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Aug 1 • 3 tweets • 2 min read
“Regardless of the topic you’re writing about, start with socialism. Most people know about it, so it should explain everything… Pretend that it all happened yesterday and the locals haven’t had time to adjust to the new conditions yet…

Point out repeatedly that these people…
…don’t care about their own history and can’t make any sense of what’s going on around them. Show how distrustful they are of well-meaning visitors like you, then quote them telling you that nobody wants to listen to them. Once you got that, you can say anything you want…
And don’t feel uncomfortable discussing Eastern Europe without Eastern Europeans: they are not, and can never be, equal partners in a dialogue about their own countries. You are the expert, the only one who can explain what happens there.”

Nailed it @Ileana_voix
#westsplaining

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Aug 9
The disaster of the @amnesty report on Russia-occupied Ukraine is unravelling into new lows, raising further concerns over incompetent, unethical, colonial and harmful research methods & practices and a striking lack of consideration of core concerns of research ethics 🧵
The Stratcom Centre UA raises alarms that some of the interviews might have been conducted on Russia-occupied territories of Ukraine, including filtration camps and jails, and hence, carried out under pressure and oversight by the occupying RU forces
Here is a helpful thread, exploring many of the issues and errors in research methodology, conduct and ethics manifested in the @amnesty report from a sociological perspective
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Jun 10
Heading to the 11th European Feminist Research Conference? A warm invitation to our panel on East-Central European feminist visions for a just future, that we’ll run with Zuzana Uhde, Ewa Majewska, Magdalena Górska, @KrivonosDaria, @CEE_Feminisms, particularly @Ileana_voix 🧵
The conference theme is social change and we have put together a panel investigating how social change has been dealt with in European feminist debates, whose concerns and struggles have these debates investigated and addressed, and how. See bellow for brief abstracts
Talk 1. Zuzana Uhde: Distorted Emancipation and the Political Economy of Borders

The paper starts with a brief discussion of the distinct European care border regime, creating the structural position of the low-paid mobile guest care worker, commonly a migrant woman from CEE
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May 9
The Russian Feminist Anti-War Movement is distancing itself from the international ‘Feminists against War’ manifesto that claims to be somehow continuing the legacy of the call launched by Russian feminist groups…👇🧵
The lack of a clear support for UA self-defence in the RU feminist antiwar manifesto is among the reasons why I’m no big fan of the RU manifesto either. I see that RU feminists say it could be read as treason but now they’re having to clarify themselves against misappropriation…
Crucially, the RU Feminist Anti-War Manifesto more clearly grasps the power dynamic of Russia’s aggression against UA & the text does not even attempt to shift responsibility for the RU attack of UA to NATO and via that, minimize, normalize & justify the ongoing RU invasion of UA
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May 5
We need to talk about epistemic injustice, lack of a decolonial analysis & consequent failures & harms, particularly within ‘well meant’ and seemingly progressive debates. This interview with Butler sadly offers material for this much warranted discussion🧵en.ara.cat/culture/am-hop…
Let me start by saying that I’ve appreciated much of Butler’s work & their theorizing on sex, gender, sexuality & power has informed my thinking on these subjects & I’ve engaged with it in my own work. So this critique comes from a place of prior respect, yet, it must be voiced..
In the interview, Butler offers their commentary on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine & some of the content is immensely troubling from an anticolonial feminist perspective, particularly one grounded in lived-experiences with ongoing Russian imperial & colonial violence & threats
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Apr 25
A 🧵 for the anti-war feminists who argue against backing Ukrainian defence: an initiative delivering medication to survivors of Russian army’s sexual violence, helping women, girls & fellow survivors to prevent unwanted pregnancy and access safe abortion, that I've supported..
…asked donors to send money to the UA defence because without pushing the occupying RU & allied armies out of Ukraine, there is currently no way to reach many women, girls and fellow people who have been raped and to stop & prevent their rape and murder. A reality check. So..
Anyone who undermines defence in response to a military invasion needs to understand that denying people the means of self-defence enables rape, killing & imperial oppression. Doesn't feminism support a woman's right to self-defence against gender violence? Then it ought to…
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Apr 23
One wonders if many Germans know that in East-Central Europe & the Baltic countries, protests are being held next to Russian AND German embassies.. that’s the level of DE govt damage to Germany’s reputation and European relations. Who knows all the consequences that will follow…
Here’s Vilnius weeks ago, after the Bucha massacre… let that sink in
And if you’re German and you want to say that the actions of your govt are not in your name, then start protesting your govt and putting it under pressure to change direction, or else you’re complicit. German people have the power to turn this around & not doing that is a choice.
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