Shota Kincha
@kincha.bsky.social
Freelancer eyeing a research gig (PhD/think tank). Interests: extremism, nationalism, gender & queer politics, CE Europe, media. Longest-running video editing beginner. Views mine. https://linktr.ee/shotakincha
‘From Kyiv with Love: the Push to Legalize Same-Sex Civil Partnerships’ - an interesting Master’s thesis by Thomas Cline-Fedorus www.researchgate.net/publication/...
November 9, 2025 at 10:33 AM
‘From Kyiv with Love: the Push to Legalize Same-Sex Civil Partnerships’ - an interesting Master’s thesis by Thomas Cline-Fedorus www.researchgate.net/publication/...
This specific account is so illustrative of what queerphobia is based on: systemic extortion, blackmail, sexual exploitation, incarceration, coerced recruitment, torture
Anti-queer violence is, above all, institutionalised violence; social prejudices (indoctrination) is just an extention of it
Anti-queer violence is, above all, institutionalised violence; social prejudices (indoctrination) is just an extention of it
Приставили нож к горлу! Охота на геев стартовала в России? // А Поговорить?...
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November 8, 2025 at 11:23 AM
This specific account is so illustrative of what queerphobia is based on: systemic extortion, blackmail, sexual exploitation, incarceration, coerced recruitment, torture
Anti-queer violence is, above all, institutionalised violence; social prejudices (indoctrination) is just an extention of it
Anti-queer violence is, above all, institutionalised violence; social prejudices (indoctrination) is just an extention of it
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2025 was a year of significant progress for EU enlargement.
Montenegro, Albania, Ukraine and Moldova stand out.
They advanced most on reforms in the past year.
Our candidates have ambitious goals to finish negotiations.
The coming year will be a moment of truth.
Montenegro, Albania, Ukraine and Moldova stand out.
They advanced most on reforms in the past year.
Our candidates have ambitious goals to finish negotiations.
The coming year will be a moment of truth.
November 4, 2025 at 4:36 PM
2025 was a year of significant progress for EU enlargement.
Montenegro, Albania, Ukraine and Moldova stand out.
They advanced most on reforms in the past year.
Our candidates have ambitious goals to finish negotiations.
The coming year will be a moment of truth.
Montenegro, Albania, Ukraine and Moldova stand out.
They advanced most on reforms in the past year.
Our candidates have ambitious goals to finish negotiations.
The coming year will be a moment of truth.
‘Faculty members have gathered facing away from the rectorate building, holding banners with messages such as “We do not accept, we do not give up.” This ritual, observed during fieldwork, has continued without interruption’
www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1...
www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1...
November 4, 2025 at 10:43 AM
‘Faculty members have gathered facing away from the rectorate building, holding banners with messages such as “We do not accept, we do not give up.” This ritual, observed during fieldwork, has continued without interruption’
www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1...
www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1...
A very insightful and nuanced talk by Maryna Shevtsova
LGBTQ+ Activism and Anti-Gender Mobilization in Wartime Ukraine
YouTube video by Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
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November 2, 2025 at 10:55 AM
A very insightful and nuanced talk by Maryna Shevtsova
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‘What becomes of gender and sexuality amidst the collapse of the liberal world order?’
In this essay, Dr Abeera Khan from SOAS’s Department of Gender Studies examines our current moment as one after homonationalism, where ‘the sparse and vanishing wages of inclusion lie exposed.’
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In this essay, Dr Abeera Khan from SOAS’s Department of Gender Studies examines our current moment as one after homonationalism, where ‘the sparse and vanishing wages of inclusion lie exposed.’
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October 29, 2025 at 4:30 PM
‘What becomes of gender and sexuality amidst the collapse of the liberal world order?’
In this essay, Dr Abeera Khan from SOAS’s Department of Gender Studies examines our current moment as one after homonationalism, where ‘the sparse and vanishing wages of inclusion lie exposed.’
buff.ly/vKAZqnk
In this essay, Dr Abeera Khan from SOAS’s Department of Gender Studies examines our current moment as one after homonationalism, where ‘the sparse and vanishing wages of inclusion lie exposed.’
buff.ly/vKAZqnk
'Rural environments are also not simply backdrops for extremist retreats. They provide practical advantages that make them attractive bases of operation. Remote properties offer space for training and tactical preparation that would be impossible in more closely monitored urban areas'
Far-right extremists are setting up rural enclaves around the world. We need to counter the threat they pose
In extremist circles, the idea of retreating to the land has been repurposed into a political strategy.
theconversation.com
October 28, 2025 at 1:00 PM
'Rural environments are also not simply backdrops for extremist retreats. They provide practical advantages that make them attractive bases of operation. Remote properties offer space for training and tactical preparation that would be impossible in more closely monitored urban areas'
While it is up to Georgians to save their democracy, and big mistakes were made, the European countries have effective means to help. Instead, they plan to keep pretending visa paperwork counts as punishment for the regime. It is time to call out this obscenity.
ifg.groenlinks.nl/nieuws/europ...
ifg.groenlinks.nl/nieuws/europ...
Europe Watches as Georgia’s Oligarch Wields Queer Panic and Anti-Gender Hysteria to Seal Off the Country
This article is the second article of our three-part series on the political situation in Georgia. In the first article first article, activist Tamar Jakeli, adresses the protest and urgency of the 4t...
ifg.groenlinks.nl
October 24, 2025 at 2:14 PM
While it is up to Georgians to save their democracy, and big mistakes were made, the European countries have effective means to help. Instead, they plan to keep pretending visa paperwork counts as punishment for the regime. It is time to call out this obscenity.
ifg.groenlinks.nl/nieuws/europ...
ifg.groenlinks.nl/nieuws/europ...
An insightful video exploring a variety of themes, including meat and hunting masculinity, gym-to-far-right pipelines, tradwife aesthetics, Christian diet culture, aid and class shame, 'food purity', colonial history of hunger...
a deep dive into the far-right's secret culinary culture war
YouTube video by Rowan Ellis
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October 22, 2025 at 2:06 PM
An insightful video exploring a variety of themes, including meat and hunting masculinity, gym-to-far-right pipelines, tradwife aesthetics, Christian diet culture, aid and class shame, 'food purity', colonial history of hunger...
As an Eastern European and a former journalist, I especially welcome these awards, and I wish the honour could have been extended to their colleagues and to the aid-workers in Palestine
🇪🇺 The EU parliament has awarded the bloc's Sakharov human rights prize to jailed Georgian journalist and editor Mzia Amaghlobeli and Polish-Belarusian journalist Andrzej Poczobut, calling them symbols of the "struggle for freedom".
➡️ u.afp.com/SsBZ
➡️ u.afp.com/SsBZ
October 22, 2025 at 12:55 PM
As an Eastern European and a former journalist, I especially welcome these awards, and I wish the honour could have been extended to their colleagues and to the aid-workers in Palestine
I came across this interesting master's thesis by Ernest Huk today: ‘We Were Here: How the Ukrainian Queer Soldiers Advanced Their Recognition amid the Russian Invasion' dspace.cuni.cz/handle/20.50...
'We Were Here': How the Ukrainian Queer Soldiers Advanced Their Recognition amid the Russian Invasion | Digitální repozitář UK
dspace.cuni.cz
October 19, 2025 at 1:28 PM
I came across this interesting master's thesis by Ernest Huk today: ‘We Were Here: How the Ukrainian Queer Soldiers Advanced Their Recognition amid the Russian Invasion' dspace.cuni.cz/handle/20.50...
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🎓 Missed the lecture “Nationalism and Reproductive Rights in Post-Transitional Societies”? Good news! The recording is now available online.
🎥✨ Catch up and dive into this thought-provoking discussion at your own convenience! www.iwm.at/event/nation...
🎥✨ Catch up and dive into this thought-provoking discussion at your own convenience! www.iwm.at/event/nation...
Nationalism and Reproductive Rights in Post-Transitional Societies
Date: Tue, 07.10.2025 18:00
www.iwm.at
October 12, 2025 at 10:36 AM
🎓 Missed the lecture “Nationalism and Reproductive Rights in Post-Transitional Societies”? Good news! The recording is now available online.
🎥✨ Catch up and dive into this thought-provoking discussion at your own convenience! www.iwm.at/event/nation...
🎥✨ Catch up and dive into this thought-provoking discussion at your own convenience! www.iwm.at/event/nation...
Historians of Soviet sexuality may find points to contest but overall, fascinating to watch. The documentary features voices of Soviet people (unusually Ukrainians-focused) recounting their life experiences
pro.festivalscope.com/film/sex-in-...
pro.festivalscope.com/film/sex-in-...
October 17, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Historians of Soviet sexuality may find points to contest but overall, fascinating to watch. The documentary features voices of Soviet people (unusually Ukrainians-focused) recounting their life experiences
pro.festivalscope.com/film/sex-in-...
pro.festivalscope.com/film/sex-in-...
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⚡️Across Central Europe, politicians used paid social media ads to attack journalists, activists, NGOs. From Hungary to Slovakia, these campaigns spread disinformation and hate, reaching tens of thousands while Meta and Google profit from #SponsoredHate.
Sponsored Hate: How Politicians Paid for Meta Ads to Attack Journalists - VSquare.org
Across the Visegrád countries, politicians have increasingly used paid social media ads to attack journalists, human rights activists, and civil society organizations.
vsquare.org
October 14, 2025 at 6:11 AM
⚡️Across Central Europe, politicians used paid social media ads to attack journalists, activists, NGOs. From Hungary to Slovakia, these campaigns spread disinformation and hate, reaching tens of thousands while Meta and Google profit from #SponsoredHate.
'[T]he label risks being used by prosecutors or a politicized FBI as "a blanket term that obscures or even excuses other ideological influences, especially white supremacy."
What is nihilistic violent extremism?
Under Trump, the FBI has used the term nihilistic violent extremism to describe criminals who seek to sow indiscriminate chaos. Some extremists defy narrow ideological labels.
www.politifact.com
October 14, 2025 at 6:53 AM
'[T]he label risks being used by prosecutors or a politicized FBI as "a blanket term that obscures or even excuses other ideological influences, especially white supremacy."
'ceu_nationalism_studies
We are sorry to inform all interested students that the suspension of the Nationalism Studies Program continues'
With nationalism and the far right disappearing globally, this makes perfect sense. Let’s shut down political science and sociology altogether while we’re at it
We are sorry to inform all interested students that the suspension of the Nationalism Studies Program continues'
With nationalism and the far right disappearing globally, this makes perfect sense. Let’s shut down political science and sociology altogether while we’re at it
October 14, 2025 at 6:33 AM
'ceu_nationalism_studies
We are sorry to inform all interested students that the suspension of the Nationalism Studies Program continues'
With nationalism and the far right disappearing globally, this makes perfect sense. Let’s shut down political science and sociology altogether while we’re at it
We are sorry to inform all interested students that the suspension of the Nationalism Studies Program continues'
With nationalism and the far right disappearing globally, this makes perfect sense. Let’s shut down political science and sociology altogether while we’re at it
Ivanishvili created them to fake ‘outside’ demands he can then ‘respond to’:
- Ban key opposition groups: endorsed, in progress
- ‘Sabotage’ claims against them, NGOs: investigation launched
- Limit media access in courtrooms: implemented
But that referendum ‘demand’ has been most consistent
- Ban key opposition groups: endorsed, in progress
- ‘Sabotage’ claims against them, NGOs: investigation launched
- Limit media access in courtrooms: implemented
But that referendum ‘demand’ has been most consistent
5/ The pro-government movement United Neutral Georgia, linked to Georgian Dream, says Georgia should reconsider EU integration due to the EU’s 2026/2030 LGBTQ+ strategy. The group calls for a referendum on whether Georgians want to join the EU.
October 11, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Ivanishvili created them to fake ‘outside’ demands he can then ‘respond to’:
- Ban key opposition groups: endorsed, in progress
- ‘Sabotage’ claims against them, NGOs: investigation launched
- Limit media access in courtrooms: implemented
But that referendum ‘demand’ has been most consistent
- Ban key opposition groups: endorsed, in progress
- ‘Sabotage’ claims against them, NGOs: investigation launched
- Limit media access in courtrooms: implemented
But that referendum ‘demand’ has been most consistent
Bad news for those tracking the far right: Facebook has made searching public posts significantly harder, at least for some users, myself included
Good news: Telegram rolled out a paid public post search (max 10 queries pd). I tested it and it made me happy (and predictably, also quite nauseous)
Good news: Telegram rolled out a paid public post search (max 10 queries pd). I tested it and it made me happy (and predictably, also quite nauseous)
October 7, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Bad news for those tracking the far right: Facebook has made searching public posts significantly harder, at least for some users, myself included
Good news: Telegram rolled out a paid public post search (max 10 queries pd). I tested it and it made me happy (and predictably, also quite nauseous)
Good news: Telegram rolled out a paid public post search (max 10 queries pd). I tested it and it made me happy (and predictably, also quite nauseous)
Am I misreading this or does it come across as surprisingly sloppy for an edited academic volume?
I mean this sincerely, not rhetorically
(from 'Did the Woke Movement Hijack Feminism in Poland?' by Magdalena Grzyb, in Culture Wars in Europe. George Washington University, 2023)
I mean this sincerely, not rhetorically
(from 'Did the Woke Movement Hijack Feminism in Poland?' by Magdalena Grzyb, in Culture Wars in Europe. George Washington University, 2023)
October 4, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Am I misreading this or does it come across as surprisingly sloppy for an edited academic volume?
I mean this sincerely, not rhetorically
(from 'Did the Woke Movement Hijack Feminism in Poland?' by Magdalena Grzyb, in Culture Wars in Europe. George Washington University, 2023)
I mean this sincerely, not rhetorically
(from 'Did the Woke Movement Hijack Feminism in Poland?' by Magdalena Grzyb, in Culture Wars in Europe. George Washington University, 2023)
Some protest organisers are apparently running a live map of anti-riot units in Tbilisi, and a closed chat for sourcing reports. Fascinating, and if it’s a manipulated decoy (I'm not following events closely), even more chillingly brilliant.
Plenty of tech angles to dig into in terms of security
Plenty of tech angles to dig into in terms of security
October 4, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Some protest organisers are apparently running a live map of anti-riot units in Tbilisi, and a closed chat for sourcing reports. Fascinating, and if it’s a manipulated decoy (I'm not following events closely), even more chillingly brilliant.
Plenty of tech angles to dig into in terms of security
Plenty of tech angles to dig into in terms of security
'Anna, who defended Maria’s last wishes after her death, and Oleksandr, who survived his brush with death, echo the common theme throughout their stories: the invisibility of their partners to the law and society, the lack of legal recognition for their relationship, and base prejudice.'
Exclusive: How LGBT soldiers shape Ukraine’s defense and future
“Don’t ask, don’t tell” remains the unspoken rule for LGBT service members in Ukraine’s Armed Forces. Hiding their identity protects them from prejudice and risks within their units. But being unable ...
english.nv.ua
September 29, 2025 at 6:58 AM
'Anna, who defended Maria’s last wishes after her death, and Oleksandr, who survived his brush with death, echo the common theme throughout their stories: the invisibility of their partners to the law and society, the lack of legal recognition for their relationship, and base prejudice.'
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With 99% of votes counted, the pro-democracy and pro-EU Action and Solidarity Party is projected to win 55 seats out of 101 in Moldova's parliament – a clear majority.
The faction loyal to fascist Russia was defeated, despite a massive effort by Moscow to manipulate the result.
The faction loyal to fascist Russia was defeated, despite a massive effort by Moscow to manipulate the result.
September 29, 2025 at 3:29 AM
With 99% of votes counted, the pro-democracy and pro-EU Action and Solidarity Party is projected to win 55 seats out of 101 in Moldova's parliament – a clear majority.
The faction loyal to fascist Russia was defeated, despite a massive effort by Moscow to manipulate the result.
The faction loyal to fascist Russia was defeated, despite a massive effort by Moscow to manipulate the result.
'Georgia is not an isolated case. It is part of a global web of anti-gender discourse promoted by conservative NGOs, religious movements, and political actors, from Poland and Hungary to the United States and Latin America.'
🌈 #GenderingDemocracy No.29
In 2024, #Georgia adopted a new #FamilyValuesBill that mirrors Russia’s ‘gay #Propaganda’ ban.
⚖️ Alexander Kondakov & Sandro Tabatadze explore how this law blends Russian-inspired #AntiGender policies with homegrown political logic.
➡️ bit.ly/4gKVoKg
In 2024, #Georgia adopted a new #FamilyValuesBill that mirrors Russia’s ‘gay #Propaganda’ ban.
⚖️ Alexander Kondakov & Sandro Tabatadze explore how this law blends Russian-inspired #AntiGender policies with homegrown political logic.
➡️ bit.ly/4gKVoKg
🌈 Anti-gender governance technologies in Georgia, and their Russian connection
In 2024, Georgia adopted a new legal framework that mirrors Russia’s ‘gay propaganda’ ban. Alexander Kondakov and Sandro Tabatadze explore how this law blends Russian-inspired anti-gender policies wit...
bit.ly
September 23, 2025 at 12:03 PM
'Georgia is not an isolated case. It is part of a global web of anti-gender discourse promoted by conservative NGOs, religious movements, and political actors, from Poland and Hungary to the United States and Latin America.'