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...

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...

My latest article, for @foreignaffairs.com, on how to the fight for women's rights has to adapt to a changed geopolitical landscape:

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...

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 🗃️✊

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:

"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...

“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/...

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!

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

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...

"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...

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.

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...

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...

"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...

"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...

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.

And my pitch for why the public library is more important than ever as an institution in the U.S. - open.substack.com/pub/prisoncu...

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.

The Trump administration has abandoned the consensus that women’s participation and perspectives add value to U.S. security policy and operations.

"The Trump administration has abandoned the consensus that women's participation and perspectives add value to U.S. security policy and operations." @rcturk.bsky.social @saskiabr.bsky.social @foreignpolicy.com foreignpolicy.com/2025/10/13/t...

🗣️ #WPSWednesday: “An inclusive approach to peace & security has never been more urgent. The best way to mark 25 yrs of 1325 is to reaffirm its agenda & turn commitment into action.” Melanne Verveer @rcturk.bsky.social gjia.georgetown.edu/2025/10/08/r...

🆕| In erasing women from U.S. foreign policy, the Trump administration has overturned the decades-old bipartisan policy consensus that female empowerment serves U.S. interests. Read @saskiabr.bsky.social & @rcturk.bsky.social's latest for @foreignpolicy.com👇

@saskiabr.bsky.social and I wrote in @foreignpolicy.com about the dismantling of gender equality architecture in U.S. foreign policy, including offices that were created more than six decades ago with bipartisan consensus. foreignpolicy.com/2025/10/13/t...

This month marks 25 years since UNSCR 1325 formalized the "Women, Peace & Security" Agenda. Amb. Verveer and I reflect on the ambitions of the resolution and why WPS matters more than ever in these profoundly difficult times: gjia.georgetown.edu/2025/10/08/r...

🙄 Ah yes, the famously radical feminist Harry Truman imposing his "divisive feminist agenda" on the U.S. armed forces in 1951: www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

About once I year I remember this perfect Nanci Griffith live set exists and I want to share it with everyone. And today is that day, enjoy: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDpT...

António Guterres is addressing the 80th UNGA now: 80 years on, he says, we face the same question the UN's founders did, but more urgent: "what kind of world do we choose together?...a world of raw power, or a world of law?"

Among the deletions in this year's Trump-era human rights report: women's rights. Barely a mention for half of humanity. Both outrageous and pathetic. www.bbc.com/news/article...

The State Department has abandoned standardized reporting on women’s rights in the Human Rights Reports, a practice adopted in the 1970s! www.npr.org/2025/08/12/n...

OTD in 1989 the Tiananmen Square Protests were forcibly suppressed by the Chinese state. In this piece from our archive, Rebecca Turkington (@rcturk.bsky.social) discusses the Chinese #MeToo movement and the women resisting state repression in contemporary China.

Unhappy to confirm that the entire Historical Advisory Committee at the State Department received termination notices this afternoon (myself included). The HAC, set up by Congress, oversees the office that produces the FRUS series. history.state.gov/about/hac/in... 1/

“Tubman’s photograph is now gone. In its place are images of Postal Service stamps that highlight “Black/White cooperation” in the secret network and that feature Tubman among abolitionists of both races.” wapo.st/4jdXL8m

It's so dumb how much this administration relies on ctrl+F searches with zero human thought behind them. Really, Naval Academy students can't read "Enacting Gender on the English Renaissance Stage" and "Gender in Early Modern German History"? www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/u...

Brigadier General Harriet Tubman, a pioneer of U.S. special operations forces.

bsky.app/profile/reil... this is bonkers and deeply disturbing. Private security, DOJ, DOGE, and the DC police together worked to take control over a private building the government *does not own* and dismiss the staff *whom the president does not employ,* removing them, it seems, with armed force

Amidst many horrifying stories, this one hits home; I used to be at USIP almost weekly for events and coalition meetings. DOGE called the police to break in and evict staff of an independent organization that is NOT part of the executive branch: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

I'm happy to work at a university defending its first amendment rights and religious freedom as a Jesuit institution in the face of this administration's bullying. And defining the principle of diversity as "a moral and educational imperative."

Heading into CSW week at the UN, and inevitable debate over the future of Women, Peace & Security, it's a good time to remember the history of WPS has always been one of contestation. I wrote about our 1930s predecessors for @lseblogs.bsky.social here: blogs.lse.ac.uk/wps/2025/03/...

Grateful for the legislators at the USAID building protesting the illegality of shutting down USAID. Live now: www.youtube.com/watch?reload...

Things are so bad right now, but in my corner of the policy world, the foreign assistance freeze and attempted USAID shutter are absolutely catastrophic. Decades of our collective work on global gender equality are unraveling, and real people who rely on US-funded aid are dying.

Mala Htun's research is foundational to policy/advocacy work on global women's political participation; I've cited her in think tank reports, op-eds, congressional briefings, and I know lots of colleagues in the gender policy world do too.

This matters. Not because I think Trump is capable of mercy or empathy towards these vulnerable groups. But because it is a public act of defiance. Contrast that with all these other powerful people in this country signaling nothing but appeasement and obedience.

Elected in 1976, Carter became president at a pivotal moment for the women’s rights movement. Here are some gender equity milestones Carter achieved while in the Oval Office from 1977 to 1981:

Hot off the press today: Women, Gender, and Rebel Governance during Civil Wars, by Meredith Maloof Loken Download for free for the next week!! 🥳🥳🥳 www.cambridge.org/core/element...