Jack Conneely

An excerpt from a paper discussed at the myBISA.bsky.social Colonial, Postcolonial, and Decolonial workshop on ethical commitments in academic research and teaching (Phạm, 2023).

Thanks to niharikaan.bsky.social, sarahgharib.bsky.social, and Catherine Charrett for organising such an energising day!

Violent men aren't 'monsters'. They're terrifyingly ordinary Framing rapists like David Carrick as otherworldly creatures reinforces the comforting illusion that they are exceptional, nothing like the men we know and love. But the reality is that perpetrators a...

Brilliant piece by Sophie Lennox in @glamour.com about the importance of paying attention to the language we deploy when speaking about sexual violene.

We have a responsibility to face uncomfortable truths rather than to hide behind comfortable narratives.

Thank you @niharikaan.bsky.social and @niloofarrasooli.bsky.social for organising such an inspiring, energising workshop on the idea of Azadi.

Coming together collectively allows us to imagine new possibilities of transnational solidarity and liberation.

A lovely day with new and familiar faces.

After Affects, Future Feelings – Clare Hemmings in Conversation A lot has happened since notions of affect first emerged as a theoretical concept and took hold across the humanities and social sciences. The contours of what was then still confidently called Theory...

"Affective solidarity might thus be the refusal to relinquish that struggle, an insistence on the recognition and displacement—always failed—of privilege, as the motor of transformation."

Rich interview with @lsegender.bsky.social's Clare Hemmings on the evolution and importance of affect theory.

Not a crisis, but a choice: Masculinity with compassion By Jack Conneely – April 2025

We must move beyond conversations about masculinity that hyperfixate on a so-called crisis or endemic toxicity

Drawing on bell hooks’ The Will to Change, it’s time to reimagine masculinity with empathy - urging men and boys to see how patriarchy harms us all and join efforts to counter rape culture

Women and girls’ struggle to (re)integrate after Boko Haram → UNIDIR Assesses the nuances of women and girls reintegrating in communities after exiting Boko Haram, highlighting barriers and long-term challenges.

Without incorporating the lived experiences of women and girls leaving Boko Haram, DDR programmes fall short in providing the security, support, and opportunities needed for genuine, lasting (re)integration.

Read below a commentary I co-authored with Francesca Batault during my time at @unidir.org.