Our special issue (which I co-edited with Phoebe Martin and Audrey Reeves) - The Global Politics of Memory: Feminist Perspectives on the Curation of Violence - is now published in full at the Journal of Gender Studies.
www.tandfonline.com/toc/cjgs20/c...
It is such an honour to have our book shortlisted for this amazing prize:
www.psa.ac.uk/news/mackenz...
The official response of @DefenceHQ @BritishArmy to the Jaysley Beck case appears to be “we will put more women on court martial boards”. This has absolutely no relevance to that case and just gives the impression they are desperately scrambling for something to say
"One of the reasons the epidemic of violence against women is so unacknowledged is because cases like these are talked about individually, and often treated as though they are shocking aberrations rather than part of a pervasive pattern that operates at all levels of society."
Palestinian statehood is not a bargaining chip.
It is not a threat.
It is an inalienable right of the Palestinian people.
Our demands on this shameful government remain the same: end all arms sales to Israel, impose widespread sanctions, and stop the genocide, now.
All famines are man-made, all famines are political. Historians of empire and humanitarianism have known this forever. Gaza is not starving, Gaza is being starved, by Israel, and this starvation is enabled by our government and by every other government that does not step in to force food and aid.
How is this happening simultaneously, I feel like I’m going more insane every day
If you are not concerned by the proscription of Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation because you think it doesn’t impact you, you are wrong.
This is an authoritarian abuse of power by the government & it curtails all of our civil liberties #r4today
Greta Thunberg being interviewed
Reporter: How did the Israelis treat you, we saw them giving sandwiches? Greta Thunberg: They probably have posted lots of PR stunts, they did an illegal act by kidnapping us in international waters but that's not the real story here. The real story is the genocide in Gaza and systematic starvation. Reporter: Are you worried about the others? Greta: Yes...l'm calling for everyone who can to mobilize to demand their immediate release and, of course, to demand not only humanitarian aid being let into Gaza but also a ceasefire and most importantly an end to the occupation, an end to the systemic oppression and violence that Palestinians are facing on an everyday basis. Reporter: "Why do you think so many countries and governments around the world are just ignoring what's happening in Gaza?" Greta Thunberg: "Because of racism."
This enables us to approach the quilt not only as a product but as a collaborative project that aims to enable people to reinvent their communities; as such, we suggest, it has much to teach us about how feminist and antiracist political movements might usefully mobilize mnemonic resources.
In the paper, we argue that because of its form, the Quilt opens space for narrative complexity, community building, and an approach to temporality that foregrounds the chronicity of gender-based violence.
The Monument Quilt was a large-scale, collaborative, textile-based craftivist project based in Baltimore and Mexico City that brought together 3,000 red fabric squares made by survivors of GBV and their allies.
I have a new article out today in Signs, co-authored with Phoebe Martin, titled ‘You Are Not Alone: Feminist Memorialisation and the Present Tense of Gender-Based Violence in the Monument Quilt.’ www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
The second article in a planned special issue that I am co-editing on gender and memorialisation is out! Audrey Reeves and Hannah Gignoux explore how museums in the US and UK curate the memory of conflict-related sexual violence.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
I recently co-authored & circulated (with @polphilpod.bsky.social ) an open letter against Starmer’s anti-immigrant rules & rhetoric.
Over 100 of my UK-based colleagues signed it. Read the whole thing here:
www.politicalphilosophypodcast.com/starmer
Keir Starmer's net favourability rating has dropped 12pts in a month to -46, his lowest level ever, including a 34pt drop among Labour voters
All Britons: -46 net rating (down 12 from 13-14 Apr)
By 2024 vote
Labour: -5 (down 34)
Lib Dem: -13 (down 12)
Conservative: -76 (up 1)
Reform: -94 (down 5)
CFP: Join us for The Art of Politics - a workshop on the aesthetics of repression, resistance & reparation, co-convened by Melissa Chacón, @sara-de-jong.bsky.social, @drharrietgray.bsky.social & me for the inaugural BISA/ISA workshop.
All details below 👇
www.isanet.org/Conferences/...
I’m so privileged to be at a conference on ‘Remembering comfort women’ at SOAS today, learning about the politics of remembering wartime sexual violence from some fascinating scholars and discussions.
I’m late to this, but I’ve just realised that the first article from a brilliant SI I’m editing in the Journal of Gender Studies has been published! Katie Stone’s compelling work on how museums can mobilize memories of conflict-related sexual violence (CRSV) for progressive social ends,
Wapo headline: how Palestinian first responders ended up in a mass grave
Ended. Up.
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New article, "Temporal Politics of Inevitability: Mass Death During the COVID-19 Pandemic", with @mjbayly.bsky.social and @dryunahan.bsky.social, out today in ISQ : academic.oup.com/isq/article/...
‘This is not a problem of the past’: Jaysley Beck’s death shows toxic misogyny persists in the armed forces
Speaking for the first time after the death of Jaysley Beck, 19, a fellow recruit says harassment of women is widespread and hard to report as the men close ranks
Our thoughts are with all those who loved Jaysley Beck
We run specialist independent support for service men, women & their families who are experiencing domestic or sexual violence- regardless of where you are based #EnoughIsEnough #ArmedServices
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