Joel Quirk
@joelquirk.bsky.social
Enslavement and Abolition, Mobility and Work, Social Movements, Gender and Violence, Historical Repair, the Politics and History of Africa. Wits Politics Prof
Seminar (online only): Female Politicians Running for Office
Thursday 10am SAST
Meeting link: lnkd.in/d3gxgGUm
Causes of Women's Descriptive Under-representation in Zambia, Janet Mundando
Between Rhetoric and Reform: The Failure of Gender Quotas in Liberia, Lisa Kindervater
Thursday 10am SAST
Meeting link: lnkd.in/d3gxgGUm
Causes of Women's Descriptive Under-representation in Zambia, Janet Mundando
Between Rhetoric and Reform: The Failure of Gender Quotas in Liberia, Lisa Kindervater
August 12, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Seminar (online only): Female Politicians Running for Office
Thursday 10am SAST
Meeting link: lnkd.in/d3gxgGUm
Causes of Women's Descriptive Under-representation in Zambia, Janet Mundando
Between Rhetoric and Reform: The Failure of Gender Quotas in Liberia, Lisa Kindervater
Thursday 10am SAST
Meeting link: lnkd.in/d3gxgGUm
Causes of Women's Descriptive Under-representation in Zambia, Janet Mundando
Between Rhetoric and Reform: The Failure of Gender Quotas in Liberia, Lisa Kindervater
Public Lecture Series: Everything Everywhere All at Once, Semester Two, 2025
For further information please contact [email protected]
All sessions are hybrid, with meeting links being circulated close to time. There is no need to register in advance.
For further information please contact [email protected]
All sessions are hybrid, with meeting links being circulated close to time. There is no need to register in advance.
July 17, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Public Lecture Series: Everything Everywhere All at Once, Semester Two, 2025
For further information please contact [email protected]
All sessions are hybrid, with meeting links being circulated close to time. There is no need to register in advance.
For further information please contact [email protected]
All sessions are hybrid, with meeting links being circulated close to time. There is no need to register in advance.
This represents over a decade of collective work, with our managing editor Cameron Thibos running point the whole time.
You will find no better single repository of analysis, argument and commentary on human trafficking, 'modern slavery', and forced labour anywhere.
You will find no better single repository of analysis, argument and commentary on human trafficking, 'modern slavery', and forced labour anywhere.
May 26, 2025 at 12:49 PM
This represents over a decade of collective work, with our managing editor Cameron Thibos running point the whole time.
You will find no better single repository of analysis, argument and commentary on human trafficking, 'modern slavery', and forced labour anywhere.
You will find no better single repository of analysis, argument and commentary on human trafficking, 'modern slavery', and forced labour anywhere.
To commemorate ten years of @beyondslavery.bsky.social
we have put together all our work since October 2014. This amounts to over 1000 articles, 800 authors, 1.5 million words, 4,000 pages, and four brick sized volumes.
Free download as a pdf here:
cdn2.opendemocracy.net/media/docume...
we have put together all our work since October 2014. This amounts to over 1000 articles, 800 authors, 1.5 million words, 4,000 pages, and four brick sized volumes.
Free download as a pdf here:
cdn2.opendemocracy.net/media/docume...
May 26, 2025 at 12:49 PM
To commemorate ten years of @beyondslavery.bsky.social
we have put together all our work since October 2014. This amounts to over 1000 articles, 800 authors, 1.5 million words, 4,000 pages, and four brick sized volumes.
Free download as a pdf here:
cdn2.opendemocracy.net/media/docume...
we have put together all our work since October 2014. This amounts to over 1000 articles, 800 authors, 1.5 million words, 4,000 pages, and four brick sized volumes.
Free download as a pdf here:
cdn2.opendemocracy.net/media/docume...
This is nucking futs
February 28, 2025 at 6:03 PM
This is nucking futs
“while attention to violence against women may be sparked by anger at harm and a desire for redress, it might just as well be feeding vicariously off the forms of perversion towards women that fuel the violence in the first place”
February 14, 2025 at 6:24 AM
“while attention to violence against women may be sparked by anger at harm and a desire for redress, it might just as well be feeding vicariously off the forms of perversion towards women that fuel the violence in the first place”
Everything Everywhere All at Once: Public Seminar
Between Rhetoric and Reform: The Persistent Failure of Gender Quotas in Liberia’s Post-Conflict Democracy
Lisa Kindervater, University of the Witwatersrand.
6th March, 10am to 11.45am
Meeting link: lnkd.in/dPCCRE3C
Between Rhetoric and Reform: The Persistent Failure of Gender Quotas in Liberia’s Post-Conflict Democracy
Lisa Kindervater, University of the Witwatersrand.
6th March, 10am to 11.45am
Meeting link: lnkd.in/dPCCRE3C
February 13, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Everything Everywhere All at Once: Public Seminar
Between Rhetoric and Reform: The Persistent Failure of Gender Quotas in Liberia’s Post-Conflict Democracy
Lisa Kindervater, University of the Witwatersrand.
6th March, 10am to 11.45am
Meeting link: lnkd.in/dPCCRE3C
Between Rhetoric and Reform: The Persistent Failure of Gender Quotas in Liberia’s Post-Conflict Democracy
Lisa Kindervater, University of the Witwatersrand.
6th March, 10am to 11.45am
Meeting link: lnkd.in/dPCCRE3C
The amount of shit on social media from unreconstructed and flat out racist white South Africans following Trump’s lead is truly insane…
Some of the most privileged people imaginable have convinced themselves that they are uniquely victimised…
Some of the most privileged people imaginable have convinced themselves that they are uniquely victimised…
February 9, 2025 at 10:53 AM
The amount of shit on social media from unreconstructed and flat out racist white South Africans following Trump’s lead is truly insane…
Some of the most privileged people imaginable have convinced themselves that they are uniquely victimised…
Some of the most privileged people imaginable have convinced themselves that they are uniquely victimised…
The call for #NationalShutdown of South Africa is powered by Zuma aligned bots and xenophobes.
This is a storm of stupid, where people are distorting a minor technical point regarding Nigerian visas.
The only good thing about this is that the chances of an actual national shutdown are zero.
This is a storm of stupid, where people are distorting a minor technical point regarding Nigerian visas.
The only good thing about this is that the chances of an actual national shutdown are zero.
December 5, 2024 at 3:18 PM
The call for #NationalShutdown of South Africa is powered by Zuma aligned bots and xenophobes.
This is a storm of stupid, where people are distorting a minor technical point regarding Nigerian visas.
The only good thing about this is that the chances of an actual national shutdown are zero.
This is a storm of stupid, where people are distorting a minor technical point regarding Nigerian visas.
The only good thing about this is that the chances of an actual national shutdown are zero.
I am SOOO down for Sandton Drive to be renamed Leila Khaled Drive...
This is almost entirely because it would make the US embassy address Number One Leila Khaled Drive
This is almost entirely because it would make the US embassy address Number One Leila Khaled Drive
October 9, 2024 at 8:56 AM
I am SOOO down for Sandton Drive to be renamed Leila Khaled Drive...
This is almost entirely because it would make the US embassy address Number One Leila Khaled Drive
This is almost entirely because it would make the US embassy address Number One Leila Khaled Drive
Public lecture: Constructing Modern Slavery: Law, Capitalism and Unfree Labour
Judy Fudge, McMaster University.
16 September, 12pm to 1.45pm, Wits Anthropology Museum and Online
For inquiries contact [email protected]
Meeting Link: lnkd.in/d9WsGbB
Judy Fudge, McMaster University.
16 September, 12pm to 1.45pm, Wits Anthropology Museum and Online
For inquiries contact [email protected]
Meeting Link: lnkd.in/d9WsGbB
September 2, 2024 at 5:52 PM
Public lecture: Constructing Modern Slavery: Law, Capitalism and Unfree Labour
Judy Fudge, McMaster University.
16 September, 12pm to 1.45pm, Wits Anthropology Museum and Online
For inquiries contact [email protected]
Meeting Link: lnkd.in/d9WsGbB
Judy Fudge, McMaster University.
16 September, 12pm to 1.45pm, Wits Anthropology Museum and Online
For inquiries contact [email protected]
Meeting Link: lnkd.in/d9WsGbB
So the Wits Senate finally published its statement on Gaza calling for an immediate, unconditional and permanent ceasefire. It took months of work to get here.
I’d be much more excited if it was February and not July, but at least we got there in the end
www.wits.ac.za/news/latest-...
I’d be much more excited if it was February and not July, but at least we got there in the end
www.wits.ac.za/news/latest-...
July 10, 2024 at 1:44 PM
So the Wits Senate finally published its statement on Gaza calling for an immediate, unconditional and permanent ceasefire. It took months of work to get here.
I’d be much more excited if it was February and not July, but at least we got there in the end
www.wits.ac.za/news/latest-...
I’d be much more excited if it was February and not July, but at least we got there in the end
www.wits.ac.za/news/latest-...
Yet another organisation dedicated to fighting modern slavery who wants people to work for free
In this case paying your own way is an example of “the body of Christ”
t.co/gYMBX3Q8JP
In this case paying your own way is an example of “the body of Christ”
t.co/gYMBX3Q8JP
January 18, 2024 at 4:30 PM
Yet another organisation dedicated to fighting modern slavery who wants people to work for free
In this case paying your own way is an example of “the body of Christ”
t.co/gYMBX3Q8JP
In this case paying your own way is an example of “the body of Christ”
t.co/gYMBX3Q8JP
If I say I don’t want to kill anyone and then go and kill them anyway does the fact that I said I wouldn’t absolve me of their murder?
If I threaten someone with death on Saturday, but then say something else on Sunday, does that mean that the threat on Saturday doesn't count?
If I threaten someone with death on Saturday, but then say something else on Sunday, does that mean that the threat on Saturday doesn't count?
January 12, 2024 at 11:17 AM
If I say I don’t want to kill anyone and then go and kill them anyway does the fact that I said I wouldn’t absolve me of their murder?
If I threaten someone with death on Saturday, but then say something else on Sunday, does that mean that the threat on Saturday doesn't count?
If I threaten someone with death on Saturday, but then say something else on Sunday, does that mean that the threat on Saturday doesn't count?
Watching the ICJ proceedings.
I now have a really hard time imagining what the Israeli response to the South African case is going to look like
It is going to be hard to argue this on the legal merits, so they may be tempted to take the Trump route and flood the zone with shit
I now have a really hard time imagining what the Israeli response to the South African case is going to look like
It is going to be hard to argue this on the legal merits, so they may be tempted to take the Trump route and flood the zone with shit
January 11, 2024 at 11:32 AM
Watching the ICJ proceedings.
I now have a really hard time imagining what the Israeli response to the South African case is going to look like
It is going to be hard to argue this on the legal merits, so they may be tempted to take the Trump route and flood the zone with shit
I now have a really hard time imagining what the Israeli response to the South African case is going to look like
It is going to be hard to argue this on the legal merits, so they may be tempted to take the Trump route and flood the zone with shit
Demonic jelly babies
January 10, 2024 at 2:50 PM
Demonic jelly babies
South Africa is not taking Israel to the international criminal court, but to the international court of justice.
Confusing the two gives more credit to the ICC than it deserves.
The ICC should be acting urgently on Palestine, but hasn’t so far…..
Tick tock…..
Confusing the two gives more credit to the ICC than it deserves.
The ICC should be acting urgently on Palestine, but hasn’t so far…..
Tick tock…..
January 2, 2024 at 2:40 PM
South Africa is not taking Israel to the international criminal court, but to the international court of justice.
Confusing the two gives more credit to the ICC than it deserves.
The ICC should be acting urgently on Palestine, but hasn’t so far…..
Tick tock…..
Confusing the two gives more credit to the ICC than it deserves.
The ICC should be acting urgently on Palestine, but hasn’t so far…..
Tick tock…..
Please join us to celebrate the launch of our new collection:
Research as More than Extraction: Knowledge Production and Gender-based Violence in African Societies, Ohio Univ. Press, 2023.
Details and time zones below
yorku.zoom.us/j/9516401318...
Meeting ID: 951 6401 3187
Passcode: 997028
Research as More than Extraction: Knowledge Production and Gender-based Violence in African Societies, Ohio Univ. Press, 2023.
Details and time zones below
yorku.zoom.us/j/9516401318...
Meeting ID: 951 6401 3187
Passcode: 997028
December 7, 2023 at 9:43 AM
Please join us to celebrate the launch of our new collection:
Research as More than Extraction: Knowledge Production and Gender-based Violence in African Societies, Ohio Univ. Press, 2023.
Details and time zones below
yorku.zoom.us/j/9516401318...
Meeting ID: 951 6401 3187
Passcode: 997028
Research as More than Extraction: Knowledge Production and Gender-based Violence in African Societies, Ohio Univ. Press, 2023.
Details and time zones below
yorku.zoom.us/j/9516401318...
Meeting ID: 951 6401 3187
Passcode: 997028
So our collection on ethics, methods and knowledge economies in Africa finally exists in the world....
The introduction can be read for free here: books.google.co.za/books?id=Jcr...
The official version is here: ohioswallow.com/book/Researc...
The introduction can be read for free here: books.google.co.za/books?id=Jcr...
The official version is here: ohioswallow.com/book/Researc...
November 1, 2023 at 1:09 PM
So our collection on ethics, methods and knowledge economies in Africa finally exists in the world....
The introduction can be read for free here: books.google.co.za/books?id=Jcr...
The official version is here: ohioswallow.com/book/Researc...
The introduction can be read for free here: books.google.co.za/books?id=Jcr...
The official version is here: ohioswallow.com/book/Researc...
It is very clear where the majority of states and peoples in the world stand on Palestine.
Yet the “international community” continues to be defined in terms of Europe and its settler colonies….
120 in favour (the real international community)
45 abstain
14 against
Yet the “international community” continues to be defined in terms of Europe and its settler colonies….
120 in favour (the real international community)
45 abstain
14 against
October 28, 2023 at 9:55 AM
It is very clear where the majority of states and peoples in the world stand on Palestine.
Yet the “international community” continues to be defined in terms of Europe and its settler colonies….
120 in favour (the real international community)
45 abstain
14 against
Yet the “international community” continues to be defined in terms of Europe and its settler colonies….
120 in favour (the real international community)
45 abstain
14 against
The office is very nice this time of year
October 18, 2023 at 9:14 PM
The office is very nice this time of year
I like it when hospitals are intact and doing the essential work of caring for the sick and injured
It is an old fashioned viewpoint, I concede, but this new strategy of deliberately turning hospitals into burning rubble filled with dead bodies just doesn’t work nearly as well
It is an old fashioned viewpoint, I concede, but this new strategy of deliberately turning hospitals into burning rubble filled with dead bodies just doesn’t work nearly as well
October 17, 2023 at 6:49 PM
I like it when hospitals are intact and doing the essential work of caring for the sick and injured
It is an old fashioned viewpoint, I concede, but this new strategy of deliberately turning hospitals into burning rubble filled with dead bodies just doesn’t work nearly as well
It is an old fashioned viewpoint, I concede, but this new strategy of deliberately turning hospitals into burning rubble filled with dead bodies just doesn’t work nearly as well
The Australian referendum on the voice to parliament is today…..
Racism and disinformation are going to win the day.
But there will be sausages….
Racism and disinformation are going to win the day.
But there will be sausages….
October 14, 2023 at 5:10 AM
The Australian referendum on the voice to parliament is today…..
Racism and disinformation are going to win the day.
But there will be sausages….
Racism and disinformation are going to win the day.
But there will be sausages….
Please amplify
This expert panel will discuss a landmark gender justice case which is likely to have a significant impact on labour law and future labour disputes. Its most important outcomes relate to the gendered dimensions of workplace bullying.
Online and in person
This expert panel will discuss a landmark gender justice case which is likely to have a significant impact on labour law and future labour disputes. Its most important outcomes relate to the gendered dimensions of workplace bullying.
Online and in person
October 9, 2023 at 2:45 PM
Please amplify
This expert panel will discuss a landmark gender justice case which is likely to have a significant impact on labour law and future labour disputes. Its most important outcomes relate to the gendered dimensions of workplace bullying.
Online and in person
This expert panel will discuss a landmark gender justice case which is likely to have a significant impact on labour law and future labour disputes. Its most important outcomes relate to the gendered dimensions of workplace bullying.
Online and in person