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University of Cambridge Centre for Gender Studies @cambridgegender.bsky.social · 12d

We're pleased to announce Prof Lila Abu-Lughod of Columbia University as this year's Juliet Mitchell lecturer. Join us 15 October 17:30 at the McCrum theater for her talk "Revisiting the Awkward Relationship of Feminism and Anthropology." Sign up here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-juliet...

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Lauren Wilcox @laurenbwilcox.bsky.social · Aug 10

More pics of Angel from Cambridge. One things that was special about her was one green eye, one half blue, half brown eye, but that's hard to capture in pictures.

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Lauren Wilcox @laurenbwilcox.bsky.social · Aug 10

My parents looked after her for 6 months while I was sorting things out overseas in Cambridge in 2013, they had a great time taking pics of her.

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Lauren Wilcox @laurenbwilcox.bsky.social · Aug 10

Angel in 2004 when I got her from the St Paul Humane Society!

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Lauren Wilcox @laurenbwilcox.bsky.social · Aug 10

Farewell to Angel, the best cat ever and my little buddy for over 20 years. We started and finished my PhD, my postdoc, and over a decade at Cambridge. She was 21 and loved the sunshine, sitting on my lap, sleeping on my head, and getting white fur all over my black clothes. More pics to come:

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Lauren Wilcox @laurenbwilcox.bsky.social · May 24

Your girls did it! Incredible.

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University of Cambridge Centre for Gender Studies @cambridgegender.bsky.social · May 20

It's tomorrow, 21 May! Join us with IR/Hist to welcome Prof Patricia Owens @whitproject.bsky.social to talk about her book "Erased: A History of International Thought without Men" at 5pm ARB SG2 (that's ground floor by the cafe), drinks to follow! @campolis.bsky.social @ansteecentre.bsky.social

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Lauren Wilcox @laurenbwilcox.bsky.social · Apr 16

image borrowed from @paulcinnamon.bsky.social

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Lauren Wilcox @laurenbwilcox.bsky.social · Apr 16

Love and solidarity to UK trans people today. Trans people exist, trans people have always existed and will always exist. Trans women are women and feminism without trans women is fascist feminism.

Sisters not just cis-ters pink red and black design with fabulous women.

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larelli @larelli.bsky.social · Apr 8

The most valuable degree for the world at this moment in history isn’t STEM- it’s a gender studies degree

Haywire masculinity frameworks are a transnational concern- and quite frankly a national security concern at this point

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Lauren Wilcox @laurenbwilcox.bsky.social · Apr 8

These gender studies lectures are just writing themselves

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Caroline Dodds Pennock @carolinepennock.bsky.social · Mar 28

“The Order directs the Vice President...to work to eliminate improper, divisive, or anti-American ideology from the Smithsonian and its museums, education and research centers, and the National Zoo.”

The Zoo? Really? “Those zebras are much too diverse.” "Get rid of those gay penguins, Fred."

a man in a striped shirt is pointing at the camera and making a face .

ALT: a man in a striped shirt is pointing at the camera and making a face .

media.tenor.com

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Lauren Wilcox @laurenbwilcox.bsky.social · Mar 25

Beate Jahn and Sebastian Schindler's Elgar Encyclopedia of International Relations is out, with 180 or so entries! One of which is me trying to explain 'subjectivity' in under 2000 words... www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/elg...

Elgar Encyclopedia of International Relations

‘Concepts in the social sciences evolve and change, so any compendium of our field has to balance preservation and innovation. This collection does an excellent job of that, taking an informative snap...

www.e-elgar.com

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Lauren Wilcox @laurenbwilcox.bsky.social · Mar 21

Are you asking basic questions because you're writing a piece on this? Would you perhaps rather interview me and/or consult more of the vast literature on this?

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Lauren Wilcox @laurenbwilcox.bsky.social · Mar 21

a global right-wing backlash to what they describe as 'gender ideology' which is an umbrella term for feminism, LGBTQ+ rights etc. Judith Butler wrote about it here earlier: www.theguardian.com/us-news/comm...

Why is the idea of ‘gender’ provoking backlash the world over? | Judith Butler

Increasingly, authoritarians are likening ‘genderism’ to ‘communism’ and ‘totalitarianism’

www.theguardian.com

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Lauren Wilcox @laurenbwilcox.bsky.social · Mar 21

If you can stomach buying from Amazon, UK people can get the kindle version of Judith Butler's 'Whose Afraid of Gender' for 99p today-- an analysis of the role 'anti-genderism' plays in the global far right authoritarianism.

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Lauren Wilcox @laurenbwilcox.bsky.social · Feb 18

Super excited to fly to the US next week. Can't wait. Very normal.

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Lauren Wilcox @laurenbwilcox.bsky.social · Feb 14

Mine used all caps, the phrase 'put some respect on their names' and also, much cursing, which won't do anything but made me feel better than doomscrolling at least.

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Lauren Wilcox @laurenbwilcox.bsky.social · Feb 14

So, the National Parks website for the Stonewall Inn removed the 'T' yesterday for 'LGB', erasing Sylvia Rivera, Marsha P Johnson and many others. The site also has box for feedback and suggestions (was this site helpful?) in case you feel like a cathartic rant, fyi. www.nps.gov/ston/index.htm

Stonewall National Monument (U.S. National Park Service)

Before the 1960s, almost everything about living openly as a lesbian, gay, bisexual (LGB) person was illegal. The Stonewall Uprising on June 28, 1969 is a milestone in the quest for LGB civil rights a...

www.nps.gov

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Lauren Wilcox @laurenbwilcox.bsky.social · Jan 21

Congratulations! Gonna send you an email about coming to Cambridge….

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Dr. Yolande Bouka @yolandebouka.bsky.social · Nov 26

Come work with me!
I am recruiting a PhD student who wants to work at the intersection of Afrofeminist Thought and International Relations.
www.queensu.ca/research/res...

Yolande Bouka

#QueensuResearch | Queen's researcher Yolande Bouka, Canada Research Chair in Afrofeminist Thought and Political Transformation

www.queensu.ca

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Lauren Wilcox @laurenbwilcox.bsky.social · Nov 20

It's here at last!

Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · Nov 20

Our Fall Sale is underway. If you are outside the US & Latin America, shop with our partners, @capacademicbooks.bsky.social and Univ. of Toronto Press for faster & cheaper shipping.
www.combinedacademic...
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Lauren Wilcox @laurenbwilcox.bsky.social · Nov 13

I have been working SO HARD at not getting worked up about every fresh Trump horror because the last time was...too much. But This. This is.... really something. wapo.st/3Z2I50h

Live updates: Trump picks Matt Gaetz for attorney general, Tulsi Gabbard for director of national intelligence

Get the latest news on the transition to the new administration of President-elect Donald Trump and a new Congress.

wapo.st

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Lauren Wilcox @laurenbwilcox.bsky.social · Nov 13

Just ordered!

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Lauren Wilcox @laurenbwilcox.bsky.social · Oct 29

I also subscribe to Zeteo...