I just took the time to listen to this podcast and want to thank all involved for taking the time to do this - and urge all following the #SecuritizationTheory "controversy" to also do so + https://twitter.com/whiskeyIRT/status/1263592860172992514

I "grew up" with #criticalsecuritystudies and #securitizationtheory and have drawn on it to develop my own contributions to #feminist security studies #FemSecSt & like many others I have found the original article problematic, but have also learned the importance of listening +

The importance of taking a deep breath and not centering my feelings when confronted with the ways in which my writing, thinking, acting in this world contributes to upholding white supremacist capitalist patriarchy, as bell hooks has long phrased it +

As @RobbieShilliam so wonderfully reminds us at the start of this podcast, the generosity of #CriticalRaceTheory scholars' engagement never seizes to amaze me and all I can do (and urge others to do) is to respond by becoming (even more) serious about engaging their work deeply.

Post-script for those who want to dig deeper but don’t know where to start.
Check out this thread on #mustread work in IR https://twitter.com/tilley101/status/1261941114195587072?s=21 https://twitter.com/tilley101/status/1261941114195587072