In this Elements, Jakana Thomas & I consider how women’s representation impacts the implementation of gendered peace provisions after war. With new data on peace provision implementation, we show that the representation of ex-rebel women has significant effects on implementation & therefore peace!
Remembering Yanar Mohammed—because mainstream media has failed to. She was a human and women's rights defender, gunned down in Baghdad. She deserves to be honored. And we deserve a media with a wider lens. open.substack.com/pub/interrup...
Taken together, an overall look at protest patterns in 2026 reinforces the sense of a growing, durable, and disciplined pro-democracy movement increasingly mobilized at the grassroots.
"Issues affecting women and girls are chronically and unconscionably underfunded. Organizations dedicated to women and girls receive only around 2% of U.S. philanthropic dollars. If you put aside cancer research, women’s health receives just 1% of research funding." www.forbes.com/sites/luisak...
1/ I recently wrote about Frances Perkins—FDR’s Labor Secretary and first woman cabinet member. She is best known as the architect of the New Deal but she had a lesser-known achievement:
She dismantled her era’s version of ICE.🧵
Read Frank Foer's amazing essay on the civil servants we have lost
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
My latest article, for @foreignaffairs.com, on how to the fight for women's rights has to adapt to a changed geopolitical landscape:
We published our "Top 40" declassified documents to celebrate 40 years of the National Security Archive! (Click below to read them.) nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...
What insights can feminists gain from revisiting the 1975 World Congress for International Women's Year?
Natali Moreira explores this overlooked event using the Women of the Whole World journal archived at @fotwl.bsky.social 🗃️✊
I really enjoyed talking with @thepixelproject.bsky.social earlier this year about what we can learn from history to inform and inspire campaigns to end gender-based violence:
"As some women in the party are realizing, there’s a big difference between being useful and being respected." www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/o...
“There are some countries that want to push us back to 30 years ago. But we will not accept anything less than what we already have.” Lorena Aguilar on the familiar fight over the term "gender" as a way to stall productive action on equality. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
I wrote about Tunisian anti-fascism and the messy solidarities between French leftist women and the nationalist movement for @newlinesmag.bsky.social. The first piece of my dissertation research to live beyond the thesis!
A shrewd political strategist, California Rep. Nancy Pelosi has had an unprecedented career in Congress. First elected in a special election in 1987, Pelosi went on to become one of the most effective leaders of the Democratic party. n.pr/4oNT0F6
I wrote something with the wonderful @mcslaven.bsky.social about how the immigration debate in the UK has becoming so mind-bogglingly radicalised.
foreignpolicy.com/2025/11/05/b...
"The United States government was required by law to submit a report to Congress on its progress towards its Women, Peace, and Security commitments yesterday. It didn’t." giwps.georgetown.edu/2025/11/01/u...
President Kais Saied is making Tunisia an ever more repressive authoritarian regime.
He’s placed suspensions on FTDES (leftist economic think tank), ATFD (feminist NGO) & Nawaat (leftist media outlet).
All 3 groups, ironically, had many members who cheered his coup in 2021. 🧵
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The disruption the Trump administration has wrought on this critical public safety and public health infrastructure is unprecedented, threatening a framework built over a half-century.
I wrote earlier this year for @lseblogs.bsky.social about what plurality looked like in the women's peace movement 100 years ago (and not that much has changed): blogs.lse.ac.uk/wps/2025/03/...
An excellent 1325 Anniversary reflection from @paulcinnamon.bsky.social and @drljshepherd.bsky.social reminding us that a unified Women, Peace & Security agenda is illusory. The WPS community/ecosystem is inherently pluralist: theglobalobservatory.org/2025/10/forg...
My colleagues at @giwps.bsky.social launched the results from a global survey of women peacebuilders. Of almost 3,000 women working on the front lines, most say they still struggle to access formal halls of power, and have seen decreased funding for their work: giwps.georgetown.edu/resource/wom...
"This demolition suggests that the current White House does not think that the first lady does anything of value [...] the office itself — they’re not cognizant of the history.” 19thnews.org/2025/10/east...
"Over 15 years ago, the then British Prime Minister publicly acknowledged the role of British soldiers on Bloody Sunday, yet not one British soldier or their military and political superiors has ever been held to account." www.bbc.com/news/live/cg...
Infuriating quote from President Trump: “Both sides should go home, go to their families, stop the killing.” The Ukrainians are home. A home that’s been invaded by Russia.
And my pitch for why the public library is more important than ever as an institution in the U.S. - open.substack.com/pub/prisoncu...
Thanks for sharing!!
Congratulations to @mariaressa.bsky.social, as well as the representatives of the Bangladeshi and Venezuelan democracy movements who joined me at the Hillary Rodham Clinton awards at @giwps.bsky.social. Great to spend a day surrounded by people working hard to make their countries better.
I've heard from so many people since we published on Monday saying this article resonated with them. We need more attention to this complete destruction of women's rights programming and the impact it has on women, and on national security.
The Trump administration has abandoned the consensus that women’s participation and perspectives add value to U.S. security policy and operations.
"The Trump administration has abandoned the consensus that women's participation and perspectives add value to U.S. security policy and operations." @rcturk.bsky.social @saskiabr.bsky.social @foreignpolicy.com foreignpolicy.com/2025/10/13/t...
