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Charlotte Mertens @charlottemertens.bsky.social · Nov 21

Check out our new paper on the colonial archives and how they can challenge the post-colonial politics of erasing imperial violence and contribute to decolonial futures, drawing on research in the African Archives in Belgium and fieldwork in #DRC. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

For the archive yet to come | Review of International Studies | Cambridge Core

For the archive yet to come

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · Aug 13

UN chief Antonio Guterres puts both countries ‘on notice’ over documented pattern of sexual violence.

UN chief warns Israel, Russia over reports of sexual abuse by armed forces

UN chief Antonio Guterres puts both countries ‘on notice’ over documented pattern of sexual violence.

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Charlotte Mertens @charlottemertens.bsky.social · Aug 5

Adriennne Rich’s poem ‘Rape’ remains as haunting and relevant as ever.

Charlotte Mertens @charlottemertens.bsky.social · Jul 1

Excellent analysis by @kristoftiteca.bsky.social on the new peace deal between DRC and Rwanda negotiated by the US. “Peace is not a real estate transaction.”

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Charlotte Mertens @charlottemertens.bsky.social · Jun 23

Brilliant piece by Elizabeth Strakosch, Natalie Ironfield, & Shillan Shelby on Unimelb’s racist, harmful ‘anti-racist’ politics. overland.org.au/2025/06/rebr...

Rebranding repression: the University of Melbourne’s elite capture of antiracism - Overland literary journal

Our current climate of political repression at the University of Melbourne reinforces why it is imperative that we continue to build autonomous intellectual homes that are grounded in Indigenous sover...

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Stéphanie Perazzone 🍉 🇨🇩 @stephanieperazzone.bsky.social · May 24

Our article in Review of International Studies, I wrote with @charlottemertens.bsky.social, now has a 'home' issue 😍
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Review of International Studies: Volume 51 - Issue 2 | Cambridge Core

Cambridge Core - Review of International Studies - Volume 51 - Issue 2

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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · May 20

An Indigenous Theory of Water: @biidaasamose.bsky.social on Rivers as Teachers

An Indigenous Theory of Water: Leanne Betasamosake Simpson on Rivers as Teachers

Rivers are connectors. The rivers feeding into Lake Ontario and then the St. Lawrence connect me, for example, with Audra and her homeland. My people are called Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg because we …

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Charlotte Mertens @charlottemertens.bsky.social · Apr 2

People in Bukavu keep telling me about daily targeted arrests, about gunshots and killings every night. They are living in a ‘psychose totale’. Unlivable.

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Egmont Institute @egmontinstitute.bsky.social · Apr 2

📄𝗡𝗘𝗪 𝗣𝗨𝗕𝗟𝗜𝗖𝗔𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡 by @judithverweijen.bsky.social, @kvlassen.bsky.social & Godefroid Muzalia

““We Are Caught Between Violence and Famine” – Analysis of the Deepening Crisis Affecting Eastern DR Congo”

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𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲 👉 bit.ly/3FLayRl

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David Gadd @profdavidgadd.bsky.social · Mar 28

'It starts from a premise which assumes there is such a thing as masculinity and that the answer to gendered problems in society, problems that affect all of us, is more and better gender, or gender done differently; rather than not at all' Serious food for thought

Stephen Burrell @thedailypanda.bsky.social · Mar 28

Not for the first time, Finn Mackay nails it: "Adolescence and the Lost Truths: Why save masculinity when you could save men?"
www.drfinnmackay.co.uk/blog/adolesc...

Adolescence and the Lost Truths: Why save masculinity when you could save men? — Dr Finn Mackay

We are barely out of International Women’s History Month and everyone is talking about the crisis of masculinity, yet again. It seems there has never been a time that masculinity has not been in crisi...

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Charlotte Mertens @charlottemertens.bsky.social · Mar 29

Sharpe’s voice will stay with me for a long time @hystericalblkns.bsky.social Ordinary Notes finds beauty despite living under brutal and violent regimes of anti-blackness. What an achievement. Read it.

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Charlotte Mertens @charlottemertens.bsky.social · Mar 24

“Every day you wake up and there’s something trying to break your heart.” Dionne Brand.

Carlos Azevedo @carlosazevedo.bsky.social · Mar 24

Palestinian journalist Hossam Shabat was killed by Israel today. This was his last post, for the shame of a world that allows Israel to do this.

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Aron Lund @aronlund.bsky.social · Mar 24

Istanbul protest image destined for book covers

📸 Ümit Bektaş, @reuters.com

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Charlotte Mertens @charlottemertens.bsky.social · Mar 20

Now more than ever we need to read bell hooks’ timeless book. And implement it. And throw it in university leaders’ faces and never forget the power we have as educators. ✊🏾

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Melanie Richter-Montpetit @mellimo.bsky.social · Mar 13

New UN report shows "Israel has increasingly employed sexual, reproductive and other forms of gender-based violence ... and carried out genocidal acts through the systematic destruction of sexual and reproductive healthcare facilities" www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...

“More than a human can bear”: Israel's systematic use of sexual, reproductive and other forms of gender-based violence since October 2023

GENEVA - Israel has increasingly employed sexual, reproductive and other forms of gender-based violence against Palestinians as part of a broader effort to undermine their right to self-determination ...

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Charlotte Mertens @charlottemertens.bsky.social · Feb 27

I feel this is only the beginning.

Carlos Azevedo @carlosazevedo.bsky.social · Feb 27

I feel I've seen the worst of humanity in the last 16 months.

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Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · Feb 26

Whoever described generative AI as the aesthetic of fascism made a sharp point.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Feb 26

Complete batshit lunacy on the president's Truth Social account. Yes, he really posted this.

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Charles Onyango-Obbo @cobbo3.bsky.social · Feb 19

Anxiety rises in DRC capital Kinshasa as M23 rebels advance in east. Some residents are looking to move their families abroad amid open talk of a coup. Some members of Congo's fractious opposition are openly predicting Tshisekedi will not last.

Anxiety rises in DRC capital as M23 rebels advance in east

Tshisekedi faces criticism for lack of action

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Afrique XXI @afriquexxi.bsky.social · Feb 17

Les archives sont porteuses de la violence du passé colonial mais aussi d’une potentielle postérité anticoloniale, à condition d’être radicalement réorganisées autour d’une exigence de justice et d’accessibilité, expliquent @charlottemertens.bsky.social et @stephanieperazzone.bsky.social 👇

Le regard de l'homme blanc sur les archives persiste - Analyse

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Charlotte Mertens @charlottemertens.bsky.social · Feb 14

My heart is in Bukavu. 30 years of cycles of violence. Courage and strength to the people of Bukavu ❤️

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Feb 11

REPORTER: Are you policing yourself for conflicts of interest? What are the checks and balances?

MUSK: We post our actions to the DOGE handle on X

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Charlotte Mertens @charlottemertens.bsky.social · Feb 11

That this even went to trial is insane. The cop called her ‘little missy’, she called him ‘white and stupid’.

Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · Feb 11

Australian women’s football captain Sam Kerr found not guilty of racially abusing a British police officer after a dispute with a cab driver ⤵️

Football star Sam Kerr not guilty of racially abusing UK police officer

The Chelsea striker is cleared of racially aggravated harassment after calling a police officer ‘stupid and white’.

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Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · Feb 11

The United States and Israel are openly pushing their plan to ethnically cleanse Palestinians in Gaza and the occupied West Bank.

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