Tereza Hendl
@terezahendl.bsky.social
Philosopher / global (health) justice, critiques of East-West hierarchies of knowledge / anticolonial and CEE feminisms and art / she/they/Dr
RUTA Association (Board Member), CEE Feminist Research Network, IRG-GHJ
RUTA Association (Board Member), CEE Feminist Research Network, IRG-GHJ
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Tereza Hendl
@terezahendl.bsky.social
· Nov 26
🏆We are proud to announce the winner of the 2025 B. Brodie Prize: for their critique of “Westsplaining”+coloniality in dominant debates on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the work of
@terezahendl.bsky.social Olga Burlyuk, Mila O’Sullivan & Aizada Arystanbek was recognized by a jury from our EB
@terezahendl.bsky.social Olga Burlyuk, Mila O’Sullivan & Aizada Arystanbek was recognized by a jury from our EB
Honoured to have been awarded the 2025 Brodie Prize for our work, in which we problematise the persistent theorising of Europe's East and Central Asia through western-centric perspectives and russia-centric frameworks, calling instead for the re-centering of the knowledges of (de)occupied societies
As our paper with Selbi Durdiyeva On Collateral Damage, Selective Anti-imperialism and the Path to Liberation comes out in American Communist History, my thoughts are back with Joy James and Lucius Outlaw with whom we were lucky to have incredibly insightful and interesting conversations on our work
So glad to have been invited to join the discussions on the philosophy of Angela Davis with a critical contribution, and what an absolute joy to meet Joy James and spend time in immensely interesting conversations with her and Lucius Outlaw. Their support and vital feedback will power us onward 1/n
December 8, 2025 at 6:32 PM
As our paper with Selbi Durdiyeva On Collateral Damage, Selective Anti-imperialism and the Path to Liberation comes out in American Communist History, my thoughts are back with Joy James and Lucius Outlaw with whom we were lucky to have incredibly insightful and interesting conversations on our work
Just published: our paper with Selbi Durdiyeva, taking a close look at the legacy of Angela Davis, much of the Western left and the ongoing disengagement with dissent knowledges and liberation struggles in Europe’s East, Central and North Asia, emphasising the urgent need for epistemic reparations
December 8, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Just published: our paper with Selbi Durdiyeva, taking a close look at the legacy of Angela Davis, much of the Western left and the ongoing disengagement with dissent knowledges and liberation struggles in Europe’s East, Central and North Asia, emphasising the urgent need for epistemic reparations
“It’s your war. You’ve just outsourced the dying.” And fighting
"We are the only buffer between Europe's cozy 'Russia is weak' theory and reality. When it breaks, your generals will call Article 5 'a political decision.' Your soldiers will refuse to fight. It's your war too. You've just outsourced the dying." euromaidanpress.com/2025/12/05/i...
It’s your war. You’ve just outsourced the dying.
A Ukrainian's message to Europe from 400 km east of Warsaw
euromaidanpress.com
December 8, 2025 at 3:23 PM
“It’s your war. You’ve just outsourced the dying.” And fighting
I sat here for a long time
December 8, 2025 at 3:17 PM
I sat here for a long time
If in London between now and March next year, make sure to see Aziza Kadyri’s exhibition Play Nice at the Somerset House, in which she is exploring themes of being, migrating and creating as an Uzbek diasporic artist and the possibilities of magical realism
December 8, 2025 at 1:56 PM
If in London between now and March next year, make sure to see Aziza Kadyri’s exhibition Play Nice at the Somerset House, in which she is exploring themes of being, migrating and creating as an Uzbek diasporic artist and the possibilities of magical realism
Another London meeting with the Wellcome Trust ECR Advisory Group, this time looking at over 60 research applications in public and global health. Many thoughtful projects, including on trans health, disability and wellbeing, post-USAID global health funding options and trauma informed health care
December 8, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Another London meeting with the Wellcome Trust ECR Advisory Group, this time looking at over 60 research applications in public and global health. Many thoughtful projects, including on trans health, disability and wellbeing, post-USAID global health funding options and trauma informed health care
Today. For all who need to re-connect to an approach to life, land and sustainability that refuses to normalise genocidal and ecocidal violence: our next webinar will be a conversation on ecocultural identity, the politics of reconstruction, and artistic responsibility amid fighting for survival
Our next webinar will be a conversation among remarkable thinkers Adrian Ivakhiv, Kateryna Botanova, Kateryna Filyuk, Lesia Kulchynska, Taras Polataiko, Maria Sonevytsky, Oleksiy Vasyliuk and Olya Zikrata about reviving multispecies relations with the land
Register: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Register: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
December 8, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Today. For all who need to re-connect to an approach to life, land and sustainability that refuses to normalise genocidal and ecocidal violence: our next webinar will be a conversation on ecocultural identity, the politics of reconstruction, and artistic responsibility amid fighting for survival
So good to see this
Ukrainian journalists and human rights activists, together with members of the Syrian Emergency Organization, raised both the Ukrainian and Syrian flags in Umayyad Square in the Syrian capital, Damascus.
December 7, 2025 at 11:29 PM
So good to see this
Very proud audience member at @dianakudaibergen.bsky.social’s @uclssees.bsky.social book launch of What Does It Mean to Be Kazakhstani? Congratulations! Great work 👏
Looking forward to having a read
Looking forward to having a read
December 7, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Very proud audience member at @dianakudaibergen.bsky.social’s @uclssees.bsky.social book launch of What Does It Mean to Be Kazakhstani? Congratulations! Great work 👏
Looking forward to having a read
Looking forward to having a read
🔥
New and a very emotional episode of YurtJurt podcast is out! Features the amazing Kamila Smagulova, one of the coolest young researchers and decolonial voices from Central Asia
December 7, 2025 at 5:00 PM
🔥
On how the Western coercion of Ukraine into giving up nuclear weapons enabled a Russian military invasion that threatens new nuclear harms to Ukrainians and fellow societies harmed by Russian imperialism, while the IAEA remains compromised through collaboration with Russian occupying forces
🔴 A Russian drone strike has compromised Chornobyl’s protective shield.
The IAEA says the New Safe Confinement suffered damage in February that left it unable to fully perform its core safety functions.
🔗 united24media.com/latest-news/...
The IAEA says the New Safe Confinement suffered damage in February that left it unable to fully perform its core safety functions.
🔗 united24media.com/latest-news/...
December 7, 2025 at 1:47 PM
On how the Western coercion of Ukraine into giving up nuclear weapons enabled a Russian military invasion that threatens new nuclear harms to Ukrainians and fellow societies harmed by Russian imperialism, while the IAEA remains compromised through collaboration with Russian occupying forces
Fingers crossed
There's reason to be hopeful. Hitler & Orban used time and effort to get public support. Trump does the opposite. And it shows. Expect howling rage starting January 1st, when millions of people realize, what has happened. paulkrugman.substack.com/p/magas-affo...
MAGA’s Affordability Crisis Will Soon Get Worse
And Trump’s numbers will continue to slide
paulkrugman.substack.com
December 6, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Fingers crossed
Reposted by Tereza Hendl
I am not joking when I say it could have been written by Breivik. or indeed Dugin. They have a Hitlerian fetish about Europe and considerable power having hijacked the US. This is a very dangerous moment when the fantasies of white nationalism could be imposed by violence upon the world.
December 5, 2025 at 4:33 PM
I am not joking when I say it could have been written by Breivik. or indeed Dugin. They have a Hitlerian fetish about Europe and considerable power having hijacked the US. This is a very dangerous moment when the fantasies of white nationalism could be imposed by violence upon the world.
What is tragic and counter-productive is how much of the left can’t identify and oppose these far right synergies because it hasn’t been listening to knowers from Europe’s East about the patterns and harms from Russian imperialism. Western left’s failures undermine effective antifascist strategies
www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u... This horrible document outlines a betrayal of Ukraine, a "reset" with Russia (!) and the incitement of fascism to dismember the EU with thinly cloaked replacement theory rationalisation. Europe must now realise it is fighting for its life.
www.whitehouse.gov
December 6, 2025 at 12:07 AM
What is tragic and counter-productive is how much of the left can’t identify and oppose these far right synergies because it hasn’t been listening to knowers from Europe’s East about the patterns and harms from Russian imperialism. Western left’s failures undermine effective antifascist strategies
Reposted by Tereza Hendl
Quite breathtaking story - military grade drones at Dublin airport which flew on the path Zelensky's plane took. The drones reached the flight path of his plane exactly the time it should have been there, but just missed it because Zelensky arrived ahead of schedule:
Four unidentified military-style drones breached no-fly zone to target Zelenskyy's arrival in Dublin
Gardaí are investigating whether the drones took off from land in Dublin or from an undetected ship.
www.thejournal.ie
December 4, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Quite breathtaking story - military grade drones at Dublin airport which flew on the path Zelensky's plane took. The drones reached the flight path of his plane exactly the time it should have been there, but just missed it because Zelensky arrived ahead of schedule:
Glad the universe collided so that I’m in town for this book launch 🔥 looking forward to celebrating Diana Kudaibergen’s trailblazing research! *just will be that person running in 15 mins late from another meeting and trying to look invisible which might provide an extra element of entertainment 😅
🔊 One week until this book launch of 'What Does it Mean to be Kazakhstani?' @hurstpublishers.bsky.social.
Join @dianakudaibergen.bsky.social as she unpacks Kazakhstan’s unique path to nationhood.
🗓️ 4 December at 5pm
📍 UCL SSEES
➡️ www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...
@uclsseeslibrary.bsky.social
Join @dianakudaibergen.bsky.social as she unpacks Kazakhstan’s unique path to nationhood.
🗓️ 4 December at 5pm
📍 UCL SSEES
➡️ www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...
@uclsseeslibrary.bsky.social
December 4, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Glad the universe collided so that I’m in town for this book launch 🔥 looking forward to celebrating Diana Kudaibergen’s trailblazing research! *just will be that person running in 15 mins late from another meeting and trying to look invisible which might provide an extra element of entertainment 😅
For everyone who needs to re-connect to an approach to life, land and sustainability that fundamentally refuses to normalise genocidal and ecocidal violence: our next webinar is organised by the RUTA Environmental Initiative & Tallinn University and moderated by the amazing @epp-annus.bsky.social
Our next webinar will be a conversation among remarkable thinkers Adrian Ivakhiv, Kateryna Botanova, Kateryna Filyuk, Lesia Kulchynska, Taras Polataiko, Maria Sonevytsky, Oleksiy Vasyliuk and Olya Zikrata about reviving multispecies relations with the land
Register: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Register: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
December 4, 2025 at 2:45 PM
For everyone who needs to re-connect to an approach to life, land and sustainability that fundamentally refuses to normalise genocidal and ecocidal violence: our next webinar is organised by the RUTA Environmental Initiative & Tallinn University and moderated by the amazing @epp-annus.bsky.social
A sorely needed evidence based and empirically grounded and founded approach to Russia‘s history aka The History of Russia as a History of Perpetual Agreement-Breaking
I have finally gotten around to writing a new piece for my newsletter. We hear a lot about "agreements" which could be reached with Russia in the future. So I decided to look at Russia's history through this lens. Spoiler alert: Don't expect Russia to abide by agreements as long as it's an empire.
The history of Russia as a history of Perpetual Agreement-Breaking
Russia has, for most of its history, been a colonial empire and remains one to this day. As long as this is the case, don't expect Russia to stick to its own agreements. The problem is structural.
efdavies.substack.com
December 4, 2025 at 2:36 PM
A sorely needed evidence based and empirically grounded and founded approach to Russia‘s history aka The History of Russia as a History of Perpetual Agreement-Breaking
Reposted by Tereza Hendl
More than three decades after USSR’s collapse, Moscow still refuses to accept that its former colonies are now internationally recognized sovereign nations. Russia’s war against Ukraine is the horrifying embodiment of this refusal. A nightmarish attempt to turn back the time.
Ignore any Trump admin and/or Ru apologist talk about progress. Ru demands remain maximalist, outrageous, and, most importantly, disconnected from the realities of the battlefield. Only an immediate ceasefire is progress. The discussion in Moscow today was useless noise. Ru continues its aggression.
December 3, 2025 at 8:22 AM
More than three decades after USSR’s collapse, Moscow still refuses to accept that its former colonies are now internationally recognized sovereign nations. Russia’s war against Ukraine is the horrifying embodiment of this refusal. A nightmarish attempt to turn back the time.
For the already alarming historical record on the side of Belgium. A sad case for analysis of dire levels of inter-imperiality… note the focus on “stability” at the expense of Ukrainian lives. The preservation of empire is being prioritised over the wellbeing of harmed societies
‼️Stunning statements by the Belgian Prime Minister at an event in Brussels this week.
🔹It's an illusion that Russia will lose in Ukraine
🔹If they lose, instability is bad because of nuclear weapons
🔹I have been personally threatened by Russia if their assets are seized
Wow.
🔹It's an illusion that Russia will lose in Ukraine
🔹If they lose, instability is bad because of nuclear weapons
🔹I have been personally threatened by Russia if their assets are seized
Wow.
December 4, 2025 at 1:00 PM
For the already alarming historical record on the side of Belgium. A sad case for analysis of dire levels of inter-imperiality… note the focus on “stability” at the expense of Ukrainian lives. The preservation of empire is being prioritised over the wellbeing of harmed societies
Xmas decorations and Indian spice shops… good to be back in London
December 3, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Xmas decorations and Indian spice shops… good to be back in London
If in Warsaw next week: join us. Will talk about the far right, Russian disinformation, global anti-gender campaigns and the pitfalls of westsplaining. Looking forward to discussions on the knowledge-making that is needed to more readily identify, analyse and oppose imperial and oppressive politics
December 3, 2025 at 1:38 PM
If in Warsaw next week: join us. Will talk about the far right, Russian disinformation, global anti-gender campaigns and the pitfalls of westsplaining. Looking forward to discussions on the knowledge-making that is needed to more readily identify, analyse and oppose imperial and oppressive politics
“The research documents extensive Russian influence infrastructure across Europe. Several major EU political parties received Russian energy sector financing, including Austria’s FPÖ, France’s National Rally (€9.4 million loan, 2014), and Germany’s AfD (connections promoting Russian gas dependency)”
A new Razom We Stand report reveals how European parties & #Gazprom networks are helping Russia’s fossil-fuel profits.
While Ukrainians die, the #EU stop fueling Russia’s war.
Read the report - razomwestand.com/new-research...
While Ukrainians die, the #EU stop fueling Russia’s war.
Read the report - razomwestand.com/new-research...
December 3, 2025 at 12:53 PM
“The research documents extensive Russian influence infrastructure across Europe. Several major EU political parties received Russian energy sector financing, including Austria’s FPÖ, France’s National Rally (€9.4 million loan, 2014), and Germany’s AfD (connections promoting Russian gas dependency)”
An important conference on Unknown Legacies of the Nuremberg Trial, centering the perspectives and justice efforts of East Central European societies, directly affected by the legacy of German imperialism, Lebensraum expansion and its genocidal violence
berlin.instytutpileckiego.pl/de/events/co...
berlin.instytutpileckiego.pl/de/events/co...
Conference on the Nuremberg Trial - Instytut Pileckiego
"Unknown Legacies of the Nuremberg Trial: Regional Approaches and Perspectives in East Central Europe "
berlin.instytutpileckiego.pl
December 2, 2025 at 6:38 PM
An important conference on Unknown Legacies of the Nuremberg Trial, centering the perspectives and justice efforts of East Central European societies, directly affected by the legacy of German imperialism, Lebensraum expansion and its genocidal violence
berlin.instytutpileckiego.pl/de/events/co...
berlin.instytutpileckiego.pl/de/events/co...