Karmen Tornius

Karmen Tornius

@ktornius.bsky.social

Researching gender and politics in Africa and beyond @FreieUniversitätBerlin and @SCRIPTSClusterofExcellence

24 Followers 30 Following 4 Posts Joined Dec 2023
11 months ago
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Germany is now deporting pro-Palestine EU citizens. This is a chilling new step | Hanno Hauenstein The country’s so-called political centre has licensed a new era of authoritarianism – to the AfD’s delight, says Hanno Hauenstein, a Berlin-based journalist

The centre did not hold.
Most modern authoritarian regimes adopt the same script: civil rights suspended, with internal and/or external security threats used as justification. We know this. We have seen this. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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1 year ago

Thinking of making myself a t-shirt DEI never dies, even though like many of us, I too was not that impressed with its achievements so far. Who knew that for some DEI had achieved too much. Is standing up for DEI resistance now?

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1 year ago

An interviewee, reflecting on the 1970s: 'And by the way, we didn't use the word empower. At that time, it was women and development. Nobody would use such a word (empower). The men would go crazy.' - the 2020s indicate that she was right #notall #toomany

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1 year ago

New at bsky and never got that into twitter, but today I sat alone in the office and read a newspaper piece from 1985 about a Greek feminist Margaret Papandreou that made me want to connect and interact with peers and colleagues. So here I am

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