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Centre for Law & Social Change @lawsocialchange.bsky.social · Jun 24

📣Today brilliant Co-Director @suzanarahde.bsky.social passed her PhD with no corrections, the highest accolade in British academia. Massive congrats Dr! 🙏 engaged & inspired examiners Prof. Ruth Fletcher & Dr Thomas Bennett! 🍾✊🤓📚 @riverbaars.bsky.social @sabrinagermain.bsky.social Dr Tawhida Ahmad

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Suzana Rahde Gerchmann @suzanarahde.bsky.social · May 28

Still doesn't feel like it's real, but I submitted my thesis! 🙃
Massive thanks to my brilliant supervisors, @riverbaars.bsky.social, @sabrinagermain.bsky.social and Tawhida Ahmed.
A big shoutout to @marinavelickovic.bsky.social, for her engagement, notes and our writing sessions.

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River (Grietje) Baars @riverbaars.bsky.social · Apr 16

I'm seeing 1pm saturday in Westminster

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River (Grietje) Baars @riverbaars.bsky.social · Apr 16

protest when, where? ✊🏳️‍⚧️

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Queer & Trans Historical Materialism Collective @qthomo.bsky.social · Feb 9

Come join our gathering in Paris in 1-3 July!

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Centre for Law & Social Change @lawsocialchange.bsky.social · Mar 2

All SOAS Students Welcome!!
Dr Adam Elliott Cooper joins us for a lecture on Black Politics: From Anti-Colonialism to Abolition.
Friday 7 March 1-3pm, BGLT.

Poster with the lecture details and image of Adam speaking into a mic, with his book entitled Black resistance to British Policing

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River (Grietje) Baars @riverbaars.bsky.social · Feb 18

I've booked tickets for Trans Femme Futures (hybrid) at SOAS University of London on Tuesday 25th February 2025! Come join me!! www.ticketsource.co.uk/event/EDLMMF...

www.ticketsource.co.uk

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Centre for Law & Social Change @lawsocialchange.bsky.social · Feb 10

Comrades! 😻
We extended our deadline - you can submit your abstracts by Monday, 24/2!
📣 We are not expecting a new/finished paper/article/chapter. Send us something you are working on and would like to receive feedback.

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River (Grietje) Baars @riverbaars.bsky.social · Feb 9

Dm for details or to apply!

River (Grietje) Baars @riverbaars.bsky.social · Feb 9

Are you QT? Do you HoMo? Submit to our call!! 💜✊💜

Centre for Law & Social Change @lawsocialchange.bsky.social · Feb 9

Exciting!! The QTHoMos are at it again, this time in Paris 💜

Queer & Trans Historical Materialism Collective @qthomo.bsky.social · Feb 9

Come join our gathering in Paris in 1-3 July!

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Centre for Law & Social Change @lawsocialchange.bsky.social · Jan 28

📣 Comrades, this is a friendly reminder to send your abstracts for our Law & Marxism Spring School by 10/2! 😻 Now more than ever, we need spaces for young scholar-activists! Please help us by sharing this widely! 😸

Law & Marxism Spring School - call for abstracts (with cute communist cats)

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Suzana Rahde Gerchmann @suzanarahde.bsky.social · Jan 28

Can't wait to meet some of my fave Marxists in May! Don't forget to send us your abstract 💖

Centre for Law & Social Change @lawsocialchange.bsky.social · Jan 28

📣 Comrades, this is a friendly reminder to send your abstracts for our Law & Marxism Spring School by 10/2! 😻 Now more than ever, we need spaces for young scholar-activists! Please help us by sharing this widely! 😸

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Alex Stoffel @stoffelalex.bsky.social · Jan 7

The London launch event for my book 'Eros and Empire' will be happening in Whitechapel on Friday, March 14!

Please do come if you're around! You'll get to hear from
@aycacu.bsky.social, Abeera Khan, and Nivi Manchanda, sooooooo

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/eros-and-e...

Eros and Empire: The Transnational Struggle for Sexual Freedom in the US

Join us for the inaugural UK book launch of Eros and Empire (Stanford University Press). This event is open to all.

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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Suzana Rahde Gerchmann @suzanarahde.bsky.social · Jan 15

Yay!! The @lawsocialchange.bsky.social Law & Marxism Spring School is happening again, and we can't wait!
Please help us share our call for abstracts 💖 Please reach out if you have any questions

Centre for Law & Social Change @lawsocialchange.bsky.social · Jan 15

😻 DEAR ACADEMIC ACTIVISTS/COMRADES 😻
The second edition of our Law & Marxism Spring School will be held at SOAS from 8 to 10 May 2025! Deadline 10/2!
We look forward to receiving your applications and cannot wait for the best days in May!
✊Help us to spread the word to reach all the comrades we can✊

Call for Abstracts - Law & Marxism Spring School

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River (Grietje) Baars @riverbaars.bsky.social · Jan 15

Yes it’s here!!!

Centre for Law & Social Change @lawsocialchange.bsky.social · Jan 15

😻 DEAR ACADEMIC ACTIVISTS/COMRADES 😻
The second edition of our Law & Marxism Spring School will be held at SOAS from 8 to 10 May 2025! Deadline 10/2!
We look forward to receiving your applications and cannot wait for the best days in May!
✊Help us to spread the word to reach all the comrades we can✊

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Historical Materialism Paris @hm-paris.bsky.social · Jan 8

Le congrès Historical Materialism Paris aura lieu du 26 au 28 juin sous le titre : "Conjurer la catastrophe". Voici l'appel à communications qui s'adresse à toutes celles et ceux - chercheurs·es ou militant·es - qui s'inscrivent dans le cadre du marxisme
www.historicalmaterialism.org/event/histor...

Historical Materialism Paris 2025 (26-28 Juin 2025) : Conjurer la catastrophe / Combating the Catastrophe - Historical Materialism

[scroll down for the English version] Le dernier « Congrès Marx International » a eu lieu à Paris en 2010. Depuis lors, dans l’espace francophone, aucune conférence internationale s’inscrivant explici...

www.historicalmaterialism.org

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River (Grietje) Baars @riverbaars.bsky.social · Jan 10

Watch this space, Kittens and Comrades!!! and Comrades who are Kittens.

Centre for Law & Social Change @lawsocialchange.bsky.social · Jan 9

Our favourite cats are back, and that can only mean one thing. Watch this space, comrades! 😻📣

Law & Marxism Spring School banner with a cute cat

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Suzana Rahde Gerchmann @suzanarahde.bsky.social · Jan 9

We are getting ready for the best event of the year, comrades!
Follow @lawsocialchange.bsky.social so you won't miss the latest news, and help us spread the word 💖
@riverbaars.bsky.social

Centre for Law & Social Change @lawsocialchange.bsky.social · Jan 9

Our favourite cats are back, and that can only mean one thing. Watch this space, comrades! 😻📣

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Centre for Law & Social Change @lawsocialchange.bsky.social · Nov 25

📢Qomrades!! 🎥 Recording of our fabulous Trans Femme Futures event with Nat Raha, Mijke van der Drift and @riverbaars.bsky.social is available now for your pleasure and inspiration 💖 www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WZu...

Trans Femme Futures x CLSC and QTHoMo 7/11/24

YouTube video by Centre for Law & Social Change

www.youtube.com

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