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Shaimaa Abdelkarim

@shaimabdelkarim.bsky.social
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assistant prof. in postcolonial legal theory and critical race studies ☀️

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Daniel Grey @djrgrey.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
"What becomes possible when people committed to rethinking legal education come together?" Some members of the exciting new Critical Legal Pedagogies of Race and Empire Network (CLPRE) led by @folukeifejola.bsky.social share thoughts about potential and practice. ⚖️🎓 www.youtube.com/watch?v=G405...
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Critical Legal Pedagogies of Race and Empire Network Launch
YouTube video by Foluke Ifejola
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Feminist Legal Studies @flsjournal.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
As we come together on the challenges we face, & the responsibilities we must reclaim, we are reminded that critical and collective forms of education begin with critique, move toward refusal of injustice, & culminate in the development of ideas, practices, techniques, & powers to re-world together…
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Academic Freedom and the Role of the Academic: Resistance, Solidarity, and the Politics of Knowledge - Feminist Legal Studies
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Nisrin Elamin @nisrinelamin.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
The Sudan Solidarity Collective is continuing to support mutual aid work in North Darfur and Kordofan and has recently started supported the tea vendors union as they rebuild their livelihoods. To support go to: www.sudansolidarity.com.
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Natalia Cecire @ncecire.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Just a few hours left for this, but it's plenty of time. Even just answering the "overall do you agree" question can be meaningful. Speak against this endless cruelty.
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Crystal A. Ennis @crystalennis.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Today is the launch of the travelling exhibition, Picturing Scholasticide @unileiden.bsky.social. It raises awareness of Israel's destruction of Palestinian academic & intellectual life, & what can be done to support Palestinian scholars & institutions. www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/20...
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Picturing Scholasticide: Exhibition Launch
Picturing Scholasticide is a traveling exhibition initiated by staff and students of Leiden University to publicize the social and legal effects of Israel's effort to destroy Palestinian institutions ...
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New Lines Magazine @newlinesmag.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
"If Hind [Rajab]’s voice is a reproach, then the humanity of her would-be rescuers is redemption, however inadequate. For the hours they spent with her ... they expiate our collective guilt." | @idreesahmad.bsky.social 
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Hind Rajab and the Dying Light
Kaouther Ben Hania’s film retells the story of the 5-year-old’s final hours and amplifies her voice to indict the world’s silence over Gaza’s children
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David Naimon @davidnaimon.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
"this does not need a balm this needs an ending" --Dionne Brand, Nomenclature for the Time Being Audio: milkweed.org/between-the-...
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Dionne Brand : Nomenclature — New and Collected Poems | Milkweed Editions
Today’s guest Dionne Brand, to borrow the words of John Keene, “is without question one of the major living poets in the English language.” Kamau Brathwaite called Brand “our first major exile female ...
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Senthorun S. Raj @senthorun.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
A 2026 reminder: refuse selective empathy and oppose all politics/policies that consign people (such as migrants, Indigenous communities, disabled people, trans folk, Palestinians, etc) to their deaths.
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Feminist Centre for Racial Justice @fcrj.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
📢 New series: 10 Questions With… In a time of global crisis, feminist ideas matter. 10 Questions with Feminist Academics centres feminist thinking in today’s policy and movement debates. 🗓️ Launching Mon 2 Feb 💬 What feminist questions should we be asking right now?
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Duncan Bell @duncanbell.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
NEW BOOK! I'm very happy to say that my new book, Utopia, co-written with Douglas Mao, has been published on-line academic.oup.com/book/62279
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Utopia
Abstract. Ideal societies, better worlds, more just and peaceful ways of living: these have long been the stuff of human beings’ social dreaming. In this c
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Edward Elgar Publishing @elgarpublishing.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Research Handbook on 3rd World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL) [Eds] Antony Anghie, B.S Chimni, @michaelfakhri.bsky.social hri.bsky.social, Karin Mickelson & Vasuki Nesiah Contribs: @azizaahmed.bsky.social @seanmacr.bsky.social @leslava.bsky.social Read the Intro: doi.org/10.4337/9781...
This Research Handbook provides a comprehensive overview of Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL) with chapters exploring different facets of TWAIL scholarship. It covers major doctrines and topics of international law, as well as TWAIL perspectives on central historical and theoretical debates.

Expert authors present key insights into various themes that intersect with international law including economics, post-colonialism, religion, development, treaties, and human rights. The Research Handbook underscores the cornerstone concepts of TWAIL and examines their relationship with intellectual traditions such as Marxism and feminism. Contributing authors outline TWAIL’s perspectives on core areas of international law such as customary international law, treaties and human rights, as well as important contemporary issues, including debt, climate change, and public health. Ultimately, the Research Handbook showcases an expanded and enriched vision of international law, assessing how alternate methodologies can lead to a fairer legal system.
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Shaimaa Abdelkarim @shaimabdelkarim.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
📢 criticallegalthinking.com/2025/10/20/c...
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CfP: Brick-by-Brick, Wall-by-Wall: Co-producing Transnational Feminist Abolitionist Knowledges
19th June 2026 | London Community Space + Online  Are you committed to feminist justice beyond the criminal legal system?  Do you work across
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Feminist Centre for Racial Justice @fcrj.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Great opportunity: gendersexualityfeminist.duke.edu/black-feminist-theory-summer-institute Deadline for applying: December 15, 2025
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Rishika Sahgal @rishikasahgal.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
New article co-authored with @gautambhatia88.bsky.social published in @compconstudies.bsky.social on the vastly divergent approach of Indian courts on the right to housing in cases about home demolitions and evictions. It's open access for 3 months! www.elgaronline.com/view/journal...
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Canadian Network of Law & Humanities @lawhumanitiesca.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Call for Papers: Second International Conference of Critical Legal Geography// March 17-20, 2026 in Chile// Deadline: Nov 10, 2025// More info: cnlh.ubc.ca/call-for-pap...
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Shaimaa Abdelkarim @shaimabdelkarim.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
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Rob Knox @pashukanist.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
This was a great chat I think. Alex on his usual excellent form and @rafeefz.bsky.social and Adam both brilliant as ever. This is our first pod about the @versobooks.bsky.social pamphlet and it's good to start out with some of the best.
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Nora Jaber @norajaber.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
My latest article is now out with @flsjournal.bsky.social - ‘Beyond international human rights: Islamic feminism as alternative rights praxis’. Available open access here: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Beyond International Human Rights: Islamic Feminism as Alternative Rights Praxis - Feminist Legal Studies
This article examines Islamic Feminism (IF) as an example of an alternative rights framework that falls beyond international human rights law (IHRL) in terms of its epistemic and conceptual grounding ...
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Shaimaa Abdelkarim @shaimabdelkarim.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
Join us for an interactive day on research methods at university of Leicester September 17. PGR travel expenses paid for attendance. @silvilunazul.bsky.social and I will be speaking on decolonial and feminist methods. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/m4c-dialog...
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M4C Dialogue Day: Dialogues on Feminist Decolonial Methods
A day for arts and humanities researchers to explore questions of voice, authority, methods, and the futures of anti-disciplinarity.
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Marina Veličković @marinavelickovic.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
‘Do the pilots who bomb children have children’
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Rob Knox @pashukanist.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
Physical copies of this, written by Adam Hanieh l, myself and @rafeefz.bsky.social seem to be appearing on the shelves. If you can't find a copy it's still available for preorder from Verso - www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc...
5 copies of the book Resisting Erasure: Capital, Imperialism and Race in Palestine.
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Sandeep Bakshi @sandeepbak.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Darlings, the first time I'm seeing it in print. Thank you to @dr-di.bsky.social for the photo. Have so many feels. Still awaiting mine. Please share pics when you receive yours. And, request your libraries to order it. All royalties donated to Gaza. Onwards comrades. us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/th...
A copy of the The SAGE Handbook of Decolonial Theory on a desk. Photo credit and permission from Dr Diana Val.
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Independent Social Research Foundation @isrfoundation.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Brick-by-Brick, Wall-by-Wall: Co-Producing Transnational Feminist Abolitionist Knowledges molly ackhurst, Shaimaa Abdelkarim (@shaimabdelkarim.bsky.social) & Silvana Tapia Tapia (@silvilunazul.bsky.social) isrf.org/projects/bri...
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Brick-by-Brick, Wall-by-Wall: Co-Producing Transnational Feminist Abolitionist Knowledges
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Samantha Pinto @samanthapinto.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
We thought we knew tired when we wrote this. Exhausted with @jennifercnash.bsky.social @differences.bsky.social doi.org/10.1215/1040...
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On Exhaustion: Toward a Post-Care Feminism
This essay is a critical response to the emergence of “care” as the antidote to the multiple crises that plague the present. The call for care— intramural care, radical care, mutual aid, etc.—has prol...
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Michael Fakhri @michaelfakhri.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
My newest piece on how to end starvation and famine in Gaza. The UN General Assembly must authorize peacekeepers to accompany humanitarian convoys. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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If aid doesn’t enter Gaza now, 14,000 babies may die. UN peacekeepers must step in | Michael Fakhri
As a UN special rapporteur on the right to food, I have watched for 19 months as Israel starves children. The world must act now
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Balakrishnan Rajagopal @balaraj.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
The Special Rapporteur on the right to food @MichaelFakhri writes in the @guardian: The GA must act to authorize peacekeepers to ensure aid delivery to Gaza. I have called on the GA before to act under the Uniting for Peace res. and fully endorse this. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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If aid doesn’t enter Gaza now, 14,000 babies may die. UN peacekeepers must step in | Michael Fakhri
As a UN special rapporteur on the right to food, I have watched for 19 months as Israel starves children. The world must act now
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Shaimaa Abdelkarim @shaimabdelkarim.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Amazing workshop at Univeristy of Greenwich with Renginee Pillay and Tom Frost facilitating conversations on decoloniality, student-led coproduction and AI as part of the Reimagining Antiracist and Decolonial Law collective. Special issue coming soon 🎊 #RADLAW
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Aoife O'Donoghue @aoifemod.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
This was a great chat! If you've not listened to the podcast before check it out for all this #utopia & #dystopia
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Senthorun S. Raj @senthorun.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
So excited that my book is now in press! It’ll be out next month.
Front cover of book: The Emotions of LGBT Rights and Reforms: Repairing Law by Senthorun Sunil Raj.
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Parvathi Menon @parvathimenon.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Join us for a book launch with the author @quinnslobodian.com to discuss his latest book, 'Hayek’s Bastards: The Neoliberal Roots of the Populist Right' 🗓️ May 7th 📍 Khalili Lecture Theatre, SOAS ⏰ 12 noon to 1:30 PM Please register here: forms.office.com/e/0F7RF8cKxk
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catkib.bsky.social @catkib.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Palestine beyond the colonial logic of international law mondoweiss.net/2025/04/pale...
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Palestine beyond the colonial logic of international law
The colonization of Palestine is not an anomaly in the liberal global order but its most glaring indictment. It exposes the hypocrisy of an international system that decries colonialism while institut...
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Shaimaa Abdelkarim @shaimabdelkarim.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Please join @silvilunazul.bsky.social, @leilaullrich.bsky.social and I on May 1, 2pm for an online conversation on Leila’s book ‘Victims and the Labour of Justice at the International Criminal Court’. Registration link below 👇🏾 bham-ac-uk.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Conversation With: Dr Leila Ullrich and Dr Silvana Tapia Tapia. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.
Join us for a conversation with Dr Leila Ullrich and Dr Silvana Tapia Tapia on Dr Ullrich's book 'Victims and the Labour of Justice at the International Criminal Court: The Blame Cascade' (OUP 2024) ...
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Centre for the Critique of Law and Society (CCLAS) @cclas2025.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
We stand in solidarity with our colleague @helyehdoutaghi.bsky.social To quote Stuart Hall, "the university is a critical institution or it is nothing".
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Helyeh_Doutaghi @helyehdoutaghi.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Suspended for Pro-Palestine Speech: My Statement on Yale Law School’s Embrace of AI-Generated Smears 1/3
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Senthorun S. Raj @senthorun.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
📣 Job Alert My university (Manchester Met) is looking to hire a few new law lecturers. We are a growing department, with colleagues working on critical, socio-legal legal issues relating to gender, sexuality, disability, race, migration, culture, etc. Check out the link for more info. #AcademicSky
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Lecturer in Law - (8085) | Manchester Metropolitan University Careers
All about Manchester Metropolitan - an exciting, modern university in the heart of one of the UK's great student cities.
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Leila Ullrich @leilaullrich.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
I'm giving an online talk on my book, 'Victims and the Labour of Justice at the International Criminal Court', this Monday (3rd Feb) at 12.30, topped up with newer ideas on whether we should pay 'wages for victims'. Register here: @cambridgegender.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/victims-an...
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Victims and the Labour of Justice at the International Criminal Court
Part of the Multi-disciplinary Gender Research Seminar Series.
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Nora Jaber @norajaber.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Not to be missed! On 6 February, Kohl is hosting a fundraiser and launching the special issue ‘A lexicon for bridging decolonial queer feminisms and materialist feminisms’ universityofexeter.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Fundraiser for Kohl and Launch of the Special Issue "A Lexicon for Bridging Decolonial Queer Feminisms and Materialist Feminisms". After registering, you wi...
Join us for this fundraiser and launch event where we explore what feminist and queer solidarity looks like in times of colonial genocide and destruction. Bringing together inspiring scholars and org...
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Jens Theilen @jtheilen.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Tomorrow it’s finally time for our workshop on Critical Approaches to European Human Rights at @hertiecfr.bsky.social, co-organised with @esrademir.bsky.social & @cohelongo.bsky.social and with an absolute dream line-up of speakers — looking forward to an intense day of thinking together #CritECHR
Page 1 of the workshop programme with panels on “politics and structures” and “subjects and communities”Page 2 of the workshop programme with panels on “institutions and procedures” and “before and after”
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Michelle Farrell @mnifhearail.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
The UN Special Rapportuer on Torture gave a closing speech entitled “Every Child’s Right to Peace and to Play” at Hebrew University 16 December. 11 paragraphs in she mentioned Gaza's 17,000 "perished" children: www.ohchr.org/sites/defaul...
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Silvana Tapia Tapia @silvilunazul.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
Ecuador is facing a state crime against 4 black children in Guayaquil who have been forcibly disappeared at the hands of the military. We call on you to learn about the case and to mobilise international statements from anti-racist and social justice organisations. apnews.com/article/ecua...
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Nisrin Elamin @nisrinelamin.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
A few months ago some comrades and I put out a piece on Sudan’s counterrevolutionary war for which we interview 4 Sudanese and South Sudanese activists in Sudan/the region. We wanted to center the non-elitist, revolutionary voices of ppl who hve bn organizing agst the Sudanese state for decades.
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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
In "The Time beneath the Concrete," Nasser Abourahme argues that settler colonialism in #Palestine is always as much an attempt to conquer time as it is to conquer land. Read the introduction for free now. buff.ly/3BwdKyr
Cover of The Time beneath the Concrete: Palestine between Camp and Colony by Nasser Abourahme. Cover is blue and features an image of an art installation featuring six human figures in concrete. There is some Arabic text above them on the right. The title is in white at the top of the design, the subtitle beneath that in red, and the author name at the bottom in white.
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
"Though there are thousands of children in Gaza currently in need of urgent medical care outside of the strip, Israel’s brutal blockade means that it would take over seven years to complete these evacuations at the current rate, the UN has reported."
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At Current Rate, It Would Take 7 Years to Evacuate All Children in Need of Medical Care in Gaza, UN Reports
Israel is trapping children suffering from cancer, head trauma, amputations, burns and starvation in Gaza.
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In These Times @inthesetimes.com · 12/12/2024
In the face of boycotts of the New York Times crossword led by Puzzlers for Palestinian Liberation, crossword fans have sought alternative outlets for their puzzle needs. Now, that includes In These Times! Check out a new puzzle from Kaitlin Hsu here: inthesetimes.com/article/cros...
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Crosswords for Change
Puzzle solvers and constructors are building a new world for games.
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Dr Tamsin Phillipa Paige @pagingdrpaige.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Good research is an inherently creative endeavour. I don't mean that in a fanciful way, but more that good research requires the creative capacity to try different things to see what does, and doesn't, work, and to make connections that others can't see. To do research is to play with ideas
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Nicola Palmer @nicolapalmer.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Call for Papers: ‘Race, Refuge & Repair: Rethinking Migration from the Global South' University of Cape Town 29-30 May 2025 Abstracts: 14 Feb 2025 Keynote: E. Tendayi Achiume in discussion with @madlingozi.bsky.social law.uct.ac.za/sites/defaul... @bordercrim.bsky.social @uctlaw.bsky.social
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Shaimaa Abdelkarim @shaimabdelkarim.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
This special issue just came out when my sick body needs some energy. Spent my day reading it and love every single contribution on interconnected global oppressions 🔥🔥 sfonline.barnard.edu/rage-struggl...
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Rage, Struggle, Freedom
About This Issue by Sandra Moyano Ariza Seeds of Change: Where Rage Meets Hope by Margo Okazawa-Rey and Elif Sarican Children of the Forest by J. D. Harlock A Journey from Rage and Resistance to Jin…
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Eliana Cusato @ecusato.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Join us in Amsterdam on 16 December for the first Decolonial Futures Annual Lecture with the fabulous Tendayi Achiume🔥🔥 More info and registration link at: decolonialfutures.uva.nl/content/even...
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Decolonial Futures Annual Lecture: E. Tendayi Achiume - Decolonial Futures
E. Tendayi Achiume delivers the Decolonial Futures RPA's first Annual Lecture, titled 'Border Imperialism(s): A View from Law'
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