👩‍🔬 How is gender knowledge and gender expertise constructed, mobilized and institutionalized within international governance? Learn more in Lenka Olejníková, @drljshepherd.bsky.social (@sydney.edu.au) & Alba Rosa Boer Cueva’s #openaccess article: https://doi.org/10.1093/ia/iiag045

Special themed section of @signsjournal.org on transnational anti-gender politics and resistance, edited by Clare Hemmings and @sumimadhok.bsky.social out now! Read it here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/signs/cu...

happy 'the ARC works in mysterious ways' day to those who celebrate

Hey @paulcinnamon.bsky.social, here's the H-Diplo forum on our book 🥳 Many thanks to the editors and reviewers whose engagement was both thoughtful and provocative, in the best possible way.

In an alarming development, it appears the UK Government covered up a massive spike in trans youth suicides after restrictions. Then covered it up again when caught. Now, after fighting for years, the data is public: trans suicide increased 5x in the country. Subscribe to support our journalism.

📢New issue of #PAG21 is out!📢 In their critical perspectives article, "WPS at 25", @doris-asante.bsky.social and @drljshepherd.bsky.social look at NAPs in the context of a growing WPS Agenda. polisky gendersky buff.ly/ZdtsAh3

Academia can be soul crushing. Protect your hearts. #academicsky

With @drljshepherd.bsky.social, revisiting our plea to 'forget' Women, Peace and Security in light of the governments currently trying to make it disappear. theglobalobservatory.org/2025/10/forg...

1/ 🚨 Our intro to the Special Section on #FeministForeignPolicy is out! Co-authored w/ @tonihaastrup.bsky.social & @thomsonjennifer.bsky.social ky.social in @politicsgenderj.bsky.social: "The Where, What & Who of Feminist Foreign Policy" 📖 #OpenAccess 🔗 www.cambridge.org/core/journal... 👇👇👇

1/x For no particular reason, a thread of books to remind you that gender matters to international security. #polisky @oraszekely.bsky.social, Jessica, and I wrote Insurgent Women to highlight the involvement of women in multiple conflicts. press.georgetown.edu/Book/Insurge...

Delighted to collaborate with the always brilliant @doris-asante.bsky.social on this essay on WPS NAPs as we approach the 25th anniversary of the adoption of UNSCR 1325. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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/...

Incredibly impressed by Kate Scott and Lindsay Day, two brilliant PhD students at USYD who have published this excellent paper on TikTok tradwives and online anti-feminist movements www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10..... Such a pleasure to work with and learn from such smart humans!

Joint Statement by Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the UK: "the war in Gaza must end now."

Absolutely dystopian juxtaposition from the Guardian front page. Difficult to understand how anyone of decency and conscience can defend this government at this point. Just sheer moral degeneracy to arm a state that does this and arrest people for objecting. Wtf are we doing as a country?

“latest shooting of gazans seeking food”

“abolish ice abolish slavery abolish prisons abolish borders abolish colonialism abolish our addiction to punishing everyone who needs healing” -adrienne maree brown, abolition spell, fables and spells

Fellow profs, do you have a plan for how you will protect your students in this climate?

I saw this on LinkedIn and it feels particularly relevant today, as the question of how to exist in a disabling world (and show up in the workplace) as an autistic woman is uppermost in my mind. I do all of these things and the world (/workplace) is still pretty exhausting a lot of the time

"But let’s be clear: this 'burnout' that secure scholars are feeling is phantom pain where their colleagues should be . . . You are suffering from the effects of intentional systemic understaffing."

So delighted to see this important article published! The first of many from Charlotte's excellent research, I am sure. Congratulations @charlottecarney.bsky.social

I loved speaking to @ntinatzouvala.bsky.social and @pagingdrpaige.bsky.social about queer approaches to international law in this episode of #CalledToTheBar! Check it out at the link below 👇

These gender studies lectures are just writing themselves

I've made my submission to the review of the ARC grant system. Have you? 5 more days, people.

"I have lost faith that I could walk the streets without being abducted" is about as damning a review of the current state of US student visa system as you're ever going to see

This week and next, a symposium on @drljshepherd.bsky.social and my GOVERNING THE FEMINIST PEACE over at a critical IR group blog that's not quite dead yet. Please 'enjoy'. thedisorderofthings.com/2025/03/31/w...

Remember to drink water, read poetry, check in on friends particularly your queer, trans, immigrant, Black, neurodivergent, Palestine friend. No one is ok. But we are all better in community. #communityasrebellion

even if you’ve never heard of USIP before, this is worth noting, I think: a random group of Musk’s staffers, working on behalf of the executive branch, apparently breaking into an independent organization and shutting it down for no stated cause

I think it has more to do with you might get locked up for absolutely no reason at all and then flown to El Salvador to die in prison even though a judge said you should be released

Trump's State Department is denying accurate passports to all #trans & #intersex folks. The State Dept is accepting public comments for people to submit their concerns about the new passport policy. You can submit comments anonymously on the federal register website (all three links in this thread).

If you're interested in my @oxunipress.bsky.social book 'Inside the UN Security Council: Legitimation practices and Darfur' its on sale for 30% off using code: ASFLYQ6 at global.oup.com/academic/ Or better still, ask your library to order a copy! 😊

🌎 Job: UCD are hiring an Assistant Professor in politics, IR, and/or development studies 👇 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMF709/l...

World's most powerful military state signals it's no longer interested in a foundational piece of the post-1945 world order, including article 2(4) of the charter of the United Nations that it was integral in creating and in which it holds extra power regarding said uses of force. Great.

I have just read Vasuki Nesiah's brilliant book "International Conflict Feminism", which demands that we recognise the unevenly distributed and often violent effects of even the most well-intentioned interventions of feminist governance (www.pennpress.org/978151282634...).

Pleased to see there's enough folks on this sky platform to make it possible to follow the #ISA2025 convention. I hope folks are enjoying connecting with friends and forging solidarities in these exhaustingly awful times

Job in Palestine Studies! UC Davis seeks to hire an Anthropologist of Palestine at assistant/associate professor rank, Seeking a scholar with a cutting-edge, ethnographically grounded research agenda and interest in collaboration. Review begins March 5. recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF06996

There is a GoFundMe for Sara Motta, who recently lost her father. It's important that she and her youngest can attend the funeral to properly honor his memory and sustain connection to her roots and family. Please check out the fundraiser and consider contributing if you can. gofund.me/47ece487

New issue of @ispjournal.bsky.social & in it our article on care-full research now has pg #s! In it @caltinmollica.bsky.social, Hayley Payne, Casey Odger-Jewell, & Savannah Spalding & I reflects on lessons a youth-led, adult-supported project can offer Intl Studies broadly doi.org/10.1093/isp/...

Very delighted to see the chapter that James Blackwell and I wrote for The Palgrace Handbook on the Pedagogy of IR Theory out in the world: it's called "Complicating Sovereignty: Situatedness, Space, Place" and it's now available. Feel free to DM for a pdf link.springer.com/chapter/10.1....

A joy to engage w/ @drljshepherd.bsky.social's book 'The Self, and Other Stories: Being, Knowing, Writing' through this forum in Int. Politics. In my piece, I weave with/about the book's threads on the embodied, entangled self & complicity in the neoliberal academy. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

🎓 New article on how to use Oceania as a case to complicate notions of sovereignty when teaching, by James Blackwell & @drljshepherd.bsky.social: link.springer.com/chapter/10.1... [Another good way to complicate sovereignty while teaching? Assign some chapters from Shfting Sovereignties. 😇]

Sydney folks, check this out: Gadigal to Gaza, from 2pm at the Factory Theatre on Sunday 16 Feb. Fundraising for Palestine, Lebanon, Syria and Sudan. www.factorytheatre.com.au/event/gadiga...

A ground-breaking, much-needed contribution to IR scholarship! Many congratulations @shwetssingh.bsky.social and all involved. ❤️

Masters scholarships for Palestinian students at Sussex. Please disseminate? www.sussex.ac.uk/broadcast/re...

Publication alert! In this article with International Politics, I converse with @drljshepherd.bsky.social “The Self and Other Stories”, contending w. her text’s absences, and celebrating its vulnerability. I ask what it means to consider writing as doing justice. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

These are my reflections on the thoughtful pieces written by brilliant colleagues in response to my 2023 book. If you're interested in the forum, all pieces will be OA on the thread below. If you're interested in the book, it too is OA. Download from "Features" tab here rowman.com/ISBN/9781538...

The escalation of violence in the DRC is hugely concerning & being ignored. The DRC #YPS Coalition has just written an open letter to UNSG António Guterres calling for immediate action to halt violence, & uphold commitments to youth made via the DRC YPS NAP. Please share! #youth4peace

Delighted to hear from the publisher yesterday that we made the publication deadline (by the skin of our teeth!) and our new textbook, Thinking World Politics Otherwise, will be in the world on 13 February! Order an inspection copy or get 30% off at www.oup.com/academic/product/9780192897701

Submissions for #ISAVirtual2025 are now open. Swipe to learn about this year's proposal types. Visit https://buff.ly/4jf5CDu for more details!