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BISA Gendering IR Working Group @girwgbisa.bsky.social · 5d

The @mybisa.bsky.social Gendering IR Working Group is now on Bluesky (and LinkedIn)! 🥳 Follow us here for updates and upcoming events.

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prof toni haastrup @tonihaastrup.bsky.social · 17h

Something to read on the eve of the 4th FFP ministerial
2 yrs of work; from authors to editors really proud to have worked with so many awesome feminists++ on this & the best co-editors a girl could wish for @columbaachilleos.bsky.social & @thomsonjennifer.bsky.social - the smartest minds! 🙏🏾

Columba Achilleos @columbaachilleos.bsky.social · 20h

1/ 🚨 Our intro to the Special Section on #FeministForeignPolicy is out! Co-authored w/ @tonihaastrup.bsky.social & @thomsonjennifer.bsky.social ky.social in @politicsgenderj.bsky.social: "The Where, What & Who of Feminist Foreign Policy"
📖 #OpenAccess
🔗 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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The Where, What, and Who of Feminist Foreign Policy: Hierarchies of Geography, Knowledge, and Power | Politics & Gender | Cambridge Core

The Where, What, and Who of Feminist Foreign Policy: Hierarchies of Geography, Knowledge, and Power

www.cambridge.org

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Columba Achilleos @columbaachilleos.bsky.social · 20h

💥 Explore the full Special Section #FeministForeignPolicy in @politicsgenderj.bsky.social. Thanks to all contributors! @tonihaastrup.bsky.social @thomsonjennifer.bsky.social @nwelfens.bsky.social @karolinefaerber.bsky.social @erdfraeuleinma.bsky.social @balnik.bsky.social @hlmuehlenhoff.bsky.social

Feminist Foreign Policy Without Migration? Examining Exclusions in Germany’s FFP Guidelines | Politics & Gender | Cambridge Core

Feminist Foreign Policy Without Migration? Examining Exclusions in Germany’s FFP Guidelines

www.cambridge.org

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Columba Achilleos @columbaachilleos.bsky.social · 20h

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📄 Final Article
“Feminist Foreign Policy Without Migration?”
@hlmuehlenhoff.bsky.social, L. Popovic & @nwelfens.bsky.social explore exclusions around migration in Germany’s FFP guidelines.
🔗 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Feminist Foreign Policy Without Migration? Examining Exclusions in Germany’s FFP Guidelines | Politics & Gender | Cambridge Core

Feminist Foreign Policy Without Migration? Examining Exclusions in Germany’s FFP Guidelines

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Columba Achilleos @columbaachilleos.bsky.social · 20h

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📝 Notes from the Field
Daniela Sepúlveda offers insights on civil society & FFP across Latin America.
🔗 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Civil Society and Feminist Foreign Policies in Latin America | Politics & Gender | Cambridge Core

Civil Society and Feminist Foreign Policies in Latin America

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Columba Achilleos @columbaachilleos.bsky.social · 20h

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📝 Notes from the Field
"A Perspective from Africa" by @tonihaastrup.bsky.social critiques the coloniality of FFP and the exclusion of African knowledges. #OpenAccess
🔗 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Contending with the Coloniality of Feminist Foreign Policy: A Perspective from Africa | Politics & Gender | Cambridge Core

Contending with the Coloniality of Feminist Foreign Policy: A Perspective from Africa

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Columba Achilleos @columbaachilleos.bsky.social · 20h

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📄 Article #2
@karolinefaerber.bsky.social & @erdfraeuleinma.bsky.social investigate how Germany engages with its colonial past in its FFP.
🔗 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Claiming Historical Responsibility? The Persistence of Coloniality in German Feminist Foreign Policy | Politics & Gender | Cambridge Core

Claiming Historical Responsibility? The Persistence of Coloniality in German Feminist Foreign Policy

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Columba Achilleos @columbaachilleos.bsky.social · 20h

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📄 Article #1
@thomsonjennifer.bsky.social & @lesliewehner.bsky.social trace how Sweden & Chile came to adopt #FFP.
🔗 cambridge.org/core/journal...

#FirstView #FFP #OpenAccess

The Adoption of Feminist Foreign Policy: The Cases of Chile and Sweden | Politics & Gender | Cambridge Core

The Adoption of Feminist Foreign Policy: The Cases of Chile and Sweden

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Columba Achilleos @columbaachilleos.bsky.social · 20h

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📝 Notes from the Field #2
Daniela Philipson Garcia & Ana Velasco Ugalde explore civil society's role in FFP in Mexico.
🔗 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Solidarity or Coloniality in the Feminist Foreign Policy Knowledge Market? Lessons from Mexico | Politics & Gender | Cambridge Core

Solidarity or Coloniality in the Feminist Foreign Policy Knowledge Market? Lessons from Mexico

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Columba Achilleos @columbaachilleos.bsky.social · 20h

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📝 Notes from the Field #1
@balnik.bsky.social & Younna Christiansen examine how FFP shapes donor funding + peacebuilding dynamics.
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Troubled Encounters: Feminist Foreign Policy and Donor-Implementer Relations in Peacebuilding | Politics & Gender | Cambridge Core

Troubled Encounters: Feminist Foreign Policy and Donor-Implementer Relations in Peacebuilding

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Columba Achilleos @columbaachilleos.bsky.social · 20h

1/ 🚨 Our intro to the Special Section on #FeministForeignPolicy is out! Co-authored w/ @tonihaastrup.bsky.social & @thomsonjennifer.bsky.social ky.social in @politicsgenderj.bsky.social: "The Where, What & Who of Feminist Foreign Policy"
📖 #OpenAccess
🔗 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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The Where, What, and Who of Feminist Foreign Policy: Hierarchies of Geography, Knowledge, and Power | Politics & Gender | Cambridge Core

The Where, What, and Who of Feminist Foreign Policy: Hierarchies of Geography, Knowledge, and Power

www.cambridge.org

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End Sexism In Schools @endsexisminschools.bsky.social · 21d

We’re launching the results of our research into gender balance in the History curriculum today.

The report - The Great History Heist: Reclaiming Women’s Place in the History Curriculum - found only 12% of History lessons feature women as their main focus. 59% featured no women at all.

Sexism in the History Curriculum - End Sexism in Schools

End Sexism In School’s second crowd research project is looking into the History curriculum taught at KS3 (years 7-9) in England and Wales.

endsexisminschools.org.uk

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Nuzhat Uthmani @nuthmani.bsky.social · Sep 13

Can't wait to see all the defenders of women and girls sharing this message.

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Laura J. Shepherd @drljshepherd.bsky.social · Sep 10

Delighted to collaborate with the always brilliant @doris-asante.bsky.social on this essay on WPS NAPs as we approach the 25th anniversary of the adoption of UNSCR 1325. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

WPS at 25: National Action Plans as Mechanisms for Implementation of a Diverse Agenda | Politics & Gender | Cambridge Core

WPS at 25: National Action Plans as Mechanisms for Implementation of a Diverse Agenda

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Laura J. Shepherd @drljshepherd.bsky.social · Aug 19

Incredibly impressed by Kate Scott and Lindsay Day, two brilliant PhD students at USYD who have published this excellent paper on TikTok tradwives and online anti-feminist movements www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10..... Such a pleasure to work with and learn from such smart humans!

TikTok tradwives: femininity, reproduction, and social media

In recent years, social media platforms have seen a growing promotion of the Tradwife’s lifestyle, where cis women embrace patriarchal gender norms and identities such as the stay-at-home mother an...

www.tandfonline.com

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prof toni haastrup @tonihaastrup.bsky.social · Aug 20

This wouldn’t be possible without my fellow African feminists in the trenches

Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · Aug 20

#OpenAccess from @politicsgenderj.bsky.social -

Contending with the Coloniality of Feminist Foreign Policy: A Perspective from Africa - cup.org/4oItz8P

- @tonihaastrup.bsky.social

#FirstView

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Jennifer Thomson @thomsonjennifer.bsky.social · Aug 20

New Notes from the Field online from @tonihaastrup.bsky.social as part of this Special Section on #feministforeignpolicy

#OpenAccess from @politicsgenderj.bsky.social

Contending with the Coloniality of Feminist Foreign Policy: A Perspective from Africa - cup.org/4oItz8P

#FirstView

Contending with the Coloniality of Feminist Foreign Policy: A Perspective from Africa | Politics & Gender | Cambridge Core

Contending with the Coloniality of Feminist Foreign Policy: A Perspective from Africa

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Rethinking Security @rethinkingsecurity.bsky.social · Aug 4

🚨New on the Blog:

After 25 years of bipartisan commitment to Women Peace & Security, the UK gov't suddenly seems loath to mention or fund it. @tonihaastrup.bsky.social
& @jamiejhagen.bsky.social make the case for gender equality & inclusion in UK policy.

rethinkingsecurity.org.uk/2025/08/04/2...

25 Years of Women, Peace and Security in the UK: An opportunity to align feminist commitments at home and abroad

After a quarter-century of bipartisan British commitment to the Women Peace and Security agenda, the current Labour government suddenly seems loath to mention or fund it. Toni Haastrup and Jamie Ha…

rethinkingsecurity.org.uk

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Cas Ⓜ️udde @casmudde.bsky.social · Jul 26

Domestic violence is a major threat to women around the world but it is also a warning sign for political violence. And yet, it rarely gets the political attention it deserves and requires.

Two in five arrested for last summer’s UK riots had been reported for domestic abuse

Police data indicates overlaps between public violent disorder and domestic violence and abuse

www.theguardian.com

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Politics & Gender @politicsgenderj.bsky.social · Jul 31

📣 Out on #FirstView 📣

For our upcoming issue on #feministforeignpolicy, @karolinefaerber.bsky.social & @erdfraeuleinma.bsky.social analyze how Germany 🇩🇪 represents, negotiates and reproduces its colonial past in their FFP.

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Research article "Claiming Historical Responsibility? The Persistence of Coloniality in German Feminist Foreign Policy" by Karoline Färber & Madita Standke-Erdmann.
Abstract begins: Recently, former colonial powers in the Global North have begun addressing their colonial pasts through their foreign policies. Some of these states pursue a feminist foreign policy (FFP). However, to date, only one FFP makes explicit mention of colonial legacies: that of Germany, adopted in 2021. How does German FFP discourse address this and what political work does this do? Contributing to critiques of coloniality in FFP, we analyze the discursive representation of Germany’s colonial past in foreign policy texts since 2021. Drawing on the socio-critical concepts theater of reconciliation by Max Czollek and remembrance superiority by Mohamed Amjahid, we find that the discourse powerfully establishes gendered notions of caring, responsible, and reflexive German statehood.

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Madita Standke-Erdmann @erdfraeuleinma.bsky.social · Jul 21

I'm so happy about @karolinefaerber.bsky.social and my new article with @politicsgenderj.bsky.social 🥰. We draw on @maxczollek.bsky.social and @mamjahid.bsky.social 's work to show how claims of historical responsibility in Germany's Feminist Foreign Policy towards colonialism sustain coloniality /1

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Columba Achilleos @columbaachilleos.bsky.social · Jul 21

Delighted to see this published! Congratulations

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Jennifer Thomson @thomsonjennifer.bsky.social · Jul 21

The first article and Notes from the Field from our Special Issue with @politicsgenderj.bsky.social on #feministforeignpolicy is online now! @tonihaastrup.bsky.social @columbaachilleos.bsky.social

The first Notes looks at how FFP has influenced donor funding on peacebuilding:

Niklas Balbon @balnik.bsky.social · Jul 20

Feminist foreign policies talk equality, but local feminist peacebuilders still face donor scepticism, unstable funding & political pushback.

Without structural change, FFPs risk perpetuating the problems they claim to solve.

📝 Our new piece in @politicsgenderj.bsky.social doi.org/10.1017/S174...

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NPR @npr.org · Jul 21

Dr. Nick Maynard tells NPR he's treating children shot at food distribution sites and witnessing what he believes is the systematic destruction of Gaza's civilian infrastructure.

Inside a Gaza hospital: A British surgeon on what he's witnessing firsthand

Dr. Nick Maynard tells NPR he's treating children shot at food distribution sites and witnessing what he believes is the systematic destruction of Gaza's civilian infrastructure.

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · Jul 2

“Statutory maternity leave allows most new mums and birthing parents to take up to 52 weeks off work.
Statutory maternity pay is paid for up to 39 weeks” right yes I wonder if anyone in government can see the GLARING PROBLEM with this

Harry Carr @harrydcarr.bsky.social · Jul 1

Review of parental leave and pay is great, but the framing is all wrong: it is not about being "generous and supportive," it is (or should be) about basic equality, and addressing what is currently flagrantly sexist government policy.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Parental leave and pay for new parents to be reviewed by ministers

Campaigners say the UK's system has been

www.bbc.co.uk

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