📣 Read @drkmillar.bsky.social's article, “Gender, Sexuality, Warfighting & the Making of American Citizenship Post-9/11” in a new special issue of Daedalus, which examines how the global war on terror reshaped the relationship between gender, the military, and citizenship in the #US.
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LSE Public Lecture "Race and the Question of Palestine"
📍2 Dec, 6PM
Speaker: Lana Tatour
Discussants: Ralph Wilde, Ayça Cubukcu, Neve Gordon
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Powerful piece by @drrachelclarke.com on the COVID inquiry. Those who say it’s easy to be wise in hindsight are being utterly disingenuous. Many of us spoke out at the time, and it’s in the public record.
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The COVID inquiry has reminded us, once again, that despite claims of "inevitability" at the time, this didn't have to happen.
My primary sources, as they dealt with gender and sexuality, kept disappearing from US government websites - far from the signal harm of the Trump administration, but an unnerving microcosm of how quickly the administration's others can be made to disappear
The analysis is fairly straightforward, but the piece was difficult to write; I began it before Trump's 2024 re-election, such that the long tail of 9/11 and the long war/s, as unpacked by Evangelista, is both frighteningly obvious and yet to be fully understood.
Not only has this continuted idealisation of the citizen as a white, masculine, straight, cis soldier served to undermine the meaningful democratic control of the armed forces, it also set the stage for the US's current illiberal turn, exemplified by the purging of "woke" from the DoD + public life
It draws upon and expands my previous work on the gendered obligations and politics of "supporting the troops", looking at miltiary service, support for the armed forces, and dissent
My piece, "Gender, Sexuality, and the Making of American Citizenship Post-9/11" examines how seeming-moves towards liberal inclusion of women and LGBTQI+ people in the US armed forces were accompanied by a reification of the ideal citizen as not only a soldier, but as white, masculine, straight
I'm honoured to be part of this essential new issue of Daedalus (open access!) examining the effects of 9/11 and the so-called "war on terror" on US democracy.
The contributions are outstanding; Evangelista's concluding reflection "It Can Happen Here" is essential
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📣Join us for our next public event on 19 November, featuring Professor Ronald R Krebs, Dr @drkmillar.bsky.social, Dr @lucatardelli.bsky.social, Dr @boramlee.bsky.social, and Dr @rohanmukherjee.bsky.social.
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The invocation of the notwithstanding clause is unacceptable.
Solidarity with Alberta teachers, solidarity with Canadian labour
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A great paper on the redistribution of UK aid towards in-country refugee costs, capture of those funds by outsourcing firms, and rampant profiteering.
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Please join us for this panel tomorrow with excellent colleagues.
"Seeing beyond the core: alternative visions of order in times of global crisis"
All welcome: 22 Oct 6.30pm, at LSE
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You can now watch the recording of our 25 Years Beyond 1325 event last week! 🍿
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First event of the year with @lseir.bsky.social 💙
25 Years Beyond 1325: Reimagining the UN Women, Peace and Security Agenda
With: @drkmillar.bsky.social , @aikoiiris.bsky.social, @paulcinnamon.bsky.social, Dr Nancy Annan and Prof Stéfanie Von Hlatky
Two days to go and only a handful of tickets left! Grab them while you can! 🎟️
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One week to go until this one with @lseir.bsky.social 💙🤍
Get your free ticket now!
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Join us for our first event of the academic year in collaboration with @lseir.bsky.social and other great co-hosts!
Bringing together four leading experts, we will explore the legacy and future of the UN WPS agenda.
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Are you following our #FeministTech starter pack?
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We see several dimensions of the knowledge politics of violence at play here. For one, the public display of killing journalists, as @argohdes.bsky.social has mentioned, for everyone to see. At the same time, on the ground reporting on atrocities is made virtually impossible 1/
So pleased to see this letter from MPs in support of students in Gaza with offers at UK universities. It's been signed by over 100 MPs and is a real cross-party effort. I hope now that Starmer will respond to our requests.
Report is out now! Detailed gender analysis of the norms AND practical, specific recommendations for gender-responsive implementation for each norm
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Join us online on August 28th for the launch of our ambitious new report on gender responsive implementation of the 11 UN cybernorms!
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"Given the gravity and urgency of the moment, no lawful measure can be eschewed in the effort to induce Israel to allow Gaza to be flooded with humanitarian assistance, to restore essential services..."
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And it's almost certainly an undercount
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Open letter from UK university staff: Request for biometric deferral and safe evacuation of incoming Palestinian students and scholars from Gaza to UK Universities
Sign here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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The genocidal arm of the professional managerial class.
“Since the GHF began operating at the end of May, more than 500 Palestinians have been killed and thousands wounded by Israeli forces in the areas near its four distribution points.”
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