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Apollo @apollo-magazine.com · Aug 18

In Berlin, an exhibition of the paintings of Lovis Corinth – deemed ‘degenerate’ by the Nazis – makes for a gripping show about why the work is where it is and whose hands it has passed through on the way, writes Matthew Sperling

The cancelled, confiscated, vindicated art of Lovis Corinth

The story of how the painter’s ‘degenerate’ works did or didn’t return to Berlin’s Nationalgalerie makes for a gripping show, writes Matthew Sperling

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · Aug 6

Happy b’day, “American Idiot” — released as a single 21 years ago today, and written in the wake of the Iraq War.

“The country had gone into a war based on lies,” said Billie Joe Armstrong, “and no one seemed to care. .. It was a song that came from a very honest, pissed-off place.”

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Politics & Gender @politicsgenderj.bsky.social · Jul 31

📣 Out on #FirstView 📣

For our upcoming issue on #feministforeignpolicy, @karolinefaerber.bsky.social & @erdfraeuleinma.bsky.social analyze how Germany 🇩🇪 represents, negotiates and reproduces its colonial past in their FFP.

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Research article "Claiming Historical Responsibility? The Persistence of Coloniality in German Feminist Foreign Policy" by Karoline Färber & Madita Standke-Erdmann.
Abstract begins: Recently, former colonial powers in the Global North have begun addressing their colonial pasts through their foreign policies. Some of these states pursue a feminist foreign policy (FFP). However, to date, only one FFP makes explicit mention of colonial legacies: that of Germany, adopted in 2021. How does German FFP discourse address this and what political work does this do? Contributing to critiques of coloniality in FFP, we analyze the discursive representation of Germany’s colonial past in foreign policy texts since 2021. Drawing on the socio-critical concepts theater of reconciliation by Max Czollek and remembrance superiority by Mohamed Amjahid, we find that the discourse powerfully establishes gendered notions of caring, responsible, and reflexive German statehood.

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Blätter für deutsche und internationale Politik @blaetter.bsky.social · Jul 27

@yvesvenedey.de zeigt, wie Katherina Reiche der Verzögerungstaktik der Öl- und Gaslobby folgt und hofft, dass die »Fossilministerin« so ungewollt für ein Wiedererstarken der Klimabewegung sorgt. www.blaetter.de/ausgabe/2025...

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Verfassungsblog @verfassungsblog.de · Jul 23

Julia Klöckner ist als Bundestagspräsidentin bemerkenswert um "Neutralität" besorgt. Jetzt will sie Anstecker verbieten. Doch was heißt "Neutralität" hier eigentlich?

GÜNTER FRANKENBERG macht sich auf die Suche nach einem parlamentarischen Neutralitätsbegriff.

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Zitat aus dem Artikel von Günter Frankenberg: "Der Bundestag ist nicht die Schweiz, 'Neutralität' ist nicht neutral."

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Madita Standke-Erdmann @erdfraeuleinma.bsky.social · Jul 22

Thanks a lot for your kind words! We are very much indebted to your work ☺️

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Madita Standke-Erdmann @erdfraeuleinma.bsky.social · Jul 22

thanks Columba :)

Madita Standke-Erdmann @erdfraeuleinma.bsky.social · Jul 21

Thank you @tonihaastrup.bsky.social , @thomsonjennifer.bsky.social and @columbaachilleos.bsky.social for guiding us through the editorial process and for letting us be part of the Special Issue!

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Madita Standke-Erdmann @erdfraeuleinma.bsky.social · Jul 21

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Claiming Historical Responsibility? The Persistence of Coloniality in German Feminist Foreign Policy | Politics & Gender | Cambridge Core

Claiming Historical Responsibility? The Persistence of Coloniality in German Feminist Foreign Policy

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Madita Standke-Erdmann @erdfraeuleinma.bsky.social · Jul 21

practices of restitution and reconciliation all too often are tied to a 'prosperous future', sidelining justice and prioritising German economic benefit. Thus, coloniality remains a part of Germany's FFP, contributing to what @maxczollek.bsky.social coined a "theater of reconciliation". /5

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Madita Standke-Erdmann @erdfraeuleinma.bsky.social · Jul 21

Emphasizing a 'shared history' with formerly colonised states, the discourse violently erases legacies and ongoing expressions of German histories of violence. Historical responsibility with a feminist veneer becomes a vehicle to create the impression of a responsible German state. Yet, /4

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Madita Standke-Erdmann @erdfraeuleinma.bsky.social · Jul 21

We find that feminist principles of care and listening - core elements to FFP - serve to stabilise a historically responsible German Self that is a champion in reckoning with its past; a notion that @mamjahid.bsky.social calls "remembrance superiority". /3

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Madita Standke-Erdmann @erdfraeuleinma.bsky.social · Jul 21

To date, Germany's FFP remains the only one mentioning its colonial history and the need to overcome postcolonial hierarchies in its foreign policy. How, then, did German FFP mobilise historical responsibility narratives - a central element to post-1945 German foreign policy? /2

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Madita Standke-Erdmann @erdfraeuleinma.bsky.social · Jul 21

I'm so happy about @karolinefaerber.bsky.social and my new article with @politicsgenderj.bsky.social 🥰. We draw on @maxczollek.bsky.social and @mamjahid.bsky.social 's work to show how claims of historical responsibility in Germany's Feminist Foreign Policy towards colonialism sustain coloniality /1

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Sophia Babai @swingingstorm.bsky.social · Jul 3

My mom and stepdad are from the same diaspora group as Zohran Mamdani’s dad (same like “my stepdad was kicked out of the same town and knows some of his classmates”) and apparently the New York Times doesn’t understand how diaspora works, so I am going to tell you a little about my mom’s people!

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thomas ruttig @thomasruttig.bsky.social · Jul 1

bitte unterzeichnet mit: rettet das tucholsky-museum in rheinsberg

Max Czollek @maxczollek.bsky.social · Jul 1

Gerade wurde eine Petition gestartet, die auf die aktuelle Situation hinweist, u.a. die illegale Hinhaltetaktik des Bürgermeisters. Offenbar hofft er auf diese Weise, einen neuerlichen Skandal zu vermeiden. Wenn wir das alle liken & teilen, wird das nicht klappen 2/
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Rettet das Tucholsky Museum in Rheinsberg

Das Kurt Tucholsky Literaturmuseum ist das einzige Tucholsky-Museum in Deutschland. Im Mittelpunkt seiner Arbeit steht das Sammeln, Bewahren, Erforschen und Präsentieren von Zeugnissen über das Leben ...

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Gorden Isler @gordenisler.bsky.social · Jul 2

Mit finanzieller Hilfe der letzten #Bundesregierung hat @sea-eye.org 747 Menschenleben gerettet. Die Förderung der #Seenotrettung darf nicht gestrichen werden. Das letzte Wort hat der Bundestag! Bitte unterzeichnet unsere Petition an Friedrich Merz: 🖋️🔁 weact.campact.de/petitions/se...

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MV Louise Michel @louisemichelcrew.bsky.social · Jun 14

"Let our tears become a sea of rage for the injustice that is killing our children.”

Today marks two years since the Adriana trawler sank off the coast of Pylos, Greece. Over 600 people drowned, a shipwreck that remains one of the deadliest in the Mediterranean. [...]

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Madita Standke-Erdmann @erdfraeuleinma.bsky.social · Jun 14

People, the remnants of your credibility is floating out the window …

Auswärtiges Amt @diplo.de · Jun 13

Die Lage im Nahen Osten hat sich über Nacht extrem zugespitzt. Israel hat gezielte Schläge gegen iranische Nuklearanlagen ausgeführt. Der Iran reagiert mit hunderten Drohnenangriffen auf Israel. Diese Entwicklung ist mehr als besorgniserregend. @aussenminister.diplo.de 1/3

Außenminister Wadephul gibt Pressestatement zur Lage im Nahen Osten.

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Annika Brockschmidt @ardenthistorian.bsky.social · Jun 10

Die FAZ schreibt: "Der Präsident, der vor allem der von den Demokraten lange ignorierten Migrationskrise seinen Wahlsieg zu verdanken hatte, kann als Sheriff auftreten, der tut, wovor die Linksliberalen zurückschrecken" - komplett wildes Framing.

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Madita Standke-Erdmann @erdfraeuleinma.bsky.social · Jun 9

🙄 … wo fängt man da nur an?
aber ja, sehr gern. wir könnten mal die köpfe zusammen stecken. @atrwibben.bsky.social this could be something for us?

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Senthorun S. Raj @senthorun.bsky.social · May 29

“When it comes to governing, sex is not an input, with a predefined meaning, determining the state’s rules. It’s an output, a creation of those rules, reverse-engineered to fit what an agency needs sex to do.”

@paisleycurrah.com reminds us how “sex” is a contingent political and legal category.

Donald Trump’s War on Gender Is Also a War on Government

By forcing rigid definitions of sex across all federal agencies, Republicans are undermining the administrative state’s capacity to protect public health and safety.

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David Long @davidlooong.bsky.social · May 29

Give this a listen those of you interested in International Relations and the history of thinking in IR. Erased is a significant step forward in our understanding as well as a portal to a more open and critical world of IR, what the discipline can/must be. revdem.ceu.edu/2025/05/26/e...

Erased: Women, Power, and the Hidden History of International Relations | Review of Democracy

In this episode of the Review of Democracy podcast, Alexandra Medzibrodszky speaks with Patricia Owens, renowned professor of international relations at Oxford, about her bold and revelatory new book,...

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Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social · May 27

Putting the great India-Pakistan partition of 1947 in the same frame as partitions of Burma, Arabia, the Princely States and Bangladesh, this marvellous new book casts the British Empire’s geopolitical legacies in an entirely new light. Highly recommended.

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Shattered Lands: Five Partitions and the Making of Modern Asia

'A sparkling debut by an outstanding young historian' PETER FRANKOPAN ‘This book is a revelation … both original and important' MISHAL HUSAIN A history of modern South Asia told through five partition...

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · May 27

'Small Bird'
by Kate Boxer,
contemporary UK painter and printmaker
#WomensArt

Sketch artwork featuring a small bird facing right as if struggling against winds represented by curved lines

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