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Laura J. Shepherd

@drljshepherd.bsky.social
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Researcher, educator, enthusiastic but terrible dancer, writing about gender, governance, security, pop culture. Views mine. She/they.

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Laura J. Shepherd @drljshepherd.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I'm not at all sure BlueSky functions in the same way as the old space (in the good times) but I'll give this a try anyway... Folks who are thinking about attending BISA 2027: anyone keen to collaborate on a panel or roundtable (or some other kind of event) on neurodiversity in academia?
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Academic Cat Wearing Glasses
Alt: White floofy cat wearing glasses
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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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Laura J. Shepherd @drljshepherd.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Laleh this is indefensible and an outrage. I'm so sorry. Sending solidarity and care
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International Affairs @iajournal.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
👩‍🔬 How is gender knowledge and gender expertise constructed, mobilized and institutionalized within international governance? Learn more in Lenka Olejníková, @drljshepherd.bsky.social (@sydney.edu.au) & Alba Rosa Boer Cueva’s #openaccess article: doi.org/10.1093/ia/iiag045
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lsegender @lsegender.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Special themed section of @signsjournal.org on transnational anti-gender politics and resistance, edited by Clare Hemmings and @sumimadhok.bsky.social out now! Read it here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/signs/cu...
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Laura J. Shepherd @drljshepherd.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Woohoo! Congrats, Matt. From one powerhouse team to the next - the journal is lucky to have your collective and continuing wisdom
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Ntina Tzouvala @ntinatzouvala.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
happy 'the ARC works in mysterious ways' day to those who celebrate
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Laura J. Shepherd @drljshepherd.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Hey @paulcinnamon.bsky.social, here's the H-Diplo forum on our book 🥳 Many thanks to the editors and reviewers whose engagement was both thoughtful and provocative, in the best possible way.
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Laura J. Shepherd @drljshepherd.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Thank you so much for your thoughtful engagement, Jennifer!
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 09/02/2026
In an alarming development, it appears the UK Government covered up a massive spike in trans youth suicides after restrictions. Then covered it up again when caught. Now, after fighting for years, the data is public: trans suicide increased 5x in the country. Subscribe to support our journalism.
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Trans Youth Suicides Skyrocketed In UK After Care Drawdown; Government Covers It Up
A Freedom of Information request to the National Child Mortality Database reveals that 22 trans children under 18 died by suicide in England in 2021-22 alone.
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Politics & Gender @politicsgenderj.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
📢New issue of #PAG21 is out!📢 In their critical perspectives article, "WPS at 25", @doris-asante.bsky.social and @drljshepherd.bsky.social look at NAPs in the context of a growing WPS Agenda. polisky gendersky buff.ly/ZdtsAh3
Critical perspectives article titled "WPS at 25: National Action Plans as Mechanisms for Implementation of a Diverse Agenda" by Doris Asante and Laura J. Shepherd.
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Laura J. Shepherd @drljshepherd.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
I use the Evoluent vertical mouse, have done for years, and it was a total game changer - completely eliminated pain from RSI and referred pain into my shoulder: evoluent.com.
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Dr. Lorgia García Peña @laprofelgp.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Academia can be soul crushing. Protect your hearts. #academicsky
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Laura J. Shepherd @drljshepherd.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Thank you! Glad it resonated...
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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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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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Alexis Henshaw @profhenshaw.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
1/x For no particular reason, a thread of books to remind you that gender matters to international security. #polisky @oraszekely.bsky.social, Jessica, and I wrote Insurgent Women to highlight the involvement of women in multiple conflicts. press.georgetown.edu/Book/Insurge...
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Insurgent Women
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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 · 21/08/2025
Just found out - via an email from a colleague 🙃 - that my 2024 ISA presidential address has finally been published in @isq-jrnl.bsky.social. It brings together many strands of enquiry and reflections spanning nearly two decades of my career. Oh, and it's open access academic.oup.com/isq/article/...
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Telling Stories of International Relations
Abstract. This is a lightly edited version of the presidential address I delivered at the sixty-fifth annual convention of the International Studies Associ
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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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Adil Haque @adhaque.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Joint Statement by Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the UK: "the war in Gaza must end now."
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David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
Absolutely dystopian juxtaposition from the Guardian front page. Difficult to understand how anyone of decency and conscience can defend this government at this point. Just sheer moral degeneracy to arm a state that does this and arrest people for objecting. Wtf are we doing as a country?
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Jack Mirkinson @jackmirkinson.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
“latest shooting of gazans seeking food”
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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 12/06/2025
“abolish ice abolish slavery abolish prisons abolish borders abolish colonialism abolish our addiction to punishing everyone who needs healing” -adrienne maree brown, abolition spell, fables and spells

all that is darkness
abolish ice


abolish slavery

abolish prisons

abolish borders

abolish colonialism
abolish our addiction to punishing everyone who needs healing
solstice come solstice go solstice come solstice go
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Dr. Lorgia García Peña @laprofelgp.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Fellow profs, do you have a plan for how you will protect your students in this climate?
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Laura J. Shepherd @drljshepherd.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Yes! Will miss you too, and all the great conversations I am sure you will have. Would be lovely to convene elsewhere as well - perhaps through a virtual event, or just a Zoom chat...
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Laura J. Shepherd @drljshepherd.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
I saw this on LinkedIn and it feels particularly relevant today, as the question of how to exist in a disabling world (and show up in the workplace) as an autistic woman is uppermost in my mind. I do all of these things and the world (/workplace) is still pretty exhausting a lot of the time
Boundaries I've set in my life since learning I'm autistic:
- I wear clothes that prioriise sensory comfort
- I don't force eye contact, small talk, or neurotypical social norms that drain me
- I prioritise rest before I'm at breaking point
- I allow myself to stim without shame
- I advocate for accommodations instead of trying to "push through"
- I no longer force myself to attend social events out of guilt or obligation
- I prioritise downtime between activities
- I say no to plans or events that don't meet my sensory needs
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Laura J. Shepherd @drljshepherd.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Ah sorry dear one, I won't be at ISA next year... Hope to continue the conversation in any case
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Laura J. Shepherd @drljshepherd.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
Wonderful! Thanks for sharing
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Contingent Magazine @contingent-mag.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
"But let’s be clear: this 'burnout' that secure scholars are feeling is phantom pain where their colleagues should be . . . You are suffering from the effects of intentional systemic understaffing."
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A Profession, If You Can Keep It
Imagined meritocracies mean little to extractive institutions.
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Laura J. Shepherd @drljshepherd.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Me too... I described the feeling I had after reading it as "empty and joyful at once". It has stayed with me
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Laura J. Shepherd @drljshepherd.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
So delighted to see this important article published! The first of many from Charlotte's excellent research, I am sure. Congratulations @charlottecarney.bsky.social
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Laura J. Shepherd @drljshepherd.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Woohoo! Many congratulations, you wonderful, clever humans! So delighted to see this article in the world. Well done to you both 🥳
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Laura J. Shepherd @drljshepherd.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
I agree with this advice: articles need to be more assertive, with less hedging and paying homage to the extensive scholarship on XYZ. In a thesis, you've got 80,000 words to make your point and an article usually offers a tenth of that, so you also need to be concise. A tight structure helps too.
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Laura J. Shepherd @drljshepherd.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Delighted to share the closing post that @paulcinnamon.bsky.social and I wrote to round out the symposium! "Feminist Peace in Question" is our attempt to respond to the reviews we've shared here: thedisorderofthings.com/2025/04/11/f.... Huge thanks again to Meera Sabaratnam for coordinating.
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Feminist Peace In Question
Our final piece in the symposium on Governing the Feminist Peace is a reply from our authors to the contributions by Nicole, Mohamed, Helen, and Laura. It is customary to begin such closing essays …
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Claerwen O’Hara @claerwen.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
I loved speaking to @ntinatzouvala.bsky.social and @pagingdrpaige.bsky.social about queer approaches to international law in this episode of #CalledToTheBar! Check it out at the link below 👇
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Laura J. Shepherd @drljshepherd.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
The final essay/ review is up! "Women, Peace, and Security as Argument and Tension" by the brilliant Laura Sjoberg is a thoughtful and generous engagement with the broader contribution of our book: thedisorderofthings.com/2025/04/09/w...
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Women, Peace, and Security as Argument and Tension
Today’s piece for our symposium on Governing the Feminist Peace is from Laura Sjoberg. Laura is Professor of International Relations at the University of Oxford and Kloppenburg Official Fello…
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Lauren Wilcox @laurenbwilcox.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
These gender studies lectures are just writing themselves
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Laura J. Shepherd @drljshepherd.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
I was going to say this is a vibe but this is a whole way of life honestly
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ARC Tracker @arc-tracker.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
I've made my submission to the review of the ARC grant system. Have you? 5 more days, people.
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Laura J. Shepherd @drljshepherd.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Such a beautiful garden it is too. Very happy to have it, and you, in the conversation...
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Laura J. Shepherd @drljshepherd.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Today's blog post is from my dear friend, colleague, and marvellous co-conspirator @hmberents.bsky.social. Helen writes on "Ecotones And Borderlands Of The Feminist Peace" (@rkrystalli.bsky.social I think you will like this one!): thedisorderofthings.com/2025/04/07/e...
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Ecotones And Borderlands Of The Feminist Peace
The next contribution to our symposium on Governing the Feminist Peace comes from Helen Berents. Helen is Senior Lecturer in International Relations in the School of Government and International Re…
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Laura J. Shepherd @drljshepherd.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Next up: "Governing the Feminist Peace to Deflect from Decolonial Peace in Africa" by the brilliant Mohamed Sesay thedisorderofthings.com/2025/04/04/g...
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Governing the Feminist Peace to Deflect from Decolonial Peace in Africa
This third contribution to our symposium on Governing the Feminist Peace comes from Mohamed Sesay. Mohamed is Associate Professor and Coordinator of the African Studies Program in the Department of…
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Laura J. Shepherd @drljshepherd.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Threading the rest of the forum here! The always insightful Nicole George on "Governing the Feminist Peace: From Institutionalism to Ecology" thedisorderofthings.com/2025/04/02/g...
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Governing the Feminist Peace: From Institutionalism to Ecology
This second contribution to our symposium on Governing the Feminist Peace comes from Nicole George at the University of Queensland. Nicole is Associate Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies at th…
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Matt Cameron @mattcameron.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
"I have lost faith that I could walk the streets without being abducted" is about as damning a review of the current state of US student visa system as you're ever going to see
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Paul Kirby @paulcinnamon.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
This week and next, a symposium on @drljshepherd.bsky.social and my GOVERNING THE FEMINIST PEACE over at a critical IR group blog that's not quite dead yet. Please 'enjoy'. thedisorderofthings.com/2025/03/31/w...
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Why We Wrote Governing The Feminist Peace
This is the first post in a new book symposium, on Paul Kirby and Laura J. Shepherd’s Governing the Feminist Peace, which was published in 2024 by Columbia University Press. Laura is Professo…
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Laura J. Shepherd @drljshepherd.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Sending hugs from autumn in Sydney
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Dr. Lorgia García Peña @laprofelgp.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Remember to drink water, read poetry, check in on friends particularly your queer, trans, immigrant, Black, neurodivergent, Palestine friend. No one is ok. But we are all better in community. #communityasrebellion
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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
even if you’ve never heard of USIP before, this is worth noting, I think: a random group of Musk’s staffers, working on behalf of the executive branch, apparently breaking into an independent organization and shutting it down for no stated cause
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
I think it has more to do with you might get locked up for absolutely no reason at all and then flown to El Salvador to die in prison even though a judge said you should be released
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