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Jennifer Thomson

H-index: 16
Political science 34%
Sociology 22%
jessicavalenti.bsky.social
I know everyone is consumed with other news, but this is a big fucking deal: The Trump administration says that IUDs and the Pill are actually abortions.

Here's what USAID told the NYT about the $10m in birth control they plan to destroy.
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‘Putting on aviator sunglasses or a leather jacket and watching UFC seems to build gender solidarity. It remains unclear whether young men will do better under Trump, but at least they will feel pandered to.’

Emily Witt on Andrew Tate and the manosphere: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Emily Witt · Do you feel like a failure? In the Manosphere
The manosphere is confusing, because it’s a place where one can find both benign advice about protein consumption and...
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politicsgenderj.bsky.social
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For our upcoming issue on feminist foreign policy, Daniela Sepúlveda overviews the work of the Platform for Feminist Foreign Policy in Latin America and the role of civil society in advancing FFP.

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Notes from the Field article "Civil Society and Feminist Foreign Policies in Latin America" by Daniela Sepúlveda.
Introduction begins: In the 1980s and 1990s, many Latin American countries transitioned from dictatorships to democracies, paving the way for the structural redesign of their foreign policies. In response to sustained feminist mobilization in civil society, by the 2000s several of these countries had established gender divisions in their Ministries of Foreign Affairs. These divisions prioritized the incorporation of gender equality norms in their national and international legal obligations and established protocols to implement gender equality measures. As part of this process, there was also a push for increased participation of women in the foreign policy arena, especially in Argentina, Brazil, Costa Rica, and Uruguay (Fuentes-Julio et al. 2022).
thomsonjennifer.bsky.social
Great piece of writing - really balanced attempt to understand a very complex political figure.
danigaravelli.bsky.social
"In the de-Sturgeonisation process that took place in the wake of her resignation..her relatability, gravitas & high approval ratings were forgotten; her managerialism, insularity & lack of transparency stressed." I wrote about Sturgeon's memoir & attempt to reclaim the narrative in the @lrb.co.uk
Dani Garavelli · Dance in the Rain: Sturgeon comes out swinging
It’s hard to articulate what Nicola Sturgeon’s feminism meant to someone like me who moved back to Scotland in the...
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danigaravelli.bsky.social
"In the de-Sturgeonisation process that took place in the wake of her resignation..her relatability, gravitas & high approval ratings were forgotten; her managerialism, insularity & lack of transparency stressed." I wrote about Sturgeon's memoir & attempt to reclaim the narrative in the @lrb.co.uk
Dani Garavelli · Dance in the Rain: Sturgeon comes out swinging
It’s hard to articulate what Nicola Sturgeon’s feminism meant to someone like me who moved back to Scotland in the...
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anacweeks.bsky.social
V important to call out the strategic use of gender in anti-immigrant politics.

Our research shows femonationalism is growing across Europe -- used most (but not only!) by the far right, esp when party rivals converge on anti-immigration positions.

Working paper: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
mybisa.bsky.social
🎉 3 (grade 7) Lecturer positions open Cardiff University in:

🌎 Non-western (espc non US) Foreign Policy/War/Security Studies
📝 Political theory inc history of political thought
📚 History & theory of colonialism & its legacies in politics & IR

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Lecturers in Politics and International Relations (Teaching & Research) at Cardiff University
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daimoon.bsky.social
🚨 Job @ Bath 🚨

The Department of Politics, Languages and International Studies at @uniofbath.bsky.social is hiring a teaching focused lecturer w. experience in IPE & Enviro Politics (1 year fixed term)

Closing date: 8 Sept
Interview date: 18 Sept
Start date: 29 Sept

www.bath.ac.uk/jobs/Vacancy...
AP12990 Lecturer in International Political Economy - Jobs at Bath
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politicsgenderj.bsky.social
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For our upcoming special issue on feminist foreign policy, @tonihaastrup.bsky.social, in her piece "Contending with the Coloniality of Feminist Foreign Policy," explores the absence of African knowledge from FFP agendas.

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politicsgenderj.bsky.social
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For our upcoming issue on #feministforeignpolicy, @leclerck.bsky.social explores why the Canadian 🇨🇦 government has not delivered on a formal FFP despite its promises to do so.

polisky gendersky

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Notes from the field article "Feminist Government but No Feminist Foreign Policy: The Curious Case of Canada" by Katrina Leclerc. 
Article begins: In June 2017, Canada launched its feminist international assistance policy (Government of Canada 2017). The policy came less than two years after the election of Justin Trudeau’s majority government, following a decade of funding cuts and targeted rollbacks of the feminist movement (Stinson Reference Stinson2015). In addition to the several billion Canadian dollars committed through the policy, the emphasis on new and creative approaches to international assistance is particularly interesting (Government of Canada 2017). Rebecca Tiessen highlights the “repetitive use of specific words such as ‘new’ (mentioned 40 times), ‘innovative’ (noted eight times) or ‘innovation’ (mentioned 10 times)” (2019, 3).
bostonreview.bsky.social
“Why now? Why, after twenty-two months of complacency and complicity, have some European and American elites suddenly changed their tone? The conceit that the basic facts or circumstances have changed—that real alarm was inappropriate until now—defies all serious analysis.”
Gaza and the End of History - Boston Review
The apocalyptic scale of death and destruction lays bare the contradictions at the heart of the liberal international order.
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politicsgenderj.bsky.social
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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.
whitproject.bsky.social
Cool! "Erased: A History of International Thought Without Men" is no.1 on the @iajournal.bsky.social summer reading list. 👇☀️😎🥂👇 @princetonupress.bsky.social

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politicsgenderj.bsky.social
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For our upcoming issue on #feministforeignpolicy, Daniela Philipson Garcia & Ana Velasco Ugalde present an autoethnographic examination of Mexico's FFP asking who benefits and why.

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Notes from the Field "Solidarity or Coloniality in the Feminist Foreign Policy Knowledge Market? Lessons from Mexico" by Daniela Philipson Garcia & Ana Velasco Ugalde.
Article begins: The adoption of a feminist foreign policy (FFP) by Mexico took Mexican feminist civil society by surprise. In September 2019, without prior consultations or dialogues with local feminist civil society, the Mexican Foreign Affairs Secretary announced its FFP during the 74th session of the UN General Assembly. While the UN New York City headquarters roared with applause in response to the Mexican Foreign Affairs Secretary’s claim that the “Mexican government is feminist,” many feminists in Mexico interpreted the statement as an effort to pinkwash the government’s poor track record on gender equality within its borders.
thomsonjennifer.bsky.social
‘it won’t be possible anymore for the liberal American intelligentsia to run up massive intellectual and moral deficits with American power as the invisible reserve currency.’

A gloriously, righteously angry piece of writing.
harpers.bsky.social
“For all its claims to superior virtue, the liberal American intelligentsia manifests very little of the courage and dignity it has expected from artists and thinkers in less fortunate societies.” —Pankaj Mishra
Speaking Reassurance to Power, by Pankaj Mishra
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rainbowmurray.bsky.social
New job opportunity! Come work with me at @qmpoliticsir.bsky.social on my major project on the political representation of men.
You: PhD in relevant area, strong quantitative methods skills, interest in representation.
The job: 18 months full-time, London or remote qmul-jobs.tal.net/vx/appcentre...
Postdoctoral Research Associate - QMUL Jobs
ID: 6685. Title: Postdoctoral Research Associate. Application Deadline:
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newseye.bsky.social
🚨BREAKING: The last journalists working for AFP in Gaza have said they can no longer work for the news agency.

They are out of energy and they are starving to death.

I have never seen a statement from a news organisation like it.

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Sans intervention immédiate, les derniers reporters de Gaza vont mourir
21 juillet 2025
L'AFP travaille avec une pigiste texte, trois photographes et six pigistes vidéo dans la Bande de Gaza depuis le départ de ses journalistes staff courant 2024.
Avec quelques autres, ils sont aujourd'hui les seuls à rapporter ce qu'il se passe dans la Bande de Gaza. La presse internationale est interdite d'entrer dans ce territoire depuis près de deux ans.
Nous refusons de les voir mourir.
L'un deux, Bashar, collabore pour l'AFP depuis 2010, d'abord comme fixeur, ensuite comme photographe pigiste, et depuis 2024 comme principal photographe.
Samedi 19 juillet, il est parvenu à poster un message sur Facebook: « Je n'ai plus la force de travailler pour les médias.
Mon corps est maigre et je ne peux plus travailler ».
Bashar, 30 ans, travaille et vit dans des conditions égales à celles de tous les Gazaouis, allant d'un camp de réfugiés à un autre camp au gré des bombardements israéliens. Depuis plus d'un an il vit dans le dénuement le plus total et travaille en prenant d'énormes risques pour sa vie. L'hygiène est pour lui un problème majeur, avec des périodes de maladies intestinales sévères.
Bashar vit depuis février dans les ruines de sa maison de Gaza City avec sa mère, ses quatre frères et sœurs et la famille d'un de ses frères. Leur maison est vide de tout aménagement et confort, à part quelques coussins. Dimanche matin, il a rapporté que son frère aîné était « tombé, à cause de la faim ».
Même si ces journalistes reçoivent un salaire mensuel de l'AFP, il n'y a rien à acheter ou alors à des prix totalement exorbitants. Le système bancaire a disparu, et ceux qui pratiquent le change entre les comptes bancaires en ligne et l'argent liquide prennent une commission de près de 40%.
L'AFP n'a plus la possibilité d'avoir un véhicule et encore moins de l'essence pour permettre à ses journalistes de se déplacer pour leurs reportages. Circuler en voiture équivaut de toutes les façons à pre…

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