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Dr Tamsin Phillipa Paige

@pagingdrpaige.bsky.social

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Associate Professor at Deakin Law. Apparently International Law's cool queer aunt. Once had an ANU student call me a handmaiden of Satan. Disabled. Aces. Editor of Queer and Feminist International Law book series (Routledge). She/Her

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Dr Tamsin Phillipa Paige @pagingdrpaige.bsky.social · Nov 12

Look people now that the migration from the platform Elon Musk is forcing us to dead name is well and truly on foot, you may want to check out this podcast that is all about international law and current events (with sweary and snarky takes from me, more earnest ones from my co-hosts)

Douglas Guilfoyle @djag2.bsky.social · Nov 12

Well, hello new followers! If you’re an international law/relations academic or student here’s a nifty podcast I started with @juliettemm.bsky.social, @imogenmarjorie.bsky.social, @pagingdrpaige.bsky.social and @ntinatzouvala.bsky.social!

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Called to the Bar - International Law over Drinks

Play Called to the Bar - International Law over Drinks and discover followers on SoundCloud | Stream tracks, albums, playlists on desktop and mobile.

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Jon Piccini @jonpiccini.bsky.social · 19h

The war against 'false news' is not 'new', but has been a concern of international organisations for over 100 years. The ever captivating Roland Burke launches a new Guardian column, Past/Present, sponsored by the @austhistassoc.bsky.social.

The fledgling UN tried to rein in mass-scale misinformation. The world turned its back and is now paying the price | Roland Burke

The ruinous result of the US approach to freedom of information and media has made anti-democratic contagion impossible to ignore

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Feminist Legal Studies @flsjournal.bsky.social · 19d

📣🏳️‍⚧️ Call for Papers

We are inviting papers for our special issue, “Feminist Responses to the Regression of Trans Rights: Strategies, Alliances, Hope.” The issue will be dedicated to trans-inclusive feminist legal analysis that addresses attacks on trans rights & lives.

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Call for Papers: Special Issue of Feminist Legal Studies

Feminist Responses to the Regression of Trans Rights: Strategies, Alliances, Hope

Amidst continuing backlash against trans rights, recognition and inclusion, two recent decisions from the UK have substantially impacted not only trans people’s legal status but also legal and social narratives of sex, gender and identity. The narrative that trans inclusion has a chilling effect on the rights of others, particularly women, has been adopted uncritically by both the UK Supreme Court in For Women Scotland and the Office for Students in its finding that the University of Sussex’s trans-inclusion policy had a chilling effect on free speech. These cases highlight a backlash that has been ongoing for some time, and sparks debates and fear of what may lie in the near future for trans people and kin, as well as other gender-variant persons, not only in the UK, but across jurisdictions and in a global perspective. The discourse of the ‘gender critical’ movement is splintering both the feminist and LGBT+ movements globally, with some aligning politically with the Far- and Christian Right against trans rights, adopting their terminology of ‘gender ideology’ and potentially posing a wider threat to sexual and reproductive rights.

While this a difficult situation for trans people, kin and allies, this special issue seeks to emphasise that legal battles – including battles (temporarily) lost – are also an opportunity to seek to reinforce old alliances and to form new ones, to find new legal frontiers and imaginaries, to reinforce the theoretical and methodological underpinnings of legal arguments as well as intergenerational memory of what feminist legal work is, has been and should be about. How, we ask, do these decisions (and those like them globally) reflect and reproduce structures of coloniality, heteronormativity and cisnormativity? What do these decisions add to critiques of legal feminism? What would be construct…

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Dr Tamsin Phillipa Paige @pagingdrpaige.bsky.social · 1d

a panda bear is sitting in a rocking chair with its head on the chair .

ALT: a panda bear is sitting in a rocking chair with its head on the chair .

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Dr Tamsin Phillipa Paige @pagingdrpaige.bsky.social · 1d

Congratulations. I enjoyed my time in the HASS faculty there

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Seanan McGuire @seananmcguire.bsky.social · 2d

We are one week closer to the release of OMENS OF CHAOS, and the glorious return of Magic the Gathering long-form fiction!

A book cover against a blue background reading COMING FEBRUARY 17, 2026. The book cover shows a blonde-haired human New Capenna shield mage in the robes of a first year Strixhaven mage-scholar, casting a domed shield around herself. The school is behind her. The text on the cover reads "STRIXHAVEN | OMENS OF CHAOS | SEANAN MCGUIRE | New York Times Bestselling Author."

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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 2d

It cannot be made clearer.

If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.

JK Rowling pledges to keep up fight against SNP trans policies

Author vows to bankroll campaigners after Scottish government fails to pay group's legal fees in Supreme Court equality case

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Dr Tamsin Phillipa Paige @pagingdrpaige.bsky.social · 2d

Hang on, you can't make your law school printer auto staple?

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Dr Tamsin Phillipa Paige @pagingdrpaige.bsky.social · 2d

Melbourne

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 2d

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

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Asymmetrical Haircuts @asymmetricalh.bsky.social · 2d

There’s a lot going on at the ICJ including the return of ‘ghost’ cases. Juliette McIntyre explains what’s going on & looks ahead to the big genocide case coming up on #Myanmar - how will it affect the #Israel case that follows?
Episode out now👇
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Episode 145 – Lawfare at the Busiest Court in The Hague with Juliette McIntyre

Juliette McIntyre explains what’s happening at the International Court of Justice and what she’ll be looking out for in upcoming genocide cases. If it’s interesting, do like, subscribe …

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Dr Tamsin Phillipa Paige @pagingdrpaige.bsky.social · 4d

But that would involve the rest of Melbourne's Melbouneness

Dr Tamsin Phillipa Paige @pagingdrpaige.bsky.social · 4d

I can see your point, but absent the Australian Raven I'm voting for the angry dinosaur

Dr Tamsin Phillipa Paige @pagingdrpaige.bsky.social · 4d

Never argue with a Cassowary

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Dr Tamsin Phillipa Paige @pagingdrpaige.bsky.social · 4d

Academic selfie: PhD workshop with Gina and then dinner with @emilyjones.bsky.social edition

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Holly Cullen @hollycullenfreo.bsky.social · 5d

Happening now: live broadcast of oral submissions on the advisory opinion request from the ILO on the right to strike under ILO Convention No 87 on Freedom of Association.

THE HAGUE – The International Court of Justice (ICJ) holds public hearings in the advisory proceedings on the Right to Strike – International Labour Office; International Trade Union Confederation; In...

The International Court of Justice (ICJ) holds public hearings on the request for an advisory opinion concerning the Right to Strike under ILO Convention No. 87 on 6 October 2025.

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Senthorun S. Raj @senthorun.bsky.social · 5d

“Good medicine is guided by the values of the patient, not those of a clinician, politician or commentator.”

Australian researchers have clearly rejected the institutionalised transphobia of the Cass Review. Trans folks should not be ignored in political or medical decisions about their healthcare.

Australian report says UK’s Cass review should not guide transgender healthcare

QNews LGBTIQA+ News

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Douglas Guilfoyle @djag2.bsky.social · 7d

In our latest episode, @ntinatzouvala.bsky.social speaks with Ardi Imseis about the recent recognition of Palestine by western states and the history of the UN’s “rule by law” in relation to Palestine and the construction of its legal subalternity. #CalledToTheBar

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54. Recognition, the United Nations and the Question of Palestine

In this episode, host Dr Ntina Tzouvala is joined by Professor Ardi Imseis (Queen’s Law School, Canada) for a timely conversation about international law, the United Nations, and the long struggle for

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Senthorun S. Raj @senthorun.bsky.social · 6d

“To assemble, to say no, to do no, throws so much open … doing what we can, when we can, however we can, in the wear and tear, for as long as it takes.”

Just read @saranahmed.bsky.social’s energising new book on complaining as a collective task of feminist and queer world (un)building. Get a copy!

Hand holds up the book, “No Is Not A Lonely Utterance: The Art and Activism of Complaining.”

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Douglas Guilfoyle @djag2.bsky.social · 7d

Yes, yes it is.

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Is Israel breaking the law by stopping the Gaza-bound flotilla?

According to a UN legal framework, a nation's territory does not extend beyond 19km from its shores but enforcing international maritime law is a challenge across the globe.

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Kay Crosby @kaycrosby.bsky.social · 7d

We are subjected to psychiatric pathologisation in return for two benefits: legal gender recognition (lol) and access to healthcare (lol). This coercive practice now only has any purpose for those of us who can’t afford to opt out.

Torture based on social and financial capital. That’s real Britain.

Latest waiting times for gender identity clinics in the UK

Revealed waiting times of all GICs in UK: Most Trans+ people in the UK will wait more than a third of their adult life to get an appointment, and some will never receive care

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Douglas Guilfoyle @djag2.bsky.social · 7d

A quick thought on one small but important way western states recognising Palestine is not merely a symbolic gesture. The relevant comparison is the illegal Turkish occupation of Northern Cyprus. This is entirely unrecognised by any state but Türkiye. As a consequence there’s no inbound 1/2

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Manchester Law School - Research @mmulawresearch.bsky.social · 9d

Dr Tamsin Paige giving a fascinating talk at MLS on 'Fines Do Not Make for Fine Law'.

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Dr Tamsin Phillipa Paige @pagingdrpaige.bsky.social · 7d

The US is definitely speed running fascism and aggression coupled with being super war crimey

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Dr Tamsin Phillipa Paige @pagingdrpaige.bsky.social · 7d

For all the reasons why this conduct from the US (or any other government) is unlawful and reprehensible have a listen to this episode of #CalledToTheBar

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Craig Martin @craigxmartin.bsky.social · 8d

The US is not in an armed conflict with drug cartels. That must be determined by reference to specific legal principles, not created by a Presidential "declaration". Otherwise, the US could simply declare an armed conflict with the Mafia, a union, or political party.1/2

Trump officials push claim that US in ‘armed conflict’ with drug cartels

Administration attempts to justify strikes on alleged Venezuelan drug boats by claiming US under ‘armed attack’

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Dr Tamsin Phillipa Paige @pagingdrpaige.bsky.social · 8d

That's my second choice