Love to the 5 U.S. territories tonight. All colonized islands, including mine. One of the many groups of people who are American enough for the military, but not American enough to vote for president. I love you & wish you decolonization/liberation, not citizenship #ElectionNight

The Pacific continues to pay the price for not only Australia and New Zealand's profitable drug market but also China's trafficking of precursors to the Americas and Oceania. The impact on the Pacific region affects all levels of Pacific society and nations directly or indirectly

Afghan women inside Afghanistan launch a campaign against the Taliban. In their statement, they call for "increased pressure on the Taliban, including the imposition of sanctions, independent monitoring, and immediate humanitarian intervention."

Male allies for gender equality: A key part of allyship is being accountable, that is, working in gender-equitable ways. At three levels: 1) personal: men addressing their own practice 2) interpersonal 3) institutional: consultation & collaboration. See xyonline.net/content/male-a…

Thought scurvy was a long-forgotten illness to read about in history books? Why you might be wrong. bit.ly/3NEANJG

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Bangladesh law provides the police with excessive powers of arrest and detention which is unconstrained by the courts. This must change. My piece in Prothom Alo en.prothomalo.com/opinion/op-ed/…

Friends, as the PIF delegation to New Caledonia concludes I share insights from my ongoing work with New Caledonia's women and their struggles to be heard, documenting how #WPS provisions are are roundly ignored and asking what we might learn from the past lowyinstitute.org/the-interprete…

The Pacific nations behind the U.N. resolution for an independent scientific panel to report on the physical and societal consequences of nuclear war, the first such study in more than three decades. benarnews.org/english/news/p…

Speaking @ the Deep Sea Symposium last week, PANG representative Dr. Claire Slatter advocated not for a moratorium, but for an outright ban on #DSM. Dr.Slatter spoke on the difference about this proposed new industry of #DSM & why we as the Pacific should be concerned.✊🏾

There's politics in academic citations, but also complex and paradoxical issues. This worth reading article draws on feminist and decolonial approaches to reflect on the opacities of 'corrective citation'.

PhD scholarship. Focus on post-logging livelihoods in the Western Solomons. The ideal candidate is a Solomon Islander or someone with extensive previous experience in Solomon Islands with fluency in Pijin. EOI deadline 29 November: griffith.edu.au/research-study…

Hard to overstate just how rapid the changes in US party coalitions have been. The Democrats are now the party of high education *and* high income voters. Just 12 years ago, the inverse was true. On these terms, the Trump coalition was closer to Obama 2008 than the Harris one!

This 2018 paper by Thomas Piketty on the phenomenon in other Western democracies is well worth a read. ideas.repec.org/p/hal/psewpa/h…

#NWSA2024: Check out our latest call for papers on "Feminism, Antifeminism, and The Mobilization of Regret." signsjournal.org/for-authors/ca…

Fossil fuel lobbyists have received more passes to #COP29 than all the delegates from the 10 most climate vulnerable nations combined (1033), underscoring how industry presence is dwarfing that of those on the frontlines of the climate crisis.

In 2022 with @jasminelmcgowan I was fortunate to lead the ‘I believe you’ study which explored young Victorians lived experiences of navigating the family violence system. Our study found that children & young people interviewed unanimously agreed that current responses to

Domestic violence: MyGov, ATO and Centrelink systems allow perpetrators to financially abuse survivors long after they leave violent relationships. Now there’s a push for federal platforms to better protect victims theguardian.com/society/2024/n…

A THREAD: This is a thread about the factual inaccuracies, misrepresentations, omissions and clear bias of a report on the political situation in Bangladesh just published by an All Party Parliamentary Group of UK Members of Parliament interested in the Commonwealth. It is

The NT’s domestic violence inquest revealed unspeakable horrors. It would be hypocrisy to ignore the solutions theguardian.com/australia-news…