Unfortunately the field of IR has marginalized gender analysis for decades so conventional analyses are poorly prepared to explain current US policy ⬇️

Mark Copelovitch@mcopelov.bsky.social · 2mo ago

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Prof Mary E. John join us tomorrow for her talk "Modernity, Decoloniality, Violence: Toward a Feminist Dialogue Across the South" 5pm, ARB, with reception! All welcome.

It's today! Come meet Matt Kenny and chat with him and Dr Sarah Steele about masculinity, competitive sports and more. Everyone welcome, 5:30 ARB S1!

Feminist Studies is hiring a managing editor! Please spread the word! networks.h-net.org/jobs/69890/f...

It's tomorrow! Join us at Christ's College at 5:30 for a talk by the legendary Prof Gloria Wekker, "Still Crazy After All Those Years: Revisiting Intersectionality." All welcome, drinks to follow! www.gender.cam.ac.uk/Events/vplec...

Have (scholarly) thoughts about the US? Selwyn College is hiring a 3-year postdoc in American Studies: join me at a friendly college close to town but far from tourists, live in for next to nothing, research anything related to US society, politics or history. www.sel.cam.ac.uk/jobs/Keasbey...

Not to be missed! Middlebrook/Djerassi VP Prof Gloria Wekker's talk on Wed 11 March, 5:30 at Christ's College! All welcome, drinks afterward.

Have (scholarly) thoughts about the US? Selwyn College is hiring a 3-year postdoc in American Studies: join me at a friendly college close to town but far from tourists, live in for next to nothing, research anything related to US society, politics or history. www.sel.cam.ac.uk/jobs/Keasbey...

"The abolition of gender studies is a way of further guaranteeing impunity to the elite men whose contempt for and exploitation of women and girls apparently knew no bounds." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Gender studies courses are shutting down across the US. The Epstein files reveal why | Joan Wallach Scott

Texas A&M University is the latest school to end women’s and gender studies programs and teaching race. We know why

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10/10 ICE protest sign

"ICE OUT" on Lake Nokomis in Minneapolis, as seen from my flight leaving MSP airport

The majority of organizing happening in Minnesota isn’t just peaceful, it’s INVISIBLE. Moms showing up who won’t be interviewed on TV, people whose ICE patrols don’t turn into viral video. The grocery runs, the donations, the people filming bc they happen to be there. Please remember this.

This administration is cooked. Literally no one is scared of them.

SKOL MINNESOTA

Garrett M. Graff@vermontgmg.bsky.social · 7mo ago

The courage of Minnesotans is contagious.

WE HAVE MOUNTAINS OF ICE TO MELT

Frank Hudson@frankhudson.bsky.social · 7mo ago

And Minneapolis' Phillips neighborhood is named for Wendell Phillips, a fervent abolitionist. He was once asked why he couldn't turn down the heat in his rhetoric: why are do you always have to be so firery? Phillips' reply: "Yes, I'm on fire--becuase I have mountains of ice to melt!"

Adding that it's below 0 degrees FAHRENHEIT with an even lower wind chill in MN right now.

Lauren Kaori Gurley@laurenkaorigurley.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Vigil for Alex Pretti in S. Minneapolis - changing “Who keeps us safe? We keep us safe!”

Paraphrasing a colleague, it must be pretty bad when the NY Times headlines aren't 'both-sides'. www.nytimes.com

ICE raids turn life into a daily terror for Minneapolis schoolkids: ‘This is a generational trauma’

ICE raids turn life into a daily terror for Minneapolis schoolkids: ‘This is a generational trauma’

As Trump-deployed agents pervade the region, students struggle to carry on with lessons while carrying grief and fear that they or their loved ones will be taken

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Alex Pretti "used to tell people off when they made sexist comments to female physicians. He bought me coffee when I had a really bad day as an intern...I laughed alongside him daily. He made a point to teach medical residents without judgement, but with a smile on his face and a joke."

There were six or seven agents, trying to harm a man who looks unarmed and still they murdered him in broad daylight. These ICE agents are venal, incompetent, cowardly and this type of execution will keep on happening because they are an unchecked paramilitary force of scared men who crave power.

ICE kills another protestor: they must be abolished and everyone involved to the very top held accountable. www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...

Live: Federal agents shot and killed Minneapolis man; DHS officials say he was armed

A bystander video shows several agents wrestling with the man on a city sidewalk moments before the shooting. Police chief Brian O’Hara issued a plea for calm as protesters gathered at the scene: “Ple...

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A coworker took this from her apartment. I haven't seen a crowd this size before. Maybe the first Women's March? But it was much much warmer that day. ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA!

We cannot be more clear. Leave us the fuck alone.

If you’re wondering why your friends in academia are a little on edge right now, it’s because an eighteen-year-old who hasn’t done the reading, doesn’t look at the assignment, and has does no critical thinking skills more complex than “because I think it’s in the Bible” can literally end your career

CNN@cnn.com · 8mo ago

The University of Oklahoma has removed an instructor who was accused by a student of religious discrimination over a failing grade on a psychology paper in which she cited the Bible and argued that promoting a “belief in multiple genders” was “demonic.” https://cnn.it/4b6g3rd

We're pleased to announce Prof Lila Abu-Lughod of Columbia University as this year's Juliet Mitchell lecturer. Join us 15 October 17:30 at the McCrum theater for her talk "Revisiting the Awkward Relationship of Feminism and Anthropology." Sign up here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-juliet...

Farewell to Angel, the best cat ever and my little buddy for over 20 years. We started and finished my PhD, my postdoc, and over a decade at Cambridge. She was 21 and loved the sunshine, sitting on my lap, sleeping on my head, and getting white fur all over my black clothes. More pics to come:

It's tomorrow, 21 May! Join us with IR/Hist to welcome Prof Patricia Owens @whitproject.bsky.social to talk about her book "Erased: A History of International Thought without Men" at 5pm ARB SG2 (that's ground floor by the cafe), drinks to follow! @campolis.bsky.social @ansteecentre.bsky.social

Love and solidarity to UK trans people today. Trans people exist, trans people have always existed and will always exist. Trans women are women and feminism without trans women is fascist feminism.

The most valuable degree for the world at this moment in history isn’t STEM- it’s a gender studies degree Haywire masculinity frameworks are a transnational concern- and quite frankly a national security concern at this point

These gender studies lectures are just writing themselves