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Philosopher / global (health) justice, East-West inequalities and hierarchies of knowledge / anticolonial & CEE feminisms and art / she/they/Dr RUTA Association, CEE Feminist Research Network, IRG-GHJ
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Do not travel to the US if you’re trans, inter, or non-binary.

Finally caught a screening and Q&A with an icon of Czech queer photography Libuše Jarcovjáková. This film is such an important testimony in many ways, including of the depression in the cage of state socialist repression under Soviet occupation. This story too is one of gender-queer-art liberation 🔥

"The loudest such voice is Merz."

Here one overly binary but telling gender breakdown of votes in the 18-24 age group. The German society, its institutions and men themselves might want to do something major & systematic to counter the radicalization of young men into the far right, especially in regard to urgently needed prevention

About (far from only) the AfD that ended up second in German federal elections, with 10,327,148 votes (20.8%) and 152 seats in the parliament rat-fuer-migration.de/2025/01/16/a...

Berlin today

On the one hand the election results in Germany are not that surprising, on the other it’s a relief that it wasn’t one of those cases when people wouldn’t admit in polls they were voting for the far right and then everything being even much worse than expected. So at least there’s that

lmfao

Give a follow to Philip Obaji, a journalist who has been doing crucial work, investigating human rights abuses, crimes against humanity and extractivism committed by Russian paramilitaries deployed in West and Central Africa. Consider supporting his courageous effort www.gofundme.com/f/philip-oba...

Despicable.

Special issue of the Polish cultural magazine Dwutygodnik dedicated to Palestinian culture www.dwutygodnik.com/cykl/1

Did you know there is a tracker of how many of the implemented/currently being implemented policies in the US belongs to the Project 2025 plan? Here’s the link: www.project2025.observer

Join us tomorrow for a much needed and timely discussion, taking a close look at the ongoing legacy of the russian invasion of Ukraine in a widely international context, including the recent alignment of russian imperial aims with US politics and extractivism. Don’t forget to register 👇

Sadly, your handle normalizes a serial perpetrator of genocides against colonized nations, which tells of no serious engagement with what the USSR was and what it had done and especially the voices of Indigenous peoples whose perspectives are so much more relevant than those of Western leftists

Fascists are aligned, from the US to Russia…to Germany. And much of the Left is enabling them as it can’t identify russian far right imperialism, as a result of the Left’s lack of engagement with anti-imperialist East-European knowledge. We have warned about this www.thenation.com/article/worl...

Trump is now repeating russian talking points and saying this is his own position. What we're witnessing isn't a negotiation but the Trump administration's attempt to reset the US-Russia relationship into an imperialist partnership. www.yahoo.com/news/donald-...

I hope the Pride Museum will closely collaborate with Queer Muzeum in Warsaw!

The synergies of white Christian suprematism and its conquests

We are currently moving towards a second Yalta-style betrayal of Eastern Europe and another division of Europe into free, sovereign states and Russian-occupied or dominated vassals. Ukraine’s resistance keeps Russian expansionist imperialism at bay and protects freedom in Europe.

Western practice of sending expired ‘goods’ to the East of Europe continued

Trump is giving Russia, what it has always wanted: a seat at the big boys' table where zones of influence can be agreed upon without the interference of all kinds of underlings. The refusal to cater to these desires was the famous post-Cold War "humiliation" of Russia. www.lemonde.fr/en/internati...

Along with psychological trauma sexual, reproductive, and/or physical abuse targeting girls, women, queers, and disabled people are associated with authoritarianism. Over the long term marginalized groups will experience compound mental and physical health impacts.

Supporting rapists at home and abroad

Just thought to remind you this article by @jansmolenski.bsky.social and @jandutkiewicz.bsky.social from 2022. Fitting in the post-Munich context.

Around the russian embassy in Tallinn

Leonhard Lapin Molotov-Ribbentrop II (1989) Estonian Art Museum (KUMU)

Greetings from Tartu and the Eesti Rahva Museum that hosts a solo exhibition of Ryoji Ikeda. As part of Tartu ‘24 curatorial focus on Arts of Survival, Ikeda has been invited to collaborate with the University of Tartu Institute of Genomics’ biobank, that processes a large recent DNA collection…

"A peace deal cannot be signed in Munich because it is Munich. We remember what things were signed here. I do not repeat such things." I read this quote to my mother and grandmother, descendants of generations of Czechs who have lived in ‘Sudetenland’…“and he’s right!” they said. Yes, we remember.

Join us in signing this open letter in support of Qazaq journalists, social justice advocates and researchers standing up for freedom of expression, assembly and political protest

An important thread providing more context on Temirlan Yensebek's trial for satiric news and the broader movement against autocracy in Qazaqstan. RUTA stands with Qazaq political activists, journalists and researchers. Please join us in signing our open letter: ruta-association.org/news/open-le...

every time someone writes off protests in Central Asia because these "do not lead to democratisation" I get quite uneasy. Every protest in our contexts is a highly risky affair & when people still make a decision to go to the squares to voice their grievances it is super important. 2014, Almaty.

This will be an illuminating discussion!

A must read. I met Victoria at the Pilecki Institute, at a powerful symposium that took a thoroughly critical look at the destructive legacy of russian imperialism. Recently, I opened my talk in the same room with a tribute to her and a promise that many of us will carry her quest for justice onward

Yes we do know

A much appreciated piece of good news. And mind you, years ago this man was subjected to a horrible racist assault and then gradually he has become an opportunistic vessel for some of the most racist politics… let’s hope that he will be held accountable for that anti-migrant / anti-Black campaign.

Yeltsin once asked Clinton to give him Europe. Ru thinks the US has owned WEurope post-WWII and EEurope too post-Cold War. Trump signalling desire to abandon Europe, emboldens russia to try to take it. This anachronistic language describes how russia thinks and now how Trump talks/thinks(?) too.

Our RUTA Association for Central, South-Eastern, and Eastern European, Baltic, Caucasus, Central and Northern Asian Studies in Global Conversation is on Bluesky! Join the community of scholars, social justice advocates and artists reclaiming debates on the RUTA regions @associationruta.bsky.social