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Law's a Drag @lawsadrag.bsky.social · 9d

Last night, Law's a Drag held its first ever CABARET!

We mixed lip syncs, comedy, and dance with a Q&A on the For Woman Scotland UKSC judgment, providing info about how it will affect equality law, and the lives of drag artists, and trans, nonbinary, intersex, and cis people in the UK

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James as Alice Aforethought (pink wig, highlighted facial hair, peace sign, grinning maniacally) taking a stage selfie with a packed audience at Wharf Chambers in Leeds!

Sue Pertrouper (brunette wig, trans pride coloured corset under a white gown), Rosie as Fox Populi (pink romper suit, trans pride blue and pink wig) and James as Alice Aforethought (black top and skirt, trans pride wig, bold facial hair) onstage during the Q and A on the current law on trans rights in the UK

Applause and a curtain call, as our acts clap for the audience watching. Alice Aforethought, Fox Populi, Liv Vicariously, Trash!, Hot Pot, Tommy Gunn, Jean Evans, and Sue Pertrouper on stage

While Packin Heat (Tommy Gunn and AJ 47) perform a Legally Blonde number onstage, a packed audience watches on

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Joy Twemlow @joytwemlow.bsky.social · Sep 8

It will come with the added bonus of witnessing @jgreenwoodreeves.bsky.social justifiably dye of laughter as I try (and fail) to keep up with Cardi B lyrics

a woman in a colorful jacket and hat is dancing in a room with other people .

ALT: a woman in a colorful jacket and hat is dancing in a room with other people .

media.tenor.com

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Joy Twemlow @joytwemlow.bsky.social · Sep 1

I’m genuinely excited to be joining some very cool people doing very fun research!!

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Joy Twemlow @joytwemlow.bsky.social · Sep 1

Thank you!!

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Joy Twemlow @joytwemlow.bsky.social · Sep 1

Delighted that the summer I turned into a doctor is leading into the Autumn I started my new role as a Law Lecturer at Manchester Law School

Excited to be joining a faculty of such brilliant, vibrant, creative academics 🥳

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Joy Twemlow @joytwemlow.bsky.social · Aug 26

I acquired some vintage index card drawers to house my academic reading notes and this brings me more happiness than I care to admit

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Caitlin 🏳️‍🌈 @feminiserrm.bsky.social · Aug 12

"I study feminist theories of embodiment" is OUT. "I'm a femininomenonologist ✨️💅" is IN.

Chappell Roan holding Iris Marion Young's "On Female Body Experience: "Throwing Like a Girl" and Other Essays".

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Joy Twemlow @joytwemlow.bsky.social · Aug 11

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Joy Twemlow @joytwemlow.bsky.social · Aug 4

Punishment based writing buddy system - if either of us miss a day we have to eat a raw egg (this is medically ill-advised please don’t copy me)

Sascha Stronach🏳️‍⚧️, The Sunforge out now @understatesmen.bsky.social · Aug 4

Alright, share your terrible writing tips that actually work.

Mine is: stop for the day in the middle of a paragraph, a sentence, even in the middle of a word. It feels SO wrong but it makes it 1000x easier to pick up the thread the next day.

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Joy Twemlow @joytwemlow.bsky.social · Jul 22

Whenever I’m asked to explain phenomenology

Hadas Weiss @hadas.bsky.social · Jul 22

how it feels to be asked about your research

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Senthorun S. Raj @senthorun.bsky.social · Jul 9

We are witnessing an ongoing genocide in Gaza and those who speak out against Israel’s violent actions in Palestine are sanctioned. It’s perverse (not to mention illegal) for countries to enable the perpetrators of genocide while punishing those who oppose it.

US sanctions UN expert Francesca Albanese, critic of Israel's Gaza offensive

Secretary of State Marco Rubio linked the move to her support for the International Criminal Court (ICC).

www.bbc.co.uk

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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · Jan 16

'How did this happen?' asks The Times, which has run thousands of pieces inciting hatred of trans people.

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Kay Crosby @kaycrosby.bsky.social · Jul 3

It is now more than three months since my own ABH in the course of which I was addressed as a cunt, a stupid bitch and the Whore of Babylon. Northumbria Police have my assailant’s name, a complete video of the attack, CCTV evidence and a medical report. They are, to my knowledge, yet to speak to him

Victoria McCloud 🏳️‍⚧️🌈‍♾️ @humanrightsvicky.bsky.social · Jul 2

Othering by Gender Critical Ideology fanatics and Biologica Purity movement people has real life consequences. This is the UK today.

archive.ph/2025.07.02-0...

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Sergey Vasiliev @sevslv.bsky.social · Jun 30

Cayley "began receiving anonymous, threatening phone calls saying “you’re in a very dangerous position”. And last summer, the 🇳🇱 police & security services turned up at the court to warn that he was in considerable danger."
Must-read article on why Cayley quit the #ICC. observer.co.uk/news/interna...

Threat of US sanctions over Gaza forced me out, says ICC ...

Andrew Cayley oversaw the ICC’s investigation into Israel and Hamas. As he gathered harrowing testimonies, he began to receive threatening phone calls

observer.co.uk

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Jana Bacevic @unsocialtheory.bsky.social · Jun 30

Am I correct in understanding that the story in the UK today is that someone chose to chant "death to IDF" and *not* that the IDF is shooting civilians trying to access food at aid distribution sites?

Right.

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Joy Twemlow @joytwemlow.bsky.social · Jun 30

The zine we made at the summer school to be compiled

But you can access @benedictdouglas.bsky.social and I’s zine reflecting on knowledge making and sharing in the current political climate

✨it even has fun activities✨

drive.google.com/file/d/1Z3vz...

Activist Summer School 2025.pdf

drive.google.com

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Joy Twemlow @joytwemlow.bsky.social · Jun 30

Over the weekend @benedictdouglas.bsky.social and I were lucky enough to run an amazing zine making session at the East Midlands NEU Activist Summer School

Throughout the day we reflected on our role in addressing the rise of the right & its corrosion of our democracies

👇🏼Link to our zine below

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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · Jun 29

It's your last chance to respond to the EHRC consultation. It closes at 11.59pm tomorrow. Get it done tonight. Tell them about the personal impact. Better to do something short and quick than not at all.

Don't let them claim we didn't tell them.

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Joy Twemlow @joytwemlow.bsky.social · Jun 26

Delighted to have been shortlisted for a Durham teaching innovation award and even more delighted that my supervisor @profturner.bsky.social won the excellence in supervision category 🥳

Durham Law School represented well with Catherine, myself and Can Eken (shortlisted for tutor of the year) 🎊🎉🍾

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Being Trans in Philosophy: Issue #0 Out Now @being.transinphilosophy.org · Jun 17

Issue #0 of Being Trans in Philosophy zine is out now! “We Are Not Trans in a Theoretical Way”. Download & print ur own 🖨️. being.transinphilosophy.org

#beingtransinphilosophy #trans #philosophy #gender #feminism #zine #diy

Being Trans in Philosophy issue #0 release. Subtitle: download, make your own. Url: https://being.transinphilosophy.org. Image of 5 zines arranged in the trans pride colors, stacked on top of well-known trans books.

Title: ‘welcome to the WTF.” Image of a biohazard symbol overlayed on a world map with lines radiating from the center of the symbol, and the spires of the biohazard symbol are impinging on two scared trans symbols. A very long list of anti-trans events since 2021 portraying the looming threats to trans life from violence, media, and governmental disenfranchisement. Footer text: https://being.transinphilosophy.org.

Text header: issue #0, june 2025, https://being.transinphilosophy.org, our stories, “we are not trans in a theoretical way”. A list of contributors with each name on a black badge over a purple splatter. The names are: Imogen Sullivan, Erin Beeghly, Ray Briggs, Anonymous, autogyniphiles_anonymous, Emmie Malone, Kelly Potter, Elin McCready, Penny Haulotte, Amy Marvin, Alex Adamson, Perry Zurn, Emil Eva Rosina, and Maximiliana Rifkin.

Text header: issue #0, june 2025, https://being.transinphilosophy.org, our stories, “we are not trans in a theoretical way”. A block of white text on a stippled purple star background reads: “being trans i not a controversial idea. it’s a lived reality.” Under the text appears a black and white image of a feminine eye.

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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · Jun 17

The EHRC's lawyers admitted its position re. toilets adopted in its interim update (specifically mandating employers to have single-sex toilets instead of individual gender neutral cubicles) was wrong.

We think they're even more wrong still, though.

Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · Jun 17

The EHRC's lawyers have conceded its position on single sex toilets is wrong. goodlaw.social/z87e

EHRC backs down on single-sex toilets | Good Law Project

The EHRC’s interim update unleashed chaos after the Supreme Court’s transphobic decision. But now the commission says it was only ‘some observations’ and rows back on its demand for single-sex toilets...

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Ruth Houghton @ruthhoughton.bsky.social · Jun 11

Art was never my thing.
But, a fabulous teach out at Newcastle today with Rebecca Coleman. Thinking about utopias, new materialism, materials and some Utopian Zine Making!

Zine front page states "Utopian Constituent Assembly"

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University of Leeds - School of Law @lawatleeds.bsky.social · Jun 9

In today’s episode, Alice and Fox share some highlights from recent @lawsadrag.bsky.social activities! 🌈✨

From research papers on RuPaul’s Drag Race to Forum Theatre sessions, catch up on what the network has been up to.

Want more?🔽
tinyurl.com/mffdpvaa

#AcademicSky #LawSky #LawsADrag

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Jesse Bachir @drfreedom.bsky.social · Jun 1

Yearly reminder that pride is not just a nice little parade, it is grounded in resistance to oppression. This is especially important to remember this month, when in the UK and the US, our trans siblings are under threat. Their ability to enter public spaces on equal terms is being threatened; 1/

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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.bsky.social · May 27

The UK must meet its fundamental international legal obligations, before it's too late

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

UK must impose sanctions on Israel to meet legal obligations, say more than 800 lawyers

Exclusive: Letter to PM signed by retired supreme court justices among others says lack of action will imperil international legal system

www.theguardian.com

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