Sameena Mulla

Reckoning with Gender-Based Violence: Theory, Praxis, and the Persistence of Gendered Violence Explore the article collection: Reckoning with Gender-Based Violence: Theory, Praxis, and the Persistence of Gendered Violence. Published in Human Organization.

And read foundational pieces from 1993-2022 here: www.tandfonline.com/journals/rhu...

Anthropology of Gender-Based Violence: Beyond the Binaries of Intervention The organization of gender-based violence by the urgent need for intervention results in an emphasis on binaries, namely a distinction between domestic violence and sexual assault. It also produces an...

I learned a lot from this. Well done, Dr. Mulla @ratnagiri77.bsky.social
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I learned a lot from you and tried to represent that in this piece.

Call for Papers: Special Issue of Feminist Legal Studies Feminist Responses to the Regression of Trans Rights: Strategies, Alliances, Hope Amidst continuing backlash against trans rights, recognition and inclusion, two recent decisions from the UK have substantially impacted not only trans people’s legal status but also legal and social narratives of sex, gender and identity. The narrative that trans inclusion has a chilling effect on the rights of others, particularly women, has been adopted uncritically by both the UK Supreme Court in For Women Scotland and the Office for Students in its finding that the University of Sussex’s trans-inclusion policy had a chilling effect on free speech. These cases highlight a backlash that has been ongoing for some time, and sparks debates and fear of what may lie in the near future for trans people and kin, as well as other gender-variant persons, not only in the UK, but across jurisdictions and in a global perspective. The discourse of the ‘gender critical’ movement is splintering both the feminist and LGBT+ movements globally, with some aligning politically with the Far- and Christian Right against trans rights, adopting their terminology of ‘gender ideology’ and potentially posing a wider threat to sexual and reproductive rights. While this a difficult situation for trans people, kin and allies, this special issue seeks to emphasise that legal battles – including battles (temporarily) lost – are also an opportunity to seek to reinforce old alliances and to form new ones, to find new legal frontiers and imaginaries, to reinforce the theoretical and methodological underpinnings of legal arguments as well as intergenerational memory of what feminist legal work is, has been and should be about. How, we ask, do these decisions (and those like them globally) reflect and reproduce structures of coloniality, heteronormativity and cisnormativity? What do these decisions add to critiques of legal feminism? What would be construct…

📣🏳️‍⚧️ Call for Papers

We are inviting papers for our special issue, “Feminist Responses to the Regression of Trans Rights: Strategies, Alliances, Hope.” The issue will be dedicated to trans-inclusive feminist legal analysis that addresses attacks on trans rights & lives.

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A picture of Jacki Antonovich standing in front of a copy of The Nursing Clio Reader on a book shelf.

Today is publication day for The Nursing Clio Reader. As I write in the preface of the book, I started Nursing Clio back when I was a second-semester grad student as part of a final project in a public humanities seminar taught by historian Matthew Countryman at UMich. 🧵

This should be in The Onion. 🤯

🚨 A new rule would let career scientists like NSF/NIH program officers be replaced by political appointees

Already 14,000+ public comments, deadline is Friday

📣 Comments can be short. Courts consider them—and scientists with NSF/NIH experience are especially impactful

Speak up! shorturl.at/WKuBj

A poster announcing this year’s Graduate Student Conference in Literature, Media and Culture at Florida State University, where I will give the keynote tomorrow. The poster has a QR code to access the schedule and Zoom links.

So many signs of the worst of eras and I then I saw a reel of someone’s gender reveal party with a live ultrasound projected on a movie screen. Not sure why people want to show their fetus’s genitals off to a crowd. 😳

Teen Warned Not To Accept Group Chat Invites From National Security Advisors She Doesn’t Know

Teen Warned Not To Accept Group Chat Invites From National Security Advisors She Doesn’t Know

Transform your life into WHAT, exactly?

Proposals for a Caring Economy Offers much-needed care models beyond capitalist constraints For too long, questions of care provision and inclusion have been shaped by economic justificati...

"Proposals for a Caring Economy" comes out this spring. I often hope that a book will become irrelevant by the time it's published. Sadly, this little book is more relevant than ever. It offers a set of ethnographically-driven policy recommendations, suitable for any reader. bit.ly/4iS1tUS

Compliance and credibility: a critique of the sexual assault forensic examination from international perspectives The forensic medical examination is often lauded as an effective intervention to reduce case attrition by providing evidence that supports a rape or sexual assault complaint. We show that, despite…

Lesley McMillan’s article with Rose Corrigan, @ratnagiri77.bsky.social, Gethin Rees and Deborah White critically explores the use of sexual assault forensic medical examination as a means to assess complainant’s credibility. Access it first here buff.ly/AZAgcWd @emorywgss.bsky.social

This would be funny if it wasn’t also true. I wonder what would happen if I circulated on the all faculty list…..

Join us in Durham Anthropology - we’re hiring an Assistant Prof in Anthropology of Data Science. durham.taleo.net/careersectio...

All the ways Elon Musk is breaking the law, explained by a law professor There are a lot of them.

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Military freezes sexual assault prevention training after Trump executive order on DEI Marine Corps has paused all sexual assault prevention training to comply with Trump's executive order. The Navy confirmed it would also cease such training.

"Several U.S. military branches are pausing training related to the prevention of sexual assault in order to comply with one of President Trump’s executive orders related to diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives."

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I only read to stay in the loop of the reactionary hot takes university admins are or will be parroting.

The bigger picture: A new era of on-campus immigration enforcement is no longer an abstraction. But with about 400,000 undocumented students enrolled in U.S. colleges, much remains unclear. A single arrest reported in a parking lot is not the same thing as frequent sweeps through the quad, no matter how much the loudest voices might want to equate the two.

From the Chronice of Higher Ed's daily newsletter email. The first ICE arrest on a college campus happened at Spokane Community College yesterday. The Chronicle, however, is here to tell us that in "the bigger picture," it's no big deal, even if "the loudest voices" say it is.

A pale orange pumpkin with light green streaks on a blue sofa.

May your soup jumou be spicy and flavorful and taste like FREEDOM!

Grey cat with closed eyes who is pleased with with herself. She wears two surgical collars (one plastic and clear and one pink fabric). She is reading Ta-Nehisi Coates’s The Message, and holiday greeting cards.

Yesterday, this contortionist figured out how to pick at her surgical sutures. We put her in a surgical suit which she mysteriously shed overnight, so this morning it’s a double cone, which seems to be running enough interference to keep her from picking at her scars.

A grey cat sits in a blue sofa with an e-collar. Her eyes are closed and she almost appears to be smiling.

The most important thjng I did today was hang out with this cutie who has had a good week at home and is healing well and on her way from feral to cuddle gal.

Important thread. Long read about how Elsevier, which publishes a large number of important scientific journals, has driven the entire editorial board of the Journal of Human Evolution to resign in protest/disgust. Prioritizing profits. Elsevier doesn't understand the value of its own products.

Check out this open access (for now) article from @ratnagiri77.bsky.social

anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

Sending her all the best scritches. What a lovely friend.

Ah, grateful to you and W-G for helping Dana and I gather w/ people we want to be in conversation/community with to think deeply together about something deeply consequential to us. Even the timeline feels healthier. Planning so that the thinking/writing that will happen before we gather is rich.

I’m headed to Tampa to be there for/with colleagues who are doing community work in imperfect communities. I hope associations can rethink big conferences. I want to see my people and some anthropologists are definitely my people, but we can be with each other in different ways.