Dr Georgina Holmes
@drgholmes.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in Politics & International Studies @OpenUniversity and Lecturer in Politics at Imperial College London; Peacekeeping, military, UN, gender, global governance, SSR, Classical/Spanish guitar player
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Latest work:
🌟Digital peacekeeping, cyborg soldiers and militarised masculinities tinyurl.com/4ff67x63
🌟Business continuity, bureaucratic resilience and neoliberal survival logics in international organisations tinyurl.com/mryf2s5e
🌟Nation branding/feminist diplomacy at the UN tinyurl.com/3ynrt4zu
🌟Digital peacekeeping, cyborg soldiers and militarised masculinities tinyurl.com/4ff67x63
🌟Business continuity, bureaucratic resilience and neoliberal survival logics in international organisations tinyurl.com/mryf2s5e
🌟Nation branding/feminist diplomacy at the UN tinyurl.com/3ynrt4zu
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BIG NEWS: Congresswoman-elect Adelita Grijalva will finally be sworn in as a member of Congress tomorrow.
She is likely to be the 218th vote on the Epstein discharge petition, which would force a full vote to release the Epstein files in their entirety.
She is likely to be the 218th vote on the Epstein discharge petition, which would force a full vote to release the Epstein files in their entirety.
November 11, 2025 at 7:40 PM
BIG NEWS: Congresswoman-elect Adelita Grijalva will finally be sworn in as a member of Congress tomorrow.
She is likely to be the 218th vote on the Epstein discharge petition, which would force a full vote to release the Epstein files in their entirety.
She is likely to be the 218th vote on the Epstein discharge petition, which would force a full vote to release the Epstein files in their entirety.
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I am most interested in the claim in this letter that Serco are making vast profits and are not providing the asylum seekers the food etc the government has paid for. See also news stories from 2023
www.standard.co.uk/business/ser...
www.standard.co.uk/business/ser...
Asylum seekers, housed in hotels in Manchester, are reaching out in their own words to address the concerns of the local community.
Please take a minute to read their letter, & share it with the people in your life who need to hear the truth about the people they are protesting.
Please take a minute to read their letter, & share it with the people in your life who need to hear the truth about the people they are protesting.
October 27, 2025 at 5:07 PM
I am most interested in the claim in this letter that Serco are making vast profits and are not providing the asylum seekers the food etc the government has paid for. See also news stories from 2023
www.standard.co.uk/business/ser...
www.standard.co.uk/business/ser...
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It is Book Launch day for @amaramarasingam.bsky.social and My edited volume "Contemporary Far-Right Culture The Art, Music, and Everyday Practices of Violent Extremism"
www.routledge.com/Contemporary...
www.routledge.com/Contemporary...
September 30, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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Join us on 30th September - 6.30pm - 7.30pm, joined with Matt Staples and Dr. Edward Wastnidge will be sharing how the Open University’s teaching, research, and wider engagement in politics and international relations connect with the aims of our new society
Join: www.oustudents.com/ents/event/2...
Join: www.oustudents.com/ents/event/2...
September 22, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Join us on 30th September - 6.30pm - 7.30pm, joined with Matt Staples and Dr. Edward Wastnidge will be sharing how the Open University’s teaching, research, and wider engagement in politics and international relations connect with the aims of our new society
Join: www.oustudents.com/ents/event/2...
Join: www.oustudents.com/ents/event/2...
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Tradwife culture is not just aiming to restore “traditional” gender roles, according to researchers of extremism. It is also a force in formulating a new model of womanhood: one that incorporates strong religious identity, a specific feminine aesthetic, and far-right ideas.
Sourdough and submission in the name of God: How tradwife content fuses femininity with anti-feminist ideas
Tradwives influencers’ throw-back aesthetics mask a divisive ideology about women’s roles, two scholars of extremism explain.
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September 20, 2025 at 6:48 AM
Tradwife culture is not just aiming to restore “traditional” gender roles, according to researchers of extremism. It is also a force in formulating a new model of womanhood: one that incorporates strong religious identity, a specific feminine aesthetic, and far-right ideas.
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There is a serious failure in UK govt, politics & media to take sufficiently seriously what Musk said & meant with "fight back or die"
= Violence (interethnic civil war) is inevitable so pre-emptive violence - vs migrants, minorities & political opponents - is necessary to avoid existential erasure
= Violence (interethnic civil war) is inevitable so pre-emptive violence - vs migrants, minorities & political opponents - is necessary to avoid existential erasure
The common sense meaning should make this Elon Musk's "rivers of blood" moment
Though I think he goes further than Enoch Powell in a couple of important ways
Though I think he goes further than Enoch Powell in a couple of important ways
Elon Musk spoke by video to Tommy Robinson's anti-immigrant rally in the UK today.
"You're in a fundamental situation here where, whether you choose violence or not, violence is coming to you," said Musk. "You either fight back or you die."
"You're in a fundamental situation here where, whether you choose violence or not, violence is coming to you," said Musk. "You either fight back or you die."
September 14, 2025 at 6:21 PM
There is a serious failure in UK govt, politics & media to take sufficiently seriously what Musk said & meant with "fight back or die"
= Violence (interethnic civil war) is inevitable so pre-emptive violence - vs migrants, minorities & political opponents - is necessary to avoid existential erasure
= Violence (interethnic civil war) is inevitable so pre-emptive violence - vs migrants, minorities & political opponents - is necessary to avoid existential erasure
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Just did a quick Q&A @justsecurity.org for journalists & others wondering what today's report that Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza does (& does not) mean justsecurity.org/120762/coi-genocide-israel-gaza/ Please share with anyone covering the report.
U.N. Commission Finds That Israel Is Committing Genocide in Gaza: What Does It Mean?
Professor Rebecca Hamilton explains what it does (and does not) mean for the UN Commission to make a genocide determination in Gaza.
justsecurity.org
September 16, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Just did a quick Q&A @justsecurity.org for journalists & others wondering what today's report that Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza does (& does not) mean justsecurity.org/120762/coi-genocide-israel-gaza/ Please share with anyone covering the report.
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I am concerned about silence of gvt ministers & others to defend basic anti-racism norms in last 6 weeks. They seem muted by their anxious inability to separate legitimate politics from prejudice & hate.
Anti-violence norms - civil war is inevitable, so support violence - really should be simpler.
Anti-violence norms - civil war is inevitable, so support violence - really should be simpler.
September 14, 2025 at 7:40 PM
I am concerned about silence of gvt ministers & others to defend basic anti-racism norms in last 6 weeks. They seem muted by their anxious inability to separate legitimate politics from prejudice & hate.
Anti-violence norms - civil war is inevitable, so support violence - really should be simpler.
Anti-violence norms - civil war is inevitable, so support violence - really should be simpler.
I don’t think people in the UK realise the extent to which US elite are trying to make the UK shift to far right, mobilising white men
The common sense meaning should make this Elon Musk's "rivers of blood" moment
Though I think he goes further than Enoch Powell in a couple of important ways
Though I think he goes further than Enoch Powell in a couple of important ways
Elon Musk spoke by video to Tommy Robinson's anti-immigrant rally in the UK today.
"You're in a fundamental situation here where, whether you choose violence or not, violence is coming to you," said Musk. "You either fight back or you die."
"You're in a fundamental situation here where, whether you choose violence or not, violence is coming to you," said Musk. "You either fight back or you die."
September 14, 2025 at 7:58 AM
I don’t think people in the UK realise the extent to which US elite are trying to make the UK shift to far right, mobilising white men
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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
August 19, 2025 at 10:55 PM
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!
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The United Nations General Assembly will no longer take place in New York.
Meetings will be held in Geneva instead, as Trump refuses to admit the Palestinian delegation to enter the US
Meetings will be held in Geneva instead, as Trump refuses to admit the Palestinian delegation to enter the US
September 7, 2025 at 8:24 PM
The United Nations General Assembly will no longer take place in New York.
Meetings will be held in Geneva instead, as Trump refuses to admit the Palestinian delegation to enter the US
Meetings will be held in Geneva instead, as Trump refuses to admit the Palestinian delegation to enter the US
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🎙️This morning I spoke to Emma Nelson on Monocle Radio's The Globalist about the passing of another Trump deadline for Putin and what might come next in #Russia's war against #Ukraine. The interview starts at 3:30 in the recording
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Monocle radio - listen now
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September 5, 2025 at 6:01 PM
🎙️This morning I spoke to Emma Nelson on Monocle Radio's The Globalist about the passing of another Trump deadline for Putin and what might come next in #Russia's war against #Ukraine. The interview starts at 3:30 in the recording
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Our colleagues Al Jazeera reporters Anas al-Sharif & Mohammed Qraiqeh, & cameramen Ibrahim Zaher, Mohammed Noufal & Moamen Aliwa have been killed in a strike on a tent for journalists near Al Shifa hospital. They worked relentlessly through bombing & hunger to document this war. Please remember them
August 11, 2025 at 4:50 AM
Our colleagues Al Jazeera reporters Anas al-Sharif & Mohammed Qraiqeh, & cameramen Ibrahim Zaher, Mohammed Noufal & Moamen Aliwa have been killed in a strike on a tent for journalists near Al Shifa hospital. They worked relentlessly through bombing & hunger to document this war. Please remember them
Apply for the MA International Relations at the OU! Deadline 14th August. Created by experts in International Relations, defence and security policy and practice AND distance learning and tailored to facilitate career development. What more could anyone ask for in an MA? www.open.ac.uk/postgraduate
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August 7, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Apply for the MA International Relations at the OU! Deadline 14th August. Created by experts in International Relations, defence and security policy and practice AND distance learning and tailored to facilitate career development. What more could anyone ask for in an MA? www.open.ac.uk/postgraduate
It's not too late to apply for the MA International Relations at the OU! Deadline is 14th August. This course is special. 5 stars, says I!
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August 7, 2025 at 10:48 AM
It's not too late to apply for the MA International Relations at the OU! Deadline is 14th August. This course is special. 5 stars, says I!
www.open.ac.uk/postgraduate...
www.open.ac.uk/postgraduate...
Really pleased my article on the election process of the UN Secretary General is now available in the Open University's Resources for Schools, created for secondary school age students across the UK. #UNSG #unitednations
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Resources for schools
Keep on top of your learning with these free resources from The Open University, created for secondary school age students across the UK.
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August 6, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Really pleased my article on the election process of the UN Secretary General is now available in the Open University's Resources for Schools, created for secondary school age students across the UK. #UNSG #unitednations
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Genocide, not a genocidal act.
A crime against humanity. A genocidal act.
The latest child to starve to death in Gaza weighed less than when she was born
The latest child to starve to death in Gaza weighed less than when she was born. The body of 5-month-old Zainab Abu Halib arrived at a hospital in southern Gaza on Friday and her family buried her on ...
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July 26, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Genocide, not a genocidal act.
Do consider registering for our MA in International Relations. It’s new and brilliant, tailored to support students who want to study part time, often while working, or who have a lot to juggle. See below 👇
Our MA in International Relations (IR) is open for registration! Over the next few days we’ll share info on what the course looks like & the kind of things you’ll be study in D818 – Part 1 of the MA
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July 24, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Do consider registering for our MA in International Relations. It’s new and brilliant, tailored to support students who want to study part time, often while working, or who have a lot to juggle. See below 👇
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On Tuesday 1 July, Dr Georgina Holmes and NGO Security Women ran an internal workshop for the UK @defencehq.bsky.social on the recruitment of women into the British Armed Forces, ahead of the new tri-service recruitment programme 2027.
Read here! fass.open.ac.uk/news/improvi...
Read here! fass.open.ac.uk/news/improvi...
Workshop held on improving the recruitment of women into the British Armed Forces
On Tuesday 1 July, Dr Georgina Holmes and NGO SecurityWomen ran an internal workshop for the UK Ministry of Defence on the recruitment of women into the British Armed Forces, ahead of the new tri-serv...
fass.open.ac.uk
July 23, 2025 at 8:40 AM
On Tuesday 1 July, Dr Georgina Holmes and NGO Security Women ran an internal workshop for the UK @defencehq.bsky.social on the recruitment of women into the British Armed Forces, ahead of the new tri-service recruitment programme 2027.
Read here! fass.open.ac.uk/news/improvi...
Read here! fass.open.ac.uk/news/improvi...
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Big tech promotes the story that since ChatGPT burst onto the scene, AI has been so popular it's rushed to meet the demand. The reality is different. A study by design scholars shows tech co's have had to push AI on its users with a variety of intrusive tactics.
How big tech is force-feeding us AI:
How big tech is force-feeding us AI:
How big tech is force-feeding us AI
Plus, OpenAI's absurd listening tour, top AI scientists say AI is evolving beyond our control, Facebook is putting data centers in tents, and the AI bubble question — answered?
www.bloodinthemachine.com
July 23, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Big tech promotes the story that since ChatGPT burst onto the scene, AI has been so popular it's rushed to meet the demand. The reality is different. A study by design scholars shows tech co's have had to push AI on its users with a variety of intrusive tactics.
How big tech is force-feeding us AI:
How big tech is force-feeding us AI:
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250 people detained in the Florida Everglades have no criminal convictions or pending charges.
Exclusive: Hundreds at Alligator Alcatraz have no criminal charges, Miami Herald learns
Descriptions of the Everglades detention center as a place for violent criminals tell only part of the story.
www.miamiherald.com
July 13, 2025 at 1:18 PM
250 people detained in the Florida Everglades have no criminal convictions or pending charges.