On Tuesday, we had the joy of watching a doctoral marathon reach its finish line 🎓✨ Mudar S. successfully defended his dissertation “Meanings of Parenting among Syrian Forced Migrants in Sweden: Exploring Legal Realities through a Psychology of Religion Lens” at Uppsala uni! Check out the book!

A fan girl moment with fabulous, brave & brilliant Sasha Romantsova. Sasha is the Executive Director of the Center of Civil Liberties in Ukraine, and a co-recipient of 2022 Nobel Peace Price.

🏳️‍⚧️ Hyvää kansainvälistä transnäkyvyyden päivää! 🏳️‍⚧️ Tänään juhlitaan upeita trans- ja ei-binäärisiä ihmisiä ja heidän saavutuksiaan, mykistytään elämän moninaisuuden ja kauneuden edessä ja lujitetaan solidaarisuutta yli mannerten.

Handling complex phenomena, such as gender, in ethically sustainable ways requires openness, ability to tolerate the possibility of being wrong, as well as avoiding polarisation and othering. This is impossible if the starting point in a discussion is transexclusive. politiikasta.fi/sukupuoli-ja...

Wonderful book launch today: Islamic Feminism: Hermeneutics and Activism (Bloomsbury 2024), written by the inspiring and amazing scholar (and my dear friend) Mulki Al-Sharmani. Brilliant Professor Elina Vuola as discussant.