Karmen Tornius
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Karmen Tornius
@ktornius.bsky.social
Researching gender and politics in Africa and beyond @FreieUniversitätBerlin and @SCRIPTSClusterofExcellence
The centre did not hold.
Most modern authoritarian regimes adopt the same script: civil rights suspended, with internal and/or external security threats used as justification. We know this. We have seen this. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Germany is now deporting pro-Palestine EU citizens. This is a chilling new step | Hanno Hauenstein
The country’s so-called political centre has licensed a new era of authoritarianism – to the AfD’s delight, says Hanno Hauenstein, a Berlin-based journalist
www.theguardian.com
April 8, 2025 at 7:51 AM
Thinking of making myself a t-shirt DEI never dies, even though like many of us, I too was not that impressed with its achievements so far. Who knew that for some DEI had achieved too much. Is standing up for DEI resistance now?
March 6, 2025 at 1:36 PM
An interviewee, reflecting on the 1970s: 'And by the way, we didn't use the word empower. At that time, it was women and development. Nobody would use such a word (empower). The men would go crazy.' - the 2020s indicate that she was right #notall #toomany
February 28, 2025 at 4:23 PM
New at bsky and never got that into twitter, but today I sat alone in the office and read a newspaper piece from 1985 about a Greek feminist Margaret Papandreou that made me want to connect and interact with peers and colleagues. So here I am
February 19, 2025 at 6:12 PM