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

📰Dr Holly Porter @cambridgegender.bsky.social has written an article for @jeasjournal.bsky.social titled 'Babies, buildings, and bones' examining the (im)materiality of love and homemaking after war. 🌍 Read the article now: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Babies, buildings, and bones: the (im)materiality of love and homemaking

This article examines the (im)materiality of love and homemaking after war. It draws on long-term ethnographic work on gender, sexualities and violence in northern Uganda, including over 200 ‘love-...

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Inspired by John Dunn’s essay of the same name, I’ve written a review essay on three recent books, on ‘the future of liberalism’ 1. Liberalism Against Itself @samuelmoyn.bsky.social 2. Liberalism as a Way of Life @lefebvrealex.bsky.social 3. Regenerative Politics doi.org/10.1080/0955...

My most recent op-ed has been published in Ms. Magazine: msmagazine.com/2025/07/03/c... Please give it some hits! (The usual disclaimers: does not represent the full breadth/depth of my political views, it has been drafted to align with editorial standards and word count, it has been edited, etc.)

Canada Rejects MAGA’s Gender Panic—And Why It Matters After This Year's Pride Month

As Pride Month came to a close against a backdrop of global backlash to LGBTQ+ rights, Canada’s spring election delivered a rare counterpoint: Voters refused to take the bait. Conservative leader Pier...

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Trying to dip my toe back into BlueSky to encourage me colleagues to check out the CRIA special issues proposal below!

Cambridge Review of International Affairs @cambridgecria.bsky.social · last yr.

🚨CRIA is soliciting special issue proposals that contribute to scholarly debate and which examine pertinent and topical theoretical, empirical and methodological questions ⬇️ Deadline: 11 June

Shout out to @lmschmidt42.bsky.social for putting me on the socialist Trailer Park Boys account on Instagram. It is glorious.

CRIA is hosting a roundtable on 'Concept Formation and Historical IR' (SA30) to kickoff our presence at the 2025 Chicago International Studies Association conference @isanet.bsky.social. Come along to The Barbershop (Blackstone Hotel) from 8:15am for a great discussion!

Because I joined BlueSky and didn’t immediately follow a bunch of celebrities, my feed is full of smart people doing cool things, which is very motivating! 🔥 Might try tracking thoughts/hot takes on ongoing readings here, as an attempt to keep myself accountable and motivated over the holidays.

Just finished @bonniehonig.bsky.social's "Epistemology of the Curtain" (Cultural Critique 121), and love the idea of the "Pythagorean curtain" (expansion of Derridian linguistic curtain/closet)- highly recommend the piece to my performance/media studies friends!

Hello BlueSky! The first post in a post-Twitter (post-X?) world! I've heard all the interesting academics had a mass exodus over to here...so let's see if I manage to post more consistently on this platform than on my Twitter!