Dr Leandra Bias 💙💛
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Dr Leandra Bias 💙💛
@openlybiased.bsky.social
Author of forthcoming „Under Authoritarian Eyes: Feminist Solidarity & Resistance in Russia and Serbia“, OUP
Incoming SNF Ambizione fellow
(Anti-)feminism, (de-)democratisation, foreign policy, Russia, Ukraine, Serbia

Proud Greek-Swiss double citizen
Richtig toll und soooo vielschichtig wars mit diesen coolen, smarten Menschen @agashi.bsky.social @krstorevic.bsky.social @philinebickhardt.bsky.social @akm-stiftung.bsky.social

über Miloševićs Aufstieg, Fall und den politischen Wandel seither und insbesondere heute im Volkshaus zu reden.
October 4, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Der Oktober steht für einmal ganz im Zeichen meiner Serbienexpertise. Ich freue mich riesig auf diese Veranstaltung mit @akm-stiftung.bsky.social

Gemeinsam mit @krstorevic.bsky.social @philinebickhardt.bsky.social und @agashi.bsky.social fragen wir uns wo das Land 25J nach Milošević steht
September 30, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Are you a Ukrainian student in Social Sciences / Humanities in Switzerland and interested in a part-time job? Then apply to my call for research assistants so we can figure out in my @snsf.ch Ambizione project why and how elites in Russia and Ukraine use gender

drive.google.com/file/d/1khqW...
July 24, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Was für ein Text. Danke Ivo Scherrer @republik.ch

www.republik.ch/2025/07/19/i...
July 21, 2025 at 7:32 AM
Ich wage zu behaupten, dass die letzten Sparrunden das Korrektorat getroffen haben.

Bitter wenn‘s dann sogar auf der Merch landet @20minutes.bsky.social
July 17, 2025 at 9:38 AM
„Stop emulating right-wing populist parties. Instead go back to good old welfare policies“

That’s the main conclusion from our 3 year Horizon project on anti-gender politics.

We can say with confidence now that these parties do not tap into gender-based needs mainstream parties neglect.
July 8, 2025 at 8:08 AM
Danke @crlshnm.bsky.social @republik.ch, dass Francesca Albanese und Agnès Callamard wenigstens hier zu Wort kommen.

„Wir treten in eine neue Ära ein. Gaza ist ein Friedhof für unsere Menschlichkeit“
July 3, 2025 at 7:23 AM
Danke an den herzlichsten, liebevollsten „Mittelbau“ (aka Rückgrat des Instituts) für dieses treffende Abschiedsgeschenk. Ihr kennt meine Prios 🚐🇬🇷

@pierre-lue.bsky.social @jschmd.bsky.social @alinazumbrunn.bsky.social @maikenmelanie.bsky.social @nathalieherren.bsky.social @goodmirco.bsky.social
June 27, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Tausend Dank @rfrbrghs.bsky.social und deiner Familie für dieses unvergessliche Abschiedsfest vom IPW @unibe.ch

Ja, Tränen wurden verdrückt. Schliesslich sagen wir auch Tschüss zu den besten Kolleg*innen, die man sich wünschen kann.
June 27, 2025 at 11:00 AM
„Ihre Kandidatur war unerwartet, sie war unverfroren, sie war mutig wie ein Gedicht von Audre Lorde.“ @crlshnm.bsky.social @republik.ch mit dem treffendsten Porträt über Mandy Abou Shoak, die für die SP Zürich zur Wahl in die Stadtregierung antritt.

www.republik.ch/2025/06/23/p...
June 23, 2025 at 7:01 AM
When BIAS leaves BISA

Thanks for such an invigorating, collegial conference @mybisa.bsky.social #BISA2025
June 20, 2025 at 5:44 PM
What a highlight at @mybisa.bsky.social #BISA2025 to meet @katharinakuhn.bsky.social my former MA student @ox.ac.uk and celebrate that she too is now a Dr. 🥳🤩

So incredibly proud of how far you’ve come. And they way you did so 💕
June 20, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Photographer: „do you want the BISA banner?“ - Me/ :
„no we‘re enough“ (because, look who’s next to me!)

What an honour to finally meet this absolutely brilliant mind I‘ve been admiring for over two years now @bohdanakurylo.bsky.social

@mybisa.bsky.social #BISA2025
June 20, 2025 at 5:41 PM
So great to hear other‘s research on feminist anti-war activism in Russia. Thanks Ina Friesen @mybisa.bsky.social #BISA2025 for a very interesting interesting talk about single pickets as a means to self-preservation in a choice-less environment.
June 20, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Finally! got to meet two of my favourite feminist idols (they’re ok among feminists imo) @ebstavrevska.bsky.social @vjosamusliu.bsky.social #Yugoslavwomencollective (not Balkan, or Balkanic as it turns out 😅) 🤗 #BISA2025 @mybisa.bsky.social
June 19, 2025 at 10:34 PM
What a wonderful end to the 2nd day #BISA2025 @mybisa.bsky.social with this piece of valuable and impressive local history on the Luftwaffe blitz raids on Belfast by @wartimeni.com

Shame we didn’t get to talk about Sheila though 🐘💔
June 19, 2025 at 10:06 PM
What a start into my #BISA2025 with this panel with women activists who contribute(d) in manifold ways to peacebuilding in Northern Ireland. Thanks for putting this together @drdeiana.bsky.social @mybisa.bsky.social
June 18, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Yes, social media can be toxic and I don’t miss Twitter. But it also has the beautiful side effect of stepping into #BISA2025 @mybisa.bsky.social and getting approached by lots of lovely people I only knew online.
June 18, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Looking forward to presenting this one last time, before revising and submitting. #BISA2025 @mybisa.bsky.social

The piece asks how much decolonisation has been integrated in Russia‘s Feminist Anti-War resistance? For I argue this will be necessary for meaningful future solidarity.
June 18, 2025 at 11:04 AM
#BISA2025 prepping be like: trying mocktails in Dublin 🤪
June 17, 2025 at 4:22 PM
How *not* to create a healthy working environment in academia where people are not reduced to numbers and their entire life, including care responsibilies, is taken into account.
June 16, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Einmal mehr: ein wunderbarer feministischer Streiktag. Nichts schützt besser vor Apathie als gemeinsame Eigenermächtigung 💜✊🏼
June 15, 2025 at 8:24 AM
Wenn das einzig Sommerliche am 2. Juni der Bürokalender ist
June 2, 2025 at 7:32 AM
Sogar unser Nachbar Deutschland findet langsam klare Worte der Verurteilung gegenüber Israel.

Und wir? Wir sind Hüterin des humanitären Völkerrechts wenn es bequem ist.

Danke, dass wenigstens @rts.ch aus Cassis‘ Schweigen Satire macht.
May 27, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Without a doubt, as women we suffer under patriarchy.

But here’s a privilege I‘d rather not give up.

In restaurants, bars etc. I always get the comfy bench looking into the place and get to people watch.

While he just gets the wall as a view. Plus me. Obviously 😅
May 23, 2025 at 12:44 PM