"Anti-immigrant march" is such a telling phrase. An immigrant is just a person who exercises the freedom they are born with, which is recognised by all human rights legislation, and moves across imaginary lines on the ground. Being "anti-immigrant" means anti-movement, anti-freedom and anti-person.

“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!

📣🏳️‍⚧️ 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.

Details below. Please share.

Feminist Legal Studies is pleased to offer open access to our 2025 prize-winning article by Leon Laidlaw. This powerful article examines how colonial gender norms underpin prison systems, harming trans, Indigenous, and cis women.

You can read it for free here: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

I’m really looking forward to this workshop that I’m co-organising with @pagingdrpaige.bsky.social! If you’d like to join us online, register here: www.eventbrite.com.au/e/feminist-a... or get in touch to join in person (limited spots available)

It’s launch day for No Is Not A Lonely Utterance! So I shared some of my reasons for writing the book 💜💜

The Call for Papers for SLSA2026 is now live!

This year, alongside @sandraduffy.bsky.social, and @maxmorris.bsky.social, I will be running a current topic on "Law in the Culture Wars".

If you have a paper idea, please feel free to get in touch with us!

www.sussex.ac.uk/collaborate/...

At a time when some use the language of feminism to attack trans rights, it’s vital to see feminist activists and scholars counteract such attacks. Feminist Legal Studies is inviting papers for a special issue that will explore how feminist goals and trans liberation are connected. Check it out.

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"Regression" is the word. Glad to see this special issue of Feminist Legal Studies using it.

If you are interested in submitting to the issue, please send an expression of interest including an abstract to the editors by Friday 31st October 2025.

Editors:

Matilda Arvidsson ([email protected])

Nicola Barker ([email protected])

Loveday Hodson ([email protected])

📣🏳️‍⚧️ 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.

Details below. Please share.

“Like many others, we will continue to engage and, true to her spirit, also challenge her many ideas and insights.”

We are excited to share our new special issue which explores the work of late feminist scholar Drucilla Cornell.

You can read more here: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

📢 RECENTLY PUBLISHED:

“Informed by comparative constitutional scholarship and queer legal studies, this article argues that art 156 represents the constitutionalisation of queer subordination by enshrining in the supreme law of the land the subordinate status of queer persons.”

By Daryl W. J. Yang

”Reductionist views which subscribe to and perpetuate misleadingly binary constructs of sex play into misogynistic right-wing politics which harm us all… this is not a theoretical debate, it impacts lived realities and the liveability of our lives.”

Feminist scholars demand trans equality.

I start by talking a lot about how I did not want to become a Libyan Penelope- a female relative of a Libyan dissident activist, silent and mourning, and how human rights activism proved the worst route out, forcing on me even more silence and mourning

A short reflection on my decade of working in the human rights sector and the daily anti-Arab racisms i had to navigate, kindly published by Feminist Legal Studies link.springer.com/article/10.1...

FYI: @senthorun.bsky.social published a paper in our journal that explores how the emotional dynamics of accountability and vulnerability emerge in the legal classroom and shape the teaching of LGBT rights. You can read it open access here: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

A new book rewrites judgments in cases decided by the ICC from a feminist perspective.

In this piece entitled “The Unbearable Arabness of Being: Anti-Arab Racisms in the Human Rights Sector,” Fatima Ahdash reflects on the orientalism and racism underpinning Western human rights organisations, arguing that a complete overhaul of the sector is urgently necessary. Read (for free) here:

A few of us have been working to set up a research network of legal scholars innovating in the teaching of race, colonialism & empire. We have received provisional approval as a new Collaborative Research Network (CRN) of the Law and Society Association (LSA)!

www.lawandsociety.org/crn-58critic...

My book is published! It’s a critical take on how emotions shape conflicts about LGBT rights and repair in equality law, gender recognition, bans on conversion practices, and sex education in schools. You can download it free via @edinburghup.bsky.social: edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-the-emo...

Join us for an interactive day on research methods at university of Leicester September 17. PGR travel expenses paid for attendance. @silvilunazul.bsky.social and I will be speaking on decolonial and feminist methods. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/m4c-dialog...

New piece written with my most precious and treasured thinking partner, @samanthapinto.bsky.social. Thinking together about exhaustion, fatigue, and being feminist and bone tired.

My latest article is now out with @flsjournal.bsky.social - ‘Beyond international human rights: Islamic feminism as alternative rights praxis’. Available open access here: link.springer.com/article/10.1...