of the first round table discussion in this inaugural issue, which concerns the way forward for education and research in diversity and gender studies. With the following articles: - Gender in a different dispensation: the case of Shakespeare / Catherine Belsey - Disclosure and the double bind processes of students with disabilities in institutions for higher education: disability studies going from studying processes of 'Disablism' to the study of wider processes of 'Ableism' / Geert Van Hove [et al.] - From happy to critical diversity: interscetionality as a paradigm for gender and diversity research / Chia Longman & Katrien De Graeve - The unbearable lightness of 'Gender and diversity' / Sarah Bracke - Islam and feminism: a vexed realtionship? Thinking through the 'muslim question' and its epistemological conundrums / Nadia Fadil - Towards a Neerlandophone postcolonial studies / Elleke Boehmer & Sarah de Mul - Ethnic diversity in Belgium: old and new migration, old and new developments / Koen Van der Bracht, Bart Van de Putte, Pieter-Paul Verhaeghe & Klaartje Van Kerckem