My short piece about vulnerability and care during the invasion of Ukraine is out!

Huge thanks to the MAQ team and especially to Jess Robbins-Panko medanthro.net/critical-car...

She loves stretching on my yoga mat! It’s as if she’s telling me “this is what a proper downward facing dog looks like, you clumsy human”

We had a little snow in Durham, NC and the city went dead because apparently even a whiff of snow equals apocalypse in the US south

Here’s my reading list for the winter break 😊 I’ll try to read as many as I can but I tend to overplan, so I’m also cognizant that it’s a lot of books and it’s okay to not finish all of them before Jan 6. Still, I am super excited to have a cozy and reading-intense holidays

Unexpectedly there is a decent article in today’s @nytimes.com about the executed renaissance and how Russia continues to destroy Ukrainian culture in the ongoing war (link in the next comment)

This Wednesday, 12/4, I am back in Boston, presenting some ideas of mine at the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute. I will talk about how imperial ambitions sometimes disguise themselves as care about the vulnerable and humanitarianism

This Thursday (Nov 28), we’re having a virtual book presentation, exploring feminist perspectives on russia’s war on Ukraine

👉 Register now (a link to join the discussion will be sent upon registration): bit.ly/4fWz9zp

Brought this book from #ASEEES24. And it is amazing. I’ve been reading it on the plane, in the dog park, every spare second I get. A huge thanks to @popovaprof.bsky.social and @oxanashevel.bsky.social for writing such a timely, thoughtful, and easy to read book!

This Friday at #ASEEES I’ll be my usual grumpy self talking about feminist and anti-authoritarian initiatives in Ukraine during war and whether “liberation” even means anything now. I don’t promise to be very articulate, but I do have some thoughts and I’ll be in a good company

My dog was posing for a picture this morning. She makes a great model

I did smth super uncharacteristic yesterday: took a mental health day and went to Charlotte (NC) for a day to just get lost in a new city and take my mind off things

What do y’all think?
“It’s clear that bringing Ukraine into Nato might take years, but in the meantime, European countries should consider deploying troops to Ukraine as a security guarantee for this interim period”