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- Professor International Relations/Global Politics. Critical thinker — Always thinking about the mess and power of gender.... Wales. Cats. Daughters. More later!
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Artist Isobelle Ouzman carves intricate 3D illustrations into discarded books found in dumpsters, recycling bins, and local thrift shops #WomensArt

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Artist Terese Agnew’s 'Portrait of a Textile Worker', 2005, constructed from 30,000 clothing labels stitched together over 2 years, raising awareness about where much of the West's clothing comes from, who makes it, and under what conditions #womensart

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Please consider signing this petition in solidarity with colleagues at the University of Cardiff facing redundancy As always, arts and humanities are in the firing line... chng.it/CDw4zz7xFX

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It is always worth knowing what the powerful mean when they use terms like "the economy."

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“I’ve never had a cartoon killed because of who or what I chose to aim my pen at. Until now.” Why Ann Telnaes quit her editorial cartoonist job at the Washington Post and why she’s my newest hero anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-qui...

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Since 1997 there have been no less than 25 commissions, select committee inquiries & white papers on social care. Labour - who admit social care is in crisis, & that the NHS cannot be fixed without it - just responded by... ... announcing the 26th one 😳

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January cat!

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I have updated the Academic Workload Tracker for 2025. I strongly encourage all academics to track how long you actually work, and at what tasks. It's a crucial way to counter the deliberate wage-theft of obfuscatory university workload models. docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

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Excellent #PlanetaryHealth article - highly recommend!

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The “other place” has musky appearing everything second tw**t and the whole platform trying to convince us that the aliens are here!!! (Thought mostly in the US of course 🤣) …

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My response below to Qs for this article on “Private Schools Group Apologizes After Claims of Antisemitism at Event” in which my talk was one that made four Jewish students feel threatened bc I used the word genocide. Let’s unpack since they gave ADL the last word. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/15/n...

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New article! I'll do a thread / blog soon, but it's out, and it's Open Access! 'Colonial fantasies of invulnerability to climate change' doi.org/10.1080/1461...

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Lorde’s The Cancer Journals (1980) is one of the first and most powerful statements reclaiming power over one’s health and survival, against a US medical industry oriented toward profit rather than human need. And it highlights how gendered and racist norms enforce that system. Wordcount: 74,734

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☺️🐈‍⬛ … yes to posting pics of cats !

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Random academic feminist IR question— anybody read an ancient article of mine on Feminist Standpoint theory ? In the Fletcher Forum? Subtitle something on “Feminist version of David & Goliath “..? (I do have a specific reason for asking!)

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Just published! 😊

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This is the correct link. Please register for online or in person. www.yorku.ca/laps/the-alc...

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The @annehelen.bsky.social interview w/Myisha Cherry: We need to "stop asking victims to do all the reparative labor." In institutions, "forgiveness will always been seen as magical—while safety, accountability, and repair become more and more unattainable." annehelen.substack.com/p/there-is-n...

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RIP Evelyn Boyd Granville, space-flight trailblazer (1924—2023) Mathematician and programmer who transcended barriers of race and gender. #blacksky #science #STS #womeninstem #feministsky #academicsky www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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This looks fantastic! Wish it was online too!

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Please do submit your abstracts! 😊

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Hey! This is me and my SFU colleagues!

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I’ll be co-chairing the social movements section. Excited to go back to such a cool conference.

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Women Experts- Indian Foreign Policy : Making life easy for all 'manel' makers. Here is a growing list of women experts working on Indian foreign policy:) P.S: Please feel free to contact us for further additions ! Details 👇🏽 docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

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Janet Sobel, Milky Way, 1945 https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1136043

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The international relations academic blog @duckofminerva.bsky.social is now on Bsky. Follows and submissions are welcome. duckofminerva.com

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In a book store near you shortly! 😊📖https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781538171370/Ripping-Cutting-Stitching-Feminist-Knowledge-Destruction-and-Creation-in-Global-Politics

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The kids (and the librarians) are alright

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blogs.lse.ac.uk/gender/2023/...

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Nature: So, what shade of blue would you like to be? Splendid Fairy-wren: Yes #urbanNature #wildOz 🪶🌏🐦

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In just over a month @cncsi.bsky.social is hosting a wonderful online and FREE workshop: Monsters in the 19th Century. Registration info 👇 cn-csi.com/event/monste...

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Monday's cat! 😊 This is Archie!

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My favourite endnote quotation — thanks self-named Russell Group — from a forthcoming piece on “research culture” that I wrote fired up by the multiple picket lines I’ve stood on during the last 5 years

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We would love to see any proposals/nascent thoughts you have for our series! 📚 rowman.com/Action/SERIE...

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This is 🔥https://newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/the-sycophant

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I had a few very interesting discussions about 'polarisation' in the past couple of days and thought it might be a good opportunity to repost this piece co-authored with @evansmithhist.bsky.social I hope we get to revive this project at some stage! jacobin.com/2022/09/trum...

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British Academy call for Global Professorships now out - great opportunity for established scholars www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/glob...

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