Tereza Hendl @TerezaHendl Twitter profile

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Tereza Hendl

2 years

Many vital texts came out on the problems with #westsplaining , coloniality and the denial of a voice, agency & self-determination in debates on Ukraine, Central & Eastern Europe, highlighting the need for anti-imperialist, anticolonial & antipatriarchal debates & politics - a🧵

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Tereza Hendl

@TerezaHendl

2 years

Re-reading this short essay by George Orwell on pacifism and the war, in which he explores how pacifism advocated in response to fascism enables fascism. It’s so painfully timely. What a read.

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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..

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Věra Čáslavská at the 1968 Olympics in Mexico, refusing to even look at the soviet flag during a ceremony held just two months into the military occupation of Czechoslovakia. This cost her a career and gained her immense respect as an admired resister for the rest of her life.

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This is how dignity looks like

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A German media headline in 2023: “The Jews or the aggro-Arabs: we have to decide who we want to keep” One wonders how many people are currently thinking about leaving Germany at the nearest possible opportunity. Meanwhile the far right is scoring way over 20% in election polls

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I’d like to clarify for the millionth time that the Czech Republic and Slovakia never were “part of the Soviet Union,” they were occupied by the USSR by military means. Anyone who does not know the difference is warmly welcome to the rich literature of the post-occupied societies

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“Russian peacekeepers” must be one of the biggest oxymorons in history

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1 year

Kundera is dead. I just loved how he wrote about exile and was grossed out by the way he wrote about women - that was so tellingly uncreative for someone with his talent for words. He crossed the limits of language but not of patriarchal thinking. How sad.

Milan Kundera: The Unbearable Lightness of Being author dies aged 94

The Czech novelist found himself silenced by the communist regime at home, but achieved international fame with playfully philosophical fiction

www.theguardian.com

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@TerezaHendl

1 year

@DebonairPierre @Ebonyteach As a little girl, I was peeled to the tv when Bonaly competed. I loved how she never performed ‘a fragile little thing twirling on ice’ but a powerful joyful force, a kind of womanhood I could relate to. She rocked so hard, so ahead of time and she deserved all the gold and more

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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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1 year

Some highlights from Aizada Arystanbek’s talk on the western Left’s disingagement with russian imperialism. She explored the issues of epistemically unjust western-centric theory and contextualized them with Indigenous perspectives from Central Asia & nations colonized by russia

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Tereza Hendl

@TerezaHendl

2 years

@d_foubert And there have been so many genocides against Indigenous nations perpetrated in the long history of the Russian empire and its colonial violence that are not even included in this thread. Also, beside holodomor in Ukraine there was a USSR-manufactured famine against Kazakhstan.

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1 year

One more time: on why speaking on Ukraine over Ukrainian women, silencing their voices, erasing their agency, disregarding their demands and denying them the means of defense against the gendered violence of russian imperialism is oppressive and colonial

Rhiannon Lockley (she/her) #JoinAUnion

@illdoitanyway

1 year

#UCUcongress : Ukraine. I voted against arming Ukraine. I think this from Feminists Against War (Federici & others) says it a lot better than I can: WE ARE MANY WHO SAY NO TO WAR, IMPERIALISM, PATRIARCHY, AUTHORITARIANISM AND MILITARISM. #ucuTOGETHER

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@TerezaHendl

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An excellent analysis by @BotakozKassymb1 of the ongoing dismissal of scholars, who have been speaking out on Russian imperialism from lived experience, highlighting persistent power inequalities in knowledge production and epistemic injustice in academia

How Western scholars overlooked Russian imperialism

For far too long, Western academia has ignored the legacies of the Russian Empire and colonisation.

www.aljazeera.com

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@TerezaHendl

2 years

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…👇🧵

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@TerezaHendl

2 years

Here’s an investigation of westsplaining in US debates by @jan_smolenski and @jan_dutkiewicz : “Speaking about Eastern Europe and Eastern Europeans without listening to local voices or trying to understand the region’s complexity is a colonial projection.”

The American Pundits Who Can’t Resist “Westsplaining” Ukraine

John Mearsheimer and other foreign policy figures are treating Russia’s invasion of Ukraine like a game of Risk.

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6 months

No amount of quoting Havel can fix this level of complicity

Rami Ayari

@Raminho

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NOW: #UN General Assembly overwhelmingly adopts resolution demanding an immediate humanitarian ceasefire in #Gaza .

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2 years

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🧵

Judith Butler: "I am hopeful that the Russian army will lay down its arms"

Catalonia 2021 International Award

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@TerezaHendl

2 years

Here’s another look at Western internationalism, this time from Kyiv by Taras Bilous @ahatanhel who critiques the selective perception of the Western Left concerned with ‘NATO aggression in Ukraine’ but downplaying Russia’ authoritarianism and imperialism

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@TerezaHendl

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It thus appears as if “Eastern European countries should recognize their status as second-class citizens in the community of states and accept their geopolitical role as neutral buffers at the edges of the vestiges of the American and Russian empires.” How very troubling…

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@TerezaHendl

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Then there’s Zosia Brom’s sharp commentary on Western Left’s exceptionalism: “Your lack of knowledge on the issues of Russia & the rest of the world formerly behind the Iron Curtain is, frankly, astonishing, surprising & the lack of curiosity – shameful”

Fuck leftist westplaining - Freedom News

Earlier this week, the Polish parliamentary progressive left party, Razem, issued a statement in which they announce that they are cutting ties with two European organisations: Progressive Internat...

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@TerezaHendl

3 years

@DrNadiaChaudhri Thank you for using your precious time to raise awareness. I’m a researcher interrogating the failures in medicine, healthcare & research to address health issues beyond those suffered by white cis-male bodies. I promise you that I’ll keep writing about this dire problem❤️✊🏼

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Tereza Hendl

@TerezaHendl

11 months

This article is such a gift: four global-south researchers go over what parachute and extractivist research is and why it is so harmful, while offering very concrete guidance to global-north colleagues on how to conduct equitable research collaborations

Pack up the parachute: why global north–south collaborations need to change

Nature - Global-south researchers want equal partnerships that value intellectual exchange.

www.nature.com

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Tereza Hendl

@TerezaHendl

2 years

…voices & agency is no solidarity but an excercise of coloniality & a failure to do genuine feminist work. Do better & crucially: stop centering your own agendas. Rather take a step back and read the rich scholarship by feminists from societies affected by Russian imperialism..

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@TerezaHendl

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…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..

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Tereza Hendl

@TerezaHendl

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..support defence against military invasions that perpetrate gender based violence, war crimes & sexist oppression. There is also evidence that the Russian army is weaponizing rape as a means of ethnic cleansing in Ukraine. Thus, to anti-war feminists safely positioned far away..

Yogita Limaye

@yogital

2 years

‘25 girls &women aged 14-24 were ..raped..in..one house in Bucha..Russian soldiers told them they’d rape them to the point where they wouldn't want sexual contact with any man,to prevent them from having Ukrainian children.’Ombudsman Lyudmyla Denisova said

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I’ve recently finished a paper on feminist solidarity with Ukraine. What was meant to be 3-5 pages grew to 20. So great is my disappointment with much of Western and Global South feminism and my interest in dialogue and solidarity among the (post)occupied and (post)colonized 1/n

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Smolenski & Dutkiewicz raise issues with a strikingly unequal power dynamic: “In the westsplaining framework, the concerns of Russia are recognized but those of Eastern Europe are not. [..] Eastern Europe is something that can be explained but isn’t worth engaging with”….

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@TerezaHendl

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..Ukrainian feminist debates on the RU invasion of UA, there are no Ukrainian feminists listed as signatories under a certain intl feminist anti-war manifesto and it’s unclear if they were even consulted. Any feminist ‘solidarity’ with UA that does not center Ukrainian feminist..

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@TerezaHendl

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Also Aizada Arystanbek’s @levbekk text on the issue with the romanticizing of the USSR - e.g. by young Western leftists pledging allegiance to the Soviet Union on Tik Tok - & investigating the legacy of Soviet colonial violence in Central & North Asia

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It’s intriguing how much focus there is right now on the Baltic countries not providing an entry to Russians who want to run away from mobilization… why would countries violently occupied by Russia serve as reservoirs for Russians who might want to escape and disassociate? 1/5

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It is hard to believe that these are the stairs to the building where many of us took our philosophy classes… Let there be light. For all of those whose lives were taken too soon and their families, partners and friends as well as the students and teachers who will somehow…

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Start with what Ukrainian feminists have to say - like Anna Khvyl, feminist sound artist & curator from Kyiv in this interview 👇“Believe me, I know what nonviolent resistance is, and there is not a single chance for it now in Ukraine. I know the consequences of militarisation…”

Darya (Дарця) Tsymbalyuk

@DaryaTsymbalyuk

2 years

more thoughts and conversations about military aid for Ukraine and feminist values with @i_zamuruieva @irinikostyshina @kasia_ia , Anna Khvyl, and ReSew sewing cooperative #StopRussianAggression #StandWithUkraine 💔🌱drawing by Iryna Kostyshyna

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@Ileana_voix critiques the epistemic marginalization of Ukrainian voices in debates on Ukraine: “If Ukrainians are interviewed, they are usually cast in the roles of tearful, frightened witnesses. They are rarely shown as experts in their own history.”

Beyond the Postsoviet - Boston Review

The war in Ukraine is shaped by global neoliberalism, sexism, and racism—not just Cold War dynamics.

www.bostonreview.net

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@TerezaHendl

1 year

Reading this essay by @BotakozKassymb1 and Aminat Chokobaeva and it’s 🔥 a much needed analysis of the soviet project and its settler colonialism ✨

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and critique the particular coloniality of Western internationalism “which claims to stand in solidarity with the oppressed,” but when it comes to EE “does the opposite: It asks the subaltern to speak, only to ignore them when they ask for military support or self-determination.”

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2 years

Just signed: The Right to Resist, a manifesto by Ukrainian feminists, calling for transnational feminist solidarity “we view feminist solidarity as a political practice which must listen to the voices of those directly affected by imperialist aggression”

“The right to resist.” A feminist manifesto

Manifesto calling for feminists around the world to support the resistance to imperialist aggression in Ukraine.

commons.com.ua

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In her view, the lack of knowledge intersects with a lack of understanding of intergenerational trauma carried by those impacted by Soviet/Russian imperialism. Plus a troubling superiority with which some Westerners impose their perspectives over non-Western existential concerns.

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…from the Russian army and its sexual and lethal violence I’d like to say: pause and reassess if you want to restore credibility in global debates on sexist oppression and gender justice. And I say “far away” because as Ukrainian feminist Tamara Zlobina noted on a panel on…

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One’s lack of local knowledge on the ongoing legacy of Russian imperial and colonial violence fuels one’s complicity in the silencing and harming of oppressed populations, including women and girls. Inform yourself and follow the lead of feminists from (post)occupied societies…

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@PopovaProf & @OxanaShevel investigate Putin’s rhetoric & actions over the last two decades and contrary to popular & dominant Western narratives, they argue that Putin’s war isn’t about NATO and that his goals extend beyond imposing neutrality on Ukraine

Putin’s War Was Never Actually About NATO

He's afraid of anything that threatens authoritarian stability and introduces prospects of democratization.

slate.com

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1 month

Here’s to a free and de-occupied Sakartvelo: 200 years under three russian occupations do spark resistance

Mariam Nikuradze

@mari_nikuradze

1 month

Georgia protest right now

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Could it be that the West doesn’t really hope for a collectively empowered de-occupied Europe’s East, but rather a continuous yet highly conditional surplus of destitute, stigmatized, easily exploitable and ‘grateful’ cheap labour?

Andrew Chakhoyan 🇺🇦

@ChakhoyanAndrew

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How is this not front page news in every major western media?

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@HumanBe27223097 @mariamposts What are you on about Rahul? Every fourth person currently serving in Ukrainian defense is a woman, which is an exceptionally high proportion. Why don’t you go read something about the reality under the Russian invasion instead of pretending that you care while you clearly don’t?

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The IMF trying to preserve Central and Eastern Europe as a source of ‘cheap’ and exploitable labour to the disproportionate benefit of the West

Bryan Gigantino

@bryan_gigantino

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“IMF has warned rapid wage increases in central and Eastern Europe risk eroding the region’s competitive edge”

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@EerikNKross It’s not just stigmatizing it’s in too many cases also grossly epistemically unjust as this labeling is used to frame the many societies that have been occupied by the Soviet ‘Union,’ which downplays their very valid and justified opposition against Russian imperialist violence.

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yourself this core question: do you want more Ukrainian women to be raped & killed by occupying soldiers? Because that’s what it comes down to. We’re in no fantasy land where one can hide from consequences: pacifism denying attacked people means of self-defence enables killing…

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What @i_zamuruieva and @DaryaTsymbalyuk have to say: “As feminists, we are critical of militarisation. We do not support the military-industrial complex and international markets for weapons sales. But Russia’s war against our homeland, Ukraine, has forced us into a situation…

Iryna Zamuruieva

@i_zamuruieva

2 years

To all my friends and people who are still doubting if their pacifist /left /feminist values are compatible with supporting military aid to Ukraine: spoiler, they are. Please read the article @DaryaTsymbalyuk and I wrote for @openDemocracy explaining why

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Honored to get this prize and deeply touched by the words of the committee. There is a notion that Western academia responds well, which stands on not listening to scholars from (de)occupied Europe’s East and Central Asia. We hope that the patterns of epistemic injustice will end

Olga Burlyuk

@OBurlyuk

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Excited to share that the article "(En)Countering epistemic imperialism" by @TerezaHendl @MilaOSullivan @levbekk & I with @CSP_journal has been awarded the Best Article Prize of the American Association of Ukrainian Studies @AAUS_says ! Assessment of the search committee ⬇️ 1/2

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Dutchak critiques foreign debates: “Some leftist people are saying that the way out is to negotiate & agree on the neutrality of Ukraine. It is hard for me to support this point at the moment. This position is a little bit colonial: denying also the sovereignty of a country.” She

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And we’re in no fantasy land where surrender to a RU invasion means ‘peace’ or safety. If you think so, you’re not building on testimonies of UA women from occupied Donbas & Crimea and those from fellow societies currently & previously occupied by Russia..

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“…where we believe the only ethical choice for us as feminists is to lobby for more air defence systems for our country. Russia’s war crimes have left us no option but to campaign for more military aid to be able to defend ourselves and survive.” Now, what do you do when…

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US-centric explanations are outdated and carry a lack of predictive power, owing to their limited perspective. Thus, he appeals to the Western Left: “Learn from these mistakes: now you are also much more provincial and you face temptations to resort to simplistic Manicheanism.”

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Bilous then interrogates the hypocrisy of a large part of the Western ‘anti-war’ Left and suggests that instead of looking for a new balance between US and Russia’s imperialisms, the Left has to struggle for a “democratisation of the international security order.”

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She points out: “…just shows your privilege of growing up in a country where your life story was not littered with, how exciting, tantrums and aggressions of various scales of this great, unpredictable force that assumes it can throw its way anywhere where there is no NATO.”

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Artiukh writes that much of the US Left’s discourse downplays Russia’s role of an active agent: “Russia is not reacting, adapting, making concessions anymore, it has re-gained agency and it is able to shape the world around it.” Because many US leftists fail to recognize this,

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I’m volunteering at the Berlin refugee arrival center. Most vigorous instructions from the volunteer induction training? Be on high alert, watch out for men eyeing & approaching solo women with children with offers of private accommodation & immediately call security. Yes I will.

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Further, @MilaOSullivan observes that feminist peace activism calling against military defence isn’t really big in Central & East European countries that have been occupied & threatened with Russian imperialism. Yet, it tends to thrive in the West. What does that tell you? And…

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End of 🧵 #FeministsAgainstWar #decolonize #intersectionality #EndRussianInvasion #NoJusticeNoPeace @CEE_Feminisms The sign & earrings I’ve carried to BLM marches. As there is no peace without justice, let’s not wish less for Ukraine & all societies harmed by Russian imperialism

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“My Ukrainian feminist colleagues have organised several programmes to support victims of domestic violence which increases as a result of militarisation. But now the priority for all of us is to stay alive, and to give this chance to as many people as possible.” And read…

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@noahbarkin And let’s counter the west-eurocentrism and imperiality even further with the courage and integrity of Kaja Kallas

Kaja Kallas

@kajakallas

2 years

Spoke with @BBCWorld about why the right response to Russia's escalation is unity and strength, not fear. If aggression and threats pay off, they'll use them again and again. There's no room for negotiations with terrorists.

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An interview with Oksana Dutchak in Ukraine: “From here on the ground the situation looks differently because we see how Russian government behaves… We can hardly say let’s keep Russia & NATO away from here, because it is only Russia who invaded Ukraine.”

The War in Ukraine Seen on the Ground. Interview with Oksana Dutchak - Transnational Social Strike...

Oksana Dutchak is a researcher based in Ukraine and an activist of E.A.S.T. – Essential Autonomous Struggles Transnational. She tells about the current ever-changing situation in Ukraine and local...

www.transnational-strike.info

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The increasing count of cases of disappeared, attacked and murdered Ukrainians in Germany is concerning

Emmanuelle Chaze

@EmmanuelleChaze

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🔴 Another Ukrainian woman disappeared in Germany: NGO worker Ruslana Melnyk, 41 year old, living in Łódź, came for a workshop in Berlin on May 21st & went missing that day. Polish police say a crime may have been committed against her👇 @polizeiberlin ?

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Also in UA, Volodymyr Artiukh @R2khV appreciates much of the knowledge of Western social movements but also interrogates its limits: indeed, this knowledge was produced under the conditions of US hegemony & “reached its limit at Russia’s bloody-red lines”

US-plaining is not enough. To the Western left, on your and our mistakes

You face a challenge of reacting to a war that is not waged by your countries. There is no simple way to frame an anti-war message. One thing remains painfully clear: you can help deal with the...

commons.com.ua

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If you investigated your position from a decolonial perspective, what would the analysis unravel? What kind of power dynamic is between you and women affected by RU imperialism, their voices, agency, views & needs? What is your feminism doing to them and is it really feminist?

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Given these goals, Ukrainian neutrality is a “woefully insufficient concession” for Putin: “it’s not NATO at its doorsteps that’s so concerning to the Kremlin, but political competition, because it threatens authoritarian stability and introduces prospects of democratization.”

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I’ve seen too much pseudo-progressive street art committing this kind of oppressive pacifism, denying the lived reality of Ukrainians under Russia’s military invasion and effectively perpetuating genocide denialism. This art actually does symbolic violence… 🧵

Olga Boїchak🇺🇦

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A new mural in Melbourne shows a Russian & a Ukrainian soldier hugging & it’s deeply offensive to all Ukrainians. Russia’s war in Ukraine is not a conflict between two nations - it is an invasion. The mural creates a sense of a false equivalency btw the victim & the aggressor 1/5

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Nachescu interrogates the diversity and complexity of Eastern European societies, impoverishment by neoliberal capitalism and stark inequalities within European racial structures, which also maintain various shades & hierarchies of Western / non-Western whiteness and concludes

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On the way to Prague. Was about to head to the Faculty of Philosophy tomorrow and now we will be going there with candles… what a dark day. Thinking of all colleagues and students, this is devastating. And as every expert advises: don’t name the shooter, don’t give him fame.

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Dead and injured reported in shooting incident at a university in central Prague, Czech police say

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you read words like these? Do you listen and take them on board or do you suppress them because they say something you don’t like and that makes you uncomfortable? If you think your position on the invasion is the right one, how would you describe the power dynamic in that? How…

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On the not questioning of russian colonialism: “the scholars unconsciously became professionally or even emotionally dependent on the Russian Federation and its institutions, no matter how horrible and inhumane the Kremlin may be in its deeds and decisions”

Going native: Russian studies in the West

The West’s endorsement of Russian imperialism comes in different forms, sometimes taking on the guise of “Eastern European studies” in renowned centres of learning.

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…”perceived as only “relatively” civilized, only “relatively” European. Only in comparison with others - people of color, people of other religions - can Ukrainians be recognized as acceptable to the West, and then it will be in some sort of subservient position.”

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She critiques racial hierarchies in Europe that cannot adequately be captured through US-specific frameworks, an issue that many CEE scholars have raised (e.g. Koczé, Tlostanova @sdzorko @AleSojka @annasafuta Tudor @i_kalmar @KrivonosDaria @InclusiveLucie @aleks_lewicki & myself)

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Tereza Hendl

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Makes me think of how a colleague from East-Central Europe shared with me that a Western (feminist!) academic casually said to her that herself and colleagues love hiring CEE scholars on their projects as they do such diligent work for lower pay and so cheapen the research budget

Aleksandra Lewicki

@aleks_lewicki

1 month

Thanks for this- within the field of East-West inequalities & mobilities within Europe, I’be been feeling troubled for a while by the overrepresentation of West European PIs who can only access communities by relying on precariously employed researchers from Europe’s east

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Tereza Hendl

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The most personal text I’ve written, on the impact of russian imperialism on the societies directly affected by it and the voices that would have been disappeared and missing from knowledge production had some of our societies not been de-occupied, including my own. In the text…

Gabriela Arguedas😷💉🧼💦🤲🏼

@gaby_arguedas

10 months

Vuelvo a compartir el artículo de mi colega y amiga @TerezaHendl sobre la guerra de Rusia contra Ucrania. Este es el nivel de detalle y complejidad necesario para entender realmente lo que pasa. Towards accounting for Russian imperialism and building...

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Yesterday at internationalist pride, Nikita spotted our banner, came to carry it and walked with us. He is an Afro-Abkhazian queer activist who told me a lot… it felt like some magic brought us together and things will certainly grow from the conversations we had along the way

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Tereza Hendl

@TerezaHendl

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continues: “It is up to the people in the country to decide what they want to do and for them being able to decide, there should be no war. As I’ve said, this war made decisions for many Ukrainians. People say there is always a choice. But most Ukrainians don’t see a choice now.”

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Tereza Hendl

@TerezaHendl

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In their view, Putin’s larger objective is to reestablish “Russian political & cultural dominance over a nation that Putin sees as one with Russia, and then follow up by undoing the European rules-based order & security architecture established in the aftermath of World War II.”

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Tereza Hendl

@TerezaHendl

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✨Here’s some news: a number of us scholars got together and founded a much needed initiative in the sphere of empowering knowledge production: the RUTA Association for Central, South, Eastern Europe, Baltic, Caucasus, Central and Northern Asia Studies in Global Conversation ✨

H-Ukraine

@H__Ukraine

7 months

Announcement: RUTA Association for Central, South, Eastern Europe, Baltic, Caucasus, Central and Northern Asia Studies in Global Conversation | H-Net

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@TerezaHendl

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within which East Europeans with lived experiences with RU imperialism have been framed as emotional, biased & Russophobic while Western ‘experts’ have positioned themselves as rational, impartial & civilized also because they promote ‘peace’ (never mind violent Western history)

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@TerezaHendl

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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 🧵

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Tereza Hendl

@TerezaHendl

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Not sure how I (and others) missed this text when it came out in 2022 but wow was I today years old when I found out that Ukrainians are the largest migrant population in Gaza. Reportedly, most are Ukrainian women who met their Palestinian partners when they studied in Ukraine…

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Tereza Hendl

@TerezaHendl

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It is alarming that peer-review still enables so epistemically unjust and imperialist as well as socially and environmentally irresponsible and harmful research, such as one that perpetuates genocide and ecocide denial. Very concerning that @IAJournal_CH published the text.

Kseniya Oksamytna

@Kseniya_Oksamyt

18 days

Another nice day in English-speaking academia: professors of ethics justifying ***Russian settler colonialism*** because money spent on military assistance to Ukraine's self-defence could be spent on climate change instead

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Come and listen to what Ukrainian feminists have to say about resisting the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine. Join us in a space of transnational feminist solidarity. This evening, 5-7PM CET

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What we see in all the texts & interviews is a refusal of Western-centric, dated & oppressive discourses, binaries, categories & power dynamic, and new visions for social & global justice & solidarity emerging in CEE & diasporic anti-imperialist, critical race & feminist debates

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..would you describe the power dynamic in how you’re relating to feminist thinkers from a society that is being subjected to war crimes & crimes against humanity? In particular, as someone who is not living under the dire reality of a Russian military invasion? You need to ask..

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Tereza Hendl

@TerezaHendl

2 years

New series in which Czech investigative journalist Saša Uhlová goes undercover and works in various western industries that systemically exploit ‘cheap’ migrant labour. First episode describes the exhausting conditions at a German veggie farm, with long working hours per € 6,20

Apolena Rychlíková 🇺🇦

@A_Rychlikova

2 years

🔥🔥🔥 Na @A2larm se dnes dočtete o životě na německé farmě, kde více než měsíc pracovala Saša Uhlová. "Zvláštní je, jak všem přijde normální, co se tady děje. Přes den řev a práce bez konce, večer jsou všichni úplně vyčerpaní. " Celý text v komentáři.

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Tereza Hendl

@TerezaHendl

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Most of all, here’s hoping that having our paper on westsplaining, epistemic imperialism and coloniality of knowledge production among top read articles will translate into long overdue major changes in how research on Europe’s East and Central Asia is done

CSP Journal

@CSP_journal

5 months

*most read* #2023 📑"Imperialism, supremacy, and the Russian invasion of Ukraine” by @ksenyia_oksamyt 📑“Drones have boots: Learning from Russia’s war in Ukraine” by Dominika Kunertova 📑”(En)Countering epistemic imperialism” by @TerezaHendl @OBurlyuk @MilaOSullivan @levbekk

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Tereza Hendl

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She interrogated the weaponization of Indigenous bodies in the russian invasion of Ukraine and during the long and ongoing history of russian settler colonialism and explored why russian imperialism won’t end when we just ‘end the war’

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Tereza Hendl

@TerezaHendl

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To me, Butler’s insistence on holding onto the unrealistic in response to imperial violence reads as unstructural, irresponsible & harmful. No matter how well intended, the focus on utopia conceals the material impact of RU violence, the real and imminent threat to UA lives..

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The recording will come soon and hopefully also our paper w @levbekk , @OBurlyuk & @MilaOSullivan on epistemic imperialism & coloniality of knowledge production in dominant as well as feminist debates on the russian invasion of Ukraine, and generally Europe’s East and Central Asia

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Tereza Hendl

@TerezaHendl

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Every time a German politician frames Ukrainian self-defense against genocide by russia as an escalation, I return to this frank and necessary thread that explores the history of German imperialism against Ukraine and its present implications. This cycle happens remarkably often.

Eugene Finkel

@eugene_finkel

2 years

This here is Kyiv, 1941. The city where my grandmother and many relatives lived. Some escaped, some haven't. If you are German, you of course know that Germans did it. Let's be more specific. Chances are, someone in your immediate or extended family been there and done that /2

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Creepiest ride with a russian taxi driver in Tbilisi: he asks how come I don’t speak russian when I’m from Prague. I tell him it’s because we were de-occupied. He tells me that if all women in CZ are as beautiful as me, he’s going there. I want to vomit & pretend to call a friend

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Tereza Hendl

@TerezaHendl

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I want to add a compulsory reading

CEE feminist research network

@CEE_Feminisms

3 years

Sociologist Agéla Kóczé in „Missing #Intersectionality . Race/Ethnicity, Gender, and Class in Current Research and Policies on Romani Women in Europe” contrasts research & policy with material realities. Open access: #race #gender #class #RomaniFeminism

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She also observes that EE’s “been shaped by global forces as much as any region around the world: neoliberal capitalism, patriarchal authoritarianism & other forms of sexism, racism & global migration (contoured by all the preceding),” and within these forces, EE countries are..

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Tereza Hendl

@TerezaHendl

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Footage from Warsaw, last night’s protest against restrictions on abortion rights. Biggest protest since 1989 and it’s one against misogyny. Polish women rock!

#StrajkKobiet

@strajkkobiet

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Parada Wolności!

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@irenabursova na týhle "kauze" je issue akorát tak chování Kuchařový

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Tereza Hendl

@TerezaHendl

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A key sincere question. I can offer some follow-up questions for scholars who speak on Ukraine while not having done the reading: why haven’t you? What is it that makes one as a scholar think and act like one doesn’t need to do a literature review of scholarship from Ukraine?

Vincent Artman

@geogvma

11 months

Sincere question for @CornelWest : have you done the reading on Ukraine? You’re a scholar. Have you even conducted a basic literature review on the subject? If not, then why are you so comfortable offering your opinion on the matter on national tv?

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Tereza Hendl

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“Civilizational choice.” Here’s wondering: what kind of power dynamic is behind these words?

Anne Applebaum

@anneapplebaum

1 year

The new Czech president is a former general who supports Ukraine, has broad Nato experience and wants his country firmly anchored in the democratic world. The Czechs have just made an important civilizational choice.

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Tereza Hendl

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This is spot on: a genuine peace movement challenges power and rejects oppression. It does not shift responsibility from invading empires and it certainly does not speak over the occupied and lobby to deny them the assistance required for their self-defence, indeed amid genocide.

Terrell Jermaine Starr 🇺🇦🌻🇵🇸🍉✊🏾🇬🇪

@terrelljstarr

9 months

A real peace movement attacks POWER. Russia is the power that is causing this war, yet they have no serious critiques of Putin or his many henchmen who are committing war crimes around Ukraine. They work with the oppressed. I've yet to see @codepink here in Ukraine. 👀

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