I'm literally hosting a karaoké soirée here in Paris later this month -- you're all welcome to join! 🌈

Anyway all this is to say that we should hold people accountable for the bad things they do. If accountability means replacing the ICC prosecutor, then hopefully it happens quickly!

An optimistic person would think of this hypocrisy as part of a cycle -- intl actors condemn SV, and when their actions don't match their words, we can wave their words in front of them to call them out

A more pessimistic person would maybe just say that intl orgs were never meant to end SV...

To give another example, Russia at the UN is always condemning SV (esp. SV allegedly committed by Ukrainian troops). Obvious hypocrisy, yes, but also politics.

What was once a feminist tool (naming and shaming) becomes a weapon of patriarchy for keeping toxic men in positions of moral supremacy

Thanks to feminist activism, "sexual violence" is now an indisputably "bad thing" in international politics. So political actors can gain a lot by condemning it -- those condemnations make one a "good person"

So much of diplomacy is about moral high ground, and condemning SV is an easy path to that

If allegations are true, then it means that Khan was publicly condemning workplace SV while at the same time engaging in sexual harrassment & worse

Which is horrible, but also not terribly surprising in the context of SV in international organizations...

In 2022 I attended an ICC meeting where, among other things, they launched a new Strategy on Gender Equality and Workplace Culture. Khan attended & spoke about the importance of having a safe gender-sensitive workplace (you can see his bald head in this pic)...

Also I was pretty confused by the book's subtitle ("the Necessity of Violence") until I got to the final section and the author just straight up cites Fanon. Then it ties together very poetically 💣