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Dr Aiko Holvikivi
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Assistant Professor at LSE Gender, feminist curious about knowledge, pedagogy and (in)security.
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Join us for our first event of the academic year in collaboration with @lseir.bsky.social and other great co-hosts!

Bringing together four leading experts, we will explore the legacy and future of the UN WPS agenda.

www.lse.ac.uk/gender/event...

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August 26, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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🚨 Event alert!

Join @ipinst.bsky.social next week for this puclic policy forum with @aikoiiris.bsky.social ⬇️
July 24, 2025 at 8:34 AM
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📢Hot off the Press:

Special Issue: Conceptual Diversity and Anti-Imperial Epistemic Justice.

journals.sagepub.com/toc/EJW/curr...

Concepts 👇🏽

*Wujud
*Namús
*Zulm,
*Azadi
*Coloniality of Gender
*Territorio- Cuerpo-Tierra’
*Asar
*Jeong
*Middle-ness; Middle-lives

@lsegender.bsky.social
European Journal of Women's Studies - Volume 32, Number 2
Table of contents for European Journal of Women's Studies, 32, 2
journals.sagepub.com
May 23, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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🚨 Recruiting now!

We’re looking for a LSE Fellow in Interdisciplinary Gender Studies to join the department!

Check out the job listing and apply below!

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jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/I/...
May 28, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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Last year, Billy Holzberg, @aikoiiris.bsky.social, and I spoke with the team from the podcast "Feminism, Fascism and the Future" about our book. The episode is out 🤩 Tune in to learn more about the volume’s “origin story” and its key takeaways open.spotify.com/episode/7IYL...
May 13, 2025 at 7:06 AM
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Two days to go and not many tickets left!

Grab them while you can to join us and the opportunity win a copy of Zeynep‘s book! 📚🍀

@rkdasgupta.bsky.social @asiyaislam.bsky.social @aikoiiris.bsky.social @hsw.bsky.social @sumimadhok.bsky.social
We are launching Dr Zeynep Kilicoglu’s ‘Deconstructing Refugee Women’s Empowerment’ on 14 May!

Join us here: www.lse.ac.uk/gender/event...
May 12, 2025 at 8:39 AM
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ONE THOUSAND signatures (on top of the original group). Academics and educators say TRANS RIGHTS NOW.
Heartened to see that close to 900 fellow academics and educators have already signed our letter in support of trans rights, trans wellbeing & trans inclusion, and against essentialist, anti-scientific, racialised & regressive views of womanhood. Please do read, share & sign! tinyurl.com/mud7va29
April 30, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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Tomorrow join @lsegender.bsky.social's @aikoiiris.bsky.social at our coffee break Research Showcase. Take a 30min break & hear about her new book "Fixing Gender" over free ☕🥐

25 March, 11am, Shaw Library
Training military & police peacekeepers on gender
info.lse.ac.uk/staff/servic...
March 24, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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Upcoming GPS career event and we’re looking for alumni! 👀
March 13, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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As a reminder, we'll be having a book launch in London on the evening of Wednesday 26 March.

Please join us and share with your networks!
March 12, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Was tickled to see Fixing Gender at the OUP stand at ISA ☺️
March 7, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Thank you for everything you taught and continue to teach us, Sandra Harding.
A dear feminist science studies mentor passed on March 5. Have a good journey Sandra Harding. ❤️

Harding was UCLA Distinguished Professor Emerita of Education and Gender Studies, former Director of the Center for the Study of Women.

Link is an oral history interview with Sandra on her career.
Oral history interview with Sandra Harding
Sandra Harding was born in San Francisco, California, the first of five children born to Lloyd and Constance Harding. Her father's struggle to find work during the Great Depression led the family to L...
digital.sciencehistory.org
March 7, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Chicago-bound and I am totally overwhelmed by the #ISA2025 programme again. Bluesky, can we share panel recommendations? Tell me what you are up to please!
March 1, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Thrilled to see this review out - thank you for the labour that went into engaging with the work so carefully and generously!
February 20, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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The Feminist and Queer Happy Hour is back at #ISA2025 by popular demand! Location to be announced. RSVP here. #FQHH

www.eventbrite.com/e/isa-2025-q...
February 13, 2025 at 10:23 AM
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#DidYouMiss 👀

ANNUAL PRIZES - OPEN NOW! 🌟

Our annual prizes recognise excellence & achievement through research and teaching in International Studies.

Make a nomination now:
www.bisa.ac.uk/members/prizes

@julietdryden.bsky.social @risjnl.bsky.social @leejarvis.bsky.social
January 31, 2025 at 9:48 AM
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We had such a great event last night celebrating A Woman’s Job! Thanks for such an important book @asiyaislam.bsky.social and for all the insightful contributions and questions!

@shirinmrai.bsky.social
Wonderful to celebrate @asiyaislam.bsky.social fab new book A Woman’s Job: Making Middle Lives in New India @lsegender.bsky.social
January 30, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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Wonderful to celebrate @asiyaislam.bsky.social fab new book A Woman’s Job: Making Middle Lives in New India @lsegender.bsky.social
January 29, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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To make #BISA2025 more accessible we're offering bursaries for PGs and ECRs! With huge thanks to the Mitchell Institute at Queen's University Belfast for their contribution!

Applications close 28 Feb

More Info: conference.bisa.ac.uk/about-confer...

@nickcaddick.bsky.social @drdeiana.bsky.social
January 24, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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🚨 Join us on 5th February for this exciting research relay on normativity in South Asian public culture, engaging Dr J Daniel Luther‘s book ’Queering Normativity and South Asian Public Culture: Wrong Readings Only‘.

Info and free tickets in bio!

@jdanielluther.bsky.social
@rkdasgupta.bsky.social
January 24, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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This piece on the ‘(mis)use’ of evidence in the latest report by the UN Special Rapporteur on violence against women and girls, Reem Alsalem, is really good and a much-needed intervention! A few highlights from the Conclusion section: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
The (mis)use of evidence in contested rights: commentary on the UN Special Rapporteur on violence against women and girls’ report on “prostitution and violence”
Readers of Sexual and Reproductive Health Matter are no strangers to interrogating evidence in all its forms, assessing which claims it can support, and about challenges and uncertainties in intern...
www.tandfonline.com
January 23, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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We are buzzing to launch our very own @asiyaislam.bsky.social‘s brand new book ‘A Woman’s Job‘ next week! 😍

Join us for a lively conversation on the place and politics of woman’s workforce participation in urban India with amazing guests including @shirinmrai.bsky.social!

Tickets at link in bio!
January 23, 2025 at 12:09 PM
New term, new social media platform… what better way to inaugurate them than with @asliz.bsky.social new book Violent Intimacies @lsegender.bsky.social 🤩
January 22, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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🚨Tomorrow! 🚨

Grab your tickets now!
🚨 Join us for our first event of 2025, an evening with Aslı Zengin, author of the award-winning book ‘Violent Intimacies: The Trans Everyday and the Making of an Urban World’

Find out more and get a free ticket here: www.lse.ac.uk/gender/event...

@asliz.bsky.social
January 21, 2025 at 3:12 PM