So excited to see this incredible book by @columbaachilleos.bsky.social is out - absolutely essential reading! academic.oup.com/book/62997

Advocating for the Women, Peace and Security Agenda

Abstract. On 31 October 2000, the UN Security Council unanimously adopted Resolution 1325 under the title of ‘women and peace and security’—the first forma

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👩‍🔬 How is gender knowledge and gender expertise constructed, mobilized and institutionalized within international governance? Learn more in Lenka Olejníková, @drljshepherd.bsky.social (@sydney.edu.au) & Alba Rosa Boer Cueva’s #openaccess article: https://doi.org/10.1093/ia/iiag045

Special themed section of @signsjournal.org on transnational anti-gender politics and resistance, edited by Clare Hemmings and @sumimadhok.bsky.social out now! Read it here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/signs/cu...

Hey @paulcinnamon.bsky.social, here's the H-Diplo forum on our book 🥳 Many thanks to the editors and reviewers whose engagement was both thoughtful and provocative, in the best possible way.

H-Diplo with the Jervis Forum@h-diplo.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Jervis Forum Roundtable 17-27 on Kirby and Shepherd, Governing the Feminist Peace Paul Kirby and Laura J. Shepherd’s Governing the Feminist Peace is an engagement with, and evaluation of, the complexities of the Women, Peace, and Security (WPS) agenda 25 years into its tenure by two scholars who…

In an alarming development, it appears the UK Government covered up a massive spike in trans youth suicides after restrictions. Then covered it up again when caught. Now, after fighting for years, the data is public: trans suicide increased 5x in the country. Subscribe to support our journalism.

Trans Youth Suicides Skyrocketed In UK After Care Drawdown; Government Covers It Up

A Freedom of Information request to the National Child Mortality Database reveals that 22 trans children under 18 died by suicide in England in 2021-22 alone.

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📢New issue of #PAG21 is out!📢 In their critical perspectives article, "WPS at 25", @doris-asante.bsky.social and @drljshepherd.bsky.social look at NAPs in the context of a growing WPS Agenda. polisky gendersky buff.ly/ZdtsAh3

Academia can be soul crushing. Protect your hearts. #academicsky

With @drljshepherd.bsky.social, revisiting our plea to 'forget' Women, Peace and Security in light of the governments currently trying to make it disappear. theglobalobservatory.org/2025/10/forg...

Forgetting WPS: On Being Careful What You Wish For - IPI Global Observatory

We concluded our recent book, Governing the Feminist Peace, with an exhortation to “forget WPS”—to abandon attempts to force coherence onto an agenda that had become so sprawling and intricate over it...

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1/ 🚨 Our intro to the Special Section on #FeministForeignPolicy is out! Co-authored w/ @tonihaastrup.bsky.social & @thomsonjennifer.bsky.social ky.social in @politicsgenderj.bsky.social: "The Where, What & Who of Feminist Foreign Policy" 📖 #OpenAccess 🔗 www.cambridge.org/core/journal... 👇👇👇

1/x For no particular reason, a thread of books to remind you that gender matters to international security. #polisky @oraszekely.bsky.social, Jessica, and I wrote Insurgent Women to highlight the involvement of women in multiple conflicts. press.georgetown.edu/Book/Insurge...

Delighted to collaborate with the always brilliant @doris-asante.bsky.social on this essay on WPS NAPs as we approach the 25th anniversary of the adoption of UNSCR 1325. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Just found out - via an email from a colleague 🙃 - that my 2024 ISA presidential address has finally been published in @isq-jrnl.bsky.social. It brings together many strands of enquiry and reflections spanning nearly two decades of my career. Oh, and it's open access academic.oup.com/isq/article/...

Telling Stories of International Relations

Abstract. This is a lightly edited version of the presidential address I delivered at the sixty-fifth annual convention of the International Studies Associ

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Incredibly impressed by Kate Scott and Lindsay Day, two brilliant PhD students at USYD who have published this excellent paper on TikTok tradwives and online anti-feminist movements www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10..... Such a pleasure to work with and learn from such smart humans!

TikTok tradwives: femininity, reproduction, and social media

In recent years, social media platforms have seen a growing promotion of the Tradwife’s lifestyle, where cis women embrace patriarchal gender norms and identities such as the stay-at-home mother an...

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Joint Statement by Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the UK: "the war in Gaza must end now."

Absolutely dystopian juxtaposition from the Guardian front page. Difficult to understand how anyone of decency and conscience can defend this government at this point. Just sheer moral degeneracy to arm a state that does this and arrest people for objecting. Wtf are we doing as a country?

“latest shooting of gazans seeking food”

Financial Times@financialtimes.com · last yr.

Israel kills 45 in latest shooting of Gazans seeking food, say local officials https://on.ft.com/4kMZ2EB

“abolish ice abolish slavery abolish prisons abolish borders abolish colonialism abolish our addiction to punishing everyone who needs healing” -adrienne maree brown, abolition spell, fables and spells

Fellow profs, do you have a plan for how you will protect your students in this climate?

I saw this on LinkedIn and it feels particularly relevant today, as the question of how to exist in a disabling world (and show up in the workplace) as an autistic woman is uppermost in my mind. I do all of these things and the world (/workplace) is still pretty exhausting a lot of the time

"But let’s be clear: this 'burnout' that secure scholars are feeling is phantom pain where their colleagues should be . . . You are suffering from the effects of intentional systemic understaffing."

A Profession, If You Can Keep It

Imagined meritocracies mean little to extractive institutions.

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So delighted to see this important article published! The first of many from Charlotte's excellent research, I am sure. Congratulations @charlottecarney.bsky.social

Charlotte Carney@charlottecarney.bsky.social · last yr.

My first single authored publication is out! This article critiques the carceral logics of the ICC. I offer this critique alongside abolitionist tools to show how we can start to move away from harmful, carceral justice, beginning with the abolition of the ICC. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

I loved speaking to @ntinatzouvala.bsky.social and @pagingdrpaige.bsky.social about queer approaches to international law in this episode of #CalledToTheBar! Check it out at the link below 👇

Douglas Guilfoyle@djag2.bsky.social · last yr.

#CalledToTheBar is out! Celebrating the launch of two (!) books @ntinatzouvala.bsky.social talks with @pagingdrpaige.bsky.social and @claerwen.bsky.social about queer theory as a tool for rethinking how law understands power, normativity, and difference. soundcloud.com/calledtotheb...

These gender studies lectures are just writing themselves

I've made my submission to the review of the ARC grant system. Have you? 5 more days, people.

ARC Tracker@arc-tracker.bsky.social · last yr.

The ARC Board has proposed a major shake-up of the National Competitive Grants Program ▶️ www.arc.gov.au/engage-us/co... I've only skimmed so far, but they propose reducing 13 grant schemes to 6, with intent & scope in the table👇 Submissions are being accepted in response until 13 April. Get to it!

"I have lost faith that I could walk the streets without being abducted" is about as damning a review of the current state of US student visa system as you're ever going to see

ali alkhatib@ali-alkhatib.com · last yr.

Momodou Taal left the United States. forwarding his statement from twitter:

This week and next, a symposium on @drljshepherd.bsky.social and my GOVERNING THE FEMINIST PEACE over at a critical IR group blog that's not quite dead yet. Please 'enjoy'. thedisorderofthings.com/2025/03/31/w...

Why We Wrote Governing The Feminist Peace

This is the first post in a new book symposium, on Paul Kirby and Laura J. Shepherd’s Governing the Feminist Peace, which was published in 2024 by Columbia University Press. Laura is Professo…

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Remember to drink water, read poetry, check in on friends particularly your queer, trans, immigrant, Black, neurodivergent, Palestine friend. No one is ok. But we are all better in community. #communityasrebellion

even if you’ve never heard of USIP before, this is worth noting, I think: a random group of Musk’s staffers, working on behalf of the executive branch, apparently breaking into an independent organization and shutting it down for no stated cause

Anjali Dayal@anjalikdayal.bsky.social · last yr.

if the executive branch of the government can force USIP to close this way, what’s to stop it from doing the same to any organization?

I think it has more to do with you might get locked up for absolutely no reason at all and then flown to El Salvador to die in prison even though a judge said you should be released

The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com · last yr.

International travelers concerned about President Donald Trump’s trade policies and bellicose rhetoric have been canceling trips to the United States, depriving the U.S. tourism industry of billions of dollars at a time when the economy has started to appear wobbly.