Congratulations to Otoniya Okot Bitek for Long List of We the Kindling! OMG!

Just found out - via an email from a colleague 🙃 - that my 2024 ISA presidential address has finally been published in @isq-jrnl.bsky.social. It brings together many strands of enquiry and reflections spanning nearly two decades of my career. Oh, and it's open access academic.oup.com/isq/article/...

“Any federal actions designed to terrorize and separate farm worker communities is an attack on Californians and a dangerous waste of resources…. We call on every level of government to take every possible measure to protect immigrant workers and their families.

Pilar and I published! We explore memory as a transformative force attentive to the complexities of power and justice regimes, and to the exclusions and silences that enter the historical record and institutionally curated representations of political violence. academic.oup.com/ijtj/advance...

I am slightly aghast my uni library doesn’t have the journal Peacebuilding, and that I owe hundreds in fines and so cannot ask for interlibrary loans (I know). Could anyone help me with A. Lederach’s Youth Provoking Peace: An Intersectional Approach from 2018? Please? Heh heh.

Amazing Transformative Memory International Network launch of the Vancouver Exhibit in collaboration with Butterflies in Spirit, a dance group raising awareness of violence against Indigenous Women and Girls in Canada. Include "Disappeared" by Irene MacWilliam @conflicttextiles.bsky.social

Thousands show solidarity at #TransRightsAreHumanRights Demo in Parliament Square.

Erin Baines @erinbaines.bsky.social and Ketty Anyeko analyse the memory practices of families whose loved ones went missing during periods of political violence, and point to a more emancipatory potential for localization. 12/

6️⃣ In “Difficult Stories that Haunt,” Ulrike Lühe and @erinbaines.bsky.social challenge Western empirical social science approaches that transform narratives of harm and abuse into “clean” and “manageable” data for research analysis. Link: doi.org/10.1093/ijtj...

Otoniya J. Okot Bitek will speak about her much-anticipated novel, We, the Kindling, at UBC's Liu Institute and the Vancouver Public Library. More info in this @pancouver.bsky.social article: pancouver.ca/otoniya-j-ok...

To everyone fighting to make feminism a radical force for change again & fighting for radical change again: wishing you a furious, fabulous & feminist #IWD!

I began to write this article 6 yrs before Musk's Hitler salute and AfD's electoral success. It's about why coming to terms with the past should be a perpetual process touching every aspect of life so that we stop, in Adorno's words, fascist tendencies within (not just against) democracy.

youtu.be/xbyHD5GqKfs please watch this beautiful video collaboration on love for a grandfather and hope for a new generation by J Stevy and Farid Ranti. Indonesia 65 @ 60

Here is the link to the special issue academic.oup.com/ijtj/issue/1... with @kellyzvobgo.bsky.social @geoffdancy.bsky.social @erinbaines.bsky.social @ulrike-luehe.bsky.social and many other wonderful colleagues.

March 14, join us for panel discussion on zoom; Youth Protests, Gender Equality and Political Transitions: Insights from Bangladesh @rn-wps www.cips-cepi.ca/event/youth-...

“Difficult stories that haunt: towards a research otherwise in Transitional Justice”. Luhe and I look at how difficult stories refuse, demand, restore and make claims of us, calling for other ways of seeing, being and doing research in settings of mass violence. OA academic.oup.com/ijtj/advance...

Could two followers please copy and re-post this tweet to show that someone is always there? National Suicide Prevention Hotline Call: 0800 689 5652 (UK) 1-800-273-8255 (USA) 1.833.456.4566 (Canada)

New publication: ✍️ In “Unspeakable’ I foreground a relational approach to research, one that fosters intimate, steadfast, and mutually giving relationships and reflect on a multi year project with former commanders and the children they fathered in Northern Uganda. doi.org/10.1080/2164...

Come work with me! I am recruiting a PhD student who wants to work at the intersection of Afrofeminist Thought and International Relations. www.queensu.ca/research/res...