Dr Ram Zamanov

Additionally, as #BerghahnBooks provides #openaccess, you can read all articles and reviews in this issue without restricted access. I hope many other publishers and journals will adopt similar #openpublishing practices.

Link: www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journal...

Here is my #book #review of 'Mobilizing in Uncertainty:Collective Identities and War in Abkhazia' written for #ConflictandSociety. I greatly enjoyed reading this book,learning about the resistance of the #Abkhaz people through Abkhaz perspectives,and writing this review. #SouthCaucasus

ATGENDER Statement of Solidarity with the People of Venezuela ATGENDER strongly denounces the United States’ military assault on multiple targets in Venezuela on January 3, 2026. This act of armed aggression constitutes a blatant breach of international law and ...

Please read these statements on the ATGENDER website:

Statement on Venezuela: atgender.eu/atgender-sta...
Statement on Iran: atgender.eu/atgender-sta...

Dear all,

As the #ATGENDER Board, we have decided to issue statements on the ongoing protests in both #Iran and #Venezuela, standing in solidarity with the people of Iran and Venezuela against #imperialism, #violence, and the #killing of innocent protesters.

✨ Exciting News! ✨
Our panel P025: The Geopolitics of Ideologies: Post-Soviet Polarities & the Collapse of the Liberal (Dis)Order in the South Caucasus has been accepted for #EASA2026 in Poznań!

Thrilled to co-organise this with Sevinj Samadzade and Lala Darchinova.

CFP details coming soon.

Intersecting legacies: gender, ethnicity and displacement in the aftermath of the first Nagorno-Karabakh War for internally displaced and refugee women This article explores the long-suffering gendered challenges that shape the lives of internally displaced and refugee women after the First Nagorno-Karabakh War. By applying the ‘matrix of dominati...

My new #article is out in #CentralAsianSurvey!

Based on my 2019 fieldwork and MA thesis;huge thanks to the amazing women who shared their stories💜

If you don’t have access,message me and I’ll send you a free link.
🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

#Gender #Displacement #NagornoKarabakh

State violence and queer identities: experiences from the Azerbaijani military This study investigates the state-perpetuated violence and oppression experienced by LGBTQI+ subjects within the Azerbaijani military. Utilizing a transnational queer-feminist framework, the study ...

This is an open access article but if you have technical problems downloading it, please reach out!

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

How is this different from Nazi Germany?

Petition unterschreiben Stoppt die Abschiebung von Abu und Ahmad Torans Familie

🚨 Quick request:

It concerns the family of two dear friends of my friend’s, who, after three years of struggle, finally received a German residence permit.Yet today, they remain stuck in Pakistan, blocked by German bureaucracy, and face imminent deportation back to Afghanistan.

👉 shorturl.at/MQMA7

The pic features the Iranian author Sahar Delijani who is looking at the camera. Her words appear next to her on the picture and they read: I was born in an Iranian prison. My parents were held in their jails. My uncles lie in their mass graves. Nothing you can tell me about the crimes of the Iranian regime that I haven't lived in blood and bone. That doesn't mean I want my people bombed, maimed, killed, their homes in ruins. If your vision of liberation comes only through the destruction of innocent lives, then it's not freedom you're after. Sahar Delijani, Iranian author

Sahar Delijani on brand

Decolonising the Caucasus: On Epistemic Resistance and the Violence of Global North Knowledge Production This paper interrogates the colonial dynamics of academic knowledge production in and about the South Caucasus, exposing how Global North scholars exploit local researchers and contexts while silencin...

Dear all,

I am happy to share my newly published op-ed in Caucasus Edition: Journal of Conflict Transformation. This piece offers a modest critique that seeks to shed light on the current dynamics of knowledge production in the South Caucasus.

The crew of the Madleen, a ship carrying humanitarian aid, are now hostages of Israel.

Thrilled to announce the publication of my article,’State Violence and Queer Identities: Experiences from the Azerbaijani Military’, in Journal of Critical Military Studies! #QueerStudies #Azerbaijan #StateViolence

[CLICK here if you would like your name added to this letter] النسخة العربية من هذه الرسالة متاحة أدناه. Open Letter to the Bluesky Team About Their Treatment of Palestinians in Gaza The signatories of this letter are all members of the Bluesky community, many of us have actively participated on the platform since its inception. We came to Bluesky because it was a breath of fresh air, a place that felt different from many of the other social media platforms. The lack of a central algorithm, the ability to build and use custom feeds, and the lack of penalty for link promotion contributed to an environment that allowed diverse and interesting voices to find their footing and community on Bluesky. While some of the signatories of this letter have had no issues with speaking their mind publicly on Bluesky, unfortunately that is not true for all the signatories because many are Palestinians currently living in Gaza. These Palestinians are journalists, artists, engineers, teachers, grandmas, entrepreneurs, a man who owned an ice cream shop, a pediatrician who has been featured on CBS Morning News, aid workers, architects, waiters, pharmacists, students–and perhaps most essential to the backbone of Bluesky, posters. All of these people provide unique and interesting voices to the Bluesky community. However, unlike the other signatories of this letter, these Bluesky community members have struggled to keep their accounts on the platform. Most of them have lost multiple accounts and/or have had their accounts labeled as spam. Some cannot even make an account without it immediately being removed from the platform. Gazans undertake immense efforts to simply be on Bluesky. Sometimes, they walk for miles just to have access to the internet. They scale rooftops where they are exposed to potential military attacks just for the opportunity to get better cell signals–one signatory of this letter tragically lost her brother this way. They use what little money they have to pay …

Gazans have also been aggressively targeted and unfairly reported by bad actors. Many accounts openly encourage the reporting and targeting of any Palestinian. Several groups exist for the express purpose of looking for Palestinian accounts to report. We believe Bluesky owes Gazans, and the entire community who benefits from their voices, a greater duty of care especially in the context of the horrors they are enduring. We ask Bluesky to implement the following changes: Provide information on all Bluesky-affiliated websites in Arabic that explains the rules and expectations of the site in clear language. Investigate the accounts that are mass-reporting Palestinians on Bluesky. The mass reporting of Palestinians on Bluesky is a group effort to render the platform a hostile place for a community based on their ethnicity. As such, it is racism, and should be understood as such. Reports against Palestinians who have broken no community guidelines must be understood as racism, and the accounts that submit those reports should be disregarded in the future. Many Bluesky users encourage Gazans to tag or reply to them, and this is not always understood as unwelcome behavior. If an account is reported as Spam for tagging or replying to others, treat only reports from the tagged/mentioned account as legitimate, seeing as they were the only ones who received a notification. Send emails regarding disciplinary action every time it is taken. Gazans do not always get an email explaining what they did wrong, and those that do are required to parse a language they do not speak in order to understand their violation. Have these emails contain an easily visible link to information about their violations in Arabic. Respond to appeals in a timely fashion, many Gazans simply never hear back from Bluesky after they appeal a decision. In addition to removing Gazans for alleged spam behavior, Bluesky has also sometimes indicated that they are deleting an account for being a scam or …

End IP bans on any account from Gaza and allow them to make new accounts where they can comply with Bluesky rules and continue to be valued members of the community. We understand that even if all these changes are made, many Gazans may still violate Bluesky rules in the future, but we hope that Bluesky will abandon their punitive approach to these violations and instead embrace an attitude of education, cooperation and community care– one that works to ensure people in Gaza can participate in a way that keeps their voices heard. We also call on the Bluesky community to help and support these accounts however they can. We want to continue to build a healthy community with better community members and this cannot be done if Gazans continue to be shunned. We can use this as an opportunity to show how to protect all vulnerable groups in the future. We hope that Bluesky does not follow the path of other social media platforms and instead forges ahead with a different philosophy. After all, that is the reason so many of its users are there. Bluesky's ethos of "No Caesars” should apply to all members of its community. [To add your name to the list of signatories, click here.]

We were hoping that this letter to @bsky.app could first be shared by a Gazan, but we were too worried that doing so would get their account deleted so we are sharing first.

You can sign on to the letter about the unfair treatment of Gazans on Bluesky here:

docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Disappointed but not surprised by the International Studies Association’s decision to host its 2026 Convention in Columbus, Ohio.

Despite growing concerns, #ISA continues its Americentric approach, prioritizing convenience over genuine inclusion and safety.

Meet-up! 25th of april, 12-13.30 CEST, DM for Zoom-Link
This time we want to offer a space to share experiences and think about the current situation of the world in turmoil and its impact on different queer people. The developments in various parts of the world affect us in many different ways,

Women are “ordinary people.”

Migrants are “ordinary people.”

LGBT folks are “ordinary people.”

Stop using “ordinary people” as a reference only for people who are straight, white and male.

It’s simple.

Pic from BBC -- white women celebrating outside the UK SC. We may deprivilege the colonial-racial frame, but the hate campaign led by white cis women speaks to a nation that criminalised same-sex relations in its empire, invented 'woman' in its colonies (cf. Oyewumi) & knows how to coerce white +

Quotidian realities of the Trump era! #freerumeysa

We will receive the feedback in May! So, looking forward to :)

Why do we always share the #success? As #Halberstam said’Failing is something #queers do and have always done exceptionally well.’

Just received a rejection from a postdoc funding of #FWO in #Belgium. Disheartening that #queerethnography still struggles to find appreciation at the heart of #Europe!

German Proposal to Strip Citizenship Endangers Human Rights A leaked paper reveals that Germany’s conservative political parties want to add a clause to Germany’s Nationality Law to allow the country to revoke German nationality from dual nationals if they are...

"The threat of #German citizens being stripped of their citizenship for political opinions – for example, for expressing views about the war in #Gaza – risks creating a chilling effect to quash views unpopular with the government."

NEW comment @hrw.org: www.hrw.org/news/2025/04...

@echr.coe.int is hopefully getting ready to deal with such serious human rights violations in #renazifying #germany.

Berlin's city parliament just agreed a city partnership with Tel Aviv. All parties voted in favour. Die Linke‘s representative in fact complained that it has taken so... long, given the plan dates to 2023. So that you know...

Race is a human invention.

Race is not a biological reality.

#Anthropologist

I have literally taught this to undergrads.

americananthro.org/about/polici...

Statement on the Importance of Sexuality and Gender Research Published in The Journal of Sex Research (Ahead of Print, 2025)

“Research into sexuality and gender is vital for identifying social, cultural, and medical needs of populations, and addressing inequalities across populations.”

It’s good to see editors of academic journals refuse to comply with increasing state censorship of sexuality and gender scholarship.

🌈🎓

Global Anti Gender Politics

If you’re in London this Friday, this event on ‘Global Anti-Gender Politics’ is one not to be missed. Great lineup of speakers and a truly transnational focus, which is often overlooked in these discussions 🤩 www.qmul.ac.uk/events/upcom...

The Ministry of Family’s new move: Anti-LGBTI+ training seminars to begin abroad In the first "Family Education Seminars" organized by the ministry for citizens living in Germany, a session titled "De-gendering" will also be included.

"The ministry announced that it will launch family education seminars for citizens living abroad ... will include a session titled 'De-gendering.'"

The Ministry of Family’s new move: Anti-LGBTI+ training seminars to begin abroad #Turkey 👇🏽
kaosgl.org/en/single-ne...

Tweet from Yuval Abraham: "A group of settlers just lynched Hamdan Ballal, co director of our film no other land. They beat him and he has injuries in his head and stomach, bleeding. Soldiers invaded the ambulance he called, and took him. No sign of him since."

BREAKING: Yuval Abraham, co-director of Oscar-winning documentary "No Other Land," says Israeli settlers beat his co-director Hamdan Ballal, injuring his head and stomach — and then Israeli soldiers invaded the ambulance he was in and seized him.

Ballal's whereabouts are now unknown.

What is happening to Columbia is the beginning of what happened to the Central European University in Budapest, which ultimately led to them forced to leave Hungary, so no one in Hungary can teach critically on Gender Studies, Jewish History, Romani History in Hungary. We are going the Orbán route.