Highly recommend listening/watching to this extraordinary episode of Makdiski Street with Eyal Weizman, founder of Forensic Architecture. It's an incredibly lucid and specific description of the terraforming/deforming of Palestine, which he terms Ungrounding. www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3T4...

Makdisi Street Reviews w/ Eyal Weizman

YouTube video by Makdisi Street

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“Demographic Anxieties” can now be preordered (pub date June 30)! It shows how the Israeli settler-colonial state and its borders shape Palestinian women’s reproductive freedom, but it is also an ethnography working through what it means to research Palestine as 1/2 www.ucpress.edu/books/demogr...

Demographic Anxieties by Gala Rexer - Paper

Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.

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made me think on the vacation trips organised by the miners labour unions depicted in the amazing film Viejo Calavera by Kiro Russo

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 2mo ago

"Why has the US right since the 1970s been more effective than the left at grassroots community organizing? Part of the answer is that our side has no events with bouncy castles." read theory damn it www.laborpolitics.com/p/bouncy-cas...

Absolutely remarkable statement from Pope Leo today. One for the history books www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

There's a lot (and I mean A LOT) to like in 'Magnifica Humanitas', the encyclical about technology and AI published today, but here's my favorite sentence: "Every design choice reflects a vision of humanity" www.vatican.va/content/leo-...

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Podcast (from @palfest.bsky.social) featuring @lalehkhalili.bsky.social interviewing Adam Hanieh, @rafeefz.bsky.social and me ou our @versobooks.bsky.social pamphlet Resisting Erasure. Some fantastic interviewing from Laleh, and I think(/hope?) a good conversation. www.podbean.com/media/share/...

From 1965 to 1985, maternal mortality fell sharply across Europe. Romania was the exception, its rates increased by almost 150%. This was due to the President's political decision to ban abortion. When he was overthrown and executed in 1989, the abortion law was liberalized immediately.

The human cost of unsafe abortions

Romania’s history offers a rare natural experiment on what happens when abortion laws change rapidly. What can the rest of the world learn from this?

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Next Tuesday 4:30pm (26 May), Lina-María Murillo (UT Austin) discusses her book Fighting for Control: Power, Reproductive Care, and Race in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands –uncovering how Mexican-origin women fought to reclaim autonomy across the border. Hybrid event at UCL. Register: sl1nk.com/8l0g54c

🥳 Congratulations to Sandra Wiñay Rodríguez Castañeda (PhD student, UCL Institute of the Americas) on being published in the Latin American Research Review! 🔗https://tinyurl.com/2db623jb

En este artículo hacemos una revisión sistemática de la justicia reproductiva como herramienta epistémica para abordar la relación entre reproducción y justicia social en América Latina, buscando las convergencias entre este marco y los feminismos latinoamericanos. Open access!

Martina Yopo Díaz@martinayopo.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Very happy that our article on reproductive justice in Latin America with Julieta Chaparro Buitrago, María Ximena Dávila and @lasandunga.bsky.social has been published in Latin America Research Review @lasabluesky.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

1.NEW ARTICLE. Fresh out of the oven, I want to share my article on “neoliberal populism” just out in out in Global Perspectives. I analyze the ideational origins of Peru's resilient neoliberalism in the 1980s. Here a free access to the article (for a month). online.ucpress.edu/gp/article/d...

Roy on the familiarity of the return of fascism, written in 1998

Such an extraordinary resource and the political education on Arab radicalism, the long reach of western imperialism and the centrality of Palestine that we all need in this conjuncture. The podcast was already monumental - thank you @thedigradio.bsky.social, Abdel Razzaq Takriti & all involved!

The Dig@thedigradio.bsky.social · 4mo ago

In 2024, the Dig launched Thawra, a 19-part series on 20th century Arab radicalism. We are now releasing the Thawra digital study guide, replete with readings, films, archival materials, & discussion Qs for collective or individual study. Check it out➡️ thawraproject.com

the legacy of the Latin American liberation theology hits hard

Albert Pinto@70sbachchan.bsky.social · 4mo ago

ngl this Pope goes hard.

A monstrously comprehensive nearly three hour long episode of @thedigradio.bsky.social examining the economic warfare dimensions of the US-Israeli war on Iran and Iran’s asymmetric response with Aslı Bâli, @yarbatman.bsky.social, and Nicholas Mulder. www.thedigradio.com/podcast/econ...

Economic Warfare w/ Aslı Bâli, Esfandyar Batmanghelidj, Nicholas Mulder

Featuring Aslı Bâli, Esfandyar Batmanghelidj, and Nicholas Mulder on the economic warfare unfolding with the US-Israeli war on Iran—and beyond.

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Yesterday I taught a class that included a reading on concentration camps & other forms of Nazi horror. We quickly got to present-day US. Some were super well informed about ICE. Others, at least 1 of whom was learning about Nazi Germany for the first time*, just sat there with open jaws.

Mother Jones@motherjones.com · 5mo ago

Staff at the nation’s largest Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility have placed bets on which detainee will be the next to die by suicide, according to new reporting from the Associated Press based on 911 calls and detainee accounts.

Framing abortion as "healthcare" or "choice" alone isn't enough anymore. We need to be able to articulate why & how, when someone is grappling with CoL, rent, having enough food for their kids [...]- abortion, LGBTQI & migrant rights are not separate from those struggles. 9/

Happy to see my piece published in Archive Stories. I talk about how documents and archival practices mediated the formation of political power for the rondas campesinas, a grassroots peasant organisation in the Peruvian Andes archive-stories.com/To-raise-one...

To raise one’s head high — archive stories

Sandra Rodríguez Castañeda To raise one’s head high: Living archives and subaltern bureaucracies of the Rondas Campesinas from Chota,...

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Send your abstracts by Friday 6th March!

UCL Institute of the Americas@uclamericas.bsky.social · 6mo ago

📣Call for Abstracts: Sex, Reproduction, and the Politics of Knowledge Workshop 🔗 HTTPS://TINYURL.COM/366FXSCX

📢 Call for abstracts We’re happy to be organising this one-day workshop on sex, reproduction, and the politics of knowledge at @uclamericas.bsky.social on May 26, 2026. We invite 200-word abstract submissions by March 6. 🔗 Full details here: tinyurl.com/366fxscx

In 2024, we were awarded a Modern Endangered Archives Program grant (UCLA) to preserve the archive of the Federación Provincial de Rondas Campesinas de Chota, a historic peasant organisation in Peru. Here, I outline the work we have undertaken so far and explain why preserving this archive matters.

UCL Institute of the Americas@uclamericas.bsky.social · 6mo ago

PhD Student, Sandra Rodríguez Castañeda, discusses a project of archival recovery in northern Peru Read the blog: blogs.ucl.ac.uk/americas-blo... #Peru #archives #research #phd #PhDLife #fieldwork

My second article based on my PhD research has just been published in Social Science and Medicine. This article explores how mothers raising children with congenital impairments caused by the Zika virus navigate health systems and negotiate access to care. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

“I'm not moving from here until you resolve this for me”: mothers of disabled children overcoming barriers to health care

Mothers of disabled children typically fulfil the role of the primary caregiver. For mothers of children with Congenital Zika Syndrome in Colombia, th…

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Entering our Too Lazy to Manufacture Consent era

Michael Kagan@michaelgkagan.bsky.social · 7mo ago

I feel like I haven’t even been properly lied to about the purposes of this war

Happy to share that this graphic piece along with an interview is out in ‘Contours’, the new issue of @otherwisemag.bsky.social Otherwise is an amazing storytelling magazine which can be interest to those keen on the intersections between academia and art

otherwisemag.bsky.social@otherwisemag.bsky.social · 8mo ago

OUR NEW STORY IS OUT Do you remember that girl? In this story, @lasandunga.bsky.social searches Peru for a girl whose death she heard about years earlier otherwisemag.com/do-you-remem...

The deadline has now been extended to December 15, 2025. Esperamos sus contribuciones! Información detallada aquí: tinyurl.com/3s8ddkt2

Sandra W Rodríguez Castañeda@lasandunga.bsky.social · last yr.

We’re editing a book on reproductive justice in Latin America and invite extended abstracts (800 words) by Nov 30, 2025. More info: tinyurl.com/2298h4c5

Súper felices de haber obtenido este fondo de LASA junto a @martinayopo.bsky.social , @mariaxdavila.bsky.social y Julieta Chaparro para avanzar la agenda sobre justicia reproductiva en la región y conformar una red de investigadorxs en torno al tema!

Martina Yopo Díaz@martinayopo.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Very happy to share that we received a grant from @lasabluesky.bsky.social and @fordfoundation.bsky.social to advance a research agenda on reproductive justice in Latin America

If you don’t see the link between ICE and the IDF, you haven’t been paying attention. We are being asked to accept a world where whole communities are made disposable and marked for disappearance. If we accept that for anyone, no one is safe anywhere.

So shameful and just indicative of their barbaric complicity that some of the most powerful nations in the world didn’t not recognise Palestine as a nation and will only do when Gaza is at the brink of full occupation.

Yashar Ali 🐘@yasharali.bsky.social · 12mo ago

BREAKING via AP Australia will recognize a Palestinian state, the Prime Minister says. Australia's decision to recognize a Palestinian state will be formalized at the United Nations in September. Australia joins France, Britain, and Canada in announcing plans to recognize a Palestinian state.