@pohanlee.bsky.social
Teaching in the Global Health Program at National Taiwan University; trained in International Law and Political Sociology, focusing on health policy, feminist and queer studies, disability activism and rights, medical anthropology, and sex workers' rights.
“This week the Eastern Caribbean supreme court found that the island’s so-called buggery and gross indecency laws, which criminalised consensual anal sex, were unconstitutional.”
Some good news! Solidarity with LGBTQ+ folks who are fighting for safety and freedom in St Lucia and elsewhere.
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Tanzil Chowdhury explains the process by which the direct action protest group 'Palestine Action' was deemed a terrorist organisation and proscribed, showing how activists sought to challenge and resist the massive state overreach criticallegalthinking.com/2025/07/10/r...
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“Semenya was legally identified as female at birth but has a condition which means her body naturally produces higher levels of testosterone than women without the condition.”
Bureaucratic policing of sex in sports is harmful and excludes many women, including intersex athletes like Caster Semenya.
What women learn from TV crime drama
By Barbara Bridger
#FR139: journals.sagepub.com/share/TM8SMW...
“The UN Human Rights Council voted on Monday to renew the mandate of an LGBT rights expert, a move welcomed by advocates amid the absence of the United States, a former key supporter that is now rolling back such protections.”
Good to see the UN HRC renew independent monitoring of LGBT rights.
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SLUG…by Sophie Patricia Chapman
#FR139: doi.org/10.1177/0141...
The agential cut and paste: Collaging feminisms
By Lily Atkinson
#FR139: doi.org/10.1177/0141...
#TCC2025 @tcaren.bsky.social
27.06.2025 16:04 — 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
📢: RECENTLY PUBLISHED
“This article is a call to further develop the emerging field of Critical Legal Masculinities Studies (CLMS) as a coherent and unified research project … this article also reflects on the benefits and caveats of operationalising CLMS.”
By Ariël Decoster
CfP!!! The @anzsil.org Gender, Sexuality and International Law Interest Group will be holding a workshop on 'Feminist Approaches to International Law in Times of Atrocity, Anthropocene, and Authoritarian Capitalism' on 31 October at Melbourne Law School: drive.google.com/file/d/10YPs...
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What a great way to close this vibrant conference with a warm thank to the organisers!
Thank you all for your participation, and see you in Taipei!
SPIN_87…by Hannah Van Hove
#FR139: journals.sagepub.com/share/PVHABQ...
The Transforming Care Conference 2025 starts today!
This year’s theme, Social and Human Rights in Care, explores how social care intersects with human rights in childcare, disability and long-term care.
We open it with a keynote by @margaleon.bsky.social : Children’s Rights and Welfare Paradigms?
Towards a postcolonial feminist philosophy of translation: On Gayatri Spivak’s critical transposition of Benjamin, Derrida, and de Man
By Asa Zhang
#FR139: journals.sagepub.com/share/P3TGQT...
A friend of one’s own
By Vrinda Chopra & Sonakshi Srivastava
#FR139: journals.sagepub.com/share/NFWYSW...
@vrindac.bsky.social @sonakshis11.bsky.social
I really like this piece when I was coediting it.
17.06.2025 16:48 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0‘For me, everything was about the continent’: Reimagining gender affects and collectivity through Daniela Catrileo’s Chilco (2023)
By Yeisil Peña Contreras & Rosemary Bruna Ramírez
#FR139: doi.org/10.1177/0141...
What an honour to be part of the Collective :) I hope you enjoy the issue as much as we do.
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Cover of Unfurl by Eli Clare. The cover features an abstract artwork by Jacks McNamara, Emerging. In this piece, various patterns and images are superimposed on and across a series of brightly colored concentric circles. A wood grain pattern shines through some of the less opaque rings. The designs atop the larger rings include a stream of bubble-like circles, a root network, flower-like patterns, and a series of droplets spread out in fan-like shapes.
Eli Clare's new book, "Unfurl," is a queer disabled love song to trees and beavers, tremors and dreams. Read a sample for free now: bit.ly/3HNhq1g #poetry #disability #LGBTQ
10.06.2025 13:10 — 👍 16 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
Taiwan’s COVID-19 Experience: Governance, Governmentality, and the Global Pandemic
East Asian Science, Technology and Society: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
![Image of dancing people in wheelchairs by Micah Bazant
The wheelchairs aren't fully visible in this image of the cover bc I had to crop some nipples to avoid bsky's bs.
TSQ Transgender Studies Quarterly Volume 12, Number 2, May 2025
Toward a Trans[]Crip Theory
Special Issue. Editors
J. Logan Smilges and Slava Greenberg](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cbdino63edzwqnfnjku2s4lp/bafkreig7ctcqlljzuxor3ujufemls4gn66uzwrz4zko6fhef2l53osah7a@jpeg)
Image of dancing people in wheelchairs by Micah Bazant The wheelchairs aren't fully visible in this image of the cover bc I had to crop some nipples to avoid bsky's bs. TSQ Transgender Studies Quarterly Volume 12, Number 2, May 2025 Toward a Trans[]Crip Theory Special Issue. Editors J. Logan Smilges and Slava Greenberg
Instead of using [] to indicate alternatives or corrections, we offer the space between them as a placeholder for what could become
a binding‐
a wall |
a binary /
a special usage *
some combination
or
none of these.
@dukepress.bsky.social
In this article, we try to unpack and understand a strange case—asymmetrical development of women’s representation in the parliament (pretty high) v. in the government (shockingly low) in #Taiwan —which we term as “#partialgenderquotas” #WSIF @ChiuWanLiu 🙏🏽
See: doi.org/10.1016/j.ws...
“Trans people say that they now feel unsafe both in public spaces and at work. People have been told by their employers that they can no longer use the toilets they’ve been using for years, which could force them to out themselves.”
@jessothomson.co.uk on the shameful consequences of legal erasure.
#FeministReview is inviting article submissions. Authors should submit completed manuscripts through FR’s online submissions portal by 31 July 2025.
We ask that article submissions be 6,000 to 8,000 words.
For more details: femrev.wordpress.com/call-for-pap...
Plural Feminisms: Navigating Resistance as Everyday Praxis book jacket
“Again and again, these lively essays show how mundane feminist insurgence must be distributed, poly, not so sure of itself.” Yasmin Gunaratnam, King’s College, London, UK
Get your paperback copy of 'Plural Feminisms' by @sohinic.bsky.social and @pohanlee.bsky.social 👉 bit.ly/3YIuCdv
The new Lancet Commission report, co authored by IDS researcher Erica Nelson identifies now as a crucial moment to increase understanding of the importance of gender in global health. 👇
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
#WorldHealthDay #GenderAndGlobalHealth #HealthForAll
As Mercury Retrograde fades, a different kind of retrograde continues - the legal codification of “gender panic.”
🪐📖 Our latest Rights in Retrograde article tracks the legal codification of gender panic in 10+ countries. outrightinternational.org/insights/rig...
We are pleased to announce that the Henry Luce Foundation has awarded IIAS and its Southeast Asian and African partners a groundbreaking educational new grant of US$420,000 that will support the programme ‘Southeast Asia-Africa Platform’ (SEA-A). 🌐 tinyurl.com/3w9p8seb @unileiden.bsky.social
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CFP: 8th Conference of the Asian Borderlands Research Network (ABRN). Themes: ‘Negotiating Asian Borders: Actors, Displacements, Multiplicities, Sovereignties.’
➡️ www.iias.asia/events/negot...
📍 Conference dates 13-15 Jan. 2026 at National Taiwan University in Taipei.
⚠️Deadline: 20 May 2025
#CFP
