Should we be writing at a time like this? In my latest contribution to BJPIR I reflect on abolition & what it means for political science and international relations at a time of permacrisis. Have a read here 👇 doi.org/10.1177/136914…

We have two ongoing lecturer jobs going in Politics & IR at UWA! Ability to teach gender and security a plus. Very nice colleagues and Perth is pretty OK (actually very good!) timeshighereducation.com/unijobs/listin…

As always, this is a good time to promote this amazing book by Robbie Shilliam which explains the baked-in racism and perfidy of the Labour Party and the way racialisation distinguishes the “deserving” from the “underserving” poor and working/class: politicalscience.jhu.edu/faculty-books/…

The extent to which US or UK based journalists are protecting Israeli soldiers raping, destroying and committing all sorts of atrocities is astonishing. Their neglect didn’t go anywhere this far with US/UK soldiers committing the same. I really am just amazed at the complicity.

A grim outcome. A 15 year old girl, groomed online & brought to Syria as a minor. Pregnant with three children before the age of 18, & lost all three in the tortuous conditions of NE Syria. Shamima Begum loses final UK court bid over citizenship - BBC News bbc.com/news/articles/…

📣 We are recruiting for two very exciting positions in Medical Aid for Palestinians's Advocacy and Campaigns Team: 1) Head of Advocacy and Campaigns 2) Head of Communications Job ads posted in 🧵 below, please share with anyone you think would be a good fit for our amazing team!

Proud to share my article written for Dr Rabea M. Khan and Sarah Gharib guest-edited special issue of Taylor & Francis Research Insights Critical Studies on Terrorism: Instrumentalising race: why critical terrorism studies continue to have a race problem tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… Critical_Terrorism_Studies_WG Research at University of Liverpool

my piece on Imane Khelif, the violence of binary gender, its racialised, colonial and classed underpinnings, and the urgent need to free feminisms from fragility and from racist, misogynist, transphobic, and imperial attachments The Contrapuntal thecontrapuntal.com/imane-khelif-r…

Making Space for Palestinian Happiness "For those who are not meant to survive, how do you imagine happiness? When living is impossible, how do you smuggle life back in?" lithub.com/making-space-f… via Literary Hub

What do you call it when you close all exits, destroy all routes out, and bomb every inch of a tiny strip with as much munitions as THREE Hiroshimas?

Working on your syllabus? Consider including a piece from our “Asian American Abolition Feminisms” double special issue Frontiers Journal. The issues bring together scholarly inquiry, movement artifacts, creative works that orient us towards abolitionist world-making.

Every few days, white men kill white women in the UK. Barely reported, nobody riots for these women, or attacks 'white' spaces/communities in response, nobody presents these as a collective pathology of 'honour killings' Pure, violent, ambient patriarchy. theguardian.com/uk-news/ng-int…

In the latest Tribune, Husam Zomlot Rana Ayyub Jeremy Corbyn Grace Blakeley, Francesca Newton, Ilan Pappé and more explore what unites structures of oppression from Palestine and Ireland to South Africa and Kashmir — and how they can be defeated.

Published today with Dr Patrick J. Vernon in BJPIR - we explore post-truth politics as epistemicide, in which minoritized communities face attempts to erase them physically and discursively as knowledge producers, and ways they are resisting journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/13…

UK official responsible for arms export licensing to Middle East resigns ‘in the knowledge’ the FCDO ‘may be complicit in war crimes’. Wow.

Covid twitter and politics/IR twitter: what brilliant articles/readings (academic or non-academic) do you know of on the global politics of the pandemic - especially those that centre disability justice, race and coloniality?

Event Alert! 150 researchers, 5 yrs of work on gender, justice & security – join GCRF Gender, Justice and Security Hub for the launch of: “Structural Challenges, Feminist Innovations and Radical Futures” Thursday, 29th Aug, 17:30-19:00 BST at LSE, The Marshall Building, MAR 2.04 eventbrite.co.uk/e/structural-c…

Seeing lots of posts on my timeline about the new academic year, people starting new jobs, PhD programmes, etc. A reminder that 1000s of Palestinian staff and students are unable to start the new academic year because of Israel’s ongoing scholasticide & genocide

Housing help request: I'm starting a Marie Curie Fellowship on work and ecology in the political economy of phosphate and I will be at the Geneva Graduate Institute for part of it. So I'm looking for a room in or around Geneva starting from December 2024. Any tips please PM me!🙏