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Sandra W Rodríguez @lasandunga.bsky.social · Aug 11

So shameful and just indicative of their barbaric complicity that some of the most powerful nations in the world didn’t not recognise Palestine as a nation and will only do when Gaza is at the brink of full occupation.

Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · Aug 11

BREAKING via AP

Australia will recognize a Palestinian state, the Prime Minister says.

Australia's decision to recognize a Palestinian state will be formalized at the United Nations in September.

Australia joins France, Britain, and Canada in announcing plans to recognize a Palestinian state.

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Anya Kamenetz @anya1anya.bsky.social · Jul 25

. @npr.org is one of the only US national news organizations that still has a reporter inside Gaza, Anas Baba, and he keeps reporting even though he himself is starving. This piece is unbelievably powerful.
www.npr.org/2025/07/05/n...

The deadly risk of trying to reach food in Gaza

An NPR journalist in Gaza describes his experience seeking food from a site run by private American contractors, facing Israeli military fire, crowds fighting for rations, and masked thieves.

www.npr.org

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Sandra W Rodríguez @lasandunga.bsky.social · Aug 1

Hi Rishita, coming late to this but can you add me please?

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Sandra W Rodríguez @lasandunga.bsky.social · Jul 21

Honored to co-edit this with Julieta Chaparro-Buitrago, @mariaxdavila.bsky.social , Yolinliztli Pérez &
@martinayopo.bsky.social — brilliant scholars & beautiful humans 🍀

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Sandra W Rodríguez @lasandunga.bsky.social · Jul 21

We’re editing a book on reproductive justice in Latin America and invite extended abstracts (800 words) by Nov 30, 2025.

More info: tinyurl.com/2298h4c5

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Cordelia Freeman @cordyf.bsky.social · Jun 23

The decimation of life in Gaza is a reproductive genocide. It was a privilege to work with Hala Shoman on our commentary 'No justice in a genocide: sexual and reproductive health and rights in Gaza' in Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

No justice in a genocide: sexual and reproductive health and rights in Gaza

Since October 2023, Gaza, Palestine, has been the site of a humanitarian crisis due to violence from Israel, with numerous violations currently undermining sexual and reproductive health and rights...

www.tandfonline.com

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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · Jul 3

Difficult to express how I feel about those in our politics and media who are more concerned about what some rapper said at Glastonbury than fact that, as a matter of deliberate policy, the Israeli government is paying mercenaries to murder starving civilians for fun.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Gaza aid contractor tells BBC he saw colleagues fire on hungry Palestinians

The Israel- and US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation has strongly denied the allegation.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · Jun 27

Israeli officers and soldiers have revealed they’ve been ordered to deliberately shoot at unarmed Palestinians trying to get aid.

That’s in Israeli newspaper Haaretz.

Israel is deliberately massacring civilians it’s deliberately starving.

There are few crimes more depraved.

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Gabrielle Hecht has no more spoons @gabriellehecht.bsky.social · Jun 22

So true. On so many levels. From literally dumping US garbage in faraway places (eg, Indonesia) to all kinds of other shit

Cadence ”Sewer Game Use Badwater” Andrysiak @supportourpoops.bsky.social · Jun 22

If there's one thing Americans like more than anything else, in aggregate, it's insisting someone else can take the consequences for their own actions and they're the One Special Case to bypass any consequence

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Tom Western @tomwestern.bsky.social · Jun 7

Our next anti-genocide university event is on Monday 16 June

Ancestral Plants, Living Futures: Solidarity with Palestine through foraging and storytelling

2-4pm, Golders Hill Park, London

With contributions from Jumana Abboud, Maymana Arefin, and Mayya Husseini

www.outsavvy.com/event/27987/...

Ancestral Plants, Living Futures: Solidarity with Palestine through foraging and storytelling Tickets - London - OutSavvy

Join us for an afternoon of walking, foraging, storytelling, and dreaming liberation. We gather around themes of land justice, food justice, and solidarity with Palestine, and the event consists of a ...

www.outsavvy.com

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Sandra W Rodríguez @lasandunga.bsky.social · May 29

Muy pronto, el 10, 11 y 12 de junio, empieza este Film Series sobre extractivismo en América Latina que venimos organizando junto a Gianfranco Selgas.

Gran oportunidad para ver material raramente disponible, seguido de discusiones con académicos, cineastas y activistas. Quedan invitados!

UCL Institute of the Americas @uclamericas.bsky.social · May 28

✨FILM SCREENING exploring representations and realities of extractivism in Latin American fiction and documentary cinema, focusing on how films portray workers’ and communities’ daily lives and struggles.

➡️ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/exhausted-...

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Sandra W Rodríguez @lasandunga.bsky.social · May 29

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · May 26

"What we are doing in Gaza is a war of extermination: indiscriminate, unrestrained, brutal, and criminal killing of civilians,” [former Prime Minister Olmert] said."

www.huffpost.com/entry/israel...

'Indiscriminate, Unrestrained, Brutal': Former Israeli PM Calls Gaza Assault 'War Crimes'

"What we are doing in Gaza is a war of extermination," former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert wrote in an op-ed aimed at Israeli citizens.

www.huffpost.com

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Sandra W Rodríguez @lasandunga.bsky.social · May 15

Soon I’ll be speaking about the intersections of reproduction and extractivism at this panel on colonialism, capitalism & the environment, alongside Maan Barua, Luis Andueza, and Jack Jenkins Hill, with Megan Vaughan as discussant. June 4, 16:00 at UCL!

UCL Institute of the Americas @uclamericas.bsky.social · May 15

✨ Please join Sandra Rodríguez Castañeda, PhD student at the Institute of the Americas, and other speakers for this round table on Colonialism, Capitalism and the Environment

➡️ www.ucl.ac.uk/americas/new...

@paulodrinot.bsky.social

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Rebecca Smyth, PhD @resmyth.bsky.social · Apr 23

Very excited to share that I'll be part of the @britishacademy.bsky.social Summer Showcase. ICA London will be screening Celina Escher's documentary Fly So Far on Wed 18 Jun 2025 at 18:45, after which journalist Divya Talwar and I will talk all things abortion.

UK Premiere - Fly So Far

This is the UK premier of documentary Fly So Far, which follows Teodora and The Seventeen in their struggle to regain their freedom from prison in El Salvador. Due to the criminalisation of abortion, ...

www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk

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The Sociological Review Foundation @thesociologicalreview.org · Apr 14

🇵🇸 PALESTINE: A Sociological Issue 🇵🇸

Join us for the second in our Conversations series as we put a sociological lens on the ongoing genocide in Palestine.

🍉 Thu 8 May 18.30-20.00 UTC+1 online
🍉 Ashjan Ajour, Yasmin Gunaratnam, Cairsti Russell & Rafeef Ziadah
🍉 Register: buff.ly/xE1NHos

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Sandra W Rodríguez @lasandunga.bsky.social · Apr 15

Amazing short visual essay by Victor Seow on the sights of extraction, reflecting through postcards featuring images of the working open-pit coal mine in Fushun, once the largest open-pit in Asia.

histecon.fas.harvard.edu/climate-loss...

SIGHTS OF EXTRACTION

by Victor Seow

histecon.fas.harvard.edu

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Jenny Crane @jennycrane.bsky.social · Mar 26

Zines on tour at #AAG2025 zine fair! From myself, @erikahanna.bsky.social, @cordyf.bsky.social, and @lasandunga.bsky.social - with thanks to Maria Fannin for taking them!

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Rishita "Department of Error" Nandagiri @rishie.bsky.social · Mar 26

Special Issue on "Global Reproductive Justice and Feminist Economics" is IN PRESS!

I learnt so much (as a non-economist, as a scholar) from our incredible contributors & from my enormously talented co-guest editors @lsenderowicz.bsky.social & Prof Sigle (LSE).

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Sandra W Rodríguez @lasandunga.bsky.social · Mar 21

Soon it will be available to download in Spanish and English from the amazing archive of GeoZone geoz.one

GEOZONe

An archive of mischief-making zines and radical geographic print ephemera

geoz.one

Sandra W Rodríguez @lasandunga.bsky.social · Mar 21

Very happy that our fanzine *The Chemical Geographies of Misoprostol* based on our recent paper with @cordyf.bsky.social will make it to the GeoZone Zine Fair at the 2025 American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting #AAG2025 in Detroit, March 24-28.

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Sandra W Rodríguez @lasandunga.bsky.social · Mar 13

Felicitaciones, Martina!

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Sandra W Rodríguez @lasandunga.bsky.social · Mar 12

Great essay by Pankaj Mishra on how Germany's memory culture is used as cheap currency to buy absolution from guilt. Mishra is the author of The World After Gaza.

www.theguardian.com/news/2025/ja...

Israel and the delusions of Germany’s ‘memory culture’

Germany embraced Israel to atone for its wartime guilt. But was this in part a way to avoid truly confronting its past? By Pankaj Mishra

www.theguardian.com