Laura J. Shepherd
@drljshepherd
Researcher/educator/terrible dancer, tweeting about gender, politics, security, pop culture. Views mine. RT may be endorsement, it's contextual. She/her.
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29-08-2012 06:44:51
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'Extreme food shortages are leaving many women so malnourished that they are unable to breastfeed their newborn babies, while some expectant mothers have experienced miscarriages very late in their pregnancies as a result of malnutrition'
#CeasefireNOW
My book is now in paperback!
Hopefully, it’s more affordable now.
To mark the paperback publication, I spoke with LSE Review of Books on some of its key interventions.
blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofboo…
LSE Gender Anwesha Rana⁷ Qudsiya Ahmed
❗️This: 'this 'burnout' that secure scholars are feeling is phantom pain where their colleagues should be. To use a term that every other normal worker in the US uses to describe their workplace: you are suffering from intentional systemic understaffing.' contingentmagazine.org/2023/01/07/a-p…
my brilliant ✨ sisters- comrade Dr Rabea M. Khan and Jasmine K Gani wrote an indispensable article on positionality statements. if you feel seen/ singled out: re-read it as a labour of anti-colonial revolutionary feminist love. i learned so much. 🙏🏾✨academic.oup.com/isq/article/68…
🚨 An urgent message from Palestinians from Gaza who live in the UK
Support their call for a Gaza Family Scheme that would reunite them with their loved ones & offer sanctuary until it’s safe to return. ✍️ Sign the urgent petition (closes 18 April): petition.parliament.uk/petitions/6485…
“Shifa has literally become a graveyard.”
After repeated denials by Israeli forces, a World Health Organization (WHO) and OCHA convoy reached Al Shifa hospital in #Gaza .
What they found was a horrific scene of Gaza’s biggest hospital destroyed and deserted.
Hear Jonathan Whittall’s first-hand account.
The inclusion of last night's plenary in the program, to hear from the program chairs on ideas behind the #ISA2024 conf theme & how it came together is brilliant.
Thanks to the generosity & genuine commitment of program chairs Caitlin Biddolph SHWETA SINGH & pres Laura J. Shepherd!
This was indeed super special, the #firstplenary #ISA2024 . Thank you Laura J. Shepherd Caitlin Biddolph, Sara Motta. Special gratitude to Shery Lightfoot, David McDonald and Mark Boyer. Spoke about #Therigatha and an alternative feminist genaology of #relationality
This was a really special event. Huge appreciation to all who made it possible, with particular gratitude to Sheryl Lightfoot, SHWETA SINGH and Caitlin Biddolph, chair David McDonald and ISA ED Mark Boyer for hosting
Rather than just rambling on this #AutismAcceptanceMonth , hopefully here is a thread on some things which may actually help some #ActuallyAutistic individuals. 1/
Wars have rules that must be respected by all sides.
Humanitarians must be able to safely deliver aid.
They are #NotATarget .
They must be protected.
Everywhere.
At all times.
The devastating Israeli airstrikes that killed World Central Kitchen personnel yesterday bring the number of aid workers killed in this conflict to 196 – including more than 175 members of our own United Nations staff.
This is unconscionable.
Hi! Sinduja Raja and I are co-chairing two wonderful roundtables at #ISA2024 . First, we'll be discussing the relationship between academia and activism with Marie Berry, Julia Zulver, Itziar Mujika Chao, Sheema , Katrina Leclerc (she/elle/ella) and Yash on Saturday morning.
ISA
Join me, Dr Andrew Delatolla and Dr. Jamie J. Hagen 🍉 for a chat about my queer and decolonial book ‘The Coloniality of Humanitarian Intervention’.
16th May, 5:30-7:30pm at KCL War Studies. Also featuring an intro from Prof Vivienne Jabri. Free reg open now!
kcl.ac.uk/events/the-col…