I can't even talk about this one. Gloria! I found a copy of one of her books at the library book sale when I was 12 and it changed my life irrevocably.
Rebecca Turkington
@rcturk.bsky.social
Historian of feminism, colonialism, and conflict. Museum enthusiast, former think-tanker. Currently at Cambridge working on a global history of women's/gender studies.
RIP to an icon, a role model, a truly good person. (and I'm honored by the number of friends who texted to say I was "the first person I thought of" when they heard about Dolly.) youtu.be/FI64u773FaA?...
Dolly Parton Light Of A Clear Blue Morning (Clear Copy)
YouTube video by AManOfManyFaces
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The SPLC is one of a handful of orgs I regularly give money to because of their excellent work tracking and responding to racism and far-right violence, and I'm actually fine with that money being used to infiltrate white nationalist extremist groups.
Zack Beauchamp@zackbeauchamp.bsky.social · 4w agoThe DOJ just arrested a prominent enemy of white nationalist group on grounds that, by trying to infiltrate these groups, she was actually supporting them. Roughly equivalent to arresting an undercover CIA agent for being part of ISIS. www.cnn.com/2026/08/12/p...
Too bad I already have a PhD, this funded opportunity is a dream project. Memory, gender, war, Northern Ireland, women paramilitaries, historical representation, oral history: www.strath.ac.uk/studywithus/...
A Sisterhood of Sorts | University of Strathclyde
strath.ac.uk
In this Elements, Jakana Thomas & I consider how women’s representation impacts the implementation of gendered peace provisions after war. With new data on peace provision implementation, we show that the representation of ex-rebel women has significant effects on implementation & therefore peace!
Remembering Yanar Mohammed—because mainstream media has failed to. She was a human and women's rights defender, gunned down in Baghdad. She deserves to be honored. And we deserve a media with a wider lens. open.substack.com/pub/interrup...
Remembering Yanar Mohammed
The Iraqi feminist and human rights activist was gunned down in Baghdad
open.substack.com
Taken together, an overall look at protest patterns in 2026 reinforces the sense of a growing, durable, and disciplined pro-democracy movement increasingly mobilized at the grassroots.
"Issues affecting women and girls are chronically and unconscionably underfunded. Organizations dedicated to women and girls receive only around 2% of U.S. philanthropic dollars. If you put aside cancer research, women’s health receives just 1% of research funding." www.forbes.com/sites/luisak...
Melinda French Gates’ Plans To Give Away More Than $12.5 Billion
Divorced from Bill Gates and the foundation they created, French Gates discusses connecting with other women to maximize their impact at a critical time.
forbes.com
1/ I recently wrote about Frances Perkins—FDR’s Labor Secretary and first woman cabinet member. She is best known as the architect of the New Deal but she had a lesser-known achievement: She dismantled her era’s version of ICE.🧵
Read Frank Foer's amazing essay on the civil servants we have lost www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
The Purged
Donald Trump’s destruction of the civil service is a tragedy not just for the roughly 300,000 workers who have been discarded, but for an entire nation.
theatlantic.com
My latest article, for @foreignaffairs.com, on how to the fight for women's rights has to adapt to a changed geopolitical landscape:
Foreign Affairs@foreignaffairs.com · 8mo ago“The world is more than a decade into a prolonged democratic recession, and the space for women to organize for political change is shrinking across all regions,” writes Saskia Brechenmacher.
We published our "Top 40" declassified documents to celebrate 40 years of the National Security Archive! (Click below to read them.) nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...
“Heroic Excavators of Government Secrets”
Washington, D.C., December 10, 2025 - Almost 40 years ago, as White House aide Lt. Col. Oliver North was secretly running the Reagan administration’s Iran-Contra operations, he became concerned about ...
nsarchive.gwu.edu
What insights can feminists gain from revisiting the 1975 World Congress for International Women's Year? Natali Moreira explores this overlooked event using the Women of the Whole World journal archived at @fotwl.bsky.social 🗃️✊
A People's Congress
What insights can feminists gain from revisiting the 1975 World Congress for International Women’s Year in East Berlin?
historyworkshop.org.uk
I really enjoyed talking with @thepixelproject.bsky.social earlier this year about what we can learn from history to inform and inspire campaigns to end gender-based violence:
The Pixel Project@thepixelproject.bsky.social · 9mo ago16 FOR 16 2025: On the 16th and final day of the 16 Days of Activism against Gender-based Violence 2025 campaign, The Pixel Project presents 16 of our best Pixel Project blog and livestream interviews of 2025. For the full list: tinyurl.com/16BestPixelI...
"As some women in the party are realizing, there’s a big difference between being useful and being respected." www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/o...
Opinion | Republican Women Suddenly Realize They’re Surrounded by Misogynists
nytimes.com
“There are some countries that want to push us back to 30 years ago. But we will not accept anything less than what we already have.” Lorena Aguilar on the familiar fight over the term "gender" as a way to stall productive action on equality. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Row over definition of ‘gender’ hangs over Cop30 plans to support women
Advocates say conservative states’ push to define gender as ‘biological sex’ would backslide on decade-old language within the UN
theguardian.com
I wrote about Tunisian anti-fascism and the messy solidarities between French leftist women and the nationalist movement for @newlinesmag.bsky.social. The first piece of my dissertation research to live beyond the thesis!
New Lines Magazine@newlinesmag.bsky.social · 10mo agoNEW: In 1930s Tunisia, a group of women political and social organizers fought the rise of fascism, helping to create unexpected solidarity, writes @rcturk.bsky.social for @newlinesmag.bsky.social newlinesmag.com/essays/how-a...
A shrewd political strategist, California Rep. Nancy Pelosi has had an unprecedented career in Congress. First elected in a special election in 1987, Pelosi went on to become one of the most effective leaders of the Democratic party. n.pr/4oNT0F6
Former Speaker Nancy Pelosi will not seek reelection
A shrewd political strategist, California Rep. Nancy Pelosi has had an unprecedented career in Congress. First elected in a special election in 1987, Pelosi went on to become one of the most effective leaders of the Democratic party.
n.pr
I wrote something with the wonderful @mcslaven.bsky.social about how the immigration debate in the UK has becoming so mind-bogglingly radicalised. foreignpolicy.com/2025/11/05/b...
Britain Is Having the World’s Most Extreme Immigration Debate
The British discourse makes even the Trump administration look moderate.
foreignpolicy.com
"The United States government was required by law to submit a report to Congress on its progress towards its Women, Peace, and Security commitments yesterday. It didn’t." giwps.georgetown.edu/2025/11/01/u...
U.S. Government Fails to Report to Congress on WPS Progress - Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security
The United States government was required by law to submit a report to Congress on its progress towards its Women, Peace, and Security commitments yesterday. It didn’t. The failure of the Administrat...
giwps.georgetown.edu
President Kais Saied is making Tunisia an ever more repressive authoritarian regime. He’s placed suspensions on FTDES (leftist economic think tank), ATFD (feminist NGO) & Nawaat (leftist media outlet). All 3 groups, ironically, had many members who cheered his coup in 2021. 🧵 1/6
The disruption the Trump administration has wrought on this critical public safety and public health infrastructure is unprecedented, threatening a framework built over a half-century.
Without the federal government, almost no money exists to fight domestic violence
Work to prevent intimate partner violence, feed families in shelters fleeing abuse or help survivors file for legal protection would not exist on the scale it does today if the federal government step...
19thnews.org
An excellent 1325 Anniversary reflection from @paulcinnamon.bsky.social and @drljshepherd.bsky.social reminding us that a unified Women, Peace & Security agenda is illusory. The WPS community/ecosystem is inherently pluralist: 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...
theglobalobservatory.org
My colleagues at @giwps.bsky.social launched the results from a global survey of women peacebuilders. Of almost 3,000 women working on the front lines, most say they still struggle to access formal halls of power, and have seen decreased funding for their work: giwps.georgetown.edu/resource/wom...
Women, Peace and Security Survey - Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security
The Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security (GIWPS) released results from a global survey of nearly 3,000 women in 121 countries—one of the largest samples of women peacebuilders to date. T...
giwps.georgetown.edu
"This demolition suggests that the current White House does not think that the first lady does anything of value [...] the office itself — they’re not cognizant of the history.” 19thnews.org/2025/10/east...
First ladies made history in the East Wing. It was razed for Trump’s ballroom.
The East Wing is home to the Office of the First Lady and has played a key role in women’s visibility in the White House.
19thnews.org
"Over 15 years ago, the then British Prime Minister publicly acknowledged the role of British soldiers on Bloody Sunday, yet not one British soldier or their military and political superiors has ever been held to account." www.bbc.com/news/live/cg...
Bloody Sunday: Soldier F found not guilty of all charges in Bloody Sunday murder trial
Soldier F - who cannot be named - was accused of murdering two people in Londonderry in 1972, plus five counts of attempted murder.
bbc.com
Infuriating quote from President Trump: “Both sides should go home, go to their families, stop the killing.” The Ukrainians are home. A home that’s been invaded by Russia.
White House says no Putin-Trump summit anytime soon
The decision came after Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Trump’s call for a ceasefire contradicted the understandings he reached with Putin.
washingtonpost.com
Congratulations to @mariaressa.bsky.social, as well as the representatives of the Bangladeshi and Venezuelan democracy movements who joined me at the Hillary Rodham Clinton awards at @giwps.bsky.social. Great to spend a day surrounded by people working hard to make their countries better.
I've heard from so many people since we published on Monday saying this article resonated with them. We need more attention to this complete destruction of women's rights programming and the impact it has on women, and on national security.
Foreign Policy@foreignpolicy.com · 11mo agoThe Trump administration has abandoned the consensus that women’s participation and perspectives add value to U.S. security policy and operations.