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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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Liam Gillespie @liamgillespie.bsky.social · Sep 1

New article by me: The March for Australia’s racism can’t just be blamed on far-right ‘extremists’ - it’s been enabled by the mainstream | Liam Gillespie www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The March for Australia’s racism can’t just be blamed on far-right 'extremists’ - it’s been enabled by the mainstream | Liam Gillespie

The weekend’s protests provided an alibi to nationalism, obscuring the central place racism has always occupied

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Erman Örsan Yetiş, PhD @ermanorsanyetis.bsky.social · Jul 30

My new article on possibilities and challenges of engaging men in resisting #antigenderism toward #genderequality and #socialjustice for lasting social transformation is published in Humanities & Social Sciences Communications @springernature.com
#openaccess here: rdcu.be/eyoBH

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A/Prof Bianca Fileborn (she/they) @snappyalligator.bsky.social · Jul 30

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What does starving to death feel like? | First Dog on the Moon

How does it feel to hold your child in your arms as they starve to death

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A/Prof Bianca Fileborn (she/they) @snappyalligator.bsky.social · Jul 11

Happy birthday to this queen 🦛

mr dog @firstdogonthemoon.bsky.social · Jul 11

Moo Deng! Remember the tiny adorable hippo? It's her birthday! Everyone say happy birthday Moo Deng www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Moo Deng is turning one year old. Finally a news story I can bear to read | First Dog on the Moon

Perhaps I can go through the rest of my life as a cartoonist reading only good news stories – I’m sure nobody will notice

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Julia Coffey @juliacoffey.bsky.social · Jun 20

‘Hang on, why am I editing my photos?’ Disrupting the virtual gaze through selfie-editing workshops - Julia Coffey, Akane Kanai, Amy S Dobson, Rosalind Gill, Niamh White, 2025 journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

‘Hang on, why am I editing my photos?’ Disrupting the virtual gaze through selfie-editing workshops - Julia Coffey, Akane Kanai, Amy S Dobson, Rosalind Gill, Niamh White, 2025

This article presents findings from a qualitative study that aimed to provide some of the first detailed accounts of how young people use selfie-editing apps, a...

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Senthorun S. Raj @senthorun.bsky.social · Apr 16

This is your ongoing reminder that anti-migrant (“illegals”) and anti-trans politics (“gender ideology”) are current anchors of several authoritarian governments. People who tolerate, even selectively, such politics are facilitating the rise of fascism. This is why solidarity is key to oppose this.

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Gabriel Caluzzi @gabrielcaluzzi.bsky.social · Jun 16

“I Don’t Know for Certain”: A Content Analysis of Reddit Posters’ Accounts of Drink Spiking

New paper looking at relationships, contexts and impacts of alcohol & drug-facilitated sexual violence ('drink spiking'). Led by Jess Ison & @alcoholandmedia.bsky.social

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A/Prof Bianca Fileborn (she/they) @snappyalligator.bsky.social · Jun 10

New publication day! Open access, so pls have a read. We examine how digital activism and justice-seeking generates an affective economies of disgust, arguing that justice is a felt experience

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‘These Men Are Disgusting Losers’: Theorizing the Affective Economies of Digital Justice and Activism

Abstract. Instagram and other social media have played a significant role in feminist activism. For phenomena such as street harassment—a form of sexual vi

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PK 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸 @paul.kidd.id.au · Jun 2

Imagine a world in which that $100 million instead went to the health and social services that keep people out of prison.

Dr Ingrid M @ingridm.bsky.social · Jun 2

the NSW government is announcing an extra $100 million spend on prisons in this years budget www.nsw.gov.au/ministerial-...

NSW Budget to strengthen justice system, support victim-survivors

The Minns Labor Government will invest half a billion dollars in additional funding as part of a justice system package, to support victim-survivors and build a safer NSW.

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A/Prof Bianca Fileborn (she/they) @snappyalligator.bsky.social · May 25

The horror of this genocide is unfathomable

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

Israeli airstrike kills nine of Gaza doctor’s 10 children

Dr Alaa al-Najjar was on duty at Nasser hospital in Khan Younis when she received her children’s bodies

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A/Prof Bianca Fileborn (she/they) @snappyalligator.bsky.social · May 23

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The children of Gaza are starving to death | First Dog on the Moon

Time is running out

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A/Prof Bianca Fileborn (she/they) @snappyalligator.bsky.social · May 18

Absolutely, it makes me so sad that we think this is ok

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A/Prof Bianca Fileborn (she/they) @snappyalligator.bsky.social · May 17

And yet, we don't seem to care that these animals were on their way to die anyways... 🤔 The cognitive dissonance is real.

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Government records show emergency killings of thousands of livestock after transport to Australian export abattoirs

Euthanasia is most common response to welfare incidents in sheep, pigs and cattle with about 4% of animals experiencing serious incidents, research finds

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A/Prof Bianca Fileborn (she/they) @snappyalligator.bsky.social · May 8

Thank you! :)

A/Prof Bianca Fileborn (she/they) @snappyalligator.bsky.social · May 8

Thank you!

A/Prof Bianca Fileborn (she/they) @snappyalligator.bsky.social · May 8

Thank you so much! :)

A/Prof Bianca Fileborn (she/they) @snappyalligator.bsky.social · May 8

Oh thank you so much! Congrats on your book :)

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A/Prof Bianca Fileborn (she/they) @snappyalligator.bsky.social · May 8

👏👏👏 awesome stuff!

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Rosemary L Hill @rosemaryhell.bsky.social · May 8

It was great to talk to Oliver Carter about our book 'Unsilenced: Women Musicians, Gender-Based Violence, and the Popular Music Industry' (by @hellharpy.bsky.social , @snappyalligator.bsky.social and me).

Podcast: linktr.ee/soundadvicepod

Book: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/unsilenced-9798765101742/

Rosemary Hill and Olly Carter on a video call for Sound Advice podcast.

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A/Prof Bianca Fileborn (she/they) @snappyalligator.bsky.social · May 8

Also greatly indebted to @veragraf.bsky.social's excellent work on embodiment and street harassment!

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A/Prof Bianca Fileborn (she/they) @snappyalligator.bsky.social · May 8

New publication out today in Gender & Society. Drawing on the brilliant @saranahmed.bsky.social I conceptualise resistance to street harassment as a form of 'feminist snap' and feminist erosion. Open access, please have a read!

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“I Actually Snapped”: Conceptualizing Resistance to Street Harassment as Feminist Snap and Erosion - Bianca Fileborn, 2025

In this article, I examine the strategies of resistance deployed by people who have experienced street harassment. Drawing on semi-structured interviews with 47...

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A/Prof Bianca Fileborn (she/they) @snappyalligator.bsky.social · May 3

Stunning day to go out and vote for @purplepingers.bsky.social 🙌🏼🌈🏡

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Purplepingers ☭ @purplepingers.bsky.social · Apr 11

Finally figured out how to use google maps properly to map all the empty homes that have been submitted and it’s pretty wild

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Nick Feik @nickfeik.bsky.social · Apr 6

Australia could be taking advantage of the millions of students now too scared to go to university in America.
Instead both Dutton and Albanese are threatening to *massively reduce* intl student numbers.

Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · Apr 6

Even without ICE's horrible abuses, a pattern of arbitrarily revoking student visas makes the US no longer a viable schooling option for international students.

Bringing them to the US has been one of our strongest sources of soft power.

Everything this fucking guy does benefits Putin.

Elissa Taub @ejtaub.bsky.social · Apr 5

This is happening to students at colleges & universities nationwide. Their status is bring terminated & visa revoked. Often, the student has no obvious history to justify the govt's actions. Affected students should seek knowledgeable immigration counsel immediately.

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