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Voices of Motherhood @voicesofmotherhood.bsky.social · 14d

We're pleased to share this call for papers for our upcoming conference!

📍Online via Zoom
🗓️Thursday 5 - Friday 6 February 2026
⏱️Abstract deadline Saturday 1 November 2025

See our website for full details 👇

voicesofmotherhood.wp.worc.ac.uk/index.php/news-and-resources/updates-from-the-project

The Politics of Motherhood: Maternalism, Maternity and Mothering.

Thursday 5 and Friday 6 February 2026, Online Conference.

Ruth Davidson, Anna Muggeridge, Eve Pennington and Beckie Rutherford.

Keynote address by Dr Sarah Crook, Swansea University: ‘Cradles of Discontent: Motherhood as a pathway to activism in modern Britain’.

This conference is supported by a UKRI Future Leaders’ Fellowship ‘Voices of Motherhood’ Project reference MR/Y018184/1 and the University of Worcester.

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Masaya LlavanerasBlanco @masayalb.bsky.social · 5d

Los "escritorios diminutos" siempre son una joya, pero esta es una joya aún más especial. Que belleza este conciertico de Chuwi.

#TinyDesk Thank you for this jewel @npr.org

www.npr.org/2025/09/25/g...

Chuwi: Tiny Desk Concert

The Puerto Rican band blends bomba, plena and salsa into its sound, trading ocean blues and sunset pinks for playful jazz breaks and tasteful synthesizer effects.

www.npr.org

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DAWN Feminist @dawnfeminist.bsky.social · 10d

Along with over 60 organizations and experts, DAWN is calling on the World Bank to investigate @ifcorg.bsky.social funded hospitals accused of denying emergency care, detaining patients, and exploiting staff. True development demands #PeopleOverProfits

📮 Full letter: assets.bwbx.io/documents/us...

assets.bwbx.io

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Seth Edmunds @phealthy.bsky.social · 11d

www.reddit.com/r/science/s/...

From the science community on Reddit: One in 15 Americans has witnessed a mass shooting, a new study shows, revealing the depth and impact of the epidemic of gun violence that has washed over the US i...

Explore this post and more from the science community

www.reddit.com

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Masaya LlavanerasBlanco @masayalb.bsky.social · 10d

“this is yet another way to control women; another way to reduce us to walking wombs rather than multidimensional human beings. This war on Tylenol is also very much a war on women”

Trump’s war on Tylenol is also very much a war on women | Arwa Mahdawi | The Guardian

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Geoff Johnson @geoffthejohnson.bsky.social · 13d

So much energy and righteous anger here after the horrifying attack against a woman by an ICE thug earlier today.

#ICEoutofNY

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Till Eckert @tilleckert.com · 13d

1/ I’m Till Eckert, a ProPublica reporter. For the past 2 weeks, I’ve been going to the same NY immigration courthouse.

Nearly every time, I see ICE agents arresting immigrants. Today, a woman was slammed to the ground after begging officials not to take her husband away.

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BISA - British International Studies Association @mybisa.bsky.social · 14d

🎉 We are OPEN now for abstract, roundtable and panel submissions for #BISA2026 🎉

'Is International Studies ready for what comes next? New thinking, new directions' 🌎

Submit here! 👉 buff.ly/kK9oIlM

@visitbrighton.bsky.social @simonrushton.bsky.social @julietdryden.bsky.social

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Masaya LlavanerasBlanco @masayalb.bsky.social · 13d

Normalcy isn’t clickable

JA Westenberg @joanwestenberg.com · 13d

I keep seeing articles about 'scientists baffled by unexpected finding' and it's always something like 'people who exercise feel better.' Are scientists actually chronically baffled or do we just have a journalism problem where normalcy isn't clickable?

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Susan Kaye Quinn is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌱 @susankayequinn.bsky.social · 14d

They've lost the 9yos

JA Westenberg
@Daojoan@mastodon.social

My 9 year old and his classmates have started using “that’s AI” to mean “I don’t believe you.”

Me: we’re having dinosaur meat for dinner

Kiddo: that’s AI
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Sassy Denise @sassydenise.bsky.social · 15d

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DAWN Feminist @dawnfeminist.bsky.social · 14d

🎧 DAWN joins New Books Network to talk about #PandemicPoliciesAndResistance!

Masaya Llavaneras and Damien P. Gock discuss how a global feminist project became a book linking research, advocacy & resistance on the world's largest podcast network for new books!

newbooksnetwork.com/pandemic-pol...

Masaya Llavaneras Blanco and Damien P. Gock eds., "Pandemic Policies and Resistance: Southern Feminist Critiques in Times of Covid-19" (Bloomsbury, 2025) - New Books Network

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DAWN Feminist @dawnfeminist.bsky.social · 14d

Hear from Nour Bader herself! 🎥2025 #DAWNFellowship

From her mother’s journey with cancer to encounters with women crossing checkpoints for care, she shows how illness, stigma, and occupation shape bodies & identities in #Palestine.

💬 Watch, listen, and share with care.

#FeministResearch #DAWN40

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Broadbent Institute @broadbent.bsky.social · 16d

From Perspectives Journal – Issue no. 4:

Despite legislative guarantees under the Canada Elections Act, practical barriers continue to hold back unhoused individuals from political participation.

Read more at perspectivesjournal.ca/ballots-without-barriers/

Ballots Without Barriers: Empowering Unhoused Voters during the 2025 Ontario Election | Perspectives Journal

Despite legislative guarantees under the Canada Elections Act, practical barriers continue to hold one of the country’s most marginalized populations back from political participation.

perspectivesjournal.ca

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Edward Perez @eddieperez.bsky.social · 21d

An insightful piece on gaslighting and hagiography, by @mmasnick.bsky.social, worth your time…

“these aren’t actual debates in the classical sense of trying to persuade, they’re spectacles designed to set up bad faith dipshits with the opportunity to dunk on others for social media clout…”

Techdirt @techdirt.com · 21d

The “Debate Me Bro” Grift: How Trolls Weaponized The Marketplace Of Ideas

Among the attempts to create hagiographic eulogies of Charlie Kirk, I’ve seen more than a few people suggest that Kirk should be respected for being willing to talk to “those who disagree with him” as a sign that he was…

The “Debate Me Bro” Grift: How Trolls Weaponized The Marketplace Of Ideas

Among the attempts to create hagiographic eulogies of Charlie Kirk, I’ve seen more than a few people suggest that Kirk should be respected for being willing to talk to “those who disagree with him” as a sign that he was engaging in good faith. Perhaps the perfect example of this is Ezra Klein’s silly eulogy claiming that Kirk was “

www.techdirt.com

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DAWN Feminist @dawnfeminist.bsky.social · 22d

Diving into the DAWN Rising Fellowship 2025 project!

Fellow Nour Bader presents "Women Lacking Femininity": research on breast cancer, mastectomy and medical exclusion as experiences that reconfigure identity under occupation.

➡️Discover more
#DAWNFellowship #FeministResearch #GlobalSouthFeminisms

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Global Political Economy Journal @gpejournal.bsky.social · Aug 18

"The degree to which AI is able to harm our society and environment will depend on how best we can organise in opposition to those harms."
New blog from @djbailey231.bsky.social and Masoumeh Iran Mansouri on why we need to #ResistAI

Bristol University Press @brisunipress.bsky.social · Aug 15

@djbailey231.bsky.social and Masoumeh Iran Mansouri argue that while #AI’s rapid rise offers immense promise, its grave risks may outpace weak safeguards like the EU’s AI Act unless met with far stronger resistance: buff.ly/nVBFBQj

In the age of AI realism, where do we stand – willing enablers, passive observers or active resisters? - Transforming Society

David Bailey and Masoumeh Iran Mansouri argue that while AI’s rapid rise offers immense promise, its grave risks may outpace weak safeguards like the EU’s AI Act unless met with far stronger…

www.transformingsociety.co.uk

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Masaya LlavanerasBlanco @masayalb.bsky.social · 23d

Kumi is a brilliant thinker, activist and human.

DAWN Feminist @dawnfeminist.bsky.social · 23d

Kumudini Samuel, our General Co-Coordinator and Executive Committee Member, is recognized by UN Women as #WomenPeaceSecurity Champion!🌟

On the #WPS25 anniversary, she reaffirms the agenda's original goal: not just mitigating war, but preventing and ending it.

Read full interview: bit.ly/4mg42Bu

Women, Peace and Security Champion Profile: Kumudini Samuel

Individuals and organizations who are championing the Women, Peace and Security agenda in Asia and the Pacific are being profiled by UN Women – online and in our 2025 calendar – to mark this agenda’s ...

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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 23d

I urge you to read this, again

“The four pillars of disordered doubt:
Doubt the Evidence
Doubt the Source
Doubt the Process
Doubt the Claim
Each pillar corrodes truth validation in a different way, but together they build epistemic collapse.”
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 29d

I've written a lot about disordered discourse and counterpublics, but given recent events I want to cover a key part of disordered discourse, which I call the four pillars of disordered doubt.

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Reuters @reuters.com · 23d

Chicago’s Mexican community celebrated its Independence Day parade on September 14, filling downtown streets with music, flags, and traditional dress despite a Trump-ordered federal enforcement surge in the city.

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Masaya LlavanerasBlanco @masayalb.bsky.social · 24d

Sarah Lazare @sarahlazare.bsky.social · 25d

Willian Gimenez was abducted by ICE yesterday in Chicago. He had been part of a lawsuit against off-duty police and Home Depot employees for abusing day laborers. Latino Union says he was targeted for advocating for his rights as a worker. @bloomekatz.bsky.social and I report.

ICE Abducts Man Suing Off-Duty Police for Abusing Day Laborers

“The Department of Homeland Security has become the department of state terror,” said Rep. Delia Ramirez.

inthesetimes.com

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Masaya LlavanerasBlanco @masayalb.bsky.social · 26d

Welcome to our first DAWN Rising Fellow!!

Nour’s work shows how care is resistance.

#RadicalCare

DAWN Feminist @dawnfeminist.bsky.social · 26d

Meet Nour Bader, our 2025 DAWN Rising Fellow! ✨

Palestinian feminist researcher, farmer and educator exploring the political and gendered dimensions of breast cancer under occupation.

Stay tuned to follow her groundbreaking research!

#DAWNFellowship #GlobalSouthFeminisms #Palestine #RadicalCare

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DAWN Feminist @dawnfeminist.bsky.social · 28d

How do we turn feminist analysis into action? 🔧 📖 Our Southern Feminist Toolkit for Activism, companion to Pandemic Policies and Resistance, offers guides, frameworks and tools for organising, advocacy and education.

📥Download both resources here: bit.ly/4lKErQM
#PandemicPoliciesAndResistance

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Adam Isacson @adamisacson.com · Sep 5

Detail from UNODC map titled “main cocaine trafficking routes within the Americas, by water, 2023-2024” and noting that arrows’ “color intensity indicates flow density.”

Venezuela’s Caribbean looks like a significant, but not a top-tier, trafficking route.

www.unodc.org/documents/da...

Two arrows exiting Venezuela are much fainter than arrows exiting Colombia and Ecuador.

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Adam Isacson @adamisacson.com · Sep 4

As lethal and precise as a sledgehammer wielded by a chimpanzee on meth.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · Sep 4

“lethal precision”

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•@USCG Spencer intercepted an overloaded vessel carrying 191 Haitians 40 miles off Haiti's coast. All aboard the vessel were sent back to Haiti with swift, lethal precision, ensuring maritime security and border integrity.
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