Dr SM Rodriguez (they/them)

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…

📣🏳️‍⚧️ 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.

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Respatialising the global imaginary of gay rights: resisting Africana epistemicide and forging Solidaristic Imaginaries This article critiques the global imaginary of LGBTQ rights, arguing that dominant metrics of state-based human rights frameworks, what I term the Gay Rights International Movement (GRIM), reproduc...

What if queer justice isn’t about inclusion, but about fighting disposability and* dreaming otherwise?
This piece joins African feminism, Black trans studies & diasporic queer theory to resist Africana epistemicide & the GRIM imaginary of human rights. Now out <3
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Dispossessive rights: coloniality and trans-exclusion in zero-sum politics The idea that rights are possessions that are given and lost is so ubiquitous within the dominant discourse that its metaphoricity is forgotten. This amnesia naturalises possessive individualism, a...

My new article addresses the claim that the rights of trans women 'clash' with the rights of cis women. I examine the coloniality of the concept of rights underpinning this idea, exploring the erotics of sacrificial feminism and zero-sum politics in general... 🧵 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Submissions to our call for proposals are due October 3, 2025!

On April 6-7 2026, we will have the in-person conference and on April 8 it will be entirely online. Online attendees will have access to some in-person sessions, pending presenters' consent to being recorded.

#decolonialconference

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So many lessons learned by my early inspiration, Assata Shakur. I've been meditating on her words especially often lately, as I work her prison writings into a book chapter. Can't explain what she has meant for my organising and thinking...

Many did and wrote about the insightful and incredible experiences. Keep reading, the evidence abounds.

Very much looking forward to this! Thank you for sharing ✨

Really curious abt how other academics decide how many speaking & service engagements they accept per term. Does anyone have a strategy or do you just follow vibes? 🫣
(I have always followed my heart but I'm so low capacity rn that I know I have to balance inspo events and the need for a cut off)

Job Opportunity!

University of California Berkeley - Assistant Professor - Global Black Geographies - Department of Geography

networks.h-net.org/jobs/68992/u...

Trump Just Took a Major Step Toward a Nightmare Scenario for Trans Americans Under the Guise of “Public Safety.” Don’t Be Fooled. If we don’t change course soon, it will be too late.

A Trump order seeks to impose involuntary confinement on homeless and mentally ill Americans.

Trans people are already at a higher risk. But a nightmare scenario of mass confinement hangs over the order - the right defines trans people as inherently mentally ill.

slate.com/life/2025/08...

If you have been stopped, challenged or harassed when using a gendered space (such as toilets or changing rooms) since the UK's Supreme Court ruling on the Equality Act we need to hear from you.

Let us know at: tinyurl.com/ReportALoo

#Trans #Transgender #Nonbinary #Queer #LGBTQIA #LGBTQ #LGBT

“What does it mean for one’s citizenship to depend on the violence of deportation in order to have meaning? Can we imagine forms of citizenship that do not require violence in order to have meaning? What are ways that citizens can ethically participate in realizing this change?”

Who on here will be in Chicago next weekend for #ASA2025? It's been about seven years since I was a regular attendee and I am a bit nervous I've become estranged from the US scene 🫣 (thankful for that in general, but if these meetings are as large as they were pre-COVID...😬)

📘 "This study builds on and critiques theories of doing, redoing, and undoing gender by demonstrating how nonbinary transitioning disrupts dominant models of gender accountability, recognition, and self-determination."

@lseblogs.bsky.social @socwomen.bsky.social @asanews.bsky.social #sociology

Oh, that'd fold brilliantly into the next set of questions I had, which focuses more centrally on queering gender accountability. Thank you for sharing that! In these data, reliable support and validation did not come up so much outside of those few who had built specifically enby friendship pods.

This one was genuinely my pleasure. Please do share any thoughts or questions when you get a chance to read.

Read here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

✨How do non-binary experiences expand the meaning of gender transition? | SM Rodriguez ✨How do non-binary experiences expand the meaning of gender transition? - My new article explores how transition isn’t always linear or binary, but instead can be fluid, relational, and strategic. 🌱 P...

Sociological Inquiry has just published my newest article, open access: "Reconceptualizing Gender Transitioning" video abstract linked below 👇🏾
www.linkedin.com/posts/sm-rod...
#genderstudies #sociology #nonbinary #transitioning

🚨🚨 Join us for Abolition Now! with @smrodriguez.bsky.social @slamble1.bsky.social and Leticia Sabsay!

This event explores how queer and trans theories illuminate the urgent need to dismantle carceral systems and reimagine safety, justice, and accountability.

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Amazing news. So happy for you

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Celebrate Black History Month with Africana Philosophy!
Explore insightful works on Africana thought, ethics, and identity. We're welcoming proposals on emerging paradigms in Africana philosophy: brill.com/AFPH. #BlackHistoryMonth #Philosophy #AfricanaStudies

Good luck on Thursday and lmk if it works out. I'm in London but will look around and try to troubleshoot if not. I know a few people in Cincinnati who may have wider networks. Keep your head up high

So incredibly difficult. I always say to myself this too shall pass (even if I don't always believe it in the moment, it helps me to keep going...). The lack of childcare for disabled kids is actually maddening in all senses of the word.

Scholars writing about #LGBTQ advocacy and #activism in #education please consider submitting to our Special Issue with @jqtsie.bsky.social Manuscripts due March 1. More details here: tinyurl.com/JQTSIE

I'm so, so sorry. You're absolutely not alone in this even though it must feel like the loneliest experience. Have you tried support circles for moms who have experienced partner abuse? Where are you based? Maybe there is something in your city or online

This event will be hosted by @lsegender.bsky.social and LSE International History, and facilitated by the brilliant Emrah Karakus 🔥