An excerpt from a paper discussed at the myBISA.bsky.social Colonial, Postcolonial, and Decolonial workshop on ethical commitments in academic research and teaching (Phạm, 2023). Thanks to niharikaan.bsky.social, sarahgharib.bsky.social, and Catherine Charrett for organising such an energising day!

Brilliant piece by Sophie Lennox in @glamour.com about the importance of paying attention to the language we deploy when speaking about sexual violene. We have a responsibility to face uncomfortable truths rather than to hide behind comfortable narratives.

Thank you @niharikaan.bsky.social and @niloofarrasooli.bsky.social for organising such an inspiring, energising workshop on the idea of Azadi. Coming together collectively allows us to imagine new possibilities of transnational solidarity and liberation. A lovely day with new and familiar faces.

"Affective solidarity might thus be the refusal to relinquish that struggle, an insistence on the recognition and displacement—always failed—of privilege, as the motor of transformation." Rich interview with @lsegender.bsky.social's Clare Hemmings on the evolution and importance of affect theory.

We must move beyond conversations about masculinity that hyperfixate on a so-called crisis or endemic toxicity Drawing on bell hooks’ The Will to Change, it’s time to reimagine masculinity with empathy - urging men and boys to see how patriarchy harms us all and join efforts to counter rape culture

Without incorporating the lived experiences of women and girls leaving Boko Haram, DDR programmes fall short in providing the security, support, and opportunities needed for genuine, lasting (re)integration. Read below a commentary I co-authored with Francesca Batault during my time at @unidir.org.