Madita Standke-Erdmann
@erdfraeuleinma.bsky.social
PhDing at War Studies @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social | feminist researcher contemplating colonial legacies and memory in foreign policy | India - Germany relations | associate @prif.org | board member German Association for Peace and Conflict Studies
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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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Mamdani: Whether you are an immigrant, a member of the trans community, one of the many black women that Donald Trump has fired from a federal job, a single mom still waiting for the cost of groceries to go down, or anyone else with their back against the wall—your struggle is ours too
November 5, 2025 at 4:35 AM
Mamdani: Whether you are an immigrant, a member of the trans community, one of the many black women that Donald Trump has fired from a federal job, a single mom still waiting for the cost of groceries to go down, or anyone else with their back against the wall—your struggle is ours too
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Republicans thought they had a permanent hold over young men. They didn't.
Spanberger wins men 18-29 by 14%, Sherrill by 10%, and Mamdani by a stunning 40%.
Spanberger wins men 18-29 by 14%, Sherrill by 10%, and Mamdani by a stunning 40%.
November 5, 2025 at 2:50 AM
Republicans thought they had a permanent hold over young men. They didn't.
Spanberger wins men 18-29 by 14%, Sherrill by 10%, and Mamdani by a stunning 40%.
Spanberger wins men 18-29 by 14%, Sherrill by 10%, and Mamdani by a stunning 40%.
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💥 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
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October 14, 2025 at 5:58 PM
💥 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
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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.
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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.
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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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October 14, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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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.
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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.
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📝 Notes from the Field
Daniela Sepúlveda offers insights on civil society & FFP across Latin America.
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📝 Notes from the Field
Daniela Sepúlveda offers insights on civil society & FFP across Latin America.
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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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October 14, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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📝 Notes from the Field
Daniela Sepúlveda offers insights on civil society & FFP across Latin America.
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📝 Notes from the Field
Daniela Sepúlveda offers insights on civil society & FFP across Latin America.
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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
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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
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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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October 14, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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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
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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
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📄 Article #2
@karolinefaerber.bsky.social & @erdfraeuleinma.bsky.social investigate how Germany engages with its colonial past in its FFP.
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📄 Article #2
@karolinefaerber.bsky.social & @erdfraeuleinma.bsky.social investigate how Germany engages with its colonial past in its FFP.
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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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October 14, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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📄 Article #2
@karolinefaerber.bsky.social & @erdfraeuleinma.bsky.social investigate how Germany engages with its colonial past in its FFP.
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📄 Article #2
@karolinefaerber.bsky.social & @erdfraeuleinma.bsky.social investigate how Germany engages with its colonial past in its FFP.
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📄 Article #1
@thomsonjennifer.bsky.social & @lesliewehner.bsky.social trace how Sweden & Chile came to adopt #FFP.
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#FirstView #FFP #OpenAccess
📄 Article #1
@thomsonjennifer.bsky.social & @lesliewehner.bsky.social trace how Sweden & Chile came to adopt #FFP.
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#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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October 14, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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📄 Article #1
@thomsonjennifer.bsky.social & @lesliewehner.bsky.social trace how Sweden & Chile came to adopt #FFP.
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#FirstView #FFP #OpenAccess
📄 Article #1
@thomsonjennifer.bsky.social & @lesliewehner.bsky.social trace how Sweden & Chile came to adopt #FFP.
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#FirstView #FFP #OpenAccess
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📝 Notes from the Field #2
Daniela Philipson Garcia & Ana Velasco Ugalde explore civil society's role in FFP in Mexico.
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📝 Notes from the Field #2
Daniela Philipson Garcia & Ana Velasco Ugalde explore civil society's role in FFP in Mexico.
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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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October 14, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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📝 Notes from the Field #2
Daniela Philipson Garcia & Ana Velasco Ugalde explore civil society's role in FFP in Mexico.
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📝 Notes from the Field #2
Daniela Philipson Garcia & Ana Velasco Ugalde explore civil society's role in FFP in Mexico.
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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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📝 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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October 14, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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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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📝 Notes from the Field #1
@balnik.bsky.social & Younna Christiansen examine how FFP shapes donor funding + peacebuilding dynamics.
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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"
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📖 #OpenAccess
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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
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October 14, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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"
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In Berlin, an exhibition of the paintings of Lovis Corinth – deemed ‘degenerate’ by the Nazis – makes for a gripping show about why the work is where it is and whose hands it has passed through on the way, writes Matthew Sperling
The cancelled, confiscated, vindicated art of Lovis Corinth
The story of how the painter’s ‘degenerate’ works did or didn’t return to Berlin’s Nationalgalerie makes for a gripping show, writes Matthew Sperling
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August 18, 2025 at 3:08 PM
In Berlin, an exhibition of the paintings of Lovis Corinth – deemed ‘degenerate’ by the Nazis – makes for a gripping show about why the work is where it is and whose hands it has passed through on the way, writes Matthew Sperling
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Happy b’day, “American Idiot” — released as a single 21 years ago today, and written in the wake of the Iraq War.
“The country had gone into a war based on lies,” said Billie Joe Armstrong, “and no one seemed to care. .. It was a song that came from a very honest, pissed-off place.”
“The country had gone into a war based on lies,” said Billie Joe Armstrong, “and no one seemed to care. .. It was a song that came from a very honest, pissed-off place.”
August 6, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Happy b’day, “American Idiot” — released as a single 21 years ago today, and written in the wake of the Iraq War.
“The country had gone into a war based on lies,” said Billie Joe Armstrong, “and no one seemed to care. .. It was a song that came from a very honest, pissed-off place.”
“The country had gone into a war based on lies,” said Billie Joe Armstrong, “and no one seemed to care. .. It was a song that came from a very honest, pissed-off place.”
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📣 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.
polisky gendersky
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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.
polisky gendersky
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July 31, 2025 at 1:03 PM
📣 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.
polisky gendersky
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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.
polisky gendersky
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@yvesvenedey.de zeigt, wie Katherina Reiche der Verzögerungstaktik der Öl- und Gaslobby folgt und hofft, dass die »Fossilministerin« so ungewollt für ein Wiedererstarken der Klimabewegung sorgt. www.blaetter.de/ausgabe/2025...
July 27, 2025 at 8:00 AM
@yvesvenedey.de zeigt, wie Katherina Reiche der Verzögerungstaktik der Öl- und Gaslobby folgt und hofft, dass die »Fossilministerin« so ungewollt für ein Wiedererstarken der Klimabewegung sorgt. www.blaetter.de/ausgabe/2025...
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Julia Klöckner ist als Bundestagspräsidentin bemerkenswert um "Neutralität" besorgt. Jetzt will sie Anstecker verbieten. Doch was heißt "Neutralität" hier eigentlich?
GÜNTER FRANKENBERG macht sich auf die Suche nach einem parlamentarischen Neutralitätsbegriff.
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GÜNTER FRANKENBERG macht sich auf die Suche nach einem parlamentarischen Neutralitätsbegriff.
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July 23, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Julia Klöckner ist als Bundestagspräsidentin bemerkenswert um "Neutralität" besorgt. Jetzt will sie Anstecker verbieten. Doch was heißt "Neutralität" hier eigentlich?
GÜNTER FRANKENBERG macht sich auf die Suche nach einem parlamentarischen Neutralitätsbegriff.
verfassungsblog.de/neutralitat-...
GÜNTER FRANKENBERG macht sich auf die Suche nach einem parlamentarischen Neutralitätsbegriff.
verfassungsblog.de/neutralitat-...
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
July 21, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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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My mom and stepdad are from the same diaspora group as Zohran Mamdani’s dad (same like “my stepdad was kicked out of the same town and knows some of his classmates”) and apparently the New York Times doesn’t understand how diaspora works, so I am going to tell you a little about my mom’s people!
July 3, 2025 at 11:25 PM
My mom and stepdad are from the same diaspora group as Zohran Mamdani’s dad (same like “my stepdad was kicked out of the same town and knows some of his classmates”) and apparently the New York Times doesn’t understand how diaspora works, so I am going to tell you a little about my mom’s people!
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bitte unterzeichnet mit: rettet das tucholsky-museum in rheinsberg
Gerade wurde eine Petition gestartet, die auf die aktuelle Situation hinweist, u.a. die illegale Hinhaltetaktik des Bürgermeisters. Offenbar hofft er auf diese Weise, einen neuerlichen Skandal zu vermeiden. Wenn wir das alle liken & teilen, wird das nicht klappen 2/
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Rettet das Tucholsky Museum in Rheinsberg
Das Kurt Tucholsky Literaturmuseum ist das einzige Tucholsky-Museum in Deutschland.
Im Mittelpunkt seiner Arbeit steht das Sammeln, Bewahren, Erforschen und Präsentieren von Zeugnissen über das Leben ...
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July 1, 2025 at 11:04 AM
bitte unterzeichnet mit: rettet das tucholsky-museum in rheinsberg
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Mit finanzieller Hilfe der letzten #Bundesregierung hat @sea-eye.org 747 Menschenleben gerettet. Die Förderung der #Seenotrettung darf nicht gestrichen werden. Das letzte Wort hat der Bundestag! Bitte unterzeichnet unsere Petition an Friedrich Merz: 🖋️🔁 weact.campact.de/petitions/se...
July 2, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Mit finanzieller Hilfe der letzten #Bundesregierung hat @sea-eye.org 747 Menschenleben gerettet. Die Förderung der #Seenotrettung darf nicht gestrichen werden. Das letzte Wort hat der Bundestag! Bitte unterzeichnet unsere Petition an Friedrich Merz: 🖋️🔁 weact.campact.de/petitions/se...
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"Let our tears become a sea of rage for the injustice that is killing our children.”
Today marks two years since the Adriana trawler sank off the coast of Pylos, Greece. Over 600 people drowned, a shipwreck that remains one of the deadliest in the Mediterranean. [...]
Today marks two years since the Adriana trawler sank off the coast of Pylos, Greece. Over 600 people drowned, a shipwreck that remains one of the deadliest in the Mediterranean. [...]
June 14, 2025 at 5:47 PM
"Let our tears become a sea of rage for the injustice that is killing our children.”
Today marks two years since the Adriana trawler sank off the coast of Pylos, Greece. Over 600 people drowned, a shipwreck that remains one of the deadliest in the Mediterranean. [...]
Today marks two years since the Adriana trawler sank off the coast of Pylos, Greece. Over 600 people drowned, a shipwreck that remains one of the deadliest in the Mediterranean. [...]
People, the remnants of your credibility is floating out the window …
Die Lage im Nahen Osten hat sich über Nacht extrem zugespitzt. Israel hat gezielte Schläge gegen iranische Nuklearanlagen ausgeführt. Der Iran reagiert mit hunderten Drohnenangriffen auf Israel. Diese Entwicklung ist mehr als besorgniserregend. @aussenminister.diplo.de 1/3
June 14, 2025 at 1:30 PM
People, the remnants of your credibility is floating out the window …
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Die FAZ schreibt: "Der Präsident, der vor allem der von den Demokraten lange ignorierten Migrationskrise seinen Wahlsieg zu verdanken hatte, kann als Sheriff auftreten, der tut, wovor die Linksliberalen zurückschrecken" - komplett wildes Framing.
June 10, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Die FAZ schreibt: "Der Präsident, der vor allem der von den Demokraten lange ignorierten Migrationskrise seinen Wahlsieg zu verdanken hatte, kann als Sheriff auftreten, der tut, wovor die Linksliberalen zurückschrecken" - komplett wildes Framing.
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“When it comes to governing, sex is not an input, with a predefined meaning, determining the state’s rules. It’s an output, a creation of those rules, reverse-engineered to fit what an agency needs sex to do.”
@paisleycurrah.com reminds us how “sex” is a contingent political and legal category.
@paisleycurrah.com reminds us how “sex” is a contingent political and legal category.
Donald Trump’s War on Gender Is Also a War on Government
By forcing rigid definitions of sex across all federal agencies, Republicans are undermining the administrative state’s capacity to protect public health and safety.
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May 29, 2025 at 2:20 PM
“When it comes to governing, sex is not an input, with a predefined meaning, determining the state’s rules. It’s an output, a creation of those rules, reverse-engineered to fit what an agency needs sex to do.”
@paisleycurrah.com reminds us how “sex” is a contingent political and legal category.
@paisleycurrah.com reminds us how “sex” is a contingent political and legal category.
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Give this a listen those of you interested in International Relations and the history of thinking in IR. Erased is a significant step forward in our understanding as well as a portal to a more open and critical world of IR, what the discipline can/must be. revdem.ceu.edu/2025/05/26/e...
Erased: Women, Power, and the Hidden History of International Relations | Review of Democracy
In this episode of the Review of Democracy podcast, Alexandra Medzibrodszky speaks with Patricia Owens, renowned professor of international relations at Oxford, about her bold and revelatory new book,...
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May 29, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Give this a listen those of you interested in International Relations and the history of thinking in IR. Erased is a significant step forward in our understanding as well as a portal to a more open and critical world of IR, what the discipline can/must be. revdem.ceu.edu/2025/05/26/e...