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Feminist Legal Studies @flsjournal.bsky.social · 16d

📣🏳️‍⚧️ 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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Martijn Mos 🏳️‍🌈 @martijnmos.bsky.social · 24d

www.volkskrant.nl/kijkverder/v...

Schotwonden bij Palestijnse kinderen wijzen op gericht vuur

Artsen zagen in Gaza een verontrustend patroon: kinderen met een enkele schotwond in hoofd of borst, een teken dat er gericht op ze is geschoten. Dat blijkt uit onderzoek van de Volkskrant, die sprak ...

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Martijn Mos 🏳️‍🌈 @martijnmos.bsky.social · Jul 16

Please let me know your thoughts and don't hesitate to reach out if you have any questions about the special section! I hope it makes for some stimulating summer reading. And thanks to all the contributors for making the special section come true!

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Martijn Mos 🏳️‍🌈 @martijnmos.bsky.social · Jul 16

Last, Jelena and I had the pleasure of speaking to Naureen Shameem and Neil Datta about the important work they have done as practitioners in the fight against anti-gender politics within international organizations. You can read our conversation here:

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

A practitioner’s perspective on resisting anti-gender politics in international organizations: an interview with Naureen Shameem and Neil Datta

Published in International Feminist Journal of Politics (Vol. 27, No. 3, 2025)

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Martijn Mos 🏳️‍🌈 @martijnmos.bsky.social · Jul 16

The contribution by Rebecca Sanders and Laura Dudley Jenkins introduces the concept of "reactionary international norm building" to the study of anti-gender politics. They usefully present three Rs to describe this process: revisionist, retrotopian, and radical.

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

From norm breaking to norm making: anti-feminist reactionary norm building in international politics

International women’s rights are under attack from a broad coalition of governments and non-governmental organizations at the United Nations. Drawing support from religious conservatives and emerge...

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Martijn Mos 🏳️‍🌈 @martijnmos.bsky.social · Jul 16

@georgeradics.bsky.social looks at backlash politics against the UNDP's "Being LGBT in Asia" project in Indonesia, the Philippines, and Thailand. It's a much-needed contribution on a neglected region in anti-gender politics.

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Anti-gender backlash politics as anti-Western politics: examining the UN’s “Being LGBT in Asia” project in Indonesia, the Philippines, and Thailand

The United Nations (UN) project “Being LGBT in Asia” advocates for laws and policies that are protective of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and trans (LGBT) people and attempts to generate lasting networks...

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Martijn Mos 🏳️‍🌈 @martijnmos.bsky.social · Jul 16

On this topic, you may also be interested in reading this new network analysis by @giuliamariani.bsky.social:

10.1093/sp/jxaf015/8097952

Giuliana also contributed a review of a book by Agnieszka Graff and Elżbieta Korolczuk to our special section!

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Transnational Networks against Equality: The Anti-Gender Mobilization in the European Parliament

Abstract. The present study contributes to the burgeoning literature on opposition to gender and sexual equality in the European Parliament (EP). It demons

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Martijn Mos 🏳️‍🌈 @martijnmos.bsky.social · Jul 16

Next, the amazing @lrubiogrundell.bsky.social and I look at the opportunities for anti-gender mobilization within the European Parliament. This venue, we argue, is increasing cause for concern.

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Opportunity beckons: the anti-gender movement at the European Parliament

The European Parliament (EP) is commonly viewed as the most progressive institution of the European Union (EU), given its historic promotion of gender equality and lesbian, gay, bisexual, and trans...

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Martijn Mos 🏳️‍🌈 @martijnmos.bsky.social · Jul 16

My article "God’s lawyers? The Christian Right at the European Court of Human Rights" looks at how ADF International and the ECLJ play a double game at the Strasbourg Court. They try to shape the Court's jurisprudence while also undermining its legitimacy.

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

God’s lawyers? The Christian Right at the European Court of Human Rights

Extant scholarship explores the activities and tactics of the transnational Christian Right at international organizations (IOs). However, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), the Council of...

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Martijn Mos 🏳️‍🌈 @martijnmos.bsky.social · Jul 16

The section starts off with an introduction by Jelena and I in which we conceptualize international organizations as not just threats to the work of anti-gender actors, but also as opportunities that these actors seek to take advantage of.

Access it here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Special Section introduction: threats and opportunities: the contestation of gender and sexuality in international organizations

Published in International Feminist Journal of Politics (Vol. 27, No. 3, 2025)

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Martijn Mos 🏳️‍🌈 @martijnmos.bsky.social · Jul 16

I am elated to share that the special section "Threats and Opportunities: The Contestation of Gender and Sexuality in International Organizations" that I co-edited with the wonderful Jelena Cupać of the @wzb.bsky.social is finally out in @ifjpglobal.bsky.social! www.tandfonline.com/toc/rfjp20/2...

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Lucrecia Rubio Grundell @lrubiogrundell.bsky.social · Jun 16

✨📣 Very happy that our article with @martijnmos.bsky.social "Opportunity beckons: the anti-gender movement at the European Parliament" is out @ifjpglobal.bsky.social. You can find it open access here: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/NNB93...

Opportunity beckons: the anti-gender movement at the European Parliament

The European Parliament (EP) is commonly viewed as the most progressive institution of the European Union (EU), given its historic promotion of gender equality and lesbian, gay, bisexual, and trans...

www.tandfonline.com

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Martijn Mos 🏳️‍🌈 @martijnmos.bsky.social · Jun 5

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Hungary’s anti-LGBTQ+ rules breach EU law, top court adviser says

Legal opinion bolsters EU’s challenge against Viktor Orbán’s conservative culture war.

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Leiden Social Sciences @leidensocial.bsky.social · Jun 5

📅 National strike on 10 June – universities take a stand ✊
🎓 Students & staff protest budget cuts to higher education.
📍Demo at Dam Square, Amsterdam
🏛️Leiden Uni supports the strike but stays open.
🤝Organised by FNV, AOB, LSVb & WOinActie.
🔗More info: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

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Martijn Mos 🏳️‍🌈 @martijnmos.bsky.social · Jun 5

It's on the reading pile for this summer!

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Martijn Mos 🏳️‍🌈 @martijnmos.bsky.social · May 21

Join us! Two vacancies for an AP of Political Science at Leiden!

www.universiteitleiden.nl/vacatures/20...

Assistant Professor of Political Science

Assistant Professor of Political ScienceThe Institute of Political Science at the Faculty of Social Sciences at Leiden University is currently looking for at least two (2) assistant professors in Poli...

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Martijn Mos 🏳️‍🌈 @martijnmos.bsky.social · May 18

Nederlandse universiteiten hebben nog geen antwoord op de sloopkogel van Trump www.groene.nl/artikel/leun...

Nederlandse universiteiten hebben nog geen antwoord op de sloopkogel van Trump

Door Trumps verwoestingsobsessie kunnen wetenschappers in Nederland niet meer samenwerken met Amerikaanse collega’s, zien ze cruciale data verdwijnen of stagneren hun onderzoeken. De wetenschappers mo...

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Martijn Mos 🏳️‍🌈 @martijnmos.bsky.social · May 17

Lees dit artikel op de Volkskrant www.volkskrant.nl/buitenland/n...

Niod-onderzoeker: ‘Genocide is geen lichtknopje, maar een dimmer waarbij het geweld geleidelijk wordt opgevoerd’

Volgens genocideonderzoeker Uğur Ümit Üngör, verbonden aan de UvA en het Niod, is er op basis van wetenschappelijke inzichten geen ontkomen aan: ‘Israël heeft nu zoveel oorlogsmisdaden gepleegd in Gaz...

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Martijn Mos 🏳️‍🌈 @martijnmos.bsky.social · Apr 7

The 2026 Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, Genders and Sexualities has been canceled because no one US university dares to host the event in the current climate.

Women Historians Conference Canceled, Co-Presidents Ousted

A message to prospective “Big Berks” attendees led to online blame on the planned host university and the political moment. But the cancellation is more complicated than that.

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Coen van de Ven @coenvdven.bsky.social · Apr 1

Beetje zoet. Aan de andere kant: de opdracht van de auteur voorin het boek stemt mild. ‘Voor Colin’, staat op de titelpagina. ‘We houden van je. Precies zoals je bent.’ - @marjapruis.bsky.social

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De godvruchtige stichting Civitas Christiana bekijkt de Lentekriebels door een wel erg perverse bril

De godvruchtigen van de stichting Civitas Christiana verspreiden laster met hun Zwartboek Lentekriebels. Ze gaan zo tekeer tegen het lesmateriaal van Rutgers en kinderboeken over intimiteit dat je je ...

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Martijn Mos 🏳️‍🌈 @martijnmos.bsky.social · Mar 29

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Three prominent Yale professors depart for Canadian university, citing Trump fears

History department power couple Timothy Snyder and Marci Shore and philosophy professor Jason Stanley will begin teaching at the University of Toronto’s renowned Munk School in fall 2025.

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Martijn Mos 🏳️‍🌈 @martijnmos.bsky.social · Mar 22

Bedankt voor het uitstekende onderzoek en het bespreekbaar en zichtbaar maken van een ziekte als ME/CVS. Veel was helaas erg herkenbaar, met name de (zeer gevaarlijke) nadruk die op psychosomatiek en cognitieve gedragstherapie wordt gelegd.

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Jop de Vrieze @jopdevrieze.bsky.social · Mar 21

Deze week staat er een stuk in @groene.nl waarvan ik hoop dat niet alleen mensen die het rechtstreeks aangaat, maar ook heel veel anderen gaan lezen. Het gaat over de strijd van patiënten met long covid én ME/CVS om erkenning en hulp. www.groene.nl/artikel/waar...

Hoewel long covid en ME/CVS steeds meer erkend worden, krijgen patiënten vaak te horen dat het tussen de oren zit

Tijdens de pandemie werd de groeiende groep patiënten met long covid grotendeels genegeerd. ME/CVS-patiënten ervaren dit al decennia. Langzaam leidt hun gezamenlijke strijd om erkenning tot resultaat....

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Claire Adida @claireadida.bsky.social · Mar 18

"in light of the recent events taking place in the U.S. under the new government, I no longer feel like I would be able to live, work and do research freely without fear."

From one of our PhD admits.

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Martijn Mos 🏳️‍🌈 @martijnmos.bsky.social · Mar 18

Disconcerting beyond measure. Allowing Pride was a precondition for EU membership. The ban goes against ECtHR jurisprudence. Let's see how Brussels and Strasbourg will respond.

www.politico.eu/article/orba...

Orbán bans Pride in Hungary as polls show rival surging

Fidesz says it’s trying to prohibit Pride to keep children safe from the so-called LGBTQ+ agenda, but opponents say the prime minister’s party is trying to create a wedge issue.

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