Womanhood & International Relations: Recent Episodes

Natalia Bonilla

Womanhood and International Relations is a bi-weekly podcast created by Natalia Bonilla to explore the intersection of feminist theory from a personal to an international level.

*In English and Spanish languages

To mark the 5th year anniversary of our podcast, we want to invite our community of listeners to the launch of a new free report where we will connect the dots on the 180 exploratory and explanatory episodes and interviews we have recorded so far regarding gender perspectives, activism and feminist and constructivist theories applied to International Relations.

We will provide insights on our findings in the 3 levels of IR analysis and embark on a wider conversation on the study, praxis and local/international media coverages of People, Politics & World Affairs.

The report will be launched on July 23rd in English and Spanish languages at different hours. In English at 12 p.m. Eastern Time and in Spanish language at 6 p.m. Eastern time.

Join the webinar live and spread the word among your networks, thank you for your support and we hope to see you there!

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Is it possible that world leaders today may be exhibiting, numbing or inflicting individual and/or collective pain in domestic or foreign policies?

What is the connection between pain, power and transnational feminism? What causes the disconnection of seeing pain only as a personal experience instead of it being, also, a collective one?

Have Individuals or States engaged in life-draining instead of life-sustaining decisions?

Which economic/cultural/religious systems weaponize pain and which others prioritize wellbeing for Humans & Earth sustainable evolution?

An interview with Dr. L. Ayu Saraswati, professor in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Hawai`i and author of "Scarred: A Feminist Journey Through Pain" (2023), and "Seeing Beauty, Sensing Race in Transnational Indonesia" (2024).

Listen to related episodes:

1. Kimberly Loh on Compassionate Conversations
1. Pauline Stoltz on Transnational Memories & Violent Conflicts in Indonesia
1. Hannah Ruth Dyson on the Deep Feminine
1. Dr. Paul Slovic & Dr. Scott Slovic on the Science Behind the Limits of Compassion
1. Dr. Luke Moffett on Reparations in Post-Conflict Societies

Recommended links

Dr. Saraswati Official Website
Scarred: A Feminist Journey Through Pain
Seeing Beauty, Sensing Race in Transnational Indonesia
Why Beauty Matters to the Postcolonial Nation's Masters: Reading Narratives of Female Beauty in Pramoedya's Buru Tetralogy
Cosmopolitan Whiteness: The Effects and Affects of Skin-Whitening Advertisements in a Transnational Women’s Magazine in Indonesia
How Emotion Rules Social Media

Is the media coverage of foreign policy focusing on states’ behavior to, purposely, dehumanize people? How mainstream, traditional and social media coverages of international conflicts are influenced by and/or can influence too: People, States & Systems?

How complex is the experience of covering human rights violations, defense and protection? Can media coverages of human rights violations and mass crimes vary depending on the diplomatic, economic, religious and cultural ties of the countries’ news companies, journalists and editors are from, based on or respond to?

Are states foregoing Humanitarian Intervention and R2P mechanisms because economic, diplomatic and religious ties with private or third party actors triumph over, or come at the expense of, the suffering of “other” people?

Which human stories of conflict, justice, peace and memory become top news and why others aren’t? Where are these stories being told and who is paying attention, ridiculing, ignoring or censuring them?

A Spanish-language interview with Marta Saiz, freelance human rights journalist with more than a decade of experience covering conflict, migration and human rights stories in Iran, Greece, Palestine, Mexico, Colombia, Chile, Bolivia and Paraguay; winner of the 2021 Premio de periodismo de migración laboral of the International Labour Organization.

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1. Mendy Marsh and Chiderah Monde on COVID-19 & Humanitarian Aid System Collapse
1. War Journalism's Effect On Us
1. Chloé Meulewaeter on Global Military Spending & Demilitarization Efforts
1. Rachel Winny on the Rise of Disinformation & Conflict Escalation
1. Social Media Warfare Effects On Us

Recommended links

Web Links https://linktr.ee/martasaiz
IG: @marsaime
TW: @martasaiz
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marta-saiz/
Luana Malheiro: “En Brasil, la guerra contra las drogas es contra las personas pobres y negras”
Chile: “El amor y la solidaridad entre mujeres fue clave para sobrevivir”
Las rebeldes de Irán
Lesbos, vivir en la desembocadura del horror y la guerra
Casa Frida, un espacio seguro para migrantes LGBTIQ+ en México
El teatro como herramienta de resistencia en Palestina
Cuidar la tierra para cuidar la vida: la resistencia de las mujeres rurales en Palestina
Cuando salir del armario (en Honduras) significa rechazo, violencia, ruptura con el hogar y muerte
Victoria Sandino: "Toda mi vida he sido rebelde"

Have individuals and states outgrown the current international systems? Is the international political system not meant for states to grow unlimited within it or...to grow outside of it?

What if 20th century norms and rules created by international community institutions (and by certain state and non-state actors) were and are limiting humans and states' evolution?

What is the current World Order? Are we already in a "New" World Order? Or are we living through a... World Disorder?

Are modern states and non-state actors, leaders and institutions creating new forms of "order" without sharing values and interest in agreed relation?

How comfortable are we with uncertainty and disorder?

Do humans aspire for or resist order? Do humans actually, crave for or are preconditioned to desire, disorder to be the norm?

Join us in this new exploration (with practical exercise!) and follow us on social media @womanhood_ir in LinkedIn, Twitter and Instagram.

Listen to related episodes:

1. The Matrix Trilogy - What Can We Learn From It?
1. Healing Our Inner/Outer Masculine & Feminine Imbalances
1. World Politics Today: BRICS Expansion
1. The Loss of Meaning in the International System

Recommended links:

Anarchy is what States Make of it: The Social Construction of Power Politics
Constructing International Politics
A brief overview of Alexander Wendt's Constructivism
E.H. Carr, Hans J. Morgenthau, and International Law
The New World Disorder
The risk of world disorder
The New World Disorder
China’s New World Order
Decoding Putin and Xi's blueprint for a new world order
Redrawing the global order

How free are Women in Politics? When does personal agency or identity can get lost in the launch and execution of political campaigns? What weighs more in the road to election: personal reasons, collective pressures/promises or a combination of both?

With the rise of female candidates running for presidential positions in different countries, what's the ratio of commitment to serve the people vs. the interests of corporations, donors and campaign backers?

Just as subjects can become political, what if staying too long in positions of political power strips elected officials from their own personal identity? Who are they or who they can be without... "Politics"? And is this possible crisis of personal identity a reason why they may "cling" to "power"?

A review of the TV series The Queenmaker.

Join the exploration, you can follow us on LinkedIn and Instagram @womanhood_ir

Listen to related episodes:

1. Natalie Caraballo on Women's Political Participation in Puerto Rico
1. The Queen’s Gambit
1. Psychology in International Relations
1. Borgen: Power & Glory
1. The Diplomat

Recommended links:

The Queenmaker
The Good, the Bad and the Different: Can Gender Quotas Raise the Quality of Politicians?
Women Political Leaders: The Impact of Gender on Democracy
Gender bias and women’s political performance
Handbook on promoting women’s participation in political parties
Women and Political Leadership Ahead of the US 2024 Election
Quiénes son Claudia Sheinbaum y Xóchitl Gálvez, las dos aspirantes a convertirse en la primera presidenta de México

What stories do our bodies tell? How can music and dance forms help people communicate with their inner selves and each other? How our body language may be signaling our oppression or liberation of mental, cultural or social conditionings?

Why is Belly Dancing seen as a popular and powerful dance style? How its evolution throughout time showcased the intersection between West and East gazes? In which ways mindful art performances educate audiences or societies to rethink prejudices and stereotypes on women's and people's bodies?

An interview with Alexandra Molina and Valerick Molinary, founders of the multimedia production and theater company Belly Dance Stories.

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1. Hannah Ruth Dyson on The Deep Feminine
1. Itzel Pamela Pérez-Gómez on Gender Issues in the Middle East
1. How-To Start A Women's Circle
1. Healing Our Inner/Outer Masculine & Feminine Imbalances
1. Revaluing Our Bodies, Spaces and Behaviors

Recommended links to this episode:

Belly Dance Stories Website
Belly Dance Stories Podcast
Belly Dance Stories Instagram
Belly Dance Stories Youtube
Alexandra Molina Instagram
Valerick Molinary Instagram
The Political Potential of Belly Dance
Grandmother's Secrets: The Ancient Rituals and Healing Power of Belly Dancing
Bellydancing, Activism and the Politics of Pleasure
On the Identity Politics of Belly Dancing

Does the survival of states (and their relations) ultimately come at the expense of the survival of our (& other) people?

A practical exercise episode for Feminist Perspectives and IR Analysis for whoever is interested in understanding current world affairs.

Listen to related episodes

1. The Masculine/Feminine National Cultures Index
1. Feminisms & International Security
1. Elaine Brière on How & Why Colonial Powers Want to Control Haiti
1. Nivine Sandouka on Palestinian Women: Beyond the Media Worldview
1. Psychology in International Relations
1. Roundtable: Countering Militarized Masculinities for Feminist Peace
1. Kirthi Jayakumar on Anticolonialism in International Relations
1. Hypermasculinity & Hyperfemininity on States

How are we reacting to watching wars unfold on traditional news media and social media? What role does mis/dis/information play in our response or disregard of international conflicts?

Listen to related episodes

1. Sandra Aceng on Women's Rights, Online Violence and Race in Uganda
1. Mendy Marsh and Chiderah Monde on COVID-19 & Humanitarian Aid System Collapse
1. Postcolonial Feminism 101 - Which Women's Experiences Do We Know More About?
1. War Journalism's Effect On Us
1. Chloé Meulewaeter on Global Military Spending & Demilitarization Efforts
1. Dr. Paul Slovic & Dr. Scott Slovic on the Science Behind the Limits of Compassion
1. Nivine Sandouka on Palestinian Women: Beyond the Media Worldview
1. Roundtable: Countering Militarized Masculinities for Feminist Peace
1. Rachel Winny on the Rise of Disinformation & Conflict Escalation

Recommended links

What is social media warfare?
Why Social Media Is the New Weapon in Modern Warfare
The Social Media
The Monarchy of Fear: A Philosopher Looks at Our Political Crisis
Don’t blame social media for the fog of war
Disinformation and Hate Speech on Social Media Contribute to Inciting War Crimes Against Gaza
Changing Sources: Social Media Activity During Civil War
Russia, Ukraine, and Social Media and Messaging Apps
The fog of war envelops social media
How Social Media Is Changing Conflict
This War Shows Just How Broken Social Media Has Become
Welcome to the Post-Truth Era
Watching War Unfold on Social Media Affects Your Mental Health

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On International Day of the Girl, what are some of the key issues affecting girl’s education in Ivory Coast? Why Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Math (STEAM) education is important for the current and next generation of young leaders in your country and region?

An interview with Sylvie Tanflotien, president of Ameri-STEAM.

Recommended links of this episode:

Ameri-STEAM Website
Go Fund Me Fundraiser: Ameri-Steam girls coding & leadership bootcamp

Part II- Power Revisited IG Limited Series

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BRICS Information Portal
Information of BRICS - Russia
⁠Infographics | Explaining the BRICS expansion⁠
BRICS Expansion: Challenging Western Dominance
OPEC and maximum production: What is sustainable?
Agreement on the Eastern Section of the Boundary between the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and the People's Republic of China (1991 Sino-Soviet Border Agreement)
Treaty of Good-Neighborliness and Friendly Cooperation Between the People's Republic of China and the Russian Federation
Russia and China Unveil a Pact Against America and the West
Russia-China ties enter ‘new era’ as Xi meets Putin in Moscow
BRICS Expansion Could Help Egypt’s Ailing Economy
Explainer: Four key benefits for Egypt as a member of BRICS
Ethiopia’s Membership Of BRICS: Consequences and Prospects
How Egypt and Ethiopia joining Brics could help boost China’s influence in Africa
Brics: por qué la Argentina ingresa al grupo de países de economías emergentes
Los pros y contras del ingreso de Argentina a los BRICS

How the political climate of countries can hinder or facilitate conflict resolution or peace efforts? When did the concept of "peace" become a political tool for winning or losing a presidential elections in Colombia? Can the new 'Total Peace' plan pave the way for transitional or transformational justice?

How have Conflict-Related Sexual Violence cases within rebel groups such as the FARC been addressed in transitional justice mechanisms? Who are the 'ideal victims' for the State or the special judicial systems? How can reparations for sexual violence victims include a gender perspective?

An interview with Daniela Suárez Vargas is a PhD student in Law at Queen’s University Belfast (UK), a scholar of the AHRC Northern Bridge Consortium’s doctoral training programme (UK), and a qualified lawyer in Colombia. Her PhD project analyses how legal narratives of the "ideal victim" of sexual violence impact the recognition of victim status for women fighters who experienced such violence within their own armed group.

Join us in this exploration, follow us on Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn @womanhood_ir and support our work on Patreon http://patreon.com/womanhoodir

Listen to related episodes:

1. Kimberly Loh on Compassionate Conversations and Conflict Resolution
1. Annette Pérez on Anti-Racism & 2022 Presidential Elections in Colombia
1. Dr. Luke Moffett on Reparations in Post-Conflict Societies

Recommended links to this episode:

Daniela Suarez QUB Profile
Daniela Suarez Twitter
The Role and Responsibilities of Non-State Actors in Transitional Justice
Are girls under the age of 15, who are taken as wives or partners by members of an armed group participating in a non-international armed conflict, protected from sexual violence perpetrated against them by their partners or by other members of the armed group to which they belong?
MÁS ALLÁ DEL SILENCIO Y EL ESTIGMA: reparaciones con perspectiva de género para víctimas de violencia sexual en programas domésticos de reparación (Daniela Suárez was a collaborator for the Spanish translation of this report)
Daniela Suárez Vargas and Rachel Killean (2023) “Women’s Experiences of Environmental Harm in Colombia: Learning from Black, Decolonial and Indigenous Communitarian Feminisms” in Gendering Green Criminology.
Lawpod PhD Series Episode. “Colombian transitional justice narratives of criminalisation and victimhood in the context of sexual violence within armed groups”
Comisión de la Verdad de Colombia (2022), Mi cuerpo es la verdad (Reporte Final)

Part I - Power Revisited IG Limited Series

Watch the full IG Live

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Recommended links to this episode:

Download UN New Agenda for Peace
Download 1992 Agenda for Peace
UN chief says the world is in a new era marked by the highest major power competition in decades
‘Reform or rupture’ says Guterres, calling for multilateralism to be remade for the 21st century
Ten Challenges for the UN in 2023-2024
SaferWorld Voices for Peace Podcast: What's Next for the New Agenda for Peace
UN Security Council terminates Mali peacekeeping mission
The Role of African Multilateralism in the New Agenda for Peace
Congo’s president wants the large UN peacekeeping mission to start leaving the country this year
What Future for UN Peacekeeping in Africa after Mali Shutters Its Mission?
A corporate takeover of the UN must be stopped
Global south thwarts UN future summit plans
The Future of Multilateralism

Are we stuck in a Suspended Human Evolution? Is it preventing us to develop a process to "Care for Peace" at a global scale? What can we learn from healthcare professionals to understand this concept from an individual to a systemic level?

Why the Mutual Assured Destruction in the early 1960s meant the end of the First Human Evolution? And how can we launch the Second one in this decade?

On International Peace Day 2023, the call to rethink the international system to prevent or intervene in growing conflicts and insecurity challenges is expanding in different power circles from governments, IR and Peace fields to feminist, environmental, societal and spiritual ones.

How are we each contributing to our race or Planet extinction or... to the quest for long lasting peace?

An interview with Jeff Hardy, International Healthcare Facility Futurist and Planner and Author of "To Care for Peace: A Global Mandate to Secure the Second Human Evolution in Perpetuity."

Join us in this exploration, follow us on Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn @womanhood_ir and support our work on Patreon http://patreon.com/womanhoodir

Listen to related episodes:

1. Kimberly Loh on Compassionate Conversations and Conflict Resolution
1. Dr. Paul Slovic & Dr. Scott Slovic on the Science Behind the Limits of Compassion
1. Dr. Luke Moffett on Reparations in Post-Conflict Societies

Recommended links to this episode:

To Care for Peace: A Global Mandate to Secure the Second Human Evolution in Perpetuity (Book)
Care for Peace Website
The Heart of Care for Peace

How cultures of fear and silence may affect the way post-conflict societies relate to transitional justice and peace processes? What's been the role women have played in the TRRC in The Gambia?

How has the implementation of women-only listening circles and safe spaces helped build trust, support and justice to those who have been excluded, abused or silenced for so long?

An interview with Ereshnee Naidu-Silverman, Senior Director for the Global Transitional Justice Initiative.

Join us in this exploration, follow us on Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn @womanhood_ir and support our work on Patreon http://patreon.com/womanhoodir

Listen to related episodes:

1. Kimberly Loh on Compassionate Conversations and Conflict Resolution
1. Pauline Stoltz on Transnational Memories & Violent Conflicts in Indonesia
1. How To Become a Tyrant
1. How-To Start A Women's Circle
1. Dr. Luke Moffett on Reparations in Post-Conflict Societies

Recommended readings of this episode:

Inclusive Justice in The Gambia
Global Initiative for Justice, Truth and Reconciliation
⁠International Coalition of Sites of Conscience
From "Gender Sensitive" Transitional Justice to Gender Inclusivity
The Role of Psychosocial Support in Building Healthy, Resilient Communities in Africa
Gambia: Commission Uncovers Ex-Dictator’s Alleged Crimes
Women’s Experiences of Dictatorship in the Gambia

What is the caste system and why it still continues nowadays in India?Dalit women and girls are placed at the bottom of the caste system, why is it so? What are some cultural or religious norms negatively affecting Dalit and Adivasis women and girls? How do they differ from castes in Northern India?

Despite all the domestic and international human rights laws focusing on protecting caste marginalized communities, why structural violence and sexual violence persists against them? How can States work through "reforming" centuries old societal/economic/religious organization systems to "fit" current times?

Are there limits to what "States" can do to ensure inter communal violence doesn't occur? What if there are "non-negotiables" for societal and ethnic organizations, different than states structures, depending on a country's history?

An interview with Christina Dhanuja, Convenor of the Global Campaign for Dalit Women and co-founder of the #DalitHistoryMonth project.

Join us in this exploration, follow us on Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn @womanhood_ir.

Listen to related episodes:

1. Postcolonial Feminism 101 - Which Women's Experiences Do We Know More About?
1. Kirthi Jayakumar on Anticolonialism in International Relations
1. Dr. Luke Moffett on Reparations in Post-Conflict Societies
1. Dr. Shraddha Kale Kapile on Menstrual Health, Hygiene & Education in Mumbai Slums

Recommended readings of this episode:

Global Campaign for Dalit Women Official Website
Global Campaign for Dalit Women Programs
GCDW Instagram
⁠Christina Dhanuja Official Website⁠
Annihilation of Caste: The Annotated Critical Edition
The Internationalisation of Caste
The Dalit: Born into a life of discrimination and stigma
Attacks on Dalit Women: A Pattern of Impunity
Hathras case: Dalit women are among the most oppressed in the world
The Rape Of India’s Dalit Women And Girls

Annihilation of Caste: The Annotated Critical Edition

We may have been taught the study of International Relations in a logical way as if there were no underlying energies, emotions and desires in the behaviors and relations between states but, that time, has come to an end.

What kind of energies lie beneath domestic and foreign policies? Are states striving for balance or moving towards the extremes of hypermasculinity or hyperfemininity? How are these two concepts influencing their decision-making? How is the intersection between individual thought/emotion/will, social/racial/gender/environmental movements, nations and cultures affecting the structures of States and their relations with others?

Why some domestic or foreign policies thrive or fall because of their excess or lack of "energy" behind them?

Join us in this exploration, follow us on Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn @womanhood_ir.

Listen to related episodes:

1. Why Feminist Theory Matters in International Relations
1. Hegemonic Masculinity and Femininity in World Politics
1. Androcentric vs. Gynocentric View Of The World
1. The Masculine/Feminine National Cultures Index
1. Queer Theory in International Relations

Recommended readings of this episode:

Measuring a macho personality constellation
Women's Intentions Regarding, and Acceptance of, Self-Sexualizing Behavior
Hyperfeminity and body-related constructs
Characteristics of the Hyper-masculine Culture
Hyperfeminity: Measurement and Initial Validation of the Construct
It’s A Man’s World: The Worrying Trend of Hyper-Masculinity in World Leaders
‘Diplomacy is a feminine art’: Feminised figurations of the diplomat
Trump Has Weaponized Masculinity As President. Here's Why It Matters
Anti-Western and hyper macho, Putin’s appeal in Southeast Asia⁠
Taliban bans women’s beauty parlours in Afghanistan
'We Won't Be Silenced,' Afghan Female Musicians Tell Taliban
Gendering Human Security in Afghanistan

How can we build information resilience amidst so many digital battlegrounds, misinformation and gendered disinformation campaigns influencing political, social and armed conflicts around the world?

Why have digital battlegrounds and disinformation campaigns particularly targeted female activists in Myanmar after the 2021 military coup? How has the Taliban takeover in Afghanistan increased online/offline threats to NGOs and civilians reporting human rights violations? In which ways the Ukraine-Russia conflict has showcased the importance of open source data verification projects to document human rights abuses and war crimes? How can social media platforms regulate and prevent online abuse, harrasment and gendered disinformation that could lead to more domestic/international conflicts?

An interview with Rachel Winny, Technical Director at the Centre for Information Resilience.

Join us in this exploration, follow us on Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn @womanhood_ir.

Listen to related episodes:

1. Sandra Aceng on Women's Rights, Online Violence and Race in Uganda
1. Mendy Marsh and Chiderah Monde on COVID-19 & Humanitarian Aid System Collapse
1. Dr. Roudabeh Kishi on Mapping Political Violence
1. José R. Rivera-González on US Withdrawal from Afghanistan
1. Devon Cone on COVID-19 Impact on Migration & Humanitarian Crises
1. Rushan Abbas on Calls of Genocide Against the Uyghurs

Recommended links of this episode:

Centre for Information Resilience Official Website
Myanmar Witness
Afghan Witness
Eyes on Russia
Reflecting on Five Years of Work on Gendered Disinformation
Digital Battlegrounds: Politically motivated abuse of Myanmar women online

Is diplomacy a world of political favors? Do diplomats hold conditional "power" in personal friendships and state alliances? Is this power symbolic, cultural or merely decorative or performative for specific circles (party elites, lobbies, etc) or media circus?

Can the role of ambassadors and diplomatic missions deactivate when Realism kicks in the minds of political leaders for power control and state survival? What is the purpose of state ambassadors in times of crisis? Do soft power, discourses and negotiations mostly thrive when Liberalist Theory is the cornerstone of government administrations, foreign policy models and the languages, behaviors and actions that follow?

A review on The Diplomat (2023) TV Series.

Join us in this exploration, follow us on Instagram, Twitter and LinkedIn @womanhood_ir

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The Matrix Trilogy - What Can We Learn From It?
Patriarchy & The Triad of Men's Violence
SHEcurity Index 2021 - A Review
Borgen: Power & Glory

The COVID-19 pandemic hit the global economy in unprecedented ways, marking a new wave of interest in the design of healthier and alternative economic systems for the benefit of People and Planet. Unpaid domestic work and the care crisis has been big areas of concern amongst scholars and activists studying and advocating for Feminist Economics principles, how can theory and praxis of the care economy help clear the knowledge gap between the public, private and civil sectors?

What is the care economy and why its past and present organization is creating a structural barrier limiting women's economic participation? How has climate change exacerbated the care crisis? In which ways the private sector is helping solve the care crisis in Latin America, Sub-Saharan Africa and Asia? Since there are pink washing dynamics in gender lens investments and philanthropy initiatives, how could a "well-executed" care economy lens change the future of investments, businesses and markets?

An interview with Dr. Carolina Robino and Dr. Rebecca Calder, partners of The Care Economy Knowledge Hub.

Listen to related episodes:

1. Danielle Keiser on COVID-19's Impact on Menstrual Health Education
1. Gender Gap & Global Health's "Broken System" (Part I)

Recommended links and readings:

The Care Economy Knowledge Hub
The Care Economy Knowledge Hub Business Mapping
Investing in the care economy for a feminist economic transition and a quadruple win
Building a feminist, decolonized research approach during COVID: what we learned and unlearned
Sustainable Inclusive Economies

Cecilia Monzón's femicide in 2022 shocked thousands of people in Mexico. The public outcry for justice for her and the many mothers who were and still are victims of gender based violence perpetrated by their current or former partners led to several activist campaigns and the proposal of laws including the Monzon's Law or Ley de Monzón.

What is Cecilia's story and what was her feminist fight? In a country with one of the highest rates of femicides in the Latin American region, what is the importance of gender perspectives in Law? How is institutional gender violence revictimizing victims and their families while favoring perpetrators of crimes? What can we learn from the human rights and children rights dimensions of Cecilia's case? Why are feminist collectives so important in the quest for justice and prevention of GBV?

An interview with Helena Monzón Pérez, Lawyer and sister of Cecilia Monzón.

A special thank you to Cecilia Ibarra and the members of Colectiva Insurrectas for helping make this interview possible.

Join us in this exploration, follow us on Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn @womanhood_ir .

Listen to related episodes:

1. Top Findings on GBV Research in Latin America & the Caribbean
1. Isabella Esquivel Ventura on Mexico's Feminist Foreign Policy
1. Feminism & International Law

Recommended links of this episode:

Helena Monzon's Twitter
¿Qué plantea la Ley Monzón y quién la inspiró?
Aprueban en Puebla "Ley Monzón"; le quita la patria potestad a feminicidas
Exile after the femicide: this is how Cecilia Monzon’s family fled from Mexico
Ley Monzón Instagram

Has the patriarchal mindset affected the way we portray ourselves, value knowledge and create or sustain work environments in the IR field?

Are we aware of the set of formal or informal rules of engagement we must follow personally or collectively to be perceived as "good professionals" in this or other fields? Do our postures, speech and behaviors change to "fit in" certain masculine/male dominated/logic spaces or environments? Or do we remain consistent across the spaces, environments and social circles? If so or if not, why?

Do we value more knowledge taught in masculine/logic spaces such as universities and think tanks rather than knowledge taught in feminine/intuitive spaces such as community circles or tribes? Do we want the latter to be cheap or free because "we cannot do anything with it"? How is the patriarchal and capitalist systems affecting our perception of knowledge value?

This episode is a new exercise that builds on previous podcast explorations we have shared of how Feminist Theory in IR is connected to the embodied experience of people from different genders studying or working in various areas of Political Science.

Listen to related episodes:

1. Marion Messmer on How-To Incorporate Gender Perspectives Within IR Think Tanks
1. How-To Speak with Professors about Feminist Theory in IR
1. The Journey and Lessons of Launching Feminist Online Workshops
1. Revaluing Women's IR Analysis in Traditional & Social Media

What are some ways to address Menstrual Health, Hygiene and Education that could enable societies and governments to reduce shame and stigma? How can sensitization training for schools and healthcare professionals, the engagement with local leaders and the rehabilitation and adaptation of WASH facilities could help create inclusive menstrual health management? Why is MHHE often overlooked within the context of development? What are the cultural, religious and policy budget shifts happening due to WASH programs in countries like Sierra Leone, Liberia, Burkina Faso and Pakistan?

To commemorate World Menstrual Hygiene Day 2023, we feature an interview with Nicole Dagher, Program Manager at Water Aid Canada.

Join us in this exploration, follow us on Instagram, Twitter and LinkedIn @womanhood_ir

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1. Danielle Keiser on COVID-19's Impact on Menstrual Health Education
1. Zvisinei Dzepasi Mamutse on Girls' Menstrual Health Education in Zimbabwe
1. Kat Plouffe on Launching a Sustainable Period Startup
1. Carolina Ramírez on Decolonizing Menstrual Hygiene & Education in Latin America
1. Dr. Shraddha Kale Kapile on Menstrual Health, Hygiene & Education in Mumbai Slums

Recommended links of this episode:

WaterAid Official Website
The Water Crisis
Facts and Statistics
HerWASH programme
SHARE programme

Background music credit: Roman Kostiuk, A Small Miracle - Pixabay License

What are the menstrual realities of young girls, women and menstruating people living in Mumbai Slums? How are religions, economics, customs and traditions directly or indirectly influencing or perpetuating menstrual shame and stigma in this city? How can science, education, economic empowerment opportunities and health clinics help offer pathways of menstrual dignity to vulnerable populations?

On World Menstrual Hygiene Day 2023, we feature an interview with Dr. Shraddha Kale Kapile, Senior Program Manager at Myna Mahila Foundation.

Join us in this exploration, follow us on Instagram, Twitter and LinkedIn @womanhood_ir

Listen to related episodes:

1. Menstrual Hygiene Day: Poverty, Culture and Sustainability
1. Carla Giacummo on Menstrual Health Education in Uruguay
1. Danielle Keiser on COVID-19's Impact on Menstrual Health Education
1. Kat Plouffe on Launching a Sustainable Period Startup
1. Carolina Ramírez on Decolonizing Menstrual Hygiene & Education in Latin America

Recommended links of this episode:

Myna Mahila Foundation Official Website
Myna Mahila's Initiatives
⁠Myna Mahila's Impact⁠
Menstruation Challenges in India
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What is the colonial history of menstrual health, hygiene and education in Latin America? How important is the language used in family settings, schools, business ads, health clinics and government policies to reproduce or reduce the menstrual shame and stigma that is passed on through generations? Why words such as "hygiene", "poverty" and "purification" are used by international development agendas to address menstruation as a "sanitation crises" in the Global South? What needs to change in the local and international approach to decolonize menstrual health, hygiene and education in this region?

On World Menstrual Hygiene Day 2023, we feature a Spanish-language interview with Psychologist Carolina Ramirez, founder of Princesas Menstruantes, Escuela de Educación Emancipadas and Coordinator of Encuentro Latinoamericano de Educación, Salud y Activismos Menstruales.

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Princesas Menstruantes Official Website
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How challenging is to launch a sustainable menstrual hygiene products small-business? What are the biggest opportunities and struggles female entrepreneurs face when entering the Canadian market, often flooded by synthetic and cheap products from big corporations? What are the main criticisms and successes of choosing sustainable sourcing, manufacturing and distribution? How plastic-free and rayon-free hygiene products be good for people's health and the environment?

On World Menstrual Hygiene Day 2023, we feature an interview with Kat Plouffe, founder of Only.

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How are we currently valuing women's presence, voices and expertise in traditional media and social media as fellow colleagues, readers, listeners or audience members? Has the patriarchal mindset and the predomination of male experts in the International Relations field affected the way we look and value women experts whether we agree with their IR analysis or not?

Are we aware of the set of beauty standards, cultural norms and behavior expectations we personally or collectively measure to define what a "good scholar" or a "good professional" should be, look or sound like?

What kind of struggles, insecurities, risks and/or structural barriers do women experts face in order to be recognized as "experts" or "legitimized" by their peers within this field? Why the criticism against women's experts in IR is mostly destructive criticism and not constructive? Is it possible to revalue or re-educate our gaze and value system in a nonviolent way?

This episode is a new exercise that builds on previous podcast explorations we have shared of how Feminist Theory in IR is connected to the embodied experience of people from different genders studying or working in various areas of Political Science.

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Are great powers (and personal powers') dynamics primal or developed?

A review and analysis of Borgen:Power & Glory Netflix Series.

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Is national identity all some of us have? Is nationalism a good omen for humans to hold on to in order to...matter? If so, how? How to lighten the load we carry?

The final episode on colonial mindset dynamics in the podcast series "The Burden of the Colonial Mindset", #PuertoRico, case study.

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What are the feminist values, economic and social pressures states are responding to? And...why?

A review of the new Feminist Foreign Policy Index 2023.

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Millions of women and girls around the world lack access to clean water. In some rural areas and cultures, they are the ones walking up to 4 miles to collect water (not necessarily safe to drink) several times a day negatively affecting their opportunities for education, work and living a healthy and dignified life.

Why is clean water so important for women and how could it help them gain their time (and lives!) back?

How are WASH projects making a positive difference in the lives of individual people and their communities? What challenges and successes can be found in WASH projects operating in ongoing conflict zones or water-stressed areas in Africa and Asia? Is the water crisis solvable in our lifetime?

On World Water Day 2023, what are the biggest misconceptions around women and water and how are they overcoming them?

An interview with Michelle Jackson Riewer, Director of Programs and Operations at Charity:Water.

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What are reparations and how are they different from other transitional justice mechanisms? How are reparations from war different from those of dictatorships, legacies of slavery and colonization? Do reparations help people "heal", individually and collectively, wounds from the past? If so, how?

What is our role in agreeing upon or legitimizing a "hierarchy of victims"? How do we perceive justice for victims? Can justice ever arrive "too late"? Do victims really feel a sense of “closure” when reparations talks and programs take place? Can victims "self-repair"? What can we learn from the case studies of Guatemala, Peru, Northern Ireland, Uganda, Nepal, South Africa and Kosovo?

An interview with Dr. Luke Moffett, reader of the School of Law at Queen's University Belfast and author of the new book "Reparations and War: Finding the Balance in Repairing the Past".

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Are we projecting our inner wounds into the world? How much of the suffering and violent conflicts we are seeing on the international news come from masculine or feminine energetic imbalances stemming from Self to Governments? What role do we play, what type of agency do we exercise, in order to contribute to current power inequalities and struggles within our families, relations, communities and nations? What kind of responsibility do we choose to take and which other do we choose to externalize and blame into an “Other”, a “System”, a “Culture”?

How can we start broadening our awareness of how our personal story may impact or help evolve the macro one?

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Are we confined by the coloniality of knowledge within the International Relations field? What type of IR analysis is accepted, reproduced or legitimized? And, by who? How and why are feminists from the Global South subverting IR theories and FFP's through praxis? Why decolonial and anticolonial standpoints on world affairs are growing? Which safe spaces and forms of expressions do people have to reflect upon them?

An interview with Kirthi Jayakumar, peace educator, lawyer and founder of the Gender Security Project.

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How a State views itself and its relations with Others? With the 'Total Peace' Law approved recently, the Gustavo Petro Administration is seeking to end the decades-long armed conflict with multiple groups and actors in Colombia during the 2022-2026 period. The announcement of a FFP model comes with a willingness to redesign the National Action Plan for 1325 Resolution to fit the 'Total Peace' efforts. As we see this agenda unfold, how controversies surrounding the words "feminism", "race" and "peace" in the Latin America region may or can transform domestic and foreign affairs? Can intersectional lenses be applied in representation, design and implementation? Lastly, are ffp models becoming excellent examples of political communication to showcase "progress" and receive "external validation" from the 'North' instead of... "real" and "effective" policies and actions?

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Can the pursuit of two proposals... work out? Gabriel Boric's Administration is leading announcements of a "feminist" foreign policy and a "turquoise" foreign policy, both at the same time, is it a sign of how states can multilaterally answer the most pressing world problems or... is it falling down the old "divide and conquer" route? Why "ecofeminism" was not a term considered to align the two?

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How are we framing the history of November 25th? Why the assassination of the Mirabal sisters in the Dominican Republic showed the international community the brutality of violence against women in politics? Are we remembering women as political actors or only as victims of violence?

How are we building the collective memory of women in our countries?

An interview with Dr. Ada Alvarez Conde, Caribbean Historian, Author and Dating Violence Expert.

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How Jair Bolsonaro’s Administration transformed Brazil? Why the term “necropolitics” is used to describe not only his government’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic and the deforestation of the Amazon region but also the dismantling of social welfare programs that previously sought to address economic, gender and racial inequalities? In which ways, the militaristic view of governance caused a “crisis of democracy”?

After the 2022 presidential elections, why half of Brasil’s voters (50.9%) chose former president Lula da Silva to lead the country in 2023?

An interview in Portuguese with Vania Sierra, Social Policy Professor at Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro.

You can watch the Portuguese language Video Interview on my Youtube channel here.

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How the massive protests in Iran are showing the multiple grievances of women, girls and people? As Iran ranks 143 out of 146 countries in the Global Gender Gap Index, is the situation of women’s rights in this country a case of gender-apartheid? Can a state with a possible gender-apartheid in place offer respect and protection of women’s lives, rights and freedoms? If so, how? If not, why?

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In which ways militarization and militarized masculinities affect our cultures, states and social structures? How the patriarchal pact shapes perceptions of "manhood" from an early age? Why is it hard for societies and/or states to “properly” address or deconstruct militarized masculinities - and the continuum of violence - IF and WHEN seeking to advance feminist peace?

With the release of WILPF's latest documentary, Power on Patrol, what can we learn from the history of Colombia, Afghanistan, DRC, Cameroon, Nicaragua and South Africa?

A roundtable discussion with Dean Peacock, Director Countering Militarized Masculinities at WILPF; Guy Feugap, Director of Programmes at WILPF Cameroon; Oswaldo Montoya, Networks Associate at MenEngage; and Diana Salcedo, Director of WILPF/LIMPAL Colombia. Translation possible by WILPF collaborator Ada Volkmer.

Watch the full documentary here and the Spanish-language version here

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Do states have...emotions? If so, how do they express them? How can the intergroup emotions theory explain whether political decision-making is based on fear, passion, revenge, happiness, grief or hate?

How many domestic and foreign policies are influenced by the suppression or incitement of a specific set of emotions, beliefs, behaviors and actions?

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Are we reaching the next era of Feminist Foreign Policies? In response to the Ukraine-Russia conflict, is Sweden’s pioneer formula the “safe” way to go for states in Europe? If so, if not, why?

A commentary on the latest announcement of Germany first ffp model.

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From the historic floods in Pakistan to the typhoons and hurricanes in Asia-Pacific and the Caribbean to ongoing humanitarian crises, what are some ways to help? If you can and are able to donate time, energy, resources and money to disaster relief programs and civic organizations providing support to communities, please do. It matters.

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Flood Relief in Pakistan - A list of organizations created by Sapan
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Can games be truly “apolitical” or should we, as humans, often find a way to project politics into them? How are people using games or sports to find and showcase “power” while, at the same time, depending on external validation to ensure sense of Self? How are governments using games or sports to show superiority or demoralize people from other states and play into a specific imaginary of power? Is chess an inherently racist and sexist game or... made to be one?

A commentary of Netflix's miniseries The Queen's Gambit.

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How are feminists and feminist movements "framing" their activism? How is globalization and capitalism directly or indirectly affecting the way some ideas, projects and foreign policy models are being legitimized and promoted while others aren't? What role does the flow of theories, laws and strategies from local/international, North/South, Western/Non-Western play in addressing, increasing or maintaining social, racial and economic inequalities?

A first look into Transnational Feminism.

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The UN Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights released yesterday its 2022 assessment on the human rights violations committed against the Uyghurs in XUAR. What does the report says about China's domestic policies, power dynamics and treatment of religious and ethnic minorities?

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Why are circles so powerful? How can circles support personal and collective journeys? If you are embarking on a feminist and/or patriarchal mindset deconstruction process, how-to start creating safe environments to discuss and shift... power? How-to start weaving cyclical individual and systemic change?

In this episode I share with you some lessons from my personal and professional experience as well as tips and recommendations to organize events and build a path forward.

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Where is power exercised in a state “neutrality”? How is militarization appealing to our(s) countries’ concept of “power” and possible “hero”mentality? Can “humans” be the reason “states” approve or veto each other’s bids, ambitions or… imperialistic dreams? If so, what are the conditions for this rationale?

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What is food insecurity? How it evolves into a food crisis? What are the main causes of food insecurity, hunger and malnutrition? What are the gendered dimensions of the "hunger trap"? Why is hunger used as a weapon of war?

What are the main highlights of the Global Report on Food Crises 2022? Why there are reports that COVID-19 pandemic and the Ukraine/Russia conflict is affecting the global food security? How can we start today ensuring food security at local and international levels?

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Global Report on Food Crises - 2022
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What influences the announcement and design of a feminist foreign policy? How “efficient” and “important” is the use of the word “feminism” in this field? How it affects ffp implementation and domestic and international environments? What are some key critiques, debates and decolonial views on current ffps coming from the Global South?

In Australia, there is an Australian Feminist Foreign Policy Coalition being convened amidst domestic and international security concerns from COVID-19, GBV and First Nations to the recent AUKUS pact. How could Australia’s foreign policy benefit from feminist perspectives? Why enabling an environment of civil society conversation of ffp support the “soft landing” of a possible ffp announcement in the future?

An interview with Alice Ridge, Senior Research, Policy and Advocacy Advisor, and Liz Gil-Atkinson, Research Advisor at the International Women’s Development Agency.

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IWDA website: www.iwda.org.au
Australian Feminist Foreign Policy Coalition (AFFPC website): https://iwda.org.au/australian-feminist-foreign-policy-coalition/
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AFFPC Issue Paper ‘Indigenous Foreign Policy: a new way forward?’ by James Blackwell and Julie Ballangarry: https://iwda.org.au/assets/files/AFFPC-issues-paper-Indigenous-Foreign-Policy-Blackwell-Ballangarry-FINAL.pdf

Is the international community response to recent violent conflicts delegitimizing women's agency and reproducing unequal gender relations in times of war and peace? If so or if not, why? In the first few weeks of the Ukraine/Russia conflict, why is the WPS agenda not being taken seriously? What can we learn about the status and efficiency of the UN resolutions and international law protocols in the international conflicts of today? How does NATO and other international institutions view WPS?

How can our feminist values and human rights principles weather the storms of domestic and international crises? As we see many "red lines crossed" in different parts of the world, have we reached the time to question the value of humanity as a whole?

An interview with Clare Hutchinson, WPS Adviser, former NATO Secretary General's Special Representative for Women, Peace and Security and current vice president of consultancy agency TOLMEC.

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The Ukraine crisis: Women are fighting a different kind of war
Ukrainian Women on the Front Lines but Not in the Headlines
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How has Francia Marquez’s presidential campaign highlighted race and feminist issues in this country? How racism and anti-racism stances affects social, media and political landscapes? What is state racism?

An interview with Annette Pérez, founder of Afronteradas.

You can listen the Spanish language interview with Annette on my Youtube channel here.

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Afronteradas Instagram
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Breve historia del racismo en Colombia | La Pulla
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How men perceive power between themselves; within and among states? What are the consequences of the use of patriarchal violence on human populations and state and imperial constructions? How have citizens normalized that violence is the way we can exercise and maintain individual/state power? How different types of masculinities and governance models "see" power?

A gender lens review on the doc series How To Become a Tyrant (2021).

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Are we “trapped” by the mind/tangible structures we have been taught, built, or achieved power with? If so, how? A 3-level IR analysis notes and feminist approaches on the first weeks of the 2022 Ukraine/Russia conflict.

Disclaimer: Sensible subjects on feminisms, masculinities, national identity, eurocentrism, psychology and unequal power & gender relations will be addressed.

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How the 2020 pandemic revealed how patriarchy shaped the global health's Taskforce response and the work hierarchy dynamics in this sector?

A first exploration on gender gap, leadership, PPE and inequality conditions.

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What if justice is not ever considered "a goal" between and within states? How is public/private patriarchal divisions being consciously or unconsciously reproduced by international legal scholars, lawmakers and institutions?

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What are some of the most common misconceptions and stereotypes international media reproduces on Palestinian women? What are some of the many different identities and realities Palestinian women face due to double oppression, conflict and geographical landscape? What is the status of 1325 National Action Plan's implementation and women's political participation? How to practice feminist solidarity with Palestinian women?

A special conversation with Nivine Sandouka, leading expert on gender, development and peacebuilding in East Jerusalem and Palestine territories.

This episode was recorded at a live event today, February 26th, as the first of three-part talk series we have co-organized with collaborator and IR scholar Itzel Pamela Perez Gomez.

The Women, Peace and Security in North Africa and the Middle East Talk Series is a three-part live virtual event featuring the life stories of inspiring female researchers, advocates and specialists of women’s rights and WPS implementation in these parts of the world.

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Moroccan Women Multiple Identities: A View From Academia: A conversation with Fatimazahrae Moutia Saturday, March 26th
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What is like to build a culture of peace in El Salvador? How can working with the youth help heal individual and collective wounds in one of the most dangerous countries in the world? Perspectives from politics, violence, religion, gender and environment.

An interview with Espacio Joven's co-founders Fernando Pérez and Fabiola Torres; and Isela Ulloa, environmental coordinator of this NGO.

You can watch the Spanish language interview with Fabiola and Isela on my Youtube channel here.

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Several international news reports are denouncing crimes against humanity against the Uyghurs in East Turkestan. Calls to address and put an end to genocide and the reportedly different measures taken by the Chinese authorities (forced re-education, forced labour, forced sterilization, forced marriages, sexual violence, torture) are not prompting an urgent international community response.

Why is this happening? What is the current situation in this territory? What are the human and women's rights violations and why we should it's important to pay attention?

An interview with Rushan Abbas, executive director of the Campaign for Uyghurs.

You can watch this interview on video on my Youtube channel here.

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Where are the men? How are patriarchal mindset and system affecting masculinities and driving climate change? How are masculinities and conceptions of power, at individual and social levels, shaping people's roles in Women, Peace and Security?

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RSVP Online Workshop Starts on February 8th, 2022 - Masculinities in World Politics 101

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How can we overcome a "gender-blind" approach to climate change or a "climate-blind" approach to Women, Peace and Security agenda? How ecofeminist lines of thoughts can explain some feminist critiques to the NAPs links to the impacts of climate change?

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What is the status of humanitarian crisis and humanitarian aid for women and girls in Afghanistan? Why international law protection and R2P mechanisms are not being enforced or mainly considered? Are sanctions the way to deal with the Taliban?

In this episode we share a commentary on the January 20th webinar “Solutions for Addressing the Humanitarian Crisis in Afghanistan”, organized by the Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security. Watch it here: https://www.facebook.com/GIWPS/videos/301389418489811/

The webinar features interviews with: Rina Amiri, U.S. Special Envoy for Afghan Women, Girls, and Human Rights; Mahbouba Seraj, Executive Director, Afghan Women Skills Development Center (AWSDC); Shaharzad Akbar, Former Chairperson, Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC); Muqaddesa Yourish, Former Deputy Minister for Commerce and Industry; Maryam Rahmani, Country Representative, Afghan Women's Resource Center (AWRC); Dr. Suraya Dalil, Director, WHO Special Programme on Primary Health Care and Former Minister of Public Health, Afghanistan; Palwasha Hassan, Director, The Afghan Women’s Educational Center and Senior Fellow, Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security; Amb. Melanne Verveer, Executive Director, Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security.

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RSVP Online Workshop Starts on February 8th, 2022 - Masculinities in World Politics 101

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Voice Amplified: Afghanistan Voices Campaign

How can we start connecting to the three words: Women, Peace, Security? What is the mindset separating IR field subjects of study from our daily experiences, countries and public/foreign policies?

A revision of the WPS Agenda and tips on how can we begin landing its topics to our personal/national/international realities.

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Conversations on the values we uphold - in front of many human rights violations and crises, moving forward, what are we truly standing up (or down) for?

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What does it mean? Is it a decolonial and democratic move? What power lessons can we learn from new president Sandra Mason and prime minister Mia Amor Mottley?

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Are we creating self-fulfilling prophecies on climate change with unaligned energy systems? How is the patriarchal mindset affecting our view of States and COP26 delegations, negotiators, scientists?

How we engage with people representing our state system? What are the expectations we have on them and are these expectations representative of the values they and us uphold? How is violence and fear mongering campaigns impacting our value system from a personal to an international level?

In this part III, we explore questions on energetics and human psychology.

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What is the incoherence? Why is the fossil fuel industry having the most delegates at COP26? What are the "secret courts" and capitalist system gray areas between public and private sectors and how are they affecting People and Planet? Are climate finance loans a new colonial scheme? On climate action protests, who gets media exposure? Who makes delegations of states?

In this part II, we explore the urgent calls of climate protests, intergenerational debates, social media outcries and the possible colonial undertones of climate finance.

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Disclaimer: This episode is an edit in response to the upcoming November 25th International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women.

Sensible subjects on GBV, human trafficking, colonial trauma and impunity will be addressed.

As producer of the Ser mujer en Latinoamerica documentary map, this is a personal and difficult reflection on international gender equality agendas and systemic and cultural violence for not all states are created equal nor do they all play by the same rules.

Violence against women is increasing in Latin America and the Caribbean and unless we understand and address the root causes of violence and not just its symptoms, oppression and inequalities will persist and old wounds (between past imperialistic powers and previous colonies) will continue running deep.

Why should we pay attention to the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference? What are the key goals, local, regional and international demands on the future of environment and populations?

In this part I, we explore the basics.

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Are percentages of women's representation in Foreign Affairs and International Security indicators of influence and power? Are we measuring gender equality in Women, Peace and Security agenda ONLY through state-centric views? Are we seeing the progress of the UNSC Resolution 1325 by international security standards or are we open to explore equally valid human security dimensions?

A review of the latest #SHEcurity Index 2021.

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Free Webinar Gender & International Relations 101 - November 3rd, 2021
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1. Feminist Approaches to the Women, Peace and Security Agenda
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1. Feminisms & International Security

Recommended links of this episode:

Download Report: #SHEcurity Index 2021
Read the Countries Database Here
WATCH THE VIDEO: #SHEcurity - Launch of the 2021 Index

Since the COVID-19 global pandemic hit, it seems there is a growing number of humanitarian crises taking place all over the world. What is the bigger picture? In times where it seems the international community is failing or "weakening" in front of many human rights violations from Tigray and Afghanistan, Yemen to Rohingya, Uyghuir and more, why mechanisms such as responsibility to protect or international humanitarian and refugee law are not "timely" being enforced?

An interview with Devon Cone, senior advocate for women and girls at Refugees International.

Join us in this exploration, follow us on Instagram and Twitter @womanhood_ir and support our community in Patreon here https://www.patreon.com/womanhoodir

Recommended links to this episode:

Refugees International Women & Girls Program
Less than a Lifeline: Challenges to the COVAX Humanitarian Buffer
Afghan Women and Girls Under Immediate Threat: The Responsibility to Protect and Assist Is Just Beginning
Stop Tigray Famine Campaign
Women in Tigray Face Increased Risk of Sexual Exploitation and Abuse
Fading Humanitarianism: The Dangerous Trajectory of the Rohingya Refugee Response in Bangladesh

Are feminist foreign policy models "spreading" in an imperialistic way? Are states reacting to "feminism" as an international security threat? The fact that many EU countries are pursuing and paying too much attention to this "trend", could it be seen as a sign of untreated coloniality of power and knowledge? Are feminists from Euro-American spheres of influence asking states to "better" and "oversee" the treatment of the considered "subaltern" women in developing countries? Is the source of patriarchy ever really challenged or are we just playing along to fix its problems' symptoms?

Do we have clarity over the outcomes of our call to include the F word in Foreign Policy?

A reflection on this week's panel discussion "Hacia una política exterior con perspectiva de género: Aportes desde las teorías feministas de las Relaciones Internacionales" organized byDirección de la Mujer y Asuntos de Género, Cancillería Argentina and featuring Mariel R. Lucero (Mendoza, Argentina), Cyntia Enloe (United States), Marysia Zalewski (United Kingdom), Ann Towns (Sweden) and Heather Smith (Canada).

Join our next live events:

Free Webinar Gender & International Relations 101 - November 3rd, 2021
RSVP Workshop Decolonialidad y las Relaciones Internacionales - November 6th, 2021
Support our crowdfunding campaign for our first podcast journal here!

Listen to related episodes:

Ep. 12 Marissa Conway on How Feminist Foreign Policy is Transforming World Affairs
Ep. 21 Why Feminist Theory Matters in IR
Ep. 47 Isabella Esquivel Ventura on Mexico's Feminist Foreign Policy
Ep. 59 Marion Messmer on How To Incorporate Gender Perspectives in Think Tanks

Recommended links of this episode:

Webinar Replay "Hacia una política exterior con perspectiva de género: Aportes desde las teorías feministas de las Relaciones Internacionales
Download the report A Feminist Foreign Policy for the EU
Why Is The European Union Creating Its Own Military?

How are economic conditions in Zimbabwe affecting women and girls access to menstrual products and education? What are the key elements to explore in order to break stigma and create a women’s solidarity movement for the healthy development of children in this country and beyond?

An interview with Zvisinei Dzepasi Mamutse, founder of Vasikana Project, Author of I Call On You Sis journal and Co publisher Menstrupedia Shona.

Join us in this exploration, listen to the episode, follow us on Instagram @womanhood_ir and support our podcast crowdfunding campaign here.

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1. Danielle Keiser on COVID-19's Impact on Menstrual Health Education

Recommended links of this episode:

https://www.vasikanaproject.org/
https://www.vasikanaproject.org/i-call-on-you-sis
I Call on You Sis: A Journal for Women and Girls Everywhere https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1970063157/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_taft_p1_i0
https://www.facebook.com/vasikanaproject/
https://www.instagram.com/vasikana_project/?hl=en

I Call on You Sis: A Journal for Women and Girls Everywhere

Are these alternate realities so different than our own? Are we players at different life/career games? How are we accepting, tolerating and using primal instincts & violence?

A review of the tv series Squid Games.

On International Day of the Girl, we want to commemorate the importance of advocating for future generations.

Here we share a glimpse of current status and statistcs of girls education and development around the world. Want to learn more? Join the conversation on our Instagram Live today at 6 p.m. EST at @womanhood_ir

Recommended readings to this episode

Digital generation - International Day of Girl 2021
Children’s Climate Risk Index
The State of the World’s Children 2021 Statistical Tables
Uncertain Pathways: How gender shapes the experiences of children on the move
Female genital mutilation (FGM) data
Se triplica el número de niños y niñas entre las víctimas de trata de personas a nivel mundial
Child Labour: Global estimates 2020, trends and the road forward

How this friendship and alliance shaped the course of two nations? An interview with Claudia Clark, author of the new book Dear Barack: The Extraordinary Partnership of Barack Obama and Angela Merkel to be released on October 19th, 2021.

Join us in this exploration, follow us on Instagram @womanhood_ir, support our podcast crowdfunding campaign here https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/feminist-self-world-our-1st-podcast-journal#/

Recommended links of this episode:

Book: Dear Barack: The Extraordinary Partnership of Barack Obama and Angela Merkel
Claudia Clark Author Official Website
Auf Wiedersehen, Madame Chancellor
Claudia Clark Instagram
Claudia Clark Facebook

Dear Barack: The Extraordinary Partnership of Barack Obama and Angela Merkel

Is gender equality the way to go? A commentary on the latest announcement of Spain's first feminist foreign policy model.

Join us in this exploration, follow us on Instagram @womanhood_ir, support our crowdfunding campaign here https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/feminist-self-world-our-1st-podcast-journal#/ and watch the IG Live here https://www.instagram.com/tv/CUQIZgkFk-x/

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1. Marissa Conway on How Feminist Foreign Policy Is Transforming World Affairs
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1. Postcolonial Feminism 101 - Which Women's Experiences Do We Know More About?

Recommended readings of this episode:

Spain's Feminist Foreign Policy Model (PDF Download)
Política Exterior Feminista de España (PDF de Descarga)
“Una hoja de ruta hacia una política exterior feminista” - Esglobal
“Hacer política exterior feminista no es solo nombrar más embajadoras”
Miradas feministas a las relaciones internacionales, la cooperación y la política
VIDEO Política exterior y de cooperación feminista
Generación de igualdad: el nuevo enfoque de la política exterior feminista
La Moncloa consolidates Spain as the world's seventh largest arms exporter

Who are we as "people" to "States"? Who are we as humans "to each other"? In systemic thinking theories we learn that structures determine the behaviors of a system. Are states and people, consciously or unconsciously, playing a part in oppressive & violent webs? Are each used as pawns of a greater game? If so, for what and for whom?

Some reflections on human security and the term "weapons of mass migration".

Join us in this exploration, follow us on Instagram @womanhood_ir and support our crowdfunding campaign for our 1st journal! https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/feminist-self-world-our-1st-podcast-journal#/

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Ep. 81 Feminist Approaches to Women, Peace and Security
Ep. 86 Understanding the Rise of Global Military Spending
Ep. 87 Feminisms & International Security
Ep. 98 Elaine Brière on How & Why Colonial Powers Want to Control Haiti

Recommended readings for this episode:

Russia and Belarus Are Using Migrants as a Weapon Against the EU
This time is different: Spain, Morocco, and weaponised migration
Weapons of Mass Migration: Forced Displacement, Coercion, and Foreign Policy
Afghans Are Among Thousands Of Migrants Hoping To Reach Europe Via Serbia
Measuring Human Security: Overcoming the Paradox

Weapons of Mass Migration: Forced Displacement, Coercion, and Foreign Policy (Cornell Studies in Security Affairs)

Today we launched a new crowdfunding campaign for our first #podcast journal!

The Feminist (Self) World journal is a fun, creative and experiential tool for anyone eager to explore Identity, Power and Relationships with Others, the State and the World through different feminists lenses.

Our campaign goal is to help people around the globe rethink the patriarchal system and yes, even rethink feminism(s) too.

This companion was created by Natalia Bonilla, producer of the Womanhood & International Relations podcast, to provide clarity amongst all the confusion, chaos (and possible loneliness) of deconstructing, researching or even openly fighting the patriarchal system.

We will share more details about the journal in the following weeks but meanwhile, check all the details of the Indiegogo campaign here https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/feminist-self-world-our-1st-podcast-journal#/ & watch our latest IG Live sharing how this project came about here https://www.instagram.com/p/CUQIZgkFk-x/

Thank you for your support and thank you in advance in spreading the word!

Has the "new" Cold War started? What is the AUKUS deal? Why France see this as a threat to multilateralism? Are threats against China being constructed by the US or is Tsai Ing-wen Administration's bet on increasing its defense already sending signals? What can realist and feminist IR theories tell us about self-fulfilling prophecies and our roles (as citizens, activists, witnesses, observers, etc) on the series of events unfolding?

Join us in this exploration, follow us on Instagram @womanhood_ir and consider supporting our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/womanhoodir

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1. The Masculine/Feminine National Cultures Index
1. Feminist Approaches to Women, Peace and Security
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1. Feminisms & International Security

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Aukus: Australia's big gamble on the US over China
Australia to upgrade military bases, expand war games with US
New Zealand says it will set China policy, not US-led Five Eyes
Five Eyes: Is the alliance in trouble over China?
Psychological Warfare - Taiwan: Spies, Lies and Cross-straits Ties
What is happening with the Uighurs in China?
Hong Kong’s Freedoms: What China Promised and How It’s Cracking Down
VIDEO: India's masterplan to counter China
VIDEO: China’s navy is tipping the balance
The AP Interview: UN chief warns China, US to avoid Cold War

How can the #Kaufman’s theory help us understand social, cultural and political behaviors that maintain patriarchy and its influence over feminist ideas and movements?

How are we perceiving power (inequality, domination, subordination, etc) in our daily personal lives? Are we reproducing or legitimizing the use of violence “for” power or fear?

A conversation on Patriarchy 101 and a revision of the Triad of Men’s Violence.

Join us in this exploration, follow us on Instagram @womanhood_ir and consider supporting us via Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/womanhoodir

Recommended links to this episode:

Patriarchy & Power
The Six P's of men's Violence
Cracking the Armour: Power, Pain and the Lives of Men
Michael Kaufman: "El problema no son los hombres, sino las estructuras e ideologías del patriarcado"
White Ribbon Campaign

Cracking the Armour:Power, Pain & the Lives of Men

Are we creating a feminist world alternate from the mainstream reality? Are we breaking free from the Matrix or still playing part of it?

Join us in this exploration, follow us on Instagram @womanhood_ir, subscribe to our newsletter here and consider supporting our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/womanhoodir

Recommended links to this episode:

Mark Passio - The Matrix Trilogy Decoded
The Matrix - A Feminist Analysis
What Can We Learn from Gender in The Matrix
Looking Back At The Subtle Gender Politics Of 'The Matrix'

Why feminist foreign policy models are creating so much controversy? How "feminist" are they or do we want them to be? What has been the COVID-19 impact to these models? What are the main topics of debates on the definitions, implementations and efficacy around the globe?

Here we share a new audio webinar in the English language, a summary of the September 9th Spanish-language webinar Política Exterior Feminista: Conversaciones del Norte y Sur Global.

Join us in this exploration, follow us on Instagram @womanhood_ir, subscribe to our newsletter here and consider supporting via Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/womanhoodir

Listen to related episodes:

Ep. 12 Marissa Conway on How Feminist Foreign Policy is Transforming World Affairs
Ep. 21 Why Feminist Theory Matters in IR
Ep. 47 Isabella Esquivel Ventura on Mexico's Feminist Foreign Policy
Ep. 59 Marion Messmer on How To Incorporate Gender Perspectives in Think Tanks
Ep. 97 Feminist Foreign Policy in India

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ICRW Feminist Foreign Policy: A Framework
The Feminist Foreign Policy Reading List by CFFP
From Seeds to Roots: Trajectories Towards Feminist Foreign Policy
Handbook of Sweden’s Feminist Foreign Policy
How Feminist is the Swedish Feminist Foreign Policy?
What we heard - Feedback from discussions on Canada’s FFP
Towards a Feminist Foreign Policy in the United Sates
Política exterior feminista de México
Gendering South Africa's Foreign Policy: Toward a Feminist Approach?
Understanding Feminist Foreign Policy: A View From India
Security Council Weapons of Mass Destruction and Feminist Foreign Policy
Manly States and Feminist Foreign Policy: Revisiting the Liberal State as an Agent of Change
The Pandemic Underscores the Need for Feminist Foreign Policy
Letting Solidarity "Prevail" - Hegemonic Patterns in Transnational Feminism

We celebrated today on our Instagram account @womanhood_ir but here we share some of the highlights of these 2 years and our upcoming projects for the next one.

We thank you so much for your support and encouragement to this podcast and invite you to share your feedback on your favorite episodes and ways we can improve our content in this short survey here: https://tinyurl.com/nbm8z35s

All the best wishes and thank you for all the love 💕

How the long lasting civil war and consequent conflicts in Sudan and South Sudan impacted the lives of women and girls? How development and IDP’s reintegration programs since the 1990s helped or missed areas of opportunity like agriculture to foster gender equality and women empowerment? With an estimated of 8.3 million people facing rising food insecurity in South Sudan, how are farming schools, education and technological skills providing hope to communities and younger generations?

An interview with Karak Denyok, child survivor of war in Sudan and founder and president of the Diar Foundation, formerly known as Diar for Rehabilitation and Development Association. An interview with Paul NG, board member of the Diar Foundation.

Diar means women in Dinka language.

Join us in this exploration, follow the conversation on Instagram @womanhood_ir and join our community in Patreon here.

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Diar Foundation
Diar Foundation Programs in South Sudan
Learn more about women's stories here
Diar Foundation (@DiarFoundation)Twitter
Diar Foundation - Home | Facebook

Are Canada, France and US governments "punishing" Haiti? Since the 2004 Haitian coup d'état and foreign military intervention that took Aristide from power, what can we learn from the long history of colonial influence in the world's first black-led republic and first independent Caribbean state? With the assassination of President Jovenel Moïse this July 2021 and the calls for political stability, is Haiti still “under control” by foreign powers? If so, why?

An interview with Elaine Brière, Canadian photojournalist, anti-colonial activist and film director of Haiti Betrayed. Brière’s first documentary and book was on East Timor’s pre-invasion way of life.

Haiti Betrayed will be screened on September 11th at the International Day of Peace Virtual Film Festival by World Beyond War, get your tickets here.

Join us in this conversation, follow us on Instagram @womanhood_ir and support our community in Patreon here https://www.patreon.com/womanhoodir

Recommended links to this episode:

Haiti Betrayed Film: haitibetrayedfilm.com
International Day of Peace Virtual Film Festival September 2021: https://actionnetwork.org/ticketed_events/peacedayfilmfest
Partners in Health Haiti https://haiti-earthquake-response.raisely.com/
Medicines Sans Frontiers Haiti earthquake: MSF responds to urgent medical needs | Doctors Without Borders – USA

Leading up to Peace Day on September 21, our podcast has become a media sponsor to World Beyond War's upcoming virtual film festival, an event seeking to expose the impact of militarism around the world and the power of nonviolence.

The festival will span 3 weekends — Saturday, September 4, September 11, and September 18 — covering a multitude of themes, from colonial violence in Canada and military base pollution in Washington State, to a coup d’état in Haiti and nonviolent peacekeeping in Bougainville.

September 4 @ 3:00pm Eastern Time: INVASION & PLANE TRUTHS + Q&A with JEN WICKHAM, PLANE TRUTHS filmmaker MARK DWORKIN, and ANNE HARVEY, chair of Sound Defense Alliance
September 11 @ 3:00pm Eastern Time: HAITI BETRAYED + Q&A with director ELAINE BRIERE and NIKOLAS BARRY-SHAW
September 18 @ 3:00pm Eastern Time: SOLDIERS WITHOUT GUNS + Q&A with director WILL WATSON, former New Zealand Army Major FIONA CASSIDY, WBW board member JOHN REUWER, and WBW New Zealand chapter coordinator LIZ REMMERSWAAL

Each film screening will be followed by an exclusive Q&A with the directors and special guests to explore the topics covered in the films and how to take action.

Film festival tickets are priced on a sliding scale starting at just $5 USD. All proceeds benefit World BEYOND War to grow the global movement for war abolition and to help cover event expenses. One ticket gets you a festival pass to access all of the films and panel discussions. Films will be screened on Zoom. Once you register, you will receive an email with the Zoom link to access the festival.

RSVP here.

What are the external and internal factors influencing the advocacy for a Feminist Foreign Policy model in India? How are gender and postcolonial perspectives on the history of the state affecting the implementation of international assistance programs and domestic politics quotas?

A commentary on the latest Kubernein Initiative 2021 report "Understanding the Feminist Foreign Policy: A view from India" and several other conversations on how to implement this model on the country.

Join us in this exploration, follow us on Instagram @womanhood_ir and support our community in Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/womanhoodir

RSVP: World Beyond War International Virtual Film Festival - September 4, 11, 18

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1. Why Feminist Theory Matters in International Relations
1. Isabella Esquivel Ventura on Mexico's Feminist Foreign Policy
1. Postcolonial Feminism 101 - Which Women's Experiences Do We Know More About?
1. Ambika Vishwanath & Priyanka Bhide on Water Security in Urban India

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Download the Kubernein report: Understanding the Feminist Foreign Policy: A view from India
Why India needs a ‘feminist’ foreign policy
India Must Move Towards a Feminist Foreign Policy
Why India Should Adopt a Feminist Foreign Policy Framework
Opinion – A Feminist Foreign Policy for India: Where to Turn?
Instagram - Women in International Relations/India
Download the IWDA report: From Seeds to Roots: Trajectories towards Feminist Foreign Policy in the Global South

How has the COVID-19 global pandemic changed menstrual health education and hygiene efforts? What are the new trends in regards to human and women's rights defense, period poverty eradication, vaccines and sustainability? How can we start seeing the SDG's in an interconnected way instead of relating menstruation only to Gender Equality (5) or only Clean Water and Sanitation (6)? In which ways can a company's organizational culture can thrive by honoring their team's menstrual cycles?

An interview with Danielle Keiser, Co-Founder and Managing Partner of social enterprise Madami, also known as the Menstrual Health Hub.

Join us in this exploration, follow the conversation on Instagram @womanhood_ir and support our community in Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/womanhoodir

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1. Verena Demmelbauer on Gender Responsive Toolkit for WASH Projects
1. Menstrual Hygiene Day: Poverty, Culture and Sustainability
1. Carla Giacummo on Menstrual Health Education in Uruguay

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MHH Official Website: https://mhhub.org/
MHH en Español: https://mhhub.org/community/mh-hub-espanol/
MH Hub Registry - Global Menstrual Map
Survey: COVID Vaccine + Your Menstrual Cycle

Which series of events led to US final (and controversial) withdrawal from Afghanistan? Why there is so much fear of the Taliban "taking over" and ruling the territory? How foreign invasions and influence from British/USSR to US and China shaped the nation-building process in Afghanistan? Could there be "legitimate" non-Western systems of governance? Will there be a new humanitarian crisis or Afghan civil war? Has the international community "failed" the Afghan people, particularly women and girls? What will happen now?

An interview with Jose R. Rivera-Gonzalez, lecturer of International Studies and US Foreign Policy at the Universidad Sagrado Corazon in Puerto Rico and foreign affairs media commentator, on the history of nation-building in Afghanistan and the repercussions of foreign inversions and interventions.

Join us in this exploration, follow us on Instagram @womanhood_ir and support our community in Patreon https://www.patreon.com/womanhoodir

Listen to related episodes:

1. Itzel Pamela Pérez-Gómez on Gender Issues in the Middle East
1. Chloé Meulewaeter on Global Military Spending & Demilitarization Efforts
1. Feminist Approaches to the Women, Peace and Security Agenda

Recommended links to this episode:

Official Remarks by President Biden on Afghanistan (August 16th, 2021)
The US spent $2 trillion in Afghanistan – and for what?
Who are the Taliban now?
What Women's Advocacy Groups Worldwide Are Doing For Women In Afghanistan
Afghanistan - WPS
Follow @profejoserivera on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and TikTok
Columna: Afganistán, la salida desenfrenada
Podcast: Diálogo Plural
Blog on Medium: Diálogo Plural

Why is the latest UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report causing so much alarm? In preparation for the COP26, what are the key findings of this document and how are we as people, researchers, influencers and communicators reacting or responding to it?

A commentary on gender, international media and human-earth relations.

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Listen to related episodes:

1. The Deep Feminine
1. Gender & Environmental Justice
1. Feminist Climate Justice
1. Water Security in Urban India
1. Gender, Militarism and Climate Justice
1. War Journalism's Effect On Us

Recommended links for this episode:

IPCC AR6 Climate Change 2021 Report
IPCC WGI Interactive Atlas: Regional information
Secretary-General Calls Latest IPCC Climate Report ‘Code Red for Humanity'
Thousands of scientists warn climate tipping points ‘imminent’
Why water is so hard to talk about
Understanding Carbon: More than the new black - Report

How structural gender violence can harm or encourage the Spirit of women at universities, think tanks and entrepreneurial initiatives? As we are approaching the second anniversary of this podcast, today I share with you the journey and lessons of launching feminist online workshops as a freelancer, consultant and now: entrepreneur.

From resistance to change structures and career paths in the IR world to how we relate to one another at a personal and business level, a reflection of how to say "yes" to yourself in a flood of rejections.

A conversation on the good, the bad and the ugly.

Join us in this exploration, follow us on Instagram @womanhood_ir and join our community in Patreon: www.patreon.com/womanhoodir

Related episodes:

1. Why Feminist Theory Matters in International Relations
1. How-To Speak With Professors About Feminist Theory in IR

One of the most common questions I've received in the past two years is "How-to speak with professors about feminist theory in IR?" Today I share with you three tips to start a conversation.

Listen to related episodes:

1. Marissa Conway on How Feminist Foreign Policy Is Transforming World Affairs
1. Why Feminist Theory Matters in International Relations
1. Marion Messmer on How-To Incorporate Gender Perspectives Within IR Think Tanks

Recommended Readings:

Gender in International Relations Feminist Perspectives on Achieving Global Security
How Significant is Feminism’s Contribution to IR?
Anarchy is what States Make of it: The Social Construction of Power Politics

Why is it that, as the number of people suffering increases, the less we seem to care? How psychic numbing is affecting the way we relate and act upon injustices domestically or internationally? Are we valuing human life in a consistent way? What's the role of media and social media platforms in this post-truth era regarding our empathy towards the pain of Others?

An interview with Dr. Paul Slovic & Dr. Scott Slovic, co-editors of the Arithmetic of Compassion and co-editors of the book Numbers and Nerves, on how our brains work and how we measure and value our human relationships.

Listen to related episodes:

1. Pauline Stoltz on Transnational Memories & Violent Conflicts in Indonesia
1. Hunger Ward: A Gender Lens Review
76 War Journalism's Effect On Us

Recommended links to this episode:

The Arithmetic of Compassion Website
Numbers and Nerves (Book)

Dr. Paul Slovic received his B.A. degree from Stanford University, and his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in psychology from the University of Michigan. In 1976, Dr. Slovic founded the research institute Decision Research with Sarah Lichtenstein and Baruch Fischhoff, where he currently serves as President. He has also been a professor of psychology at the University of Oregon since 1986. He and his colleagues worldwide have developed methods to describe risk perceptions and measure their impacts on individuals, industry, and society. His most recent work examines “psychic numbing” and the failure to respond to global threats from genocide and nuclear war and Covid 19.

Dr. Scott Slovic is University Distinguished Professor of Environmental Humanities at the University of Idaho, USA. He lectures and publishes widely in the environmental humanities. His recent co-edited books include Ecocritical Aesthetics: Language, Beauty, and the Environment and The Routledge Handbook of Ecocriticism and Environmental Communication. Much of his current research and teaching focuses on how information is collected, communicated, and received in the contexts of humanitarian and environmental crises.

Numbers and Nerves: Information, Emotion, and Meaning in a World of Data

What are the four main topics to understand when approaching gender issues in the Middle East? How to start learning about the different feminist movements and ethnic groups in North Africa? Why there is a Western fixation on the "veil"? Is the separation State & Religion ever possible?

A first interview with Itzel Pamela Pérez-Gómez, Middle East Studies professor at Universidad Anahuac Mayab in Mexico.

Recommended links to this episode:

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/itzelpamel
Instagram: itzel_pamela
LinkedIn

Are we reproducing the patriarchal mindset by feminizing peace? Is it helping shift or continue the re masculinization of realpolitik? Can we ever escape the binary paradigm on war/peace, public/private, local/linternational spheres?

Join us in this exploration, listen to the episode and support our community in Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/womanhoodir

Save the dates! Upcoming workshops:

Perspectivas Feministas a la Agenda Mujeres, Paz y Seguridad Starts July 14th (Español)
Feminist Approaches to Women, Peace and Security Starts July 22nd (English)

Listen to related episodes:

1. Feminisms & Militairsm
1. Feminisms & International Security
1. Chloé Meulewaeter on Global Military Spending & Demilitarization Efforts
1. Akhila Kolisetty on Gender, Militarism and Climate Justice
1. ACLED: An Interview With Dr. Roudabeh Kishi
1. Kimberly Loh on Compassionate Conversations and Conflict Resolution

Recommended books and readings for this episode:

Mujeres en pie de paz: pensamiento y prácticas - Carmen Magallon
Las mujeres y la construcción de paz - Carmen Magallon
Maneuvers: The International Politics of Militarizing Women's Lives - Cynthia Enloe
Women and War - Jean Bethke Elshtain
Women and Wars: Contested Histories, Uncertain Futures - Carol Cohn

How widely accepted is the “power over the other” mindset? What can we learn from human security and female archetypes in war and post-war contexts? Watch the Instagram Live for this episode here.

In preparation of our upcoming online workshop on Feminist Approaches to Women, Peace and Security, here is a brief exploration on feminism, militarism and weapons of wars.

Join us in this exploration, listen to the episode, subscribe to our newsletter here and support our community in Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/womanhoodir

Save the dates! Upcoming workshops:

Perspectivas Feministas a la Agenda Mujeres, Paz y Seguridad Starts July 14th (Español)
Feminist Approaches to Women, Peace and Security Starts July 22nd (English)

Listen to related episodes:

1. Feminisms & International Security
1. Chloé Meulewaeter on Global Military Spending & Demilitarization Efforts
1. Akhila Kolisetty on Gender, Militarism and Climate Justice
1. ACLED: An Interview With Dr. Roudabeh Kishi
1. Kimberly Loh on Compassionate Conversations and Conflict Resolution

Recommended books and readings for this episode:

Mothers, Monsters, Whores: Women's Violence in Global Politics - Laura Sjoberg, Caron E Gentry
Maneuvers: The International Politics of Militarizing Women's Lives - Cynthia Enloe
Women and War - Jean Bethke Elshtain
Women & Militarism - Colleen Burke
Women and Wars: Contested Histories, Uncertain Futures - Carol Cohn

Who deserves to survive and be safe? Why were we made to believe that by ensuring the state's survival, by default, its citizens will be safe?

In preparation of our upcoming online workshop on Feminist Approaches to Women, Peace and Security, here is a brief exploration on feminism theory applied to international security.

Join us in this exploration, listen to the episode, subscribe to our newsletter here and support our community in Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/womanhoodir

Save the dates! Upcoming workshops:

Perspectivas Feministas a la Agenda Mujeres, Paz y Seguridad Starts July 14th (Español)
Feminist Approaches to Women, Peace and Security Starts July 22nd (English)

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1. Chloé Meulewaeter on Global Military Spending & Demilitarization Efforts
1. Akhila Kolisetty on Gender, Militarism and Climate Justice
1. ACLED: An Interview With Dr. Roudabeh Kishi
1. Kimberly Loh on Compassionate Conversations and Conflict Resolution

How can we understand the rise of global military spending prior and during the COVID-19 pandemic? What is the military economic cycle and why is the State the biggest customer of the military industry? In the calls for demilitarization, how can feminist and peace movements help decentralize militaristic values as the only way for "security"?

An interview with Chloé Meulewaeter, Global Campaign on Military Spending Officer, Executive Director at Alianza Iberoamericana por la Paz and collaborator at Centre Delás for Peace Studies.

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Save the dates! Upcoming workshops:

Perspectivas Feministas a la Agenda Mujeres, Paz y Seguridad Starts July 14th (Español)
Feminist Approaches to Women, Peace and Security Starts July 22nd (English)
Open Call for Women + Peace Short Docs Virtual Fest - Deadline August 15th

Listen to related episodes:

1. ACLED: An Interview With Dr. Roudabeh Kishi
1. Nuclear Ban Treaty Begins: Gender & Postcolonial Perspectives
1. Denormalizing the Concept of "Statesman": A First Look Into Masculinities in IR
1. Akhila Kolisetty on Gender, Militarism and Climate Justice
1. The Masculine/Feminine National Cultures Index

Recommended links to this episode:

Global Campaign on Military Spending Campaign: https://demilitarize.org
Centre Delàs for Peace Studies: http://centredelas.org/?lang=en
II World Peace Congress: https://www.ipb2021.barcelona

"The main goal of the Second IPB World Congress is to provide a space for gathering and sharing experiences for all involved in international peace and justice movements. A place where we can foster synergies between organizations and individuals, and between interconnected social movements fighting for global justice: peace and disarmament advocates, feminist and LGBTQIA+ campaigners , ecologists and climate activists , antiracists and indigenous people, human rights defenders and trade unionists. We want to promote the inclusion of a peace perspective within these movements, in order to better confront the global challenges of our time: climate change and environmental collapse, gender, racial and economic inequality, the Covid-19 pandemic, mass migrations, refugee crisis, humanitarian emergencies caused by war and repression, and more. This Congress is an opportunity for diverse people, groups and causes to share strategies and to articulate alternatives together. A space to create and renovate tools and discourse, to mobilize citizens from all across the globe in favor of peace and disarmament. A place where we can (re) imagine our world, and take action for peace and justice. We invite you to join us at the Second World Peace Congress in Barcelona, organized by the International Peace Bureau".

Why is it so difficult to engage in menstrual health education and hygiene talks in Uruguay, one of the richest countries in South America? How is structural gender violence (& COVID-19!) impacting women and girls' body autonomy? What are the benefits of "relearning" menstruation as adults to help teach children regardless of their sex and gender about this biological process?

An interview with Carla Giacummo, founder of Eco-Ser.

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1. Women, Water & Development: What's The Link?
1. Verena Demmelbauer on Gender Responsive Toolkit for WASH Projects
1. Luisa Passalacqua on Menstruation Across Generations
1. Menstrual Hygiene Day: Poverty, Culture and Sustainability
1. Red Moon

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https://www.eco-ser.com.uy/
https://www.eco-ser.com.uy/menstrupedia/
https://www.facebook.com/ecoseruy
https://www.instagram.com/ecoseruy/
https://mhhub.org/community/mh-hub-espanol/

What can we learn from what's deemed "invisible"? How is the international relations system shaped by sexuality and gender? Why are IR university centers of study and think tanks reproducing patriarchal and androcentric views of the world? From a Queer Theory lenses, how are these labour and ideological decisions tied to political economy and marginalization strategies?

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Save the dates! Upcoming workshops:

Perspectivas Feministas a la Agenda Mujeres, Paz y Seguridad Starts July 14th (Español)
Feminist Approaches to Women, Peace and Security Starts July 22nd (English)
Open Call for Women + Peace Short Docs Virtual Fest - Deadline August 15th

Listen to related episodes:

1. Marissa Conway on How Feminist Foreign Policy Is Transforming World Affairs
1. Why Feminist Theory Matters in International Relations
1. Androcentric vs. Gynocentric View Of The World
1. Denormalizing the Concept of "Statesman": A First Look Into Masculinities in IR
1. Postcolonial Feminism 101 - Which Women's Experiences Do We Know More About?
1. Marion Messmer on How-To Incorporate Gender Perspectives Within IR Think Tanks
1. The Masculine/Feminine National Cultures Index

Recommended readings

Why is there no queer international theory? - Cynthia Weber
From Queer to Queer IR - Cynthia Weber
Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Sex (in IR) But were Afraid to Ask: The ‘Queer Turn’ in International Relations
Queering the Politics of Global Sexual Rights? - Leticia Sabsay
Neoliberal Geopolitical Order and Value - Anna Agathangelou
QUEER FEMINIST INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS: UNEASY ALLIANCES, PRODUCTIVE TENSIONS - Darcy LEIGH
International Relations and the Invisible Queer - Kathryn Constantinides
La Nación Heterosexual - Ochy Curiel
Towards trans-gendering IR? - Laura Sjoberg
Sexualities in World Politics: How LGBTQ Claims Shape International Relations (2015)
Gays in the Military: Texts and Subtexts

Sexualities in World Politics: How LGBTQ claims shape International Relations (Interventions)

For our first Women + Peace virtual fest, we are seeking to highlight inspiring and/or thoughtful stories from female directors/producers in different parts of the world on the following topics:

🌟Gender, conflict and peace

🌟Conflict resolution

🌟Peace processes & peace building

🌟Entrepreneurship for peace

🌟Arts for peace

8 short docs will be selected for the 2021 online screening and female directors/producers will be invited to virtual live Q&As - podcast recording on International Peace Day, September 21st.

There is no age limit and we encourage submissions from 2 to 25 minutes in different languages with English and/or Spanish subtitles.

🎙Let’s spark meaningful conversations on systemic change together, you can submit your trailer here: https://tinyurl.com/sucx9n6u

Which stories and archetypes give meaning to menstruation in our cultures? What ancient or modern teachings are helping us frame our menstrual cycle?

Listen to related episodes:

1. Hannah Ruth Dyson on The Deep Feminine
1. Postcolonial Feminism 101 - Which Women's Experiences Do We Know More About?
1. Women, Water & Development: What's the Link?
1. Luisa Passalacqua on Menstruation Across Generations
1. Menstrual Hygiene Day: Poverty, Culture and Sustainability

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How state-centric and masculine-dominated is the #womenpeacesecurity agenda? Why the “add women and stir” formula is a success and why are we failing to see #gender mainstreaming cannot work in structures that thrive on unequal power relations?

Listen to related episodes:

1. Why Feminist Theory Matters in International Relations
1. Hegemonic Masculinity and Femininity in World Politics
1. Androcentric vs. Gynocentric View Of The World
1. Denormalizing the Concept of the “Statesman”
1. Postcolonial Feminism 101 - Which Women's Experiences Do We Know More About?

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Recommended links to this episode:

UN WOMEN Facts and figures: Women, peace, and security https://www.unwomen.org/en/what-we-do/peace-and-security/facts-and-figures#_Toc54253571
WPS THE RESOLUTIONS http://www.peacewomen.org/why-WPS/solutions/resolutions
How Often Does the UN Security Council Use a Gender Lens? Not Often Enough https://www.e-ir.info/2019/11/06/how-often-does-the-un-security-council-use-a-gender-lens-not-often-enough/
Sexual Torture of Men in Croatia and Other Conflict Situations: An Open Secret https://www.kit.nl/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/636_Sexual_Torture_of_Men_in_Croatia_and_Other_Conflict_Situations.pdf
How Feminist is the United Nation's Women, Peace, and Security Agenda?https://reimaginingpeacejustice.com/how-feminist-is-the-united-nations-women-peace-and-security-agenda/
Sustaining Feminist Curiosity for the Future of Women, Peace, and Security: Q&A with Cynthia Enloe https://theglobalobservatory.org/2020/10/sustaining-feminist-curiosity-for-future-of-wps-qa-with-cynthia-enloe/
Beyond the “Women, Peace and Security” Agenda: Why We Need a Feminist Roadmap for Sustainable Peace https://genderandsecurity.org/sites/default/files/Cohn_-_Beyond_the_Women_Peace_and_Security_Agenda_Why_We_Need_a_Feminist_Roadmap_for_Sustainable_Peace.pdf
A Tale of Two Feminisms in International Relations? Feminist Political Economy and the Women, Peace and Security Agenda https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/politics-and-gender/article/abs/tale-of-two-feminisms-in-international-relations-feminist-political-economy-and-the-women-peace-and-security-agenda/2AE46E3947380F6B8D9260325EE6E29B
Three reasons why an intersectional approach to women’s peace and security agenda is importanthttps://reliefweb.int/report/world/three-reasons-why-intersectional-approach-women-s-peace-and-security-agenda-important
Does Gender Shape the War System and Vice Versa? https://www.e-ir.info/2014/11/16/does-gender-shape-the-war-system-and-vice-versa/
Sex and World Peace http://cup.columbia.edu/book/sex-and-world-peace/9780231131827

With the rapid conflict escalation between Russia and Ukraine, what's the status of women? How are feminist grassroots organizations addressing the heavy militarisation, fear and social insecurity? How multiple generations have dealt with individual & collective trauma in Soviet, post-Soviet and COVID-19 times?

An interview with Sasha Kantser, board member and content manager of the Feminist Workshop.

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Listen to related episodes:

1. ACLED: An Interview With Dr. Roudabeh Kishi
1. Voice Amplified: An Interview with Mendy Marsh and Chiderah Monde

Recommended links to this episode:

Feminist Workshop Website
Feminist Workshop Facebook
Feminist Workshop - FRIDA profile
Ukraine WPS Facts - UN Women
Ukraine Advancing Gender Equality UN Report
Ukraine's WPS 2016 National Action Plan
Ukraine Country Profile - PeaceWomen
UN Women - Women, Peace and Security Agenda

What's the link between periods, neoliberal economic policies and lack of water access? Why marketing campaigns are shifting from "freeing women" of "oppressing" cultural understandings of period blood to "organic" and "sustainable" menstrual waste management? In a span of a century, when did we shift from "inclusion into the workforce" to "human development" to "greener futures"?

How wide is the gap of period poverty and tax in your country? How connected or disconnected are we from this biological process, which meaning and stories do we tell of our own experience and how the community/national/global stories are or aren't a reflection of yours? How can we reduce environmental waste without "shaming" or "blaming" women?

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Listen to related episodes:

1. Menstruation & Human Rights
1. Natasha Dokovska, Anna Samwel & Verena Demmelbauer on Sanitation Justice in the Balkans and Caucasus Regions
1. Verena Demmelbauer on Gender Responsive Toolkit for WASH Projects
1. Luisa Passalacqua on Menstruation Across Generations

Recommended links of this episode:

World Menstrual Hygiene Day: How to have a sustainable period
The future of periods can now be sustainable and cheap
Period The Movement: Education Tools
Environmental reasons to switch to a menstrual cup
Women in Cotton: Listening to Women’s Voices on the Effects of Climate Change
World Water Day – Sustainable Cotton Farming Significantly Reduces Water Consumption
The State of Period Poverty in the U.S.
Zambia government to provide free sanitary napkins for rural girls
Free tampons and the fight against period poverty
New Zealand Will Offer Free Sanitary Products At Schools To Fight Period Poverty
Is green menstruation possible?
The Global Movement Against the Tampon Tax
Webinar: Con M de Menstruación
Video Entrevista: Educación Menstrual con Romper la Regla
Video Entrevista: Autocuidado y Herbolaria Menstrual:

How and where belief systems sustain themselves? Which personal/domestic/international structures are we seeking to "transform" with feminism? Why do we feel the "need" to change "one" or multiple external manifestation(s) of patriarchal values, behaviors and systems? Do we have the capacity to sustain the "new change" we seek to create?

In this follow up episode to 76. War Journalism's Effect On Us, here I share a holistic perspective on belief systems, the energy we feed from or into and our power of choice.

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How We Measure the Legitimacy & Resilience of States? How the global pandemic COVID-19 changed perceptions of fragility, peacebuilding and power? What is the fragility trap and how connected or disconnected is it to the gender perspective?

A brief revision of the latest report by the Fund for Peace.

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Share your feedback on this episode on Instagram @womanhood_ir

Listen to related episodes:

1. Akhila Kolisetty on Gender, Militarism and Climate Justice
1. ACLED: An Interview With Dr. Roudabeh Kishi

Recommended links of this episode:

Fragile States Index 2021
WEBINAR: Fragile States Index 2021 Launch: COVID and Conflict: Bouncing Back from Crisis

With the latest conflict escalations between Israel and Palestine; Colombia; Tigray region, how are we consuming and reacting to the international news cycle? What is war journalism and how it affects our emotional and ideological connection to some conflicts/people/religions and not so much others?

In this new exploration we engage in a full conversation on the Post-Truth Era: Why is there so much pressure to use specific words to name the crimes that are not being recognized by "Others" worldwide? How constructive, restrictive, hostile or able our family/education/work/national environments are that we take it "against" people on what we think they should do or should have done? Are we really free if our speech is conditioned by political "correctness"? Are we mirrors (projecting, externalizing) or jurors of that which we easily can condemn? Are we showing international solidarity by recognizing/naming the reality interpreted by/for/against one/some/all sides?

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Share your feedback on this episode on Instagram @womanhood_ir

Listen to related episodes:

1. Akhila Kolisetty on Gender, Militarism and Climate Justice
1. ACLED: An Interview With Dr. Roudabeh Kishi
1. Voice Amplified: An Interview with Mendy Marsh and Chiderah Monde

Recommended links to this episode:

Who controls the media message on the Israel-Palestine conflict?
Lies on Social Media Inflame Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
CEIRPP 365th meeting – lecture by Noam Chomsky – Summary record
Watch my free Spanish webinar on Conflict and Peace Journalism in the Pandemic COVID19 - 2 hours on Facebook Live here

🇬🇧 🇺🇸 💄Are beauty pageants actually “helping” women empowerment? What our feminist criticism against Miss World and Miss Universe competitions tell us about our own understanding of body’s objectivization and autonomy? Is feminism led by white women fighting “for all” or to “speak for all”? Whose stories get told on the big screen and how they build a consistent white feminist narrative? Where are the blind spots on US-UK entertainment industry portrayal of feminist movements?

My personal review on the film Misbehaviour (2020).

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Recommended links:

Misbehaviour (2020)
Mrs. America (2020)
Facebook Live - Lecciones de la miniserie Mrs. America

How can the Hofstede dimensions help us understand domestic and foreign policies and behaviors? How does small/large power distances may affect our relationships with hierarchy, individualism, masculinity and uncertainty avoidance?

A revision of this social psychology theory applied to IR - case studies comparison.

Listen to related episodes:

Androcentric vs. Gynocentric View of the World
Hegemonic Masculinity and Hegemonic Femininity in World Politics
The Evolution of Female World Leaders

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Recommended links:

Hofstede - National Culture 6 Dimensions
Hofstede - Country Comparison
Power Distance Index
Is the Military a Masculinised Expression of Society?
Do feminine cultures really behave more feminine than masculine cultures? A comparison of 48 countries femininity-masculinity ranking to their UN human development rankings - Carl A. Rodrigues, Harvey Blumberg (2000)
Organizational culture is like an iceberg
The White Tiger (2020)
Anna and the King (1999)
Skin (2018)

What's the connection between the military industry and climate change? How can feminist movements help change hegemonic power dynamics from domestic to foreign policy and systemic levels? How can grassroots movements from Global North & South better engage in intersectional solidarity? And what can we learn from female climate defenders in Kenya, Colombia and Sudan advancing climate justice?

An interview with Akhila Kolisetty, Policy and Campaigns Manager at MADRE.

Listen to related episodes:

Hannah Ruth Dyson on The Deep Feminine
Hanna Gunnarson & Sanne Van de Voort on Gender and Environmental Justice
Kara Stuart on Feminist Climate Justice

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Share your feedback on this episode on Instagram @womanhood_ir

Recommended links to this episode:

MADRE Advancing Climate Justice Programs
MADRE Feminist Policy Jumpstart
CEDAW for Indigenous Women and Girls
Feminist Agenda for a Green New Deal
Feminist Peace Initiative
Endorsement for a Peace Vision for Movement Feminist Foreign Policy

How can we avoid the voyeuristic approach to #women’s research, rights and world news? How can we follow the trends of #feminism transcontinentally if we don’t care or pay the same attention to the realities of those living in our own countries? How many grids can we take part in and for how long? Are we dehumanizing ourselves in the researching process without questioning ‘who is it for?’ and whether it should be a ‘living’ or ‘lifeless’ experience at how high the cost?

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How hunger is used as a weapon of war and which answers do psychic numbing bring to international/local actors role in Yemen?

My personal review on the Oscar-nominated documentary: Hunger Ward.

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Upcoming Events

RSVP April 28th - Free Webinar Women Leaders Around the World: Lessons from South America

Recommended links to this episode:

Yemen Humanitarian Needs Overview 2021 (February 2021) [EN/AR]
Yemen crisis: The devastating impact of six years of war
The Proxy War Prism in Yemen
4 ways the war in Yemen has impacted women and girls
Yemeni Women’s Pact for Peace and Security
Feminization of Poverty: Women at the Margins
Nobel peace prize: hunger is a weapon of war but the World Food Programme can’t build peace on its own
Webinar Gratuito: Las Nuevas Guerras

How former colonizer/colonized countries are dealing with colonial trauma? Are past colonizer countries still pursuing imperialistic and oppressive practices to their minorities communities originating from past colonies?

A follow up episode on colonial mindset dynamics in the podcast series "The Burden of the Colonial Mindset", #PuertoRico, case study.

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Listen to related episodes:

The Burden of the Colonial Mindset Part 1
The Burden of the Colonial Mindset Part 2
The Burden of the Colonial Mindset Part 3
Postcolonial Theory 101
Postcolonial Feminism 101
Tania Rosario Mendez on Eugenics & SRHR in Puerto Rico
Natalie Caraballo on Women's Political Participation in Puerto Rico

Recommended links to this episode:

Colonial Trauma: A Study of the Psychic and Political Consequences of Colonial Oppression in Algeria
Conversation on Colonial Trauma
France banning hijab - Reflective quotes
Colonial Trauma: Complex, continuous, collective, cumulative and compounding effects on the health of Indigenous Peoples in Canada and beyond

Colonial Trauma: A Study of the Psychic and Political Consequences of Colonial Oppression in Algeria (Critical South)

What do we were culturally and socially pre-conditioned to Value and Expect, as women, in the international arena? Who gets to speak about women to reframe, reaffirm, reimagine and advocate for their experiences? Are we so deep into the rabbit’s hole that the fear of naming the problem is bigger than the desire of solving it? Is the respect we were educated to have for institutions so deeply engrained that we prefer being coy in case of retaliation? Can we be fully free and “empowered” if we base our Life & Truth on external validation?

Join us in this exploration and follow us on Instagram @womanhood_ir

What is the interconnection between photography, feminism and activism? How visual arts can help women own their life experiences, bodies expressions and political views? Does photography have a #colonial history? Can the female gaze help overcome photographic #patriarchal origins? How Nos por todas photographic project brought another perspectives to women’s stories of abortion in Brazil?

An interview with Camila Cavalcante, visual artist, photographer and founder of Nos por todas project.

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Recommended links of this episode:

Book Nos Por Todas/For All The Lives of Women: http://tinyurl.com/ftloawo
Camila Cavalcante's Website

How the wounded masculine is ravaging the planet and how public/private/ngo's sectors are little interested to change their ways?

My personal review on the latest documentary in Netflix: Seaspiracy.

How colonialism has negatively impacted women's bodies in Puerto Rico? Which phases of medical interventions on sexual and reproductive rights showcased a case of eugenics?

An interview with Tania Rosario Mendez, executive director, and Alexandra-Marie Figueroa Miranda, communications director, of Taller Salud.

Recommended links of this episode:

Taller Salud www.tallersalud.com
El Mensaje ImpoSIble: http://www.tallersalud.com/el-mensaje-imposible?utm_source=wir
Colaboración con Valija Gitana, Intention Tees: https://shopvalija.com/collections/intention-tees
Info de La Casita Digna: https://www.instagram.com/p/CL448hSBXuO/

On our first Women + Water fest we screened the ethnographic documentary film "Red on White" by Luisa Passalacqua. We held a live Q&A with the film director on anthropology of menstruation, a conversation led by Monica Martins, founder of Women Being Magazine, for our podcast.

On World Water Day 2021, we talk about the latest toolkit on how to include gender and energy justice perspectives on WASH projects.

An interview with Verena Demmelbauer, Water & Sanitation Coordinator at @wecf_international @wecf.germany.

Recommended links to the episode:

Women Engage for a Common Future
Safe Water & Sanitation
Reducing inequalities in access to clean and safe water in the Balkan region

On World Water Day 2021, we talk about gender justice in the water sector, what is the work of women at different levels of influence and what are the challenges ahead to promote access, distribution and management of this natural resource in Georgia, North Macedonia and Armenia.

An interview with Natasha Dokovska, Programme Director at Journalists for Human Rights; Anna Samwel is the director of the Georgian Branch of Women Engage for a Common Future; Verena Demmelbauer, Water & Sanitation Coordinator at WECF.

Recommended links for this episode:

Women Engage for a Common Future
Safe Water & Sanitation
Reducing inequalities in access to clean and safe water in the Balkan region

We often read in the news water-related problems in India from contamination, monsoons to scarcity, how is fast and aspirational urban development affecting water security in this country?

An interview with Ambika Vishwanath & Priyanka Bhide, co-founders and directors of the Kubernein Initiative, a geopolitical strategic think tank, who joined us last March 20th for our podcast's first ever Women + Water fest.

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Recommended links

Kubernein Initiative Website
Follow Kubernein on LinkedIn
Follow Kubernein on Twitter

Between 2016/2020 elections, how much changed in Puerto Rico's political landscape? How the Trump Administration's response to Hurricane Maria, US-Puerto Rico colonial relationship and the protests against then-Governor Ricardo Rossello encouraged or discouraged women's political participation? What are the trends of violence against female candidates and what can be done to surpass strong political partisanship?

An interview with Natalie Caraballo, Executive Director of Proyecto 85.

Join us in this new exploration, follow us on Instagram @womanhood_ir and be part of our first virtual podcast fest Women + Water this March 20th, 2021. Get your tickets here.

Recommended Links

Proyecto 85 Website
Proyecto 85 Impact Report 2020

From showering with garden hoses to experiencing Hurricanes' floods and water scarcity daily in my native Puerto Rico, here I share how meaningful is this natural resource for me and other amazing women who will speak with us this Saturday. If feel like watching on video here is the Instagram Live in English and the Facebook Video in Spanish language.

The Women + Water Fest is not your typical event showcasing protocols and documents on how to best manage water, it is a living celebration on the work women in grassroots organizations do in India, Georgia, North Macedonia, Mexico, Armenia to actually provide hope, dignity and health to their communities.

We all have a personal story with water, what’s yours?

On March 20th, we will gather together in community to hear and learn from each other how can we build a better and loving relationship with Us and Nature.

We truly hope to see you there, rsvp today here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/women-water-virtual-fest-2021-tickets-144906339763

Can we include gender perspectives in all areas of operations and outreach of think tanks in the International Relations field? How would it change research, lobby and workplace cultures? Is it possible for people in entry level/associate positions to advocate for intersectional approaches even if top management/executive leaders are resistant to change?

An interview with Marion Messmer, Co-Director of BASIC and Co-Author of the Gender, Think Tanks and International Relations Toolkit.

You can download the toolkit written alongside with Chatham House and the Centre for Feminist Foreign Policy in the UKhere.

Join us in this new exploration, follow us on Instagram @womanhood_ir and be part of our first virtual podcast fest Women + Water this March 20th, 2021. Get your tickets here.

Recommended Links

BASIC
Centre for Feminist Foreign Policy in the UK
Gender, Think-Tanks and International Affairs: A Toolkit
Think tanks and gender equality
Walking the talk: Think tanks and gender – What did we learn?
Five tips to incorporate a gender perspective in research

Can we close the gender gap in the water sector? Let’s unite to make it happen.

On March 20th, the Womanhood & International Relations podcast will host its first virtual festival on Women + Water.

As World Water Day 2021 nears, join us for a full-day of interviews, connections and conferences on gender & water security; menstrual poverty eradication and WASH projects in India, Europe and Mexico.

Our objective is to connect women internationally on 1 day to celebrate all the work being done to WASH goals and all the possibilities we can pursue together to reduce inequalities.

Can we close the gender gap in the water sector? Let’s unite to make it happen.

On Saturday, March 20th, 2021 we will feature the change taking place and voices leading the way in English and Spanish languages.

LINEUP

AM - ENGLISH

8:00 A. M. EST WATER SECURITY IN INDIA
9:00 A. M. EST SANITATION JUSTICE IN THE BALKANS
10:00 A. M. EST WATER, PEACE & SECURITY FRAMEWORK
11:00 A. M. EST RED ON WHITE FILM SCREENING + Q&A
12:30 P.M. EST WOMEN + WATER NETWORKING SESSION IN PARTNERSHIP WITH WOMEN BEING MAGAZINE: Water Security, Menstrual Poverty, Gender & Climate Change, Migration & Human Rights

PM - ESPAÑOL

3:00 P. M. ESTEL ROL DE LAS MUJERES EN LAS ESCUELAS DE LLUVIA: ENTREVISTA A ISLA URBANA
4:00 P. M. EST INICIATIVAS WASH CON PERSPECTIVA DE GÉNERO EN MÉXICO
5:00 P.M. EST CONVERSATORIO COOPERATIVA GUARDIANAS DEL AGUA Y ECONOMÍAS SOLIDARIAS
7:00 P.M. EST CHARLA DE AUTOCUIDADO Y HERBOLARIA MENSTRUAL CON CONSTRUYENDO MUJERES LIBRES
8:00 P.M. EST NOCHE DE POESÍA MENSTRUAL A BENEFICIO DE ROMPER LA REGLA

TICKET: $20 USD

RSVP Here: https://tinyurl.com/4pmk24w9

OUR GIVE BACK IN THIS EDITION: 20 % of each ticket sold will be donated to Romper la Regla, a Mexican grassroots and women-led organization to support the buildup of an educational web platform on menstrual health, rights and dignity in Mexico and Latin America to be released by Summer 2021.

TICKETS INCLUDE:

Access to all conferences in English and Spanish languages
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After the military coup last February in Burma/Myanmar, was there ever a "real" or "full" democracy to uphold? What is the status of the nation, women and ethnic groups in this country? How social tensions have escalated to ethnic conflicts and cleansing of the Rohingya and other communities?

An interview with Wai Wai Nu, former Burmese political prisoner and founder of the Women's Peace Network.

💜 Join us in this exploration, follow us on Instagram @womanhood_ir and join us for the upcoming podcast fest on Women + Water this March 20th, rsvp here.

Recommended links for this episode:

Wai Wai Nu's Facebook Page
Women's Peace Network
WPN Facebook
WPN Instagram

A special message.

In this March 8th, with so much pain and so much work ahead, I want to thank and highlight the advocacy, research and activism of some fellow colleagues, friends and feminist sisters in different parts of the world.

Thank you for carrying on and for showing us that together we can and we will build more equitable and evolved societies: WCAPS, Fundación Alto Al Silencio, Taller Salud, Centre for Feminist Foreign Policy in the UK, Foro de Análisis y Reflexión Femenista, Colectiva Tiamat K'uvi, Feminastyx, Identidad Marrón, Afronteradas, La Totuma, Women in Global Health, WECF, Women in International Relations India, Women's Climate Justice Collective in Australia.

I know there are many more, I salute all.

Thank you for all being done.

Thank you for helping us grow.

Thank you for showing us: there is hope.

New #Podcast Episode! 💜 🇵🇷Who are we beyond the national identity construct? What is the experience of Puerto Rican women beyond the colonial/exotic/victim tags?

A follow up episode on colonial mindset dynamics to the first one called "The Burden of the Colonial Mindset", #PuertoRico, case study. To listen to Part 1 click here: https://tinyurl.com/yyzufka6 and to listen to Part 2 click here: https://tinyurl.com/2hj6hzcx

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Have we overcome the coloniality of gender? If we continue producing and reproducing knowledge and power through the standards of euro/americanism...can we?

A first look into decolonial feminism.

Listen to related episodes:

1. Nuclear Ban Treaty Begins: Gender & Postcolonial Perspectives
1. Postcolonial Theory 101 - What It Reveals of Mainstream IR
1. Postcolonial Feminism 101 - Which Women's Experiences Do We Know More About?

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Recommended readings of this episode:

The Coloniality of Gender, Maria Lugones
Hacia una feminismo decolonial, Maria Lugones
De por qué es necesario un feminismo descolonial: diferenciación, dominación co-constitutiva de la modernidad occidental y el fin de la política de identidad, Yuderkys Espinosa Miñoso
Construyendo metodologías feministas desde el feminismo decolonial, Ochy Curiel Pichardo
La Nación Heterosexual, Ochy Curiel Pichardo
Pedagogías decoloniales: Prácticas insurgentes de resistir, re(existir) y re(vivir), Catherine Walsh (ed.)
Ennegrecer el feminismo, Sueli Carneiro
Feminismos y herida colonial: una propuesta para el rescate de los cuerpos secuestrados en Brasil, Inara Fonseca y Morgani Guzzo
Coloniality of Power and Eurocentrism in Latin America, Anibal Quijano
Filosofía de la liberación, Enrique Dussell

What’s the link between women and water? What statistics say about how we access, manage and rule over this natural resource? Why the water-sector/WASH projects are often male-dominated and what does it say about exploitation & eco-violence? Where are the women and how can we overcome the “victim” narrative when women and girls are composing two-thirds of climate refugees?

Listen to related episodes:

1. Hegemonic Masculinity and Femininity in World Politics
1. Menstruation & Human Rights
1. Androcentric vs. Gynocentric View of the World
1. Hanna Gunnarson & Sanne Van de Voort on Gender and Environmental Justice
1. Kara Stuart on Feminist Climate Justice

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Save the date for our 1st Fest: 03.20.2021! Subscribe to our newsletter for updates here.

Recommended readings of this episode:

UN Water 2018 Statistics
Water Scarcity Clock
Sea Level Rising Facts
Blue Economy in the Caribbean
The Gendered Impacts of Climate Change
The Hidden Messages in Water, Masaru Emoto
Memoirs of a Geisha (Book/Movie)

Memoirs of a Geisha: A Novel

The Hidden Messages in Water

What numbers say about what & who's valued in the international system? How diplomacy was constructed since the 1920's as a male institution with heteronormative and homosocial narratives, behaviors and environments? Why do we measure social progress through quantification and representation? Where are the statistics of the non-Western world?

An invitation to rethink the binary trap - underrepresentation of women and overrepresentation of men in this field.

Listen to related episodes:

1. Hegemonic Masculinity and Femininity in World Politics
1. Voice Amplified: An Interview with Mendy Marsh and Chiderah Monde
1. Androcentric vs. Gynocentric View Of The World
1. Postcolonial Theory 101 - What It Reveals of Mainstream IR
1. Postcolonial Feminism 101 - Which Women's Experiences Do We Know More About?

Join us in this exploration, follow us on Instagram @womanhood_ir and subscribe to our newsletter for updates on our upcoming Fest!

Save the date for our 1st Fest: 03.20.2021! Subscribe to our newsletter for updates here.

Recommended articles, videos and networks to check:

Having women in leadership roles is more important than ever, here's why
The SHESecurity Index (2020)
Women Leaders Index (2019-2020)
Research reveals gender inequality among diplomatic corps
The gender turn in diplomacy: a new research agenda
Gender, Think-Tanks and International Relations
Paris mayor mocks 'absurd' fine for hiring too many women
Every Woman Matrix - WCAPS
The Women Experts' Network - CFFP
Red de Politólogas - No Sin Mujeres

What links colonialism, capitalism and patriarchy all together? How does it affect our relationship with each other and the Planet? What is feminist climate justice? And how can we bridge the gap between feminist and climate action movements to make a significant systemic change?

An interview with Kara Stuart, co-chair of the Women’s Climate Justice Collective in Australia.

Listen to related episodes:

1. Hannah Ruth Dyson on The Deep Feminine
1. Hanna Gunnarson & Sanne Van de Voort on Gender and Environmental Justice

Join us in this exploration, follow us on Instagram @womanhood_ir and subscribe to our newsletter for updates on our upcoming Fest!

Save the date for our 1st Fest: 03.20.2021! Subscribe to our newsletter for updates here.

Recommended links to this episode:

Women's Climate Justice Collective Official Website
Join their March Virtual Meeting: A discussion on the intersection of climate and feminism, and plan our poetry night.
Follow WCJC on Facebook here
Follow WCJC on Instagram here

Are all women experiencing the same oppressions? Can we homogenize feminist discourses? Is it possible to continue colonial practices in the way Western women perceive “non-Western” women’s status, rights and experiences and viceversa? Is the West still seeking to preserve its subjectivity and dominance through tokenism, intersectional and gender equality approaches?

A first look into Postcolonial Feminism.

Listen to related episodes:

1. Androcentric vs. Gynocentric View of the World
1. Nuclear Ban Treaty Begins: Gender & Postcolonial Perspectives
1. Postcolonial Theory 101 - What It Reveals of Mainstream IR

💜 Join us in this exploration and follow us on Instagram @womanhood_ir.

Recommended readings of this episode:

Can the Subaltern Speak?, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
Third World Women and the Politics of Feminism & Feminism Without Borders, Chandra Talpade Mohanty
The Invention of Women, Oyèrónkẹ́ Oyěwùmí
Postcolonial Encounters in International Relations, Alina Sajed
The Postcolonial Perspective: Why We Need to Decolonize Norms, Charlotte Epstein
The Coloniality of Gender, Maria Lugones
Feminismos Postcoloniales: Buscando la equidad, Irene Martinez Martin & Montserrat Blanco
VIDEO. Colonialidad del Género y Poder: De la Postcolonialidad a la Descolonialidad
VIDEO. Why “Third-World” Feminism Matters | Barani Maung Maung | TEDxOccidentalCollege

What is the link between gender and environmental justice? What is an Ecofeminist Scorecard? Why is it making a difference in the EU? How can we start engaging, advocating and holding accountable our governments to ensure climate action and justice?

An interview with Hanna Gunnarson & Sanne Van de Voort from Women Engage for a Common Future, an international network of over 150 women’s and civil society organizations implementing projects in 50 countries.

Listen to related episodes:

1. Menstruation and Human Rights
1. Androcentric vs. Gynocentric View of the World
1. Hannah Ruth Dyson on The Deep Feminine

Join us in this exploration and follow us on Instagram @womanhood_ir

Recommended links to this episode:

Women Engage for a Common Future Website
Gender Just Climate Solutions Program
Empowering Women Against Energy Poverty Program
Download the Ecofeminist Scorecard in PDF
Feminist COVID-19 Response Monitoring and Advocacy Toolkit
The Young Feminists Want System Change toolkit

How deeply engrained is euro-americanism in the way we perceive, research and respond to what happens in the world? What is postcolonial theory? What can we learn from the patriarchal mindset of opposites/binaries construction?

A first look into Postcolonial Theory applied to IR.

Listen to related episodes:

1. The Burden of the Colonial Mindset
1. The Great Fracture In The UN
1. Androcentric vs. Gynocentric View of the World
1. Nuclear Ban Treaty Begins: Gender & Postcolonial Perspectives
1. The Burden of the Colonial Mindset Part 2

💜 Join us in this exploration and follow us on Instagram @womanhood_ir.

Recommended readings of this episode:

The Wretched of the Earth, Black Skins and White Masks, Frantz Fanon
The Colonizer and the Colonized, Albert Memmi
Orientalism, Edward Said
Can the Subaltern Speak?, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
Postcolonial Encounters in International Relations, Alina Sajed
The Postcolonial Perspective: Why We Need to Decolonize Norms, Charlotte Epstein
Decolonising International Relations?, Beyond Visible Entanglements: Connected Histories of the International, Zeynep Gulsah Capan
The Coloniality of Gender, Maria Lugones
The Coloniality of Power: Toward De-Colonization, Anibal Quijano

Why has Mexico's FFP received backlash from local, domestic and international feminist groups? How has liberal feminism values been engrained in this model? Why is it troublesome to compare feminist proposals in public/foreign policies in this country with other FFP models from developed countries in the North?

An interview with Isabella Esquivel Ventura, Mexican feminist, gender and public policy consultant and masculinities specialist.

Listen to related episodes:

⚡12. Marissa Conway on How Feminist Foreing Policy is Transforming World Politics

⚡ 21. Why Feminist Theory Matters in International Relations

Join us in this exploration, listen to the episode and follow us on Instagram: @womanhood_ir

Recommended links of this episode:

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/federika.engels/
Academia.edu: https://flacso-gt.academia.edu/IsabellaESQUIVELVENTURA
“La legitimidad social de la Política Exterior Feminista en México”, Blog de Egresadxs Perspectivas sobre temas de Relaciones Internacionales, Centro de Relaciones Internacionales, Facultad de Ciencias Políticas y Sociales de la UNAM. Disponible en: https://bit.ly/38cEOQw
Reseña del libro “Miradas multidisciplinarias en torno a la masculinidad: desafíos para la impartición de justicia”, en DIVULGARE Boletín Científico de la Escuela Superior de Actopan (Hidalgo), Vol.8, No. 15 (2021) 1-2. Aceptada, en proceso de publicación. https://repository.uaeh.edu.mx/revistas/index.php/divulgare/issue/view/304
Agenda Suma por la Igualdad. Propuestas de agenda pública para implicar a los hombres en la igualdad de género (Coautora), Ciudad de México, GENDES-CEPPEG-Cómplices por la Igualdad, 2018. Disponible en: https://bit.ly/2OLxYe9
Sesiones de Análisis Internacional con Natalia Bonilla, “Hombres de Estado y Patriarcado” (16 de mayo de 2020) y “Después del Patriarcado, ¿qué?” (13 de junio de 2020), México, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4ipYiUceac, https://youtu.be/JevCs1SBlX0 y https://youtu.be/mydUDulyXeY
Simposio Global “Ubuntu” de la Alianza Global MenEngage 2020-2021.

Incredible research organizations to follow on this topic:

Observatorio Mexicano de Política Exterior Feminista
Center for Feminist Foreign Policy in the UK

Upcoming Events:

RSVP: Online Class February 9th: Postcolonial Feminism 101
RSVP: Clase Virtual 10/febrero: Feminismo Poscolonial 101

What is the Deep Feminine? How disconnected or connected are we as women to our lineage and ancestral roots? What can we learn from female indigenous elders on women's authentic power, climate change and earth-care?

An interview with Hannah Ruth Dyson, documentary researcher and founder of Soul Seed Gathering.

Listen to related episodes:

⚡16. Our Disconnection from the Feminine

⚡ 32. Voice Amplified: An Interview with Mendy Marsh and Chiderah Monde

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Upcoming events

RSVP: Online Class February 9th: Postcolonial Feminism 101
RSVP: Clase Virtual 10/febrero: Feminismo Poscolonial 101

What can we learn from the latest Oxfam International report? How is systemic racism engrained in the patriarchal and capitalist systems? How do we relate with inequality and what is our role in perpetuating or fighting it?

Listen to related episodes: 

⚡20. The World Is Watching - Black Lives Matter: An interview with Vannary Kong and Jennifer Zhang

⚡ 32. Voice Amplified: An Interview with Mendy Marsh and Chiderah Monde

💜Join us in this exploration, listen to the episode and follow us on Instagram: womanhood_ir

Recommended Readings and Videos:

OXFAM 2021 Report: The Inequality Virus
Feminism, Capitalism and The Cunning of History - Nancy Fraser
De cómo cierto feminismo se convirtió en criada del capitalismo. Y la manera de rectificarlo - Nancy Fraser
Hawaii's Feminist Recovery Plan
The Racist Roots of Neoliberal Development Economics
The Racism of Neoliberalism - Darrick Hamilton
Special Address by António Guterres, Secretary General of the United Nations | DAVOS AGENDA 2021

Upcoming events

RSVP: Online Class February 9th: Postcolonial Feminism 101
RSVP: Clase Virtual 10/febrero: Feminismo Poscolonial 101

New Podcast Episode! 💜 From the absence of women to the missing men: whose identities, norms and concepts are leading States' behavior and why?

A first look into masculinities and re-masculinization in International Relations.

Join us in this exploration, listen to the episode and follow the conversation on Instagram: @womanhood_ir

Related episodes:

Androcentric vs. Gynocentric View of the World
Hegemonic Masculinity and Hegemonic Femininity in World Politics
The Evolution of Female World Leaders

Recommended readings:

Finding the Man in the State, Wendy Brown
The Man Question in IR, Marysia Zalewski & Jane Parpart
Manly States, Charlotte Hooper
Men of the World, Jeff Hearn
The Missing Men in IR, Jeff Hearn
Sex and Death in the Rational World of Defense Intellectuals, Carol Cohn
A Feminist Voyage Through International Relations, J. Ann Tickner
Feminist International Relations: An Unfinished Journey, Chrystine Sylvester
Seeing Women, Recognizing Gender, Recasting International Relations, Craig Murphy
Beaches, Bananas and Bases, Cynthia Enloe
State Feminism Since the 1980s: From Loose Notion to Operationalized Concept, Amy Gale Mazur & Dorothy E. Mcbride

New #Podcast Episode! 💜 🇵🇷Can we talk about race and intersectionality without addressing other systems of oppression? How deeply engrained is the English-language as the superior form of knowledge expression in IR and other disciplines?

A follow up episode on colonial mindset dynamics to the first one called "The Burden of the Colonial Mindset", #PuertoRico, case study. To listen to the first episode click here: https://tinyurl.com/yyzufka6

In this episode we explore:

✨Can the colonizer have a colonized mind?

✨How linked is race and colonization?

✨How can people from independent countries find pride and power in racial identities while national/ethnic lines are not so easy to do so?

✨What are the dynamics of value and power that men vs. women of color find in the US?

✨How the English-language has legitimized who is seen or considered important?

💜Join us in this exploration and share with us your impression via Instagram @womanhood_ir

New Episode! 💜 With the Nuclear Ban Treaty taking effect this week, how significant is this and the NPT international law treaties from a gender and postcolonial perspectives?

Where do we stand as women from nuclear and non-nuclear states?

What is our view on national security, the missing elements beyond the binaries’ approaches and how is Realism, Liberalism and Feminist IR Theories dancing against (or together!) in nuclear politics?

Join us in this exploration, listen to the episode and follow the conversation on Instagram: @womanhood_ir

Recommended links

TPNW Entry of Force - International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons: https://www.icanw.org/entryintoforce
Why does the Nuclear Ban Treaty matter? https://www.icrc.org/en/document/why-nuclear-ban-treaty-matters
Sex, Gender and Nuclear Weapons: https://wilpf.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Sex-Gender-and-Nuclear-Weapons_Ray-Acheson.pdf
CFFP Advocacy Brief - Gender Lens on Nuclear Disarmament: https://static1.squarespace.com/static/57cd7cd9d482e9784e4ccc34/t/5afa9f602b6a28d174341508/1526374240733/CFFP+May+Brief+Nuclear+Weapons.pdf
Missile Envy, Helen Caldicott: https://www.amazon.com/Missile-envy-arms-race-nuclear/dp/0553193848
Global nuclear policy is stuck in colonialist thinking. The ban treaty offers a way out: https://thebulletin.org/2021/01/global-nuclear-policy-is-stuck-in-colonialist-thinking-the-ban-treaty-offers-a-way-out/#:~:text=While%20the%20current%20system%20regulating,dangerous%2C%20post%2Dcolonial%20direction
Postcolonial Perspectives on Nuclear Non-Proliferation, Alex Chung: http://web.isanet.org/Web/Conferences/ISSS%20Austin%202014/Archive/253053b8-52cd-4251-8a5d-1dd0163cb460.pdf
Documentary Bikini Islands: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjqoiT-RS4A
5th July 1946: The bikini swimsuit introduced for the first time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSDH8t7n7qM
Still Here Campaign - Hiroshima, Nagasaki: https://www.hiroshimanagasaki75.org/
PEAC Institute: https://www.peacinstitute.org/love_in_action

Missile envy: The arms race and nuclear war

New #Podcast Episode! Are we ready to go deep within this 2021?

In this episode we explore:

✨How committed are we to unveil and heal systemic wounds?

✨What is the difference between form and depth?

✨Amidst all trendy approaches to race and social inequalities from feminism to postcolonial and intersectional lenses, where do we really stand?

Join us in this exploration and share with us your comments.

FREE RSVP for Jan. 22nd gathering with Afronteradas: https://tinyurl.com/y5pasg5b

Follow the calendar of events of The World Is Watching - Black Lives Matter: https://theworldiswatchingblm.org/

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An interview with Pauline Stoltz, author of the newly released book Gender, Resistance and Transnational Memories of Violent Conflicts.

In this episode we explore:

✨What silences and denials occurred during Indonesia's three most recent violent conflicts?

✨How do we relate to memory and painful events?

✨What is the role memory plays in transitional justice? What are Indonesians's discourses and feelings towards these periods of time?

✨What can we learn of different gender perspectives on colonialism, individual and collective healing?

Join us in this exploration and share with us your comments via Instagram: @womanhood_ir

Recommended Links:

https://www.amazon.com/Resistance-Transnational-Memories-Conflicts-Transitional/dp/3030410943

https://www.buzzsprout.com/1037416/6453874 .

Gender, Resistance and Transnational Memories of Violent Conflicts (Memory Politics and Transitional Justice)

New Episode! To mark the International Day of Elimination of Violence Against Women, here we share with you the final results of the Ser mujer en Latinoamerica documentary map.

This is a three-year independent research and data journalism project featuring close to 700 testimonials on gender based violence and peace initiatives from women in 18 countries.

Thank you for all your support to make this launch possible.

On December 15th, we launch the website and e-book on www.sermujerenlatinoamerica.com

New Episode! 🤔When did we normalize and (even cherish!) extremes?

A brief look into androcentrism and gynocentrism.

In this episode we explore:

What is androcentrism?

How did it shaped our first lenses through which we view and behave in our society and the world?

What is gynocentrism and why is it different than a gynocentric culture?

Is matriarchy the answer to the end of patriarchal system?

Why do we demonize patriarchy and why do we hail matriarchy when both work for some not all?

Are we prone to normalize extremes because "balance" is too much fuss to talk about?

Join us in this exploration, support us on Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/nataliabonillaprojects

And please feel more than welcome to fill our 2021 survey here: https://tinyurl.com/yyelp5e8

Recommended links to this episode:

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3015/3015-h/3015-h.htm

https://gynocentrism.com/2012/11/09/gynocentrism-theory-lectures-peter-wright/

https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt1nq86n

https://www.shethepeople.tv/blog/feminism-trying-gynocentric-society/

https://www.upf.org/resources/speeches-and-articles/4095-i-lindemann-feminine-qualities-of-leadership

New #Podcast Episode! 🙋‍♀️ Are we praising more leading figures, their ideas or the meaning behind them? A look at the symbolic representation we give to female Heads of State handling of this pandemic and some notes on the US presidential elections and the apparent return of the “establishment”.

💜Join us in this exploration of the work,

New Episode! 📈 🌎What can we learn from mapping political violence before and during COVID-19?

An interview with Dr. Roudabeh Kishi, Director of Research and Innovation at the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project.

In this episode we explore:

✨How the mapping project became an organization connecting data and researchers worldwide?

✨How is ACLED breaking stereotypes and myths on female experts in International Security field?

✨Why it is important for the data mapping project to be open for free use by the public?

✨How to discern between fake news and international mass media agendas when collecting data and facts?

✨How is political violence before and during the COVID-19 pandemic measured? What are the trends we see in conflict escalation in the US, Nigeria, Syria and Afghanistan, among other countries?

✨Though most focused has been on domestic, economic and dating violence, what can be said about political violence against women?

💜Join us in this exploration, listen to the episode and support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/nataliabonillaprojects

Recommended Links:

https://acleddata.com/#/dashboard

https://acleddata.com/resources/general-guides/

https://acleddata.com/analysis/covid-19-disorder-tracker/

https://acleddata.com/register/

https://www.facebook.com/ACLEDINFO

https://twitter.com/ACLEDINFO

New Episode! 🙋‍♀️How are women rising to power and how power positions are changing from Margaret Thatcher to Jacinda Ardern eras?

A first look into the transition of hegemonic vs. feminine leadership.

In this episode we explore:

✨What is the Great Man Theory and how is it related to the foundations of IR?

✨What is hegemonic leadership and how Margaret Thatcher followed this guidelines despite being considered "feminine"?

✨What can we learn from Thatcher and Benazir Bhutto in the 1980s?

✨How was the transitioning period of feminine traits being considered powerful in Heads of State positions? What can we learn from figures like Michelle Bachelet, Corazon Aquino and Angela Merkel?

✨Why Jacinda Ardern exemplifies feminine leadership?

✨Why is it problematic the framing of female world leaders as "idols" depending on the era and which traits are welcomed by whose's agendas?

💜Join us in this exploration, listen to the episode, share with us your views via Instagram @womanhood_ir and support us on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/nataliabonillaprojects Recommended links to this episode:

https://www.unwomen.org/en/what-we-do/leadership-and-political-participation/facts-and-figures

https://www.facebook.com/watch/live/?v=2267699493468545&ref=watch_permalink

https://www.facebook.com/watch/live/?v=2592308884117402&ref=watch_permalink

https://www.facebook.com/watch/live/?v=371835790030352&ref=watch_permalink

https://nataliabonilla.org/2020/09/19/como-diferenciar-el-liderazgo-hegemonico-del-femenino-en-los-negocios/

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B002PYFWAW/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1

How Remarkable Women Lead: The Breakthrough Model for Work and Life

New #Podcast Episode! 🚀 The role of the State has been questioned several times this 2020.

The #EndSARS protests in Nigeria and the constitutional reform in Chile are two current events challenging the symbolic relationship between the State and its People.

💜Join us in this exploration of the work, listen to the episode and support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/nataliabonillaprojects

Recommended links on this episode:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/10/29/endsars-shows-that-muhammadu-buhari-is-biggest-threat-nigerias-democracy/

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/oct/29/endsars-abolish-ice-nigeria-us-trans-activism

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/21/opinion/sunday/chimamanda-adichie-nigeria-protests.html

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/10/27/africa/nigerian-protesters-hearings-intl/index.html

https://metro.co.uk/2020/10/29/how-to-continue-support-for-the-end-sars-movement-in-nigeria-13487714/

https://news.un.org/es/story/2020/10/1483062

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-54643589

https://time.com/5900901/chile-constitution-referendum/

https://cnnespanol.cnn.com/video/chile-referendum-constitucion-como-sigue-con-primera/

https://www.pagina12.com.ar/302545-chile-democratizar-la-constitucion

https://elpais.com/babelia/2020-10-28/la-cultura-que-se-opuso-a-la-dictadura-chilena.html

New #Podcast Episode! 🚀 Are non-nuclear weapon states finding or forming leverage against nuclear powers?

On Saturday, Honduras became the 50th country to sign the TPNW, a multilateral legally binding instrument for nuclear disarmament that will take effect in 90 days - by January 22, 2021.

So far, none of the current nuclear powers have signed the accord raising doubts on its potential but is this Treaty holding more meaning or influence than the eye can see?

In this episode we explore:

✨What's the relationship between hegemonic masculinity and nuclear weapons?

✨What are the provisions of the TPNW?

✨What are the arguments of nuclear powers to reject the Treaty?

✨Can International Relations Theories “evolve” with the changing times or… are they serving a purpose for statesmen’s viewpoints on masculine power?

✨How Gender Lens can help us understand better Nuclear Politics?

💜Join us in this exploration of the work and support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/nataliabonillaprojects

Recommended links of this episode:

https://news.un.org/en/story/2020/10/1076082

https://www.aljazeera.com/program/inside-story/2020/10/27/can-the-uns-new-treaty-abolish-nuclear-weapons/

https://apnews.com/article/nuclear-weapons-disarmament-latin-america-united-nations-gun-politics-4f109626a1cdd6db10560550aa1bb491

https://www.wilpf.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Nuclear-Weapons-Ban-Treaty_English-web-FINAL.pdf

http://www.peacewomen.org/assets/file/Themes/gender.pdf

https://static1.squarespace.com/static/57cd7cd9d482e9784e4ccc34/t/5afa9f602b6a28d174341508/1526374240733/CFFP+May+Brief+Nuclear+Weapons.pdf

https://www.icanw.org/gender_and_nuclear_weapons

https://cnduk.org/resources/what-women-need-to-know-about-nuclear-power/

https://www.un.org/disarmament/publications/civilsociety/volume-2016/

https://www.amazon.com/Missile-Envy-Helen-Caldicott/dp/0553250809

Missile Envy/

New #Podcast Episode! 💜 The humanitarian aid system has been failing women and girls since before the COVID-19 pandemic. Voice Amplified seeks to change that by providing funding and resources to help females from different backgrounds and countries lead conversations while challenging patriarchal views on how the current international system works.

An interview with @voiceamplified Co-Founder and Executive Director Mendy Marsh and Head of Communications Chiderah Monde.

In this episode we explore:

✨What’s the story behind VOICE’s mission as an organization? Why a feminist approach?

✨Why is there a perception that the humanitarian aid system is broken and failing women and girls? How was it before COVID-19 and how is it now?

✨What is VOICE’s COVID-19 strategy to help fund and provide resources to women and girls organizations, collectives and activists across the world?

✨How is intersectionality engrained in the organization’s three pillars of work?

✨What is VOICE’s COVID-19 survey all about? Join here: https://voiceamplified.org/survey/

💜Join us in this exploration of the work and check all the recommended links on VOICE's work here:

https://mailchi.mp/voiceamplified/louder-dayofthegirl

https://www.instagram.com/voiceamplified/

https://twitter.com/voicesamplified

https://www.facebook.com/VOICEAmplified/

https://www.linkedin.com/company/voiceamplified/

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New #Podcast Episode! 💜 Yesterday we had our latest webinar on feminism and anti-racism movements in Argentina with Colectiva Identidad Marron, inspiring three important questions on the value we place on ourselves, our construction of race and the relationship we have with change.

In this episode we explore:

✨Are we aware of our own identity construction since birth?

✨How racism, colonization and cultures of violence affect our perception of self-worth?

✨How open or resistant are we to changing at the individual and collective level?

✨Can we build bridges with the Other not necessarily to cross but to meet in the middle?

✨Can we open safe spaces with the Other for hard and uncomfortable conversations to take form?

✨How willing are we to take part in the social change we seek? Are we embracing hope or fearing hardships?

💜Join us in this exploration of the work.

New #Podcast Episode! 💜 After the UN General Assembly ran its course, are we finding ourselves amidst a "new" world order or a "new" mindset shift about how to run the world?

In this episode we explore:

✨What is our perception of a "new world order"?

✨Why UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres kept warning the international community about an upcoming Great Fracture?

✨How the US-China relations, alternative emerging blocks and small nations have supported the Great Fracture?

✨Is the international system up for grabs? How top international institutions became the "new" battleground of great powers?

✨Should we support the calls for reforms of the UN with the same mindset that created it?

✨How can we detach from colonialist and hegemonic practices when we talk about order, world and power?

✨Lastly, where are the women political philosophers, leaders, voices taking a stance in or against the Veto's Club?

💜Join us in this exploration of the work, listen to the episode in my link in bio and support our community in Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/nataliabonillaprojects

Recommended articles:

https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/without-comprehensive-reforms-united-nations-faces-a-crisis-of-confidence-says-pm-modi/articleshow/78246499.cms?utm_source=contentofinterest&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=cppst

https://www.trtworld.com/magazine/the-united-nations-has-a-problem-and-no-one-s-talking-about-it-39961

https://www.euractiv.com/section/global-europe/opinion/what-should-be-done-about-the-united-nations/

https://theconversation.com/our-own-1945-moment-what-do-rising-china-us-tensions-mean-for-the-un-146835

https://www.cfr.org/article/un-seventy-five-how-make-it-relevant-again

https://news.cgtn.com/news/2020-09-03/UN-reform-What-to-change-and-what-to-keep--SXkY62EUoM/index.html

https://news.cgtn.com/news/2020-09-03/UN-reform-What-to-change-and-what-to-keep--SXkY62EUoM/index.html

https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/shaping-from-within-a-un-with-chinese-characteristics/

https://nationalinterest.org/blog/coronavirus/coronavirus-has-exposed-need-reform-united-nations-169322

https://www.brookings.edu/research/chinas-expanding-influence-at-the-united-nations-and-how-the-united-states-should-react/

New #Podcast Episode! 💜 How can we unlearn the personal and social taboos and myths around our own periods?

In this episode we explore:

✨What is the connection between menstruation and human rights?

✨How menstrual hygiene is connected to WASH project?

✨Is there a spiritual and earthly component to our menstrual cycle?

✨Why we should not glorify a unique menstrual product?

✨How able and free are we to choose alternatives, sustainable or not?

✨How are politics and economics intertwined with menstruation since menarche?

✨Can we open safe and dignified spaces to share our experiences with our blood?

💜Join us in this exploration of the work and support our community in Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/nataliabonillaprojects

Recommended links:

https://www.instagram.com/romperlareglamx/

https://fundar.org.mx/tag/menstruacion-digna-mexico/

https://www.actionaid.org.uk/about-us/what-we-do/womens-economic-empowerment/period-poverty

https://www.unwomen.org/en/digital-library/multimedia/2019/10/infographic-periods

https://www.unicef.org/wash/files/UNICEF-Guidance-menstrual-health-hygiene-2019.pdf

https://www.unicef.org/wash/schools/files/Global_-_Menstrual_Hygiene_and_Human_Rights.pdf

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/mapa-documental-ser-mujer-en-latinoamerica#/

New #Podcast Episode 💜Why are human rights seen as separate from environmental rights?

In this episode we explore:

✨What is the Escazú Agreement? What does it seek to solve?

✨Why should we pay attention to socio-environmental conflicts all around the world?

✨Why some governments in Latin America and the Caribbean regions, where two-thirds of the world's socio-environmental conflicts take place, are hesitant in ratifying this international legal instrument following Principle 10?

✨Are politics so disconnected from Nature that once in power, leaders regardless of gender identity are still engaging and perpetuating domination and exploitation viewpoints and practices?

💜Join us in this exploration of the work, listen to the episode and support our community in Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/nataliabonillaprojects

Recommended links:

https://www.cepal.org/en/escazuagreement
https://www.cepal.org/en/infografias/principio-10-la-declaracion-rio-medio-ambiente-desarrollo
https://www.wecaninternational.org/online-trainings-network-calls
https://www.civicus.org/index.php/es/component/tags/tag/escazu-agreement
https://www.latinamerica.undp.org/content/rblac/en/home/presscenter/pressreleases/2018/mining-and-socio-environmental-issues-in-latin-america--communit.html
http://olca.cl/oca/enlista02.php?pagn=0&c_sel=11
http://www.humanosphere.org/environment/2016/09/4-environmental-rights-issues-follow-latin-america/
https://dialogochino.net/en/infrastructure/34581-escazu-agreement-so-close-but-made-distant-by-coronavirus/
https://ticotimes.net/2020/09/23/chile-rejects-escazu-agreement-environmental-pact-supported-by-costa-rica

New #Podcast Episode 💜How can we shift from realist to feminist view of an IR case study if we are excluding ourselves from the conversation?

In this episode we explore:

✨What is realist view of the UAE-Israel normalization ties talks? A US Foreign Policy approach.

✨What are the power dynamics at play on the recent development of Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the decentralization of Egypt as key player in the region?

✨What is the long-term vision of the Trump Administration and looming Nobel Peace Prize nomination?

✨Are we seeing the continuity of hegemonic masculinity domination of war and (negative) peace cultures?

✨Why are gender and feminist approaches to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict mainly focusing on dominant-dominated practices in national liberation movements and NOT addressing fully structural gender violence?

✨Where is the analysis on state behaviors and gendered notions of hegemonic masculine power in this part of the world?

✨Where are the women?

✨Why are female IR experts excluding and condemning each other from analyzing high level and male-dominated conflicts?

✨Why do female IR researchers have to talk about controversial case studies in informal and even hidden gatherings?

✨Where are we listening to each other?

✨Which are the public spaces women are opening to each other to recognize and validate their knowledge?

✨Why women have to be honest about their cultural and educational backgrounds in order to analyze IR but we don’t ask or expect male analysts to do the same?

💜Join us in this exploration of the work and support our community in Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/nataliabonillaprojects

Recommended links on this episode:

https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/09/11/trump-extends-arab-push-normalize-ties-with-israel-sudan/

https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Peace-to-Prosperity-0120.pdf

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/order-from-chaos/2020/08/13/around-the-halls-experts-analyze-the-normalization-of-israel-uae-ties/

Why not all women are valued the same in Latin America and the Caribbean regions? In 2017, I began a third independent documentary project to showcase the different levels of gender based violence women were suffering in this part of the world. Almost 700 testimonials and 18 countries surveyed later, we are preparing for the launch of the results. Here I share with you the journey that has changed my life for the better as a journalist, IR expert and woman. and invite you to support the release of this map on our crowdfunding campaign (Spanish and English version and rewards) here: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/mapa-documental-ser-mujer-en-latinoamerica#/

Save the date! Join us for the release of this map on the Spanish-language virtual launch on November 21st, 2020 and the English-language virtual launch on November 25th, 2020 to mark the International Day of the Elimination of Violence Against Women.

Follow the podcast updates on Instagram: @womanhood_ir

Join our Patreon community here: https://www.patreon.com/nataliabonillaprojects

Thank you for all the support!

An exploration of what feminist peace would look like - international law way.

Join the LSE WPS, WILPF, UKRI upcoming free event here: https://www.lse.ac.uk/women-peace-security/events/Current-Events/Visions-of-Feminist-Peace

Join the Ashoka Changemakers Summit on Gender (September 7th-11th) here: http://bit.ly/registrogenero

As we are finishing the pre-production of the upcoming virtual summit we are co-organizing with Ashoka Mexico and Central America, here I share with you an interview we did a couple of weeks ago with conflict resolution specialist Kimberly Loh on her new book Compassionate Conversations: How to Speak and Listen From The Heart.

Written by Diane Musho Hamilton, Gabriel Menegale Wilson and Loh, the book explores how compassion, listening and basic negotiation skills can help us transform challenges into opportunities.

In a time where threats to global health and rising social tensions are making us reflect upon our ways of living, we spoke with Loh on this novel framework that combines #Zen #Buddhism and Integral Theory and how it can inspire positive inner and #socialchange.

You can check more about her work here: https://www.kimberlyloh.com/

You can learn more about the book here: https://www.compassionateconversations.com/

You can join the Cumbre de Agentes de Cambio por la Perspectiva de Genero (Begins on September 7th) here: http://bit.ly/registrogenero

Can we overcome the "need" of a "standard way" of leading? Can we shift the way we socially construct local, regional and international relations?

In this episode we explore:

What is hegemonic masculinity?

How are we culturally pre-conditioned to legitimize and maintain it?

What is hegemonic femininity and how does it plays in favor of hegemonic masculinity?

What cherishing figures like Jacinda Ardern, Greta Thunberg and Michelle Obama have in common with confining power by and among women?

3-Step Assignment of this episode: 1. Identify the IR level of analysis (individual, state and system vs. national, regional, global) 2. Identify the realms of hegemonic masculinity/femininity expressions (ie. business, politics, economics, media, sports, etc) 3. Brainstorm the ways in which you are perceiving hegemonic masculinity/femininity expressions in those levels and realms, which are yours vs. influenced by collective consciousness?

If you liked this content, please consider supporting us in Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/nataliabonillaprojects

Womanhood & International Relations podcast is beginning a new series of free live & virtual conversations with incredible women from all around the world to explore intersectionality, decolonization and human rights defense and protection.

In this first event "Sahrawi Feminism", we will hear from activists Alia Malainine and Mena Souilem, founders of "Towards a feminist consciousness" intersectional blog on creating an alternative feminist knowledge of women's issues and gender identities in the MENA region.

Together we explored:

An overview of the feminist movement in the MENA region
How women are affected by feminism and how/when did the Sahrawi feminist movement start
What's the situation of Sahrawi women in refugee camps and in the colonized territories during the Moroccan invasion, the war and as refugees

-What are the obstacles and hardships our guest speakers face as Sahrawi feminists

-Q&A Session

This special episode is co-produced and co-moderated by Mexican researcher and activist Chelo Torija. Torija is an International Relations major and member of Colectiva Tiamat Ku'vi. Her research work is focused on gender and regional studies in Africa and Asia.

The event included a guest appearance by educational platform Taarof @itaarof based in #Mexico, which aims to break discriminatory practices and stereotypes in #LatinAmerica on Middle Eastern cultures, rights and issues. Taarof is co-founded by one of our community colleagues Perla Primavera and Mariana Montiel.

New #Podcast Episode! 💜 International Relations is not a field neutral to gender, it is blind to it. How can we denormalize it?

In this episode we explore:

✨What is Feminism Theory in IR? What does it study and why is it important?

✨How can we overcome this Anglo-centric, Euro-centric, Andro-centric way of thinking the world?

✨Can we find valuable knowledge on Feminist Theory applied in the IR here in the countries of the badly named “Global South”?

✨Can we produce new and decolonial knowledge in countries, institutions and feminist groups that are not “recognized” by authorities in the “Global North”? ✨How do we perceive “authority” and “worth” in scholars, researchers, diplomats and state officials in developed and developing nations?

✨What are 7 powerful reasons on why Feminist Theory applied to IR matters?

✨A special invitation! Join us for our first live virtual talk on Sahrawi Feminism this August 15th at 11 a.m. EST, free rsvp here: https://tinyurl.com/y3oyg8ry

💜Join us in this exploration of the work, listen to the episode here and check my blog post 10 recommended books on Feminism & International Relations: https://nataliabonilla.org/2020/03/06/10-recommended-books-on-feminism-and-international-relations/

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An interview with The World is Watching co-founder Vannary Kong and Director of Outreach Jennifer Zhang.

In this episode we explore:

✨How the World is Watching - Black Lives Matter organization became a reality?

✨What is their International Declaration’s goals and how can global support for this movement can help change structural and racial violence in the US and other countries?

✨How can support to the BLM movement network can be a good starting point to transcend to tangible results? In which ways can we start learning and working towards more inclusive societies, building capital and diverse communities of color in public, private and civil sectors?

✨Black women are often being at the forefront of these social movements. How does BLM is helping change the racial and gender divide and create equal rights, access, opportunities and resources?

✨In times where the “cancel culture” is common on social media, what is a good way to approach learning and broadening our understandings on racial issues?

✨What are some views on the reparations movement in the US and the English & French-Caribbean nations? Why some experts believe it can fix the structural cause of violence while others believe it is a band-aid solution?

✨How can we join in solidarity? What is a meaningful way to approach this subject authentically and not because it is a "trendy" thing to do?

💜Join us in this exploration of the work.

Recommended links for this episode:

WEBSITE: theworldiswatchingBLM.org

DECLARATION: tinyurl.com/worldsaysBLM (https://theworldiswatchingblm.org/2020/06/01/read-our-international-declaration/)

PETITION: tinyurl.com/worldwatchingNOW (https://www.change.org/p/united-nations-international-community-in-solidarity-against-police-violence-toward-african-americans-986c3759-5a8e-4b14-8cf6-44735505a336?utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=custom_url&recruited_by_id=bd9cf5f0-a36b-11ea-b836-f549ffbfd9b5)

ISSUE BRIEFINGS & OTHER RESOURCES: https://theworldiswatchingblm.org/resources/

SOCIAL MEDIA:

https://www.instagram.com/theworldiswatching.blm/

https://twitter.com/twiw_blm

https://www.facebook.com/theworldiswatching.blm/

https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-world-is-watching/

https://tinyurl.com/worldwatchingYT (YouTube / https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-xSnn6iPukOFxmmZ0g2pQ/)

New #Podcast Episode! 💜On August 6th, a global virtual tribute will take place to commemorate that #nuclearweapons are #stillhere and so... are the #survivors.

In this episode we explore:

10 hours of livestream programming from international artists & scholars

In this episode we explore:

✨How far we've come since the nuclear attacks of Hiroshima and Nagasaki?

✨What is the MidHeaven Network and Hiroshima City 10 hours of livestream programming all about?

✨What are the ideas to be explored: war economy, peace economy, anti-nuclear campaigns and revolutionary love?

✨What is the intersection between nuclear weapons, international security and racism?

✨What is the status of START, Radiation Exposure Compensation Act and the Non-Proliferation Treaty?

✨How can we be radical agents of peace?

💜Join us in this exploration, recommended links:

https://www.hiroshimanagasaki75.org/

https://www.peacinstitute.org/

https://www.wilpf.org/what-do-feminists-think-of-nuclear-weapons/

New #Podcast Episode! 💜 Are we believing without expecting things will actually change for the better? A message for these uncertain times.

In this episode we explore:

✨What is hope?

✨Can we talk about hope in International Relations or is it a field too..."neutral", "unspiritual" and "dehumanized"?

✨What are we hoping to change at a personal and international level? Are we believing and acting upon that change we want to see or are we believing without really...expecting?

✨Do we want things to change by today or tomorrow or else...we desist? How open are we embracing the process of change vs. seeking instant gratification, goals to be accomplished and checklists to be completed to declare "victory"? Are we conscious on how are we replicating the same systems we want to change?

✨Which emotions are you cultivating? Where are you placing your attention? Are you exposing yourself to negative media content, emotions and collective thoughts and expecting to feel different...better?

✨What are you fueling and why?

💜Join us in this exploration, listen to the episode, click the link in bio🙏

If you want to join The Hope Circles, I list the information below:

On July 22nd at 7 p.m. EST we will engage in a virtual LAC conversation in Spanish and on July 29th in two transcontinental conversations in English to reach as many women as possible.

Our aim is to connect female social entrepreneurs on the status of our initiatives and how can we support each other to make our communities thrive now more than ever.

The circle is a free rsvp virtual event and seeks to open a space for connection and collaboration between female social entrepreneurs, CEOs and community leaders with inspiring social impact programs and ventures.

Join us for an inspiring edition of conversations!

Sesión en Español 22 de julio: https://tinyurl.com/y7wcmy7f

English Sessions July 29th: https://tinyurl.com/y9fob7l9

If you want to join the Facebook Lives on masculinities, feminisms and IR in Spanish, tune into my facebook page on July 28th and July 30th, 6:30 p.m. CT.

To join the free class on "¿Puede un Estado ser...feminista? on August 13th register free here: https://tinyurl.com/yagomhmy

New #Podcast Episode! 💜 🇵🇷Are we ever truly free from the chains of oppression? As people, as citizens and as women? A look into the experience of #PuertoRico, case study.

In this episode we explore:

✨What is the colonial mindset?

✨How internalized is the oppression within our education, economic, political and social orders and systems?

✨How inferiority plays out on people and how double is the task to break free for women?

✨Which beliefs, ideologies, behaviors do we allow to persist through time? Which shape our national and personal identity?

✨Why the colony of Puerto Rico is different from other colonies and which similarities can we find in Chechnya and Georgia’s case?

✨How macho culture still harms the Puerto Rican diaspora, where are the voices of women and why are males the ones enjoying the privileges of gender in the US?

✨What is the process of breaking free from this toxic mentality?

✨How many independent republics in Latin America are reproducing imperialistic perceptions of power?

✨Can we truly call us free when we live and seek to thrive in social dynamics and structures that are inherently violent?

✨Can we stop the pity against colonized people? Can we stop the judgement and start hearing, seeing, allowing them to be?

✨How colonial is our relationship with gender violence? Are some types of feminism a new way of continuing the oppression?

💜Join us in this exploration and share with us your impression via social media @nataliabonillainc

Recommended books:

The Wretched of the Earth, Frantz Fannon

The Colonizer and the Colonized, Albert Memmi

The Psychology of the Colonization, O. Mannoni

Race, Gender and Culture in International Relations, Randolph Persaud & Alina Sajed

The Politics of Nationalism and Ethnicity, James G. Kellas

Feminist Postcolonial Theory: A Reader, Reina Lewis & Sara Mills

Feminism Without Borders, Chandra Talpade Mohanty

Subjects that Matter, Namita Goswami

Are we externalizing our wounded feminine and masculine in our protests against the State?

In this episode we explore:

✨What is our connection with the femininity and the masculine within us? ✨What can we learn from systemic psychology’s take to how we process our personal wounds to the collective level?

✨Which narratives on our femininity and women’s deities have we allowed to enter our magnetic field?

✨Why are we more prone to judge and reinterpret and condemn the symbolism and narratives of Venus/Aphrodite and Hawaii’s Fire Goddess Pele? Why are we not challenging the notions of male deities and figures?

✨Why do we normalize violence against women in an energetic level, in the way we “validate” images of realities and why are we not able to move past other debris?

✨How can we connect with our feminine, how can we heal our wounded feminine so our projections, relationships with others and the State do not feed hurt but come from a more loving and just place?

💜Join us in this exploration, listen to the episode and support our Patreon community here: https://www.patreon.com/nataliabonillaprojects

An Interview with Sandra Aceng, program officer of Women of Uganda Network and Global Voices contributor. She is also the coordinator of WIAG, a coalition that advocates for integration of gender perspectives in ICT policy. You can follow her work on https://wougnet.org/

In this episode we explore:

✨What’s the status of freedom of expression in #Uganda? How has the pandemic increased online violence?

✨What is the role of the State in surveillance, protecting and prosecuting crimes? What happened in the 2019 social media attacks?

✨How difficult or easy has it been for female journalists to have access to open data with gender perspectives and continue reporting in this pandemic?

✨What are some of the Stop Social Bullying campaign’s findings and how did the #MeToo and #BlackLivesMatters movements were seen?

✨Race as an issue in Uganda, how racism is being reported? What are some racial discrimination and violent practices (including child racial killings)?

✨What are some of the ways WOUGNET is addressing women’s internet access, safety and rights protection?

✨ Why is it important the approach: empower the woman to empower the child?

Listen to the episode and join our community in Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/nataliabonillaprojects

Can we break the stigma on people's response to pandemic, humanitarian and climate crisis? Let's explore.

A case for an intersectional approach

An interview with Marissa Conway, co-founder of the Centre for Feminist Foreign Policy in the UK.

New Episode! 👩🏻‍💻Today I share with you a reflection on mass media's role on covering trauma, racial injustice and downplaying the rising social & state inequalities around the world.

✨What we're feeding of?

✨Are we aware of the current shift from COVID-19 fearful narratives to "anger", "rage", "fury" taking over the streets in protests?

✨Why framing photos and videos on burning buildings and damage to public property is saying about the value of bodies and freedom of speech?

✨Activist Tamika Mallory said "we learned violence from you", are we aware of what the cycle of violence entails and how can we break free from it? ✨How deep are racial & social wounds elsewhere? How can we know if most mass media focus is Euro-centric, Anglo-centric, Andro-centric? ✨How can we talk about solidarity of nations and the need for a global leadership if this pandemic is showing the cracks in Imperial visions of "spheres of influence"?

✨How long can we continue being fed this cocktail of poisonous views and war journalism narratives that seeks to demonize, downplay and judge the Other... by what it does or what it doesn't do, by what it has and it doesn't have, by who or what it is?

✨Are we really prepared for a change to the status quo or are we ready to go back to our previous ways because uncertainty is "too hard to handle"?

✨How willing are we to unlearn previous and harmful ways and how ready are we to... bridge, build & break free? I hope these questions sparks some more questions within you as it did within me. Looking forward to hear your thoughts, listen in my link in bio💜 . . . #podcast #womenempowerment #womenempoweringwomen #womensupportingwomen #womeninspiringwomen #womenownedbusiness #womenwholift #inspiringwomen #womeninpower #feminism #intersectionalfeminism #intersectionality

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A look on how much of our understanding of our womanhood experience inside/out is "truly" our own.

Economic and social stresses, national lockdowns and restrictions of movement have dramatically increased the number of women and girls facing abuse at home. UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres has asked today for a “global ceasefire” on #domesticviolence. Today we will release a new #podcast episode interviewing #datingviolence expert @adaalvarezconde.

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Questions and topics on the role actors play in this pandemic, media representations, social inequality and women's visibility and exclusion from health and decision-making processes