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Katrina Forrester @katforrester.bsky.social · Jul 14

I had the pleasure of writing about the inimitable @melindacooper.bsky.social’s Counterrevolution for @lrb.co.uk www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Katrina Forrester · ‘I appreciate depreciation’: Dynastic Capitalism

Austerity is a choice. The protection of the family at the expense of other ways of living is a choice. The transfer of...

www.lrb.co.uk

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Katrina Forrester @katforrester.bsky.social · Jul 14

Thank you, dearest Durba, and for your help! 🙏❤️

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Katrina Forrester @katforrester.bsky.social · Jul 14

I’ve been off social media a while and I can’t come back without mentioning the genocide in Gaza, which is more devastating each day. So please also read Tareq Baconi in the same issue www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Tareq Baconi · Short Cuts: Gaza under Siege

Humanitarian aid has long served as cover for Israeli crimes. Under the Geneva Conventions, an occupying force is...

www.lrb.co.uk

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Katrina Forrester @katforrester.bsky.social · Jul 14

I tried here to capture one part of its indispensable story and to convey Cooper’s crucial lesson: that fiscal politics is always also moral politics, and that histories of finance should also attend to struggles over the organisation of social relations

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Katrina Forrester @katforrester.bsky.social · Jul 14

Counterrevolution’s history of struggles over public finance goes further than anything I’ve read to explaining how things have got as bad as they are. Like Cooper’s Life as Surplus and Family Values, it will change how you think

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Katrina Forrester @katforrester.bsky.social · Jul 14

I had the pleasure of writing about the inimitable @melindacooper.bsky.social’s Counterrevolution for @lrb.co.uk www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Katrina Forrester · ‘I appreciate depreciation’: Dynastic Capitalism

Austerity is a choice. The protection of the family at the expense of other ways of living is a choice. The transfer of...

www.lrb.co.uk

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Kirsten Weld @kirstenweld.bsky.social · Mar 28

Why we are suing the Trump administration. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

We’re Harvard Professors Suing the Trump Administration. Here’s Why. | Opinion | The Harvard Crimson

Universities are currently on the front lines of a battle for basic civil liberties. We must fight for the values — and the people — that define us. This lawsuit is a start.

www.thecrimson.com

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Katrina Forrester @katforrester.bsky.social · Apr 1

Self- and other- nominations welcome!

We've extended the deadline to April 15.

Please email nominated papers to [email protected] and [email protected]

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Katrina Forrester @katforrester.bsky.social · Apr 1

Did you read (or write) a great feminist political theory paper in 2023?

Please nominate it for APSA's Okin-Young Award in Feminist Political Theory! Any paper published in 2023 in any English-language journal is eligible

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Katrina Forrester @katforrester.bsky.social · Oct 2

thank you, I should do this!

Katrina Forrester @katforrester.bsky.social · Sep 30

thanks Anthony. i'm familiar with what I think of - no offence intended :) - as the "historical" contributions, like HW's. I was more wondering about recent work, but I think I was conflating a piece of Martin's and Joe Guinan's... but thank you

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Katrina Forrester @katforrester.bsky.social · Sep 26

thanks Martin. I'm writing about the GLC right now so any Wainwright content is always appreciated

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Katrina Forrester @katforrester.bsky.social · Sep 25

yessss Martin thank you!!! I think this is it. I'm so glad I didn't imagine it. (I have sort of missed the transition at Renewal, sad to hear...)

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Katrina Forrester @katforrester.bsky.social · Sep 24

oh and good call on Griffiths i will check!

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Katrina Forrester @katforrester.bsky.social · Sep 24

thanks Stuart! yes i know this great piece of yours (i've been thinking a lot about the same cast of people recently, maybe i'll be in touch about that soon)... i think i may have dreamed the Lucas Plan paper. thanks anyway!

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Katrina Forrester @katforrester.bsky.social · Sep 23

gah, that might be it! I'm going to hold out hope a little longer but I think you may be right... thanks Tom

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Katrina Forrester @katforrester.bsky.social · Sep 22

ah it's ok, i may have imagined it. maybe it was @stuartgwhite.bsky.social ??

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Katrina Forrester @katforrester.bsky.social · Aug 20

oh how nice to hear of the connection!

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Katrina Forrester @katforrester.bsky.social · Aug 18

There is a wonderful tribute to incredible feminist scholar, dazzling historian, and my much-missed brilliant friend Philippa Hetherington
@philippahether
in Kritika https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/28/article/904392?fbclid=IwAR2-9AbhtHMN89BMJWO2tYwPA06cRK3S24y2s4hpLVVuYw8StVg22RtNIu0

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Katrina Forrester @katforrester.bsky.social · Aug 6

thanks for posting this, so glad to see and so great to hear!

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Gabriel Winant @gabrielwinant.bsky.social · Jul 2

I’m excited to reiterate the classic political dilemmas of exilic communities on here. Do we attempt to replicate the lost community? Engage in revanchism? Hybridize our traditions with the new environments where we find ourselves?

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