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Columba Achilleos

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Lecturer (Assistant Prof) @BhamPolsis | Researching WPS, NGOs, gender, race, (in)security, FFP & visual global politics | Feminist Killjoy | Anti-war | She/her | www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles…

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BISA - British International Studies Association @mybisa.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Read below as Juanita Elias reflects on what growing demands for greater public accessibility to academic research mean for the future of international studies 🌟 'Open access and the future of the monograph in International Studies' 📚 Find the full blog here 👉 ow.ly/xoPL50Zmigh
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Open access and the future of the monograph in International Studies
Juanita Elias reflects on how greater public accessibility will affect long-form publications.
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Nicola J. Smith @drnickismith.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
So excited to see this incredible book by @columbaachilleos.bsky.social is out - absolutely essential reading! academic.oup.com/book/62997
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Advocating for the Women, Peace and Security Agenda
Abstract. On 31 October 2000, the UN Security Council unanimously adopted Resolution 1325 under the title of ‘women and peace and security’—the first forma
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Bristol University Press @brisunipress.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Our new open access titles cover topics such as feminist foreign policy, migration, climate change, diversity, economic justice and more. 🔓 #Feminist #Migration #ClimateChange #Diversity ow.ly/nEGa50Zalmq
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Columba Achilleos @columbaachilleos.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
🚨🎉 Briefly interrupting mat leave to share the publication of our edited book on Feminist Foreign Policy (FFP), co-edited with @tonihaastrup.bsky.social & @thomsonjennifer.bsky.social ⬇️ bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/feminist-for... 📖 The book is available open access #FeministForeignPolicy
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Feminist Foreign Policy
Feminist Foreign Policy - Energy and Resistance; Since Sweden launched the world’s first Feminist Foreign Policy (FFP), the concept has become ubiquitous in foreign policy studies and practice. This b...
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BISA - British International Studies Association @mybisa.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Ilan Pappe to give #BISA2026 public lecture! 🎉 ‘Gaza as an epicentre - the breakdown of the international order’ trying to provide an explanation why the events in the Gaza Strip since October 2023 unsettled the international order 🌍 Space is limited so register now! 👉 ow.ly/qhIf50Y4lfY
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Ilan Pappe to give #BISA2026 public lecture on Gaza as an epicentre
The #BISA2026 conference in Brighton will commence with a lecture given by Professor Ilan Pappe.
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Review of International Studies @risjnl.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
In our latest issue, Annika Bergman Rosamond contends that the protection of cultural heritage in armed conflict is militarized, and informed by "notions of protection that are broadly western-centred and masculinised." This article is #OpenAccess now! 📘 ➡️ buff.ly/g9S1f2C
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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
www.e-ir.info/2026/02/01/i... Interview - Shirin M. Rai at E-IR
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Interview - Shirin M. Rai
Shirin Rai reflects on feminist political economy, social reproduction, and climate change, tracing how capitalism and gendered labour shape inequality and everyday life.
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LSE Library @lselibrary.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
We are celebrating 100 years of The Women’s Library, the UK’s oldest & largest book, archive & museum collection on the history of women's movement. Join us for an exhibition and year of FREE special events to mark its memory and continue its legacy. www.lse.ac.uk/library/twl100 @fotwl.bsky.social
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The Women's Library at 100 | LSE Library
Find out about the various activities planned to celebrate 100 years since The Women's Library was founded.
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BISA - British International Studies Association @mybisa.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
BISA Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Prize 🎉 Recognising an individual or group that has made significant contributions to promoting a more inclusive discipline through in relation to a range of areas 🌟 Get nominating today! 👉 ow.ly/mbME50XWw6X Jessica Northey prof toni haastrup
BISA social media card of a rainbow background with lights, the BISA logo and a trophy. The words Michael Nicholson Thesis Prize, Nominate now, Deadline 3 February are below.
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Paul Kirby @paulcinnamon.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Fourteen interventions on twenty-five years of Women, Peace and Security. Open access, free to read. “If an anniversary signals a return, a cycle of remembrance, then for WPS that ritual is in disarray… We may wonder: what sort of party does WPS deserve?” www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Paul Kirby @paulcinnamon.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
The Women, Peace and Security UK Research Network is organising its first workshop. We invite submissions from researchers of all career stages and of any institutional affiliation (or none) based in the UK. Workshop: 19 May Deadline for abstracts: 2 March thedisorderofthings.com/2026/01/30/c...
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Call for Participation: Women, Peace and Security Research Network UK
Date: Tuesday 19 May 2026 Venue: Queen Mary University of London Format: A one-day event with 20-25 participants The Women, Peace and Security (WPS) UK Research Network, a community of researchers …
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BISA - British International Studies Association @mybisa.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Aston uni Centre for Migration and Forced Displacement is looking for participants for a workshop on centring abolition as transformative practice in our daily lives within and outside of academia🌟 Deadline 26 Jan & workshop on 12-13 May 🎉 👉 More info on sheet attached below! Dr Amal Abu-Bakare
Promotional page for “Connecting Abolition(s),” a two-day workshop taking place 12–13 May 2026 at Aston University in Birmingham, UK. 

The page announces a call for contributions focused on abolition in theory and practice, including border abolition, prison and police abolition, climate justice, settler colonialism, mutual aid, and international solidarity. The event includes panels, roundtables, and creative workshops, with plenary speakers Ajay Parasram and Amal Abu-Bakare. 

A submission deadline of 26 January 2026 and contact email cmfd@aston.ac.uk are listed, along with a note that limited funding is available, prioritising PhD students and early career researchers.
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Patrick J. Vernon @patrickvernon.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
New paper! 🚨 It studies anti-trans and anti-migrant media discourses in the UK as symptomatic of an ‘eliminationist news cycle’ in liberal democracies. Doing so, it challenges received wisdom on the role of the media in TJ and maps possibilities for new coalitions. academic.oup.com/ijtj/advance...
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Rethinking Transitional Justice: The Eliminationist News Cycle in Liberal Democracies
Abstract∞. How can an ostensibly free and open media actively facilitate systematic violence against minoritized groups? Studying anti-trans and anti-migra
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Laleh Khalili @lalehkhalili.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Three UK hunger strikers end their hunger strike after the MoD meets one of their demands: The MoD has denied a major new £2 billion contract with the Israeli defence firm's subsidiary, Elbit Systems UK, for an Army training program.. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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Three Palestine Action protesters end their hunger strike
Four more who had paused opt not to continue after government opts against giving contract to Elbit Systems UK
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Hannah Wright @hannahwright.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
Columba and I contributed a short section on abolition feminism and WPS to this @ifjpglobal.bsky.social Conversations piece. Looking forward to reading what all the other awesome contributors have to say about this moment in the history of feminist peace organising.
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Columba Achilleos @columbaachilleos.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
Just in time for the holidays, check out our Conversations piece @paulcinnamon.bsky.social “Unhappy Birthday! Women, Peace and Security at 25” 👉 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... ✨⭐ Featuring a stellar line up of WPS scholars & practitioners👇👇👇
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Unhappy birthday! Women, Peace and Security at 25
Published in International Feminist Journal of Politics (Ahead of Print, 2025)
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Jamie J. Hagen @jamiejhagen.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
🚨Exciting news! Today is pub day for my book Queering Women, Peace and Security: Expanding Feminist Approaches to Gender in Peacebuilding. 🚨 You can preorder print copies now and the online edition of the book is already available to subscribers to Oxford Academic at this link: bit.ly/4hP3wdc
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Politics & Gender @politicsgenderj.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
📢New issue of #PAG21 is out!📢 In the editorial "The Where, What, and Who of Feminist Foreign Policy", @columbaachilleos.bsky.social, @tonihaastrup.bsky.social, and @thomsonjennifer.bsky.social offer a roadmap to FFP scholarship and practice. buff.ly/hHpXEiG
Editorial titled "The Where, What, and Who of Feminist Foreign Policy: Hierarchies of Geography, Knowledge, and Power" by Columba Achilleos-Sarll, Toni Haastrup, and Jennifer Thomson.
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Mona Lena Krook @mlkrook.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Excited to share the latest issue of @politicsgenderj.bsky.social featuring research on WPS, gender and diplomacy, feminist foreign policy, and UNSCR 1325. All articles are currently ungated for readers around the world. www.cambridge.org/core/journal... Gendersky Polisky
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Latest issue | Politics & Gender | Cambridge Core
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Jennifer Thomson @thomsonjennifer.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Our special section on #feministforeignpolicy in @politicsgenderj.bsky.social is currently free to access! @tonihaastrup.bsky.social @columbaachilleos.bsky.social
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Aida A. Hozic @hozic.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
Coming soon in RIPE Series in Global Political Economy - War Economy: Gendered Circuits of Violence and Capital, co-edited with Jacqui True. More at: www.routledge.com/War-Economy-...
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Paul Kirby @paulcinnamon.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
With @drljshepherd.bsky.social, revisiting our plea to 'forget' Women, Peace and Security in light of the governments currently trying to make it disappear. theglobalobservatory.org/2025/10/forg...
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Forgetting WPS: On Being Careful What You Wish For - IPI Global Observatory
We concluded our recent book, Governing the Feminist Peace, with an exhortation to “forget WPS”—to abandon attempts to force coherence onto an agenda that had become so sprawling and intricate over it...
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Intellectual Publics @intellpublics.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Insurgent Visions: Feminism, Justice, Solidarity A conversation with Chandra Talpade Mohanty and Linda Martin Alcoff Monday, December 8, 2025 6:30pm ET online bit.ly/insurgent_vi...
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Ken Wissoker @kwissoker.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
I'm super-excited about this conversation between these feminist activists, theorists, and friends, coming up at @intellpublics.bsky.social @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social on December 8. Online. Registration link below! @dukepress.bsky.social
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Hannah Wright @hannahwright.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Nice to see this piece has an issue number now, just as we pass the 25th anniversary of UNSCR 1325. @columbaachilleos.bsky.social and I also have a short follow up conversations piece coming shortly... www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Towards an abolitionist feminist peace: State violence, anti-militarism, and the Women, Peace and Security agenda | Review of International Studies | Cambridge Core
Towards an abolitionist feminist peace: State violence, anti-militarism, and the Women, Peace and Security agenda - Volume 51 Issue 5
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BISA - British International Studies Association @mybisa.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
25 years of the United Nations Women, Peace and Security agenda: new Review of International Studies edition by Katrina Lee Koo 🎉 All articles free to read until end of Jan! Inc: Maria Martin de Almagro, Sara E Davies, Hannah Wright, Alexandra Phelan & more! 🌟 Read here 👉 ow.ly/rqR450XhsZt
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Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · 22/10/2025
25 years of the United Nations Women, Peace and Security agenda - a new collection from @risjnl.bsky.social complied by Katrina Lee Koo. Browse here - cup.org/4oAmXZq cc @mybisa.bsky.social
Logo for "Review of International Studies" featuring a partial image of the Earth on a dark background, with text indicating an editor's selection by Katrina Lee Koo.
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Hannah Wright @hannahwright.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Pleased to see mine and @columbaachilleos.bsky.social 's article, 'Towards an Abolitionist Feminist Peace: State Violence, Anti-Militarism and the Women, Peace and Security Agenda' in this new collection:
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Polly Pallister-Wilkins @pollypw.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
If the aid sector is truly committed to the idea of doing no harm then it should not be using generative AI. Full-stop. But instead we see how once again the sector is a useful playground for capitalist experimentation and expansion. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
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AI-generated ‘poverty porn’ fake images being used by aid agencies
Exclusive: Pictures depicting the most vulnerable and poorest people are being used in social media campaigns in the sector, driven by concerns over consent and cost
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BISA Gendering IR Working Group @girwgbisa.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
The @mybisa.bsky.social Gendering IR Working Group is now on Bluesky (and LinkedIn)! 🥳 Follow us here for updates and upcoming events.
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prof toni haastrup @tonihaastrup.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Something to read on the eve of the 4th FFP ministerial 2 yrs of work; from authors to editors really proud to have worked with so many awesome feminists++ on this & the best co-editors a girl could wish for @columbaachilleos.bsky.social & @thomsonjennifer.bsky.social - the smartest minds! 🙏🏾
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Columba Achilleos @columbaachilleos.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
1/ 🚨 Our intro to the Special Section on #FeministForeignPolicy is out! Co-authored w/ @tonihaastrup.bsky.social & @thomsonjennifer.bsky.social ky.social in @politicsgenderj.bsky.social: "The Where, What & Who of Feminist Foreign Policy" 📖 #OpenAccess 🔗 www.cambridge.org/core/journal... 👇👇👇
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The Where, What, and Who of Feminist Foreign Policy: Hierarchies of Geography, Knowledge, and Power | Politics & Gender | Cambridge Core
The Where, What, and Who of Feminist Foreign Policy: Hierarchies of Geography, Knowledge, and Power
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End Sexism In Schools @endsexisminschools.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
We’re launching the results of our research into gender balance in the History curriculum today. The report - The Great History Heist: Reclaiming Women’s Place in the History Curriculum - found only 12% of History lessons feature women as their main focus. 59% featured no women at all.
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Sexism in the History Curriculum - End Sexism in Schools
End Sexism In School’s second crowd research project is looking into the History curriculum taught at KS3 (years 7-9) in England and Wales.
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Nuzhat Uthmani @nuthmani.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
Can't wait to see all the defenders of women and girls sharing this message.
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Laura J. Shepherd @drljshepherd.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Delighted to collaborate with the always brilliant @doris-asante.bsky.social on this essay on WPS NAPs as we approach the 25th anniversary of the adoption of UNSCR 1325. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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WPS at 25: National Action Plans as Mechanisms for Implementation of a Diverse Agenda | Politics & Gender | Cambridge Core
WPS at 25: National Action Plans as Mechanisms for Implementation of a Diverse Agenda
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Laura J. Shepherd @drljshepherd.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
Incredibly impressed by Kate Scott and Lindsay Day, two brilliant PhD students at USYD who have published this excellent paper on TikTok tradwives and online anti-feminist movements www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10..... Such a pleasure to work with and learn from such smart humans!
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TikTok tradwives: femininity, reproduction, and social media
In recent years, social media platforms have seen a growing promotion of the Tradwife’s lifestyle, where cis women embrace patriarchal gender norms and identities such as the stay-at-home mother an...
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prof toni haastrup @tonihaastrup.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
This wouldn’t be possible without my fellow African feminists in the trenches
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Jennifer Thomson @thomsonjennifer.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
New Notes from the Field online from @tonihaastrup.bsky.social as part of this Special Section on #feministforeignpolicy #OpenAccess from @politicsgenderj.bsky.social Contending with the Coloniality of Feminist Foreign Policy: A Perspective from Africa - cup.org/4oItz8P #FirstView
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Contending with the Coloniality of Feminist Foreign Policy: A Perspective from Africa | Politics & Gender | Cambridge Core
Contending with the Coloniality of Feminist Foreign Policy: A Perspective from Africa
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Rethinking Security @rethinkingsecurity.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
🚨New on the Blog: After 25 years of bipartisan commitment to Women Peace & Security, the UK gov't suddenly seems loath to mention or fund it. @tonihaastrup.bsky.social & @jamiejhagen.bsky.social make the case for gender equality & inclusion in UK policy. rethinkingsecurity.org.uk/2025/08/04/2...
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25 Years of Women, Peace and Security in the UK: An opportunity to align feminist commitments at home and abroad
After a quarter-century of bipartisan British commitment to the Women Peace and Security agenda, the current Labour government suddenly seems loath to mention or fund it. Toni Haastrup and Jamie Ha…
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Cas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
Domestic violence is a major threat to women around the world but it is also a warning sign for political violence. And yet, it rarely gets the political attention it deserves and requires.
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Two in five arrested for last summer’s UK riots had been reported for domestic abuse
Police data indicates overlaps between public violent disorder and domestic violence and abuse
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Politics & Gender @politicsgenderj.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
📣 Out on #FirstView 📣 For our upcoming issue on #feministforeignpolicy, @karolinefaerber.bsky.social & @erdfraeuleinma.bsky.social analyze how Germany 🇩🇪 represents, negotiates and reproduces its colonial past in their FFP. polisky gendersky buff.ly/Y9B4uMH
Research article "Claiming Historical Responsibility? The Persistence of Coloniality in German Feminist Foreign Policy" by Karoline Färber & Madita Standke-Erdmann.
Abstract begins: Recently, former colonial powers in the Global North have begun addressing their colonial pasts through their foreign policies. Some of these states pursue a feminist foreign policy (FFP). However, to date, only one FFP makes explicit mention of colonial legacies: that of Germany, adopted in 2021. How does German FFP discourse address this and what political work does this do? Contributing to critiques of coloniality in FFP, we analyze the discursive representation of Germany’s colonial past in foreign policy texts since 2021. Drawing on the socio-critical concepts theater of reconciliation by Max Czollek and remembrance superiority by Mohamed Amjahid, we find that the discourse powerfully establishes gendered notions of caring, responsible, and reflexive German statehood.
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Madita Standke-Erdmann @erdfraeuleinma.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
I'm so happy about @karolinefaerber.bsky.social and my new article with @politicsgenderj.bsky.social 🥰. We draw on @maxczollek.bsky.social and @mamjahid.bsky.social 's work to show how claims of historical responsibility in Germany's Feminist Foreign Policy towards colonialism sustain coloniality /1
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Jennifer Thomson @thomsonjennifer.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
The first article and Notes from the Field from our Special Issue with @politicsgenderj.bsky.social on #feministforeignpolicy is online now! @tonihaastrup.bsky.social @columbaachilleos.bsky.social The first Notes looks at how FFP has influenced donor funding on peacebuilding:
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NPR @npr.org · 21/07/2025
Dr. Nick Maynard tells NPR he's treating children shot at food distribution sites and witnessing what he believes is the systematic destruction of Gaza's civilian infrastructure.
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Inside a Gaza hospital: A British surgeon on what he's witnessing firsthand
Dr. Nick Maynard tells NPR he's treating children shot at food distribution sites and witnessing what he believes is the systematic destruction of Gaza's civilian infrastructure.
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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
“Statutory maternity leave allows most new mums and birthing parents to take up to 52 weeks off work. Statutory maternity pay is paid for up to 39 weeks” right yes I wonder if anyone in government can see the GLARING PROBLEM with this
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Ov Cristian NOROCEL @norocel.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
My department at Lund University recruits 3 Associate Senior Lecturers (BUL) Gender studies: lnkd.in/dPzNNC7G; Social anthropology: lnkd.in/deXFaPXf; Sociology: lnkd.in/dK5BnZxz. Positions correspond to tenure-track (50/50 research/teaching) w/h permanent employment after 4 yrs. Apply by 31 August!
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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 14/07/2025
Inside Gaza’s ‘death traps’ Extraordinary work by my colleagues here on.ft.com/4kE1EUn
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Inside Gaza’s ‘death traps’
[FREE TO READ] A US-backed scheme forces hungry Palestinians to trek kilometres for food aid. Many never make it back
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folukeifejola @folukeifejola.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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Half of black women in UK who raise concerns during labour did not receive suitable help, study finds
Maternity experiences of more than 1,000 pregnant people found black women up to four times more likely to die in childbirth
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Niklas Balbon @balnik.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
👀 The article is a part of a @politicsgenderj.bsky.social special issue on Feminist Foreign Policy curated by Professor @tonihaastrup.bsky.social, @thomsonjennifer.bsky.social and @columbaachilleos.bsky.social. Stay tuned for the whole special issue in autumn.
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Niklas Balbon @balnik.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
Feminist foreign policies talk equality, but local feminist peacebuilders still face donor scepticism, unstable funding & political pushback. Without structural change, FFPs risk perpetuating the problems they claim to solve. 📝 Our new piece in @politicsgenderj.bsky.social doi.org/10.1017/S174...
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