Marissa

@marissakconway

CEO | feminist activist & foreign policy analyst | cat enthusiast

California, London, & Kent
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Joined August 2009
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    Mar 24

    Pinching myself. I am so excited for this next chapter of my career! The team, trustees, and members at are so wonderful and I can't wait to work alongside them.

    Marissa Conway, UNA-UK's incoming CEO.
    UNA-UK is pleased to announce that has been appointed as its new Chief Executive Officer, effective from 11 April 2022. Co-founder of the Centre for Feminist Foreign Policy, she joins us after six years as its UK Executive Director.
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    Apr 5

    Ein kritischer Artikel zu heute im mit Interviews mehrer feministischer Forscher*innen - inclusive mir 🥳 & der Geschichte der via

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  3. Apr 11

    Looking for good reads & academic pieces on patriarchy and foreign policy - any reccomendations?

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    Apr 7

    UNA-UK welcomes the 's decision to suspend from the Human Rights Council. membership is a privilege, not a right. Russia must be held to account for its actions. Read the full statement:

    Breakdown on the vote to suspend Russia from the HRC - 93 votes in favour, 24 against and 58 abstentions
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  5. Apr 8

    I meet so many funders who are so excited about funding 'changemaking' work and then make potential grantees jump through ridiculous, incredibly time-consuming hoops to - maybe! - get the money. This isn't making 'change', it's reinforcing a capitalist status quo.

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  6. Mar 30

    "White and Western women have led the international feminist movement, determining its priorities, assumptions, and agendas. An inclusive and intersectional feminist movement can only be possible if the myth of white and Western women’s superiority is abandoned once and for all."

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  7. Mar 30

    "The German feminism that exists today has carried on those assumptions of white women’s centrality to the feminist movement and an unquestioning stance toward aligning nationalistic strategic interests under the feminist brand."

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  8. Mar 30

    A few favourite quotes: "...“feminist” foreign policies attempt to justify their branding while also re-entrenching white moral and cultural supremacy."

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  9. Mar 30

    If you read one thing today, make it this article by :

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    Mar 28

    🚨Last chance to read our February & March issue for FREE Cover story: covering all things feminist foreign policy. Find out more👇

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    Mar 22

    Security means different things to different people. We need diverse voices in our field so that the concept of security we strive towards benefits all of us and not just some of us. It was an absolute pleasure to talk about this and more with the remarkable .

    What does security mean to you? How does gender intersect and affect our perception of security? speaks with and on these topics. Listen:
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    Mar 20

    🎙️Undercurrents | Feminist foreign policy, and adapting to an age of crisis. ▪️ () discusses how FFP has entered the mainstream. ▪️ talks about his book 'Ten Survival Skills for a World in Flux'. Listen🎧in full:

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  13. Mar 22

    👀👀👀 This was a delightfully fun project, thank you and thank you to Rosanagh and for a fabulous job done!

    Nuclear weapons treaties, policies & practices have traditionally been developed & negotiated in deeply patriarchal and elitist spaces. A new report from shares knowledge, expertise & historically marginalized perspectives to shape better .
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    Mar 21

    I co-authored this report published in Oct 2021, but it seems fitting to re-share it... investigating the links between & , and highlighting the very gendered nature of the arms race - produced with ☮️

    Nuclear weapons treaties, policies & practices have traditionally been developed & negotiated in deeply patriarchal and elitist spaces. A new report from shares knowledge, expertise & historically marginalized perspectives to shape better .
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    Mar 18

    Sharing with my network the Intersectionality and Cybersecurity Toolkit - an excellent piece from & in which I had the opportunity to collaborate and bring my expertise on the intersection between gender and cybersecurity👇

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  16. Mar 18

    So, so very excited to share the Intersectionality and Cybersecurity Toolkit I wrote with - my very last CFFP project before I head off to pastures new!

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    Mar 16

    Not sure what a feminist fp should look like? sums it up perfectly: rebalancing unequal power dynamics an intersectional approach new norms preventing harm + addressing causes of inequality a nuanced + contextualized understanding . . .

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    Mar 17

    🎙️Undercurrents | Feminist foreign policy, and adapting to an age of crisis. ▪️ () discusses how FFP has entered the mainstream. ▪️ talks about his book 'Ten Survival Skills for a World in Flux'. Listen🎧in full:

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  19. Mar 15

    Lol to the old white dude who wrote a v angsty article about CFFP's Finding Feminism in Nuclear Policy report. Read our report full of bad ideas (like inclusivity, equality, etc.) for yourself!

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