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Maria Carmen (Ica) Fernandez @icafernandez.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Sharing a short discussion paper in this monograph released by UP CIDS on navigating multiple contesting land claims under a peace deal. Nothing new for communities confronting these painful questions for decades, but one of the many difficult conversations needed. Download: lnkd.in/gQu5yhqR

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Maria Carmen (Ica) Fernandez @icafernandez.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

Proof of life at the last pair of pre-submission conferences of the PhD: #ASEAS2025 and #CRS2025.

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Maria Carmen (Ica) Fernandez @icafernandez.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

A years-in-the-making piece with Tirmizy Abdullah and so many co-conspirators: on collaborative mapping and memory work in the post-siege Marawi padian (market district). Out in a new volume on Visual Culture in the Philippines edited by Veronica Gregorio link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

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Chris Rivers @chrisrivers50.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

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Maria Carmen (Ica) Fernandez @icafernandez.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Woke up with my heart pounding in my chest. Unusual. Checks phone and scrolls news. “Oh, that’s why.”

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Martin Z. Olszynski @molszyns.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

This brings me an irrational amount of comfort.

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Maria Carmen (Ica) Fernandez @icafernandez.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Belfast folks: will be at #BISA2025 at a panel sponsored by the Peacekeeping, Peacebuilding and Human Rights Working Group. Swing by on June 20 if you want to hear about customary land rights in peace process implementation and other geekeries. indico.bisa.ac.uk/event/474/ti...

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Barry Naylor ن @kajuror.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

Ka Louie Jalandoni RIP #Phililpines

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Maria Carmen (Ica) Fernandez @icafernandez.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

There must be a word for the survivor’s guilt one feels when the material conditions of your research partners have not improved (and in fact a few barely survived physical and mental breakdowns) despite everything you’ve done and written together. And you’re still writing.

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Maria Carmen (Ica) Fernandez @icafernandez.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

The last months of a PhD, in four gestures

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Maria Carmen (Ica) Fernandez @icafernandez.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

Spring blooms in the prettiest maximum security prison in the world, and we’re plotting a jailbreak

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Georgi Engelbrecht @duriandiaries.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

"With so much of Philippine power concentrated in the capital with varying degrees of devolution to local vassals, Malacañang’s hand is never truly hidden."

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Maria Carmen (Ica) Fernandez @icafernandez.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

In case of interest: notes on Duterte Magic, Sub-Saharan Mindanao, and various political ghosts, wildcards and trickster spirits in a post-3/11 Philippines. Up at @aiianational.bsky.social www.internationalaffairs.org.au/australianou...

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Exorcising Rodrigo Duterte and the Ghosts of Mindanao Secession: Notes from a Post-3/11 Philippines - Australian Institute of International Affairs

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Maria Carmen (Ica) Fernandez @icafernandez.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

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Martin Scott @martinscott2010.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

*NEW ARTICLE*: What do #journalists think of the international media freedom campaigns that aim to support them – like the #MediaFreedomCoalition - and how might their perspectives help us better understand the impacts of such initiatives? We try to answer here... ijoc.org/index.php/ij...

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Georgi Engelbrecht @duriandiaries.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

Featured on a TV segment in the Philippines yesterday talking about the Bangsamoro Peace Process and why it matters. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UBZ...

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Engelbrecht: Disarmament in BARMM remains a problem | The Big Story

YouTube video by One PH

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Endless Screaming @infinitescream.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

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Maria Carmen (Ica) Fernandez @icafernandez.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

An updated version of my usual planning and peacebuilding rant was published as a chapter of Vibal’s latest. Sharing late since it's 2025 and yet the social scientists and engineers still think that culture has no bearing on the built environment, + vv. icafernandez.com/2025/04/26/m...

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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

every day my brain is just "goddamn these stupid goddamn motherfucking fucks"

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

I expected the hardliners in the early days of the administration to try to slow walk people from "why do we need to know about Harriet Tubman?" to "how bad is extrajudicial killing really?" but they have opened the bidding at "how bad is cancer really?"

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Lindsay P Cohn @lindsaypcohn.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Whoa, we just PNG’d the South African ambassador for pointing out *to a South African audience* that members of the US admin are mobilizing white identity both in the US and abroad. apple.news/AMxF_uMQUSLe...

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U.S. to expel South African ambassador — The Washington Post

Secretary of State Marco Rubio called South Africa’s U.S. ambassador, Ebrahim Rasool, “a race-baiting politician who hates America” and declared him persona non grata.

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Maria Carmen (Ica) Fernandez @icafernandez.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

The pain of working on justice and rights issues with people and groups who think that other people and groups do not deserve rights and justice. I don’t think I like humans very much today.

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Maria Carmen (Ica) Fernandez @icafernandez.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Today’s simple act of celebration: duck wraps and spinach soup while crying uncontrollably in relief. Complicated politics be damned. Now we wait for that damned plane to take off and bring that monster to The Hague.

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 11/03/2025

Video shows former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte being arrested on a plane at Manila airport on an International Criminal Court (ICC) warrant over alleged crimes against humanity during his crackdown on drugs.

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Pippa Crerar @pippacrerar.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

NEW: UK, Germany and France issue joint statement on "catastrophic" humanitarian situ in Gaza, warning Israel could be in breach of international law by halting entry of aid. "Humanitarian aid should never be contingent on a ceasefire or used as a political tool."

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Maria Carmen (Ica) Fernandez @icafernandez.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

March 2025: when the (once) unthinkable is now the inevitable.

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Kristoffer Pasion @indiohistorian.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Whoaaa.

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Georgi Engelbrecht @duriandiaries.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t... Featured on the Popular Front podcast, thanks to @hanrahan.tv for letting me discuss the Maoist rebellion in the Philippines.

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The Philippine's Maoist Guerrillas are Making a Comeback

Podcast Episode · Popular Front · 02/14/2025 · 52m

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Maria Carmen (Ica) Fernandez @icafernandez.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Avoiding American airspace for the foreseeable future.

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Colombian President Gustavo Petro's full post ordering an increase of import tariffs on U.S. goods, says he doesn't really like traveling to the U.S. because it's “a bit boring” and invokes the ancestors

Trump, I don't really like travelling to the US, it's a bit boring, but I confess that there are some commendable things. I like going to the black neighbourhoods of Washington, where I saw an entire fight in the US capital between blacks and Latinos with barricades, which seemed like nonsense to me, because they should join together.

I confess that I like Walt Whitman and Paul Simon and Noam Chomsky and Miller

I confess that Sacco and Vanzetti, who have my blood, are memorable in the history of the USA and I follow them. They were murdered by labor leaders with the electric chair, the fascists who are within the USA as well as within my country

I don't like your oil, Trump, you're going to wipe out the human species because of greed. Maybe one day, over a glass of whiskey, which I accept, despite my gastritis, we can talk frankly about this, but it's difficult because you consider me an inferior race and I'm not, nor is any Colombian.

So if you know someone who is stubborn, that's me, period. You can try to carry out a coup with your economic strength and your arrogance, like they did with Allende. But I will die in my law, I resisted torture and I resist you. I don't want slavers next to Colombia, we already had many and we freed ourselves. What I want next to Colombia are lovers of freedom. If you can't accompany me, I'll go elsewhere. Colombia is the heart of the world and you didn't understand that, this is the land of the yellow butterflies, of the beauty of Remedios, but also of the colonels Aureliano Buendía, of which I am one, perhaps the last.

You will kill me, but I will survive in my people, which is before yours, in the Americas. We are peoples of the winds, the mountains, the Caribbean Sea and of freedom.

You don't like our freedom, okay. I don't shake hands with white slavers. I shake hands with the white libertarian heirs of Lincoln and the black and white farm boys of the USA, at whose graves I cried and prayed on a battlefield, which I reached after walking the mountains of Italian Tuscany and after being saved from Covid.

They are the United States and before them I kneel, before no one else.

Overthrow me, President, and the Americas and humanity will respond.

Colombia now stops looking north, looks at the world, our blood comes from the blood of the Caliphate of Cordoba, the civilization of that time, of the Roman Latins of the Mediterranean, the civilization of that time, who founded the republic, democracy in Athens; our blood has the black resistance fighters turned into slaves by you. In Colombia is the first free territory of America, before Washington, of all America, there I take refuge in its African songs.

My land is made up of goldsmiths who worked in the time of the Egyptian pharaohs and of the first artists in the world in Chiribiquete.

You will never rule us. The warrior who rode our lands, shouting freedom, who is called Bolívar, opposes us.

Our people are somewhat fearful, somewhat timid, they are naive and kind, loving, but they will know how to win the Panama Canal, which you took from us with violence. Two hundred heroes from all of Latin America lie in Bocas del Toro, today's Panama, formerly Colombia, which you murdered.

I raise a flag and as Gaitán said, even if it remains alone, it will continue to be raised with the Latin American dignity that is the dignity of America, which your great-grandfather did not know, and mine did, Mr. President, an immigrant in the USA,

Your blockade does not scare me, because Colombia, besides being the country of beauty, is the heart of the world. I know that you love beauty as I do, do not disrespect it and you will give it your sweetness.

FROM TODAY ON, COLOMBIA IS OPEN TO THE ENTIRE WORLD, WITH OPEN ARMS, WE ARE BUILDERS OF FREEDOM, LIFE AND HUMANITY.

I am informed that you impose a 50% tariff on the fruits of our human labor to enter the United States, and I do the same.

Let our people plant corn that was discovered in Colombia and feed the world

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Katie Herrmann @katieherrmann.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

I wonder how this is going to effect ongoing, long-term longitudinal studies. How many years/decades are we setting ourselves back? Anti-intellectualism sucks.

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mercurius george @mercuriusgeorge.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

one of those days where every time i try to type a post i just delete it because wtf am i gonna tell you that you don't already know

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Nicole Curato @nicolecurato.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Just as a clandestine ecosystem of death squads is deeply embedded in the underbelly of society, so is a parallel world of resistance—connected, rooted, and quietly defying the brokenness that surrounds them. Efforts to hold #Duterte accountable continue. tinyurl.com/2xd5na4t

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The Making of Edgar Matobato - PCIJ.org

IT IS A WONDER Edgar Matobato is still alive. A confessed assassin for the Davao Death Squad, he was the first to go public about the killings allegedly ordered by former President Rodrigo Duterte. Si...

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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 08/01/2025

tweet by @PerthshireMags
climate change will manifest as a series of disasters viewed through phones with footage that gets closer and closer to where you live until you're the one filming it

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Kulotissima @kulotissima.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

“While he had been waiting for years to testify before the International Criminal Court (ICC), Matobato said he would not seek immunity in exchange for his testimony.” #DavaoDeathSquad www.philstar.com/headlines/20...

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Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

I love the wild randomness of public domain day. This is still not a pipe but you can reproduce it like crazy now.

Magritte’s The Treachery of Images, featuring an image of a pipe with the words “Ceci n’est pas uni pipe” written beneath it

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Sasha Darling PHD, MD, DSL @sashadarling.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

I made a gingerbread panopticon

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Maria Carmen (Ica) Fernandez @icafernandez.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

When parody and comedy turns into legitimate gold. Christmas Eve is for enjoying this 2000s style cover of a popular P-Pop song. That low-budget sour computer shop aesthetic is exquisite (you’re welcome) youtu.be/DeLXjWqe4i0?...

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Salamin, Salamin by BINI (Y2K RnB Full Version) cover by Jopper Ril

YouTube video by Jopper Ril

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Alexandra Petri @petridishes.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

you know who should be inducted into the rock and roll hall of fame? Sisyphus

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