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Astrid Jamar Free 🇵🇸

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Senior researcher @ViDi UAntwerpen. Dreams, Fluid borders, Pluriverse, transitional (in)justice, coloniality of peace, #TWAIL, African Great Lakes Radical Peace Studies - Decolonial Feminist 🇧🇪/🇲🇽 in BXL She/Her www.pluriversaldreams.org

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Dr Amal Abu-Bakare @nawalabu72.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Next week!
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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
As much as I dislike AI, AI is not ultimately responsible here. The PEOPLE who fired the missile, ordered the strike & started the war are, up to & including Trump. Like I said Ukraine can target with very high a degree of precision so why not the US? PEOPLE need to be held accountable, not AI.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Mamdani: Whether you are an immigrant, a member of the trans community, one of the many black women that Donald Trump has fired from a federal job, a single mom still waiting for the cost of groceries to go down, or anyone else with their back against the wall—your struggle is ours too
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
Leading global experts just confirmed what we’ve long known: Gaza is in famine. At least half a million Palestinians are facing starvation, acute malnutrition and death. And it’s likely to spread. The U.S. government is not a bystander to this genocide. We can end it today.
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Gaza City officially in famine, says global hunger monitor
Gaza City and surrounding areas are officially suffering from famine, and it will likely spread, a global hunger monitor determined on Friday, an assessment that will escalate pressure on Israel to allow more aid into the Palestinian enclave.
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Ben Shapiro's Eye Merkins @toxidrone.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
I am updating my list of Palestine fundraisers, with direct links in case bluesky vindictively deletes their accounts. Feel free to reply with accounts you know of that I should add. Just quoting this to pin it because I forgot to put the explanation in the first post of the thread.
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(Mar)Chella Ward @luxmea.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
Thinking about how the people who call Israel “the last vestige of European colonialism” need to take a look at some of the many other vestiges of European colonialism. 🤷🏼‍♀️
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Polly Pallister-Wilkins @pollypw.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
So Israel lied. Again. For like the billionth time. That’s all they do. Lie. That’s the extent of their statecraft. Just lying. Lying and murdering people either by dropping bombs on them, starving them, or shooting them when they try to get food.
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Dr Amy Fuller @amyfuller.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
This is getting close to 150K signatures now. It might not do anything, but it will serve as evidence for the future that the UK government were aware of the opposition of its own people to its complicity in the Israeli genocide on Gaza & the fact that it did nothing to stop it.
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Marina Veličković @marinavelickovic.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
‘Do the pilots who bomb children have children’
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Astrid Jamar Free 🇵🇸 @astridjamar.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Our OpEd denouncing the current push for military research in our universities in the Standaard today University research in the service of the war economy: academics are gradually becoming intellectual mercenaries www.standaard.be/opinies/univ...
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 10/07/2025
Caster Semenya calls for athletes’ rights to be put first as court rules in her favour
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Caster Semenya calls for athletes’ rights to be put first as court rules in her favour
ECHR rules South African runner did not have fair trial on need to lower testosterone levels to compete in women’s sport The South African runner Caster Semenya has called for athletes’ rights to be better protected after Europe’s top human rights court ruled that she had not been given a fair trial when she contested a policy that required her to lower her testosterone levels in order to compete in women’s sport. The decision, handed down on Thursday by the European court of human rights, was the latest twist in the two-time Olympic gold medallist’s extraordinary legal battle. Continue reading...
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
"The signatories also include 111 BBC journalists...The statement alleges Gibb has a “conflict of interest” which “highlights a double standard for BBC content makers who have themselves experienced censorship in the name of ‘impartiality’.” this seems important www.theguardian.com/media/2025/j...
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More than 400 media figures urge BBC board to remove Robbie Gibb over Gaza
Miriam Margolyes, Alexei Sayle and Mike Leigh among signatories to letter criticising Jewish Chronicle ties
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Astrid Jamar Free 🇵🇸 @astridjamar.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Join us UAnterwpen and TUFS colleagues tomorrow for insights on Israel's Settler Colonial project in Palestine and Iran. Registration link: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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Carine Fouteau @carinefouteau.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
« On ne libérera pas les femmes iraniennes en bombardant leur pays » Alors que les États-Unis de Donald Trump pourraient bombarder l’Iran en soutien à Israël, trois femmes iraniennes, dont la réalisatrice Sepideh Farsi, sont sur le plateau d’« À l’air libre ». @mediapart.fr
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« On ne libérera pas les femmes iraniennes en bombardant leur pays »
Alors que les États-Unis de Donald Trump pourraient bombarder l’Iran en soutien à Israël, trois femmes iraniennes, dont la réalisatrice Sepideh Farsi, sont sur le plateau d’« À l’air libre ».
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Marina Veličković @marinavelickovic.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
worth reading this in full. while it does offer examples of individuals excluding/being excluded from shelters which are horrific on their own, it also looks at the structural differences in access to shelter between the jewish and palestinian citizens of israel.
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‘Not for you’: Israeli shelters exclude Palestinians as bombs rain down
Shelters are a lifeline in Israel from Iranian attacks, but Palestinian citizens of the country have been locked out.
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Astrid Jamar Free 🇵🇸 @astridjamar.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Belgian Court case finally starting tomorrow for the murder of Patrice Lumumba! Prosecuting office is charging the Davignon for war crimes www.rtbf.be/article/affa...
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Assassinat de Lumumba : le parquet fédéral réclame le renvoi d’Étienne Davignon devant le tribunal correctionnel - RTBF Actus
Patrice Lumumba, principale figure de l’indépendance, a été assassiné le 17 janvier 1961, avec deux de ses plus...
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Self-Portrait on the Border Line between Mexico and the United States, 1932, Frida Kahlo #womensart
Surrealist type painting with a central standing female figure in a long pink dress holding a Mexican flag with buildings and machinery behind her to the right and ancient Mexican artifacts and iconography to her left
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Sandeep Bakshi @sandeepbak.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
On brand graffiti - we need to be quiet when children are sleeping, not when they are dying! #FreeGaza
Graffiti in French - we keep quiet when children are sleeping, not when they are dying. #FreeGaza
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Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
The activists aboard the Madleen aid ship couldn’t break the siege of Gaza. But Greta Thunberg and her colleagues have powerfully drawn attention to Israel’s blockade — and the West’s refusal to do anything about it.
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Not Even the Sea Is Free From Israel’s Brutality
The activists aboard the Madleen aid ship couldn’t break the siege of Gaza. But Greta Thunberg and her colleagues have powerfully drawn attention to Israel’s blockade — and the West’s refusal to do an...
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Astrid Jamar Free 🇵🇸 @astridjamar.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
#FreeRima #FreeGreeta #FreeGaza #BelgiumComplicit #EUComplicit Brussels is standing with Gaza tonight, and until independence!! 🇵🇸🇵🇸✊️✊️
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Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Aren’t you meant to be “journalists”, not mouthpieces for a genocidal state?
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Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Why is there always money for war, but never for the poor? I know which side I’m on.
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Astrid Jamar Free 🇵🇸 @astridjamar.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Really looking forward to hosting you all in Antwerp for critically needed exchanges on colonial peace & connected activist responses later this week! Registration deadline is today. Participation is extended to remote online participation now! Updated programme & all info: tinyurl.com/dp8x4ssh
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Tereza Hendl @terezahendl.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Some more urgently needed discussions on the violence and coloniality of ‘peace’, also very relevant to what some of us have conceptualized and critiqued as oppressive pacifism, beyond the common empire appeasement. And it’s still possible to register to attend the hybrid discussions
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Astrid Jamar Free 🇵🇸 @astridjamar.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Tomorrow the Council will discuss the EU-Israel Association Agreement. The Agreement MUST be cancelled. No Association With Genocide! Suspend EU-Israel Association Agreement, main treaty regulation relations between the EU and Israel. Join the demonstration tomorrow at 10 am in Brussels at Schumann!
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Pluto Press @plutopress.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
"If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing." Malcolm X was born #OnThisDay in 1925.
A photo of Malcolm X standing at a podium
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Nicki Hitchcott @nickihitchcott.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
This looks brilliant! 👇
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Astrid Jamar Free 🇵🇸 @astridjamar.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Share, register and join us for a research activist workshop @ UAntwerpen! Full programme here! tinyurl.com/3xbmhpy3 #ColonialityofPeace #DecolonialPeace #ActivistResearch
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Lauren M @elenem.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Hey world, remember when you thought this was awesome? (Which, by the way, it was). Yeah well she's been suspended for a week now because of it; it's coloniser rules and forms of expression allowed only, indigenous people must only be angry in white ways. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
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Te Pāti Māori MPs to be temporarily suspended from Parliament over haka
MP Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke faces a seven-day suspension for her actions.
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Trans Legal Project @translegalproject.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
From barrister @crash-w.bsky.social. Powerful critique of the Supreme Court's work... ‘The Court’s comments about single-sex spaces appear to place trans people in a worse position than they were even prior to the passage of the Gender Recognition Act 2004’. www.translegalproject.org/post/for-wom...
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For Women Scotland: a legal critique
Download this article here:Introduction  This article critically discusses the judgment in For Women Scotland v Scottish Ministers [2025] UKSC 16. I have tried where possible for it be accessible to n...
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Julie Cupples @juliecupples79.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Our life in HE “two years into an ambitious five-year transformation programme that required the closure of a whole academic department to pay for a management consultancy to print out a pdf with a road map to success“ www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ap...
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Zara Dinnen | A Sector in Freefall
The Queen Mary University of London branch of the University and College Union, of which I am co-chair, hosts a webpage...
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Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Interesting look at how current geopolitical reconfigurations can lead to the re-emergence of pre-colonial/pre-modern trade and societal linkages, as much as of pre-2016 ones. Globalization didn't begin in the 2000s, and in many ways its previous logics remain geographically viable.
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Landlocked Burkina, Mali, Niger back sea access through Morocco
Foreign ministers of military-ruled Sahel states of Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger said on Monday they endorse an initiative offering them access to global trade through Morocco's Atlantic ports, Morocco's state news agency reported.
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Today the ICJ will start a 5 day case on whether Israel is meeting its humanitarian obligations in the occupied Palestinian territory as the occupying power. Israel will of course ignore its ruling. Rory Challands reporting
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Aurelien Mondon @aurelmondon.com · 28/04/2025
Is Starmer’s Labour far right? This question sounds absurd, but today, it is not only necessary but urgent to ask for anyone who still cares about democracy My thoughts on @reacpolrn.bsky.social reacpol.net/starmer-far-...
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Article: Is Starmer's Labour far right? (Aurelien Mondon) - Reactionary Politics Research Network
This article by Aurelien Mondon explores whether the Labour government under Starmer can be considered far right
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
'Let me start with a statement that should be obvious: deliberately starving 2 million people – half of whom are children – is indefensible. It is not complicated, it is not a nuanced situation that requires a PhD to parse.'
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Why is Yale University implicitly endorsing Israeli extremist Ben-Gvir? | Arwa Mahdawi
Shabtai, a Jewish society based at Yale, hosted the extremist far-right politician convicted of supporting terrorism. Why did Yale allow this?
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Tomás Ojeda G. @tiojeda.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
“The idea that there are two sexes, that we can always tell them apart, is the patriarchal hammer… this kind of feminism, which makes what patriarchy effects into its cause is appealing to conservatives and fascists world over” 👏 @saranahmed.bsky.social feministkilljoys.substack.com/p/patriarcha...
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Patriarchal Hammers
Some thoughts on the recent judgement by the Supreme Court
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Astrid Jamar Free 🇵🇸 @astridjamar.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
As news getting bad to worse, striving to stay afloat, walking through clouds of all shades, reading feminist powerful lines, getting strength and inspiration from small waves, strong winds and sunshines to keep standing in solidarity, resisting, and writing on the violence of peace...
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Anna Stavrianakis @annastavrianakis.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
In the current geopolitical and higher ed context, the publication of this special forum on "technologies of armed violence" is very dear to my heart: academic.oup.com/isagsq/issue... /1
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Volume 5 Issue 2 | Global Studies Quarterly | Oxford Academic
Global Studies Quarterly is a fully open access journal that publishes original and innovative scholarship within the broad spectrum of topics, subfields, approaches, and metho...
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Carlos Azevedo @carlosazevedo.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
According to The Lancet, life expectancy in Gaza has dropped by 35 years since October 2023.
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Sébastien Bachelet @sebbachelet.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
A comic by #Calais -based artist Loup Blaster about solidarity houses where residents welcome exiled people with dignity in defiance of deadly and racist politics of #migration. Part of a project on the criminalisation of #solidarity in France & Morocco : sebastienbachelet.com/crimes-of-so...
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Fabrice Riceputi @campvolant.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
En mai.
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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Ok white citizens, fascism is scary and it’s a new experience for you to feel threatened by the state. I get it. But please let’s not do All Lives Matter 2.0. We have to focus on the most vulnerable & use every shred of privilege if we’re going to survive this.
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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Trans women are women and no court judgement can change that. Without wanting to diminish the negative effect that legal oppression has on trans lives, there is no reason why lawyers and judges are qualified to make this argument over actual experts in the field.
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Pedro Rios @pedroconsafos.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Newly installed c-wire on 2nd border barrier in San Diego, in the area Border Patrol would hold asylum-seeking migrants, in some cases for days without food, water or hygienic facilities, in an open air detention site. Metal rods are on primary wall where new c-wire will be installed in coming days.
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Adil Haque @adhaque.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Only 15 U.S. Senators voted to disapprove pending arms sales to Israel, while Trump and Netanyahu openly plan to ethnically cleanse and annex Gaza. Inexplicable 'nay' votes by Ossoff and Warnock, who voted in favor of a similar resolution in November.
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Egmont Institute @egmontinstitute.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
📄𝗡𝗘𝗪 𝗣𝗨𝗕𝗟𝗜𝗖𝗔𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡 by @judithverweijen.bsky.social, @kvlassen.bsky.social & Godefroid Muzalia ““We Are Caught Between Violence and Famine” – Analysis of the Deepening Crisis Affecting Eastern DR Congo” #DRC 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲 👉 bit.ly/3FLayRl
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Charlotte Mertens @charlottemertens.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
People in Bukavu keep telling me about daily targeted arrests, about gunshots and killings every night. They are living in a ‘psychose totale’. Unlivable.
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