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Charlotte Mertens
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#Unimelb Gender/violence, race, decolonisation, colonialism, empire, humanitarianism, archives | DRCongo | Australia | Belgium
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Check out our new paper on the colonial archives and how they can challenge the post-colonial politics of erasing imperial violence and contribute to decolonial futures, drawing on research in the African Archives in Belgium and fieldwork in #DRC. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
For the archive yet to come | Review of International Studies | Cambridge Core
For the archive yet to come
www.cambridge.org
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UN chief Antonio Guterres puts both countries ‘on notice’ over documented pattern of sexual violence.
UN chief warns Israel, Russia over reports of sexual abuse by armed forces
UN chief Antonio Guterres puts both countries ‘on notice’ over documented pattern of sexual violence.
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August 13, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Adriennne Rich’s poem ‘Rape’ remains as haunting and relevant as ever.
August 5, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Excellent analysis by @kristoftiteca.bsky.social on the new peace deal between DRC and Rwanda negotiated by the US. “Peace is not a real estate transaction.”
July 1, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Brilliant piece by Elizabeth Strakosch, Natalie Ironfield, & Shillan Shelby on Unimelb’s racist, harmful ‘anti-racist’ politics. overland.org.au/2025/06/rebr...
Rebranding repression: the University of Melbourne’s elite capture of antiracism - Overland literary journal
Our current climate of political repression at the University of Melbourne reinforces why it is imperative that we continue to build autonomous intellectual homes that are grounded in Indigenous sover...
overland.org.au
June 23, 2025 at 7:52 AM
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Our article in Review of International Studies, I wrote with @charlottemertens.bsky.social, now has a 'home' issue 😍
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Review of International Studies: Volume 51 - Issue 2 | Cambridge Core
Cambridge Core - Review of International Studies - Volume 51 - Issue 2
www.cambridge.org
May 24, 2025 at 11:52 AM
People in Bukavu keep telling me about daily targeted arrests, about gunshots and killings every night. They are living in a ‘psychose totale’. Unlivable.
April 2, 2025 at 10:51 AM
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📄𝗡𝗘𝗪 𝗣𝗨𝗕𝗟𝗜𝗖𝗔𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡 by @judithverweijen.bsky.social, @kvlassen.bsky.social & Godefroid Muzalia

““We Are Caught Between Violence and Famine” – Analysis of the Deepening Crisis Affecting Eastern DR Congo”

#DRC

𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲 👉 bit.ly/3FLayRl
April 2, 2025 at 8:46 AM
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'It starts from a premise which assumes there is such a thing as masculinity and that the answer to gendered problems in society, problems that affect all of us, is more and better gender, or gender done differently; rather than not at all' Serious food for thought
March 28, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Sharpe’s voice will stay with me for a long time @hystericalblkns.bsky.social Ordinary Notes finds beauty despite living under brutal and violent regimes of anti-blackness. What an achievement. Read it.
March 29, 2025 at 4:23 AM
“Every day you wake up and there’s something trying to break your heart.” Dionne Brand.
Palestinian journalist Hossam Shabat was killed by Israel today. This was his last post, for the shame of a world that allows Israel to do this.
March 24, 2025 at 11:07 PM
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Istanbul protest image destined for book covers

📸 Ümit Bektaş, @reuters.com
March 24, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Now more than ever we need to read bell hooks’ timeless book. And implement it. And throw it in university leaders’ faces and never forget the power we have as educators. ✊🏾
March 20, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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New UN report shows "Israel has increasingly employed sexual, reproductive and other forms of gender-based violence ... and carried out genocidal acts through the systematic destruction of sexual and reproductive healthcare facilities" www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...
“More than a human can bear”: Israel's systematic use of sexual, reproductive and other forms of gender-based violence since October 2023
GENEVA - Israel has increasingly employed sexual, reproductive and other forms of gender-based violence against Palestinians as part of a broader effort to undermine their right to self-determination ...
www.ohchr.org
March 13, 2025 at 8:14 PM
I feel this is only the beginning.
I feel I've seen the worst of humanity in the last 16 months.
February 27, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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Whoever described generative AI as the aesthetic of fascism made a sharp point.
Complete batshit lunacy on the president's Truth Social account. Yes, he really posted this.
February 26, 2025 at 5:22 AM
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Anxiety rises in DRC capital Kinshasa as M23 rebels advance in east. Some residents are looking to move their families abroad amid open talk of a coup. Some members of Congo's fractious opposition are openly predicting Tshisekedi will not last.
Anxiety rises in DRC capital as M23 rebels advance in east
Tshisekedi faces criticism for lack of action
www.monitor.co.ug
February 19, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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Les archives sont porteuses de la violence du passé colonial mais aussi d’une potentielle postérité anticoloniale, à condition d’être radicalement réorganisées autour d’une exigence de justice et d’accessibilité, expliquent @charlottemertens.bsky.social et @stephanieperazzone.bsky.social 👇
Le regard de l'homme blanc sur les archives persiste - Analyse
Les archives sont porteuses de la violence du passé colonial mais aussi d’une potentielle postérité anticoloniale, à condition d’être radicalement réorganisées autour d’une exigence de justice et (…)
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February 17, 2025 at 8:30 AM
My heart is in Bukavu. 30 years of cycles of violence. Courage and strength to the people of Bukavu ❤️
February 14, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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REPORTER: Are you policing yourself for conflicts of interest? What are the checks and balances?

MUSK: We post our actions to the DOGE handle on X
February 11, 2025 at 9:33 PM
That this even went to trial is insane. The cop called her ‘little missy’, she called him ‘white and stupid’.
February 11, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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The United States and Israel are openly pushing their plan to ethnically cleanse Palestinians in Gaza and the occupied West Bank.
February 11, 2025 at 9:45 PM