Why Did National Geographic Disappear Its Own Documentary About A Queer Climate Scientist? | Defector If you’re not a particular kind of mountain sports nerd, you might not be familiar with the Banff Centre Mountain Film Festival World Tour. But for people who live their lives in the overlapping circl...

I have a couple of small updates on this story, in case y'all have been wondering about any fallout since its July publication! 🧵

A month ago, the famine in Gaza, deliberately created by the Israeli government, was officially confirmed by UN agencies. Since then, there has been an eerie silence in the media here, with far fewer reports than there were before. But it hasn't ended. On the contrary, it has intensified.

Everyone in academia should read this piece about our dear, brilliant colleague @durba.bsky.social

www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

Antidiskriminierungsstelle droht das Aus Aufgrund der Förderkürzungen der steirischen Landesregierung bei vielen Sozialeinrichtungen droht der Antidiskriminierungsstelle die Schließung. Alle Mitarbeiter sind derzeit nur noch für 20 Stunden b...

Ich möchte kurz auf etwas Wichtiges hinweisen:

Die steirische Antidiskriminierungsstelle steht vor dem Aus - aufgrund der Kürzungen der FPÖ-geführten Landesregierung

Die Antidiskriminierungsstelle hat sich bisher übrigens auch gegen Hass im Netz eingesetzt, man konnte ihnen Hasskommentare melden

Opinion | My U.N. Commission’s Finding: Israel Is Committing Genocide

Navi Pillay: ‘To do nothing is not neutrality. It is complicity. The prevention of genocide is not a matter of discretion of states. It is a legal and moral obligation, and it admits no delay. The law requires action. Our common humanity demands it.’

gift link:

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/o...

FEDERICA GREGORATTO | VIENNA HUMANITIES FESTIVAL

the fantastic Federica Gregoratto will give a keynote at the Vienna Humanities Festival!!! 25.9.!
www.humanitiesfestival.at/federica-gre...

Fulbright-University of Vienna Visiting Professor of Social Sciences Generously funded by the University of Vienna

Applications welcome for the Fulbright-University of Vienna Visiting Professor of Social Sciences - Deadline 15.9., open to academics of all ranks, starting dates October 2026 or March 2027! Let me know if you are interested
www.fulbright.at/programs/in-...

(observing the smoldering ruins of civilization) see what happens when you misdefine “value”

Against interpretive exclusivism* Interpretive exclusivism is the dogma that we can only understand cultural systems by interpreting them, thereby ruling out causal explanations of cultural phenomena using scientific methods, for exa...

wow this article made it through SCIENTIFIC REVIEW 😆
already the beginning is only a strawmen argument, I have to show this to my students
rai.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

WORDS ON FIRE – Democracy lights back Bei WORDS ON FIRE – Democracy lights back erwartet euch ein Abend voller Poesie, lebhafter Gespräche, Gesang und gemeinsamer Reflexion. Vor dem Hintergrund politischer Spannungen, in denen Unbehagen, ...

WORDS ON FIRE – Democracy lights back 🔥🔥🔥

KUNST, DEMOKRATIE, LESUNG, PERFORMANCE
KEX—KUNSTHALLE EXNERGASSE UND HINT WIEN

www.wuk.at/programm/wor...

"To brave shifting conditions, we will have to strive to create communities “in which everyone’s basic needs are met,” because “leaving people out eventually costs everybody.” Interdependence & the social skills that facilitate that connectedness or cooperation are at the heart of...survival." 🫂🫂🫂

Berghahn is running a summer sale of all pb and e-book titles with 50% off, which means you can get a e-copy of this lovely anthology for only 14 GBP until the end of this week!

Important roundtable on academic freedom at #ecprgc25.

Insightful (but grim) presentation by @isaliba.bsky.social on attacks on academic freedom globally and also in Europe.

Kolleg*innen aus Forensik, Sozialwissenschaft und Rechtswissenschaft haben, in Anlehnung an die Arbeit der Kommission zu Oury Jalloh, einen umfassenden Bericht zur Tötung von Nzoy vorgelegt. So sieht Aufklärung aus, von "unten" und selbstorganisiert: www.borderforensics.org/investigatio...

Regierung will nach FPÖ-Kampagne Strenge gegenüber NGOs zeigen Nach der blauen Anfragenlawine zur Finanzierung von Nichtregierungsorganisationen soll laut Koalition eine Taskforce Förderungen "durchforsten" – das sorgt im NGO-Umfeld für Kritik

Die FPÖ ist scheinbar erfolgreich mit dem von Trump abgeschauten Playbook. "Die NGOs" sind verdächtig und die Regierung will nun "Strenge" walten lassen. Schlimm!
www.derstandard.at/story/300000...

Not a mistake. Not a “tragic mishap.” This is a policy of destruction and annihilation of Palestinian life across the Gaza Strip that’s been happening for almost two years now. END THE HORRORS NOW.

Devastating photos by journalists Mariam Dagga and Hussam Al-Masri of the suffering and destruction in Gaza, shortly before Israeli forces killed them too

Warum die Uno in Gaza-Stadt nun offiziell von einer Hungersnot spricht - Video - derStandard.at › Video

Hoff das funktioniert hier so mit dem Link, ich feier das dermaßen: "Barbara Blaha zerlegt Investment Punk" 🔥

@barbarablaha.bsky.social
@moment.at

www.instagram.com/reel/CyQngCb...

Seit 2020 der Beschluss zur Umbenennung der Straße getroffen wurde, feiern wir das “Amo-Fest”. Juristische Entscheidungen, die die Umbenennung verzögern, ändern nichts an dem Erfolg: Berlin bekommt eine Anton-Wilhelm-Amo-Straße.

Not coincidentally, the Panthers were also one of the few major left organizations in the homophobia-laden '60s/'70s to openly support the Stonewall riots and the ensuing queer liberation movements.

There's a word for the EU's inaction over Gaza: racism | Shada Islam Europe frames the suffering of Palestinians in Gaza as a humanitarian crisis rather than a deliberate political choice. There will be a moral reckoning, says Shada Islam, a commentator on EU affairs

There's a word for the EU's inaction over Gaza: racism | Shada Islam

Now in Tel Aviv!

We’re disturbing routine everywhere today because there is nothing normal about our government starving children, bombing civilians, and letting the hostages be killed. We refuse to let them steal our future on this land. We have to end these horrors NOW.

📚 From our book series with @berghahnbooks.bsky.social
Ethnographies of Deservingness by Jelena Tošić & @kompostmoderne.bsky.social
"..a major contribution to social scientific understandings of inequality through its focus on categorisations of ‘deservingness"
www.berghahnbooks.com/title/TosicE...

A Spectre is Haunting Europe. Transmisogyny and the Far-Right Critique of Global Capitalism - Historical Materialism If the contemporary European far right were to rewrite The Communist Manifesto, they would likely begin their account of contemporary “globalist” ills with that very statement. For the far right, tran...

Now online: 'A Spectre is Haunting Europe: Transmisogyny and the Far-Right Critique of Global Capitalism' by Felix del Campo.

German newspaper picking editorial topics, summer 2025 edition

Schwerpunkt: 100 Jahre Fanon Am 20. Juli wäre Frantz Fanon 100 Jahre alt geworden. Fanon setzte sich in seinen Werken auf tiefgehende Weise mit dem Kolonialismus und seinen prägenden Nachwirkungen auseinander. Er analysierte K…

Der Theorieblog hat einen ganz schönen Schwerpunkt zu Fanon gemacht, mit einigen guten Beiträgen von bspw. (my girl and comrade) Jeanette Ehrmann, Ina Kerner und Nicki K. Weber. Ich durfte auch einen Beitrag zu Fanon und Antifaschismus beisteuern: www.theorieblog.de/index.php/20...