International criminal justice involves stories of war and violence. These stories establish survivors, perpetrators, and scenes of trauma, offering representations of embodied experiences of violation. All bodies are subject to violence, but not all bodies are seen – or heard – in international criminal justice. In this article, I argue that queer bodies – that is, those with non-normative sexual and gender practices and identities, such as lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer, intersex, and asexual (LGBTQIA+) people – are largely missing from international criminal justice discourses.
Read MoreSelf-managed abortion has transformed access to abortion globally. Yet, the centralization of abortion pill supply and distribution has real impacts on people’s bodily autonomy. Check out the 2021 Enloe award winning article Revolutionary pills? Feminist abortion, pharmaceuticalization, and reproductive governance
Read MoreAmid a surge of “land grabbing” in Cambodia, women from across the country have led and sustained public protests to reclaim their lands. In this article, Saba Joshi studies the routines and performances of poor women’s collective action against the state and outlines four distinct types of “repertoires of contention” used by women in their protests: strategic positioning, anti-politics, self-sacrifice, and solidarity.
Read MoreHelen Berents considers how the ubiquity of social media has meant that conflicts and crises often break into broader public consciousness when particularly shocking images of children are circulated and shared.
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