Charlotte Mertens
@charlottemertens.bsky.social
#Unimelb Gender/violence, race, decolonisation, colonialism, empire, humanitarianism, archives | DRCongo | Australia | Belgium
Check out our new paper on teaching gender-based violence in higher edication www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Teaching on gender-based violence in higher education: critical reflections from criminologists on stolen land
Gender-based violence (GBV) remains a pervasive harm disproportionately affecting Indigenous women and marginalised communities in Australia and across the globe. Despite the centrality of GBV in c...
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Rediscovering the work and spirit of Hafiz.
UN chief Antonio Guterres puts both countries ‘on notice’ over documented pattern of sexual violence.
UN chief warns Israel, Russia over reports of sexual abuse by armed forces
UN chief Antonio Guterres puts both countries ‘on notice’ over documented pattern of sexual violence.
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Adriennne Rich’s poem ‘Rape’ remains as haunting and relevant as ever.
Excellent analysis by @kristoftiteca.bsky.social on the new peace deal between DRC and Rwanda negotiated by the US. “Peace is not a real estate transaction.”
Brilliant piece by Elizabeth Strakosch, Natalie Ironfield, & Shillan Shelby on Unimelb’s racist, harmful ‘anti-racist’ politics. overland.org.au/2025/06/rebr...
Rebranding repression: the University of Melbourne’s elite capture of antiracism - Overland literary journal
Our current climate of political repression at the University of Melbourne reinforces why it is imperative that we continue to build autonomous intellectual homes that are grounded in Indigenous sover...
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Our article in Review of International Studies, I wrote with @charlottemertens.bsky.social, now has a 'home' issue 😍 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Review of International Studies: Volume 51 - Issue 2 | Cambridge Core
Cambridge Core - Review of International Studies - Volume 51 - Issue 2
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An Indigenous Theory of Water: @biidaasamose.bsky.social on Rivers as Teachers
An Indigenous Theory of Water: Leanne Betasamosake Simpson on Rivers as Teachers
Rivers are connectors. The rivers feeding into Lake Ontario and then the St. Lawrence connect me, for example, with Audra and her homeland. My people are called Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg because we …
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People in Bukavu keep telling me about daily targeted arrests, about gunshots and killings every night. They are living in a ‘psychose totale’. Unlivable.
📄𝗡𝗘𝗪 𝗣𝗨𝗕𝗟𝗜𝗖𝗔𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡 by @judithverweijen.bsky.social, @kvlassen.bsky.social & Godefroid Muzalia ““We Are Caught Between Violence and Famine” – Analysis of the Deepening Crisis Affecting Eastern DR Congo” #DRC 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲 👉 bit.ly/3FLayRl
'It starts from a premise which assumes there is such a thing as masculinity and that the answer to gendered problems in society, problems that affect all of us, is more and better gender, or gender done differently; rather than not at all' Serious food for thought
Stephen Burrell@thedailypanda.bsky.social · 2y agoNot for the first time, Finn Mackay nails it: "Adolescence and the Lost Truths: Why save masculinity when you could save men?" www.drfinnmackay.co.uk/blog/adolesc...
Sharpe’s voice will stay with me for a long time @hystericalblkns.bsky.social Ordinary Notes finds beauty despite living under brutal and violent regimes of anti-blackness. What an achievement. Read it.
“Every day you wake up and there’s something trying to break your heart.” Dionne Brand.
Carlos Azevedo@carlosazevedo.bsky.social · 2y agoPalestinian journalist Hossam Shabat was killed by Israel today. This was his last post, for the shame of a world that allows Israel to do this.
Now more than ever we need to read bell hooks’ timeless book. And implement it. And throw it in university leaders’ faces and never forget the power we have as educators. ✊🏾
New UN report shows "Israel has increasingly employed sexual, reproductive and other forms of gender-based violence ... and carried out genocidal acts through the systematic destruction of sexual and reproductive healthcare facilities" www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...
“More than a human can bear”: Israel's systematic use of sexual, reproductive and other forms of gender-based violence since October 2023
GENEVA - Israel has increasingly employed sexual, reproductive and other forms of gender-based violence against Palestinians as part of a broader effort to undermine their right to self-determination ...
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Whoever described generative AI as the aesthetic of fascism made a sharp point.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2y agoComplete batshit lunacy on the president's Truth Social account. Yes, he really posted this.
Anxiety rises in DRC capital Kinshasa as M23 rebels advance in east. Some residents are looking to move their families abroad amid open talk of a coup. Some members of Congo's fractious opposition are openly predicting Tshisekedi will not last.
Anxiety rises in DRC capital as M23 rebels advance in east
Tshisekedi faces criticism for lack of action
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Les archives sont porteuses de la violence du passé colonial mais aussi d’une potentielle postérité anticoloniale, à condition d’être radicalement réorganisées autour d’une exigence de justice et d’accessibilité, expliquent @charlottemertens.bsky.social et @stephanieperazzone.bsky.social 👇
Le regard de l'homme blanc sur les archives persiste - Analyse
Les archives sont porteuses de la violence du passé colonial mais aussi d’une potentielle postérité anticoloniale, à condition d’être radicalement réorganisées autour d’une exigence de justice et (…)
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My heart is in Bukavu. 30 years of cycles of violence. Courage and strength to the people of Bukavu ❤️
REPORTER: Are you policing yourself for conflicts of interest? What are the checks and balances? MUSK: We post our actions to the DOGE handle on X
That this even went to trial is insane. The cop called her ‘little missy’, she called him ‘white and stupid’.
Al Jazeera English@aljazeera.com · 2y agoAustralian women’s football captain Sam Kerr found not guilty of racially abusing a British police officer after a dispute with a cab driver ⤵️
The United States and Israel are openly pushing their plan to ethnically cleanse Palestinians in Gaza and the occupied West Bank.
Thinking about Afrikaners (smh) but actually thinking about the white American insistence on framing the post-colonial white settler as perpetually imperiled in stark opposition to their material and political economic conditions/realities. The foundational anxiety of the settler international.
Butler: ‘If we continue to be gripped with outrage and stilled by stupefaction by each day’s new proclamation, we will fail to discern what links them. To be gripped by his statements is precisely the aim of their utterance.’
Trump is unleashing sadism upon the world. But we cannot get overwhelmed | Judith Butler
Those who celebrate his defiance and sadism are as claimed by his logic as those who are paralyzed with outrage
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