@queerjudgments.bsky.social
We are a collective of scholars, lawyers, activists, and creatives who are interested in re-imagining and re-creating judgments from queer and other critical perspectives. https://www.queerjudgments.org/
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“The Emotions of LGBT Rights and Reforms: Repairing Law gives language to what we know in our bodies and powerfully models embodied writing and analysis…”
Samantha Peters shares a beautiful review of my book, exploring imagination as justice work.
Read here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Are you a data nerd who enjoys thinking/being queer? Then share your work at the Queer Data Showcase in Manchester.
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Today is the start of LGBT+ History Month in the UK. I joined some cool people a while ago to reflect on why queer and trans histories are rich and powerful. Our histories can illuminate the possibilities of activism and politics, as we work to build a better world.
Keep the conversation going.
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“There’s no single answer that will solve all our future problems. There’s no magic bullet. Instead there are thousands of answers—at least. You can be one of them if you choose to be.”
― Octavia E. Butler, A Few Rules for Predicting the Future: An Essay
If you're around in London on Wednesday 11th of February, I will be giving a book talk at City St Georges, University of London.
Full details here: www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/news-and-eve...
“The Assembly has now called on member states to act swiftly, arguing that ending conversion practices requires not only legal bans, but sustained political will, properly funded services for survivors, and public education to prevent further harm.”
This is welcome news from Europe. 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
Have thoughts about queer museums, queerness in museums, or just plain being queer in museums? We'd love to hear from you. Early findings are turning out to be amazing, and we hope it helps museums do better. mqedu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... @alanaaaab.bsky.social
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Now published and free to download! 'Law and Justice in the 1950s' is a fantastic collection, edited by Fiona Cownie and Rosemary Auchmuty.
My chapter is on the Wolfenden Report, homosexuality and women - others cover everything from legal education to Beeching to London smog.
Copies of Celebrating Women in Legal History, edited by Lorren Eldridge, Emily Ireland and Caroline Derry. The blue and purple cover shows a door opening onto bookshelves.
Table of contents, showing chapters by Jennifer Aston, Christine Anne George, Anne Logan, Lisa Cowan, Nina Krsljanin, and Valentina Cvetkovic-Dordevic.
Table of contents, showing chapters by Maria Fletcher, Charlie Peevers, Seonaid Stevenson-McCabe, and Deborah Siddoway.
It's published! Histories of women legal historians, edited with @loreldridge.bsky.social and @dremilyireland.bsky.social
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/celebrati...
Feels like an appropriate day to repost my article in DLA Briefings on the human rights implications of treating trans people as a third sex
'A third sex: returning to an intermediate zone'
For those of you looking to follow some more queer scholar-activists in 2026, check out this starter pack with many fabulous folks.
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“The unsatisfactory situation in which post-operative transsexuals live in an intermediate zone as not quite one gender or the other is no longer sustainable.”
As the European Court of Human Rights made clear in Goodwin v UK (2003), forcing trans folk to live as a “third sex” erodes their dignity.
If you're interested in presenting or performing at the Fanniversary conference, please submit a title, biography and 150 word abstract of your work here www.vaginamuseum.co.uk/fanniversary...
06.01.2026 11:15 — 👍 28 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0We are particularly interested in work that bridges the gap between disciplines; works that agitate, distort and/or subvert heteronormative or cisnormative ideologies; and works that centre marginalised voices.
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Call for papers, performances, facilitators. Fannyversary conference 2026. Feminism, gender and justice in an increasingly reactionary world. Deadline: February 6 2026. Details on our website.
This spring, we've teamed up with Open University to examine feminism, gender and justice within law, theatre and the humanities at our inaugural Fanniversary conference. We want to hear your proposals for papers, lectures, performances, workshops and more. www.vaginamuseum.co.uk/fanniversary...
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Are you a private law nerd who flirts with queer scholarship? Are you a queer scholar with a curiosity about private law? Do you like hanging out with cool people? Then check out the Queering Private Law conference taking place in London in September this year and submit a paper if you’re keen!
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My suspicion is that the Trans community and allies left Twitter and arrived here early but it’s still worth re-upping this for those who left it a little longer:
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Keen to publish in the AFLJ? We publish online year-round, but if you’re interesting in publishing in our 2025 General Issue, submit by 30 June. Our amazing Editors can’t wait to work with you! (Or contact us: australianfeministlawjournal@outlook.com)
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“Poland’s ruling coalition has adopted plans to legally recognize ‘significant others’ in informal relationships, including between same-sex couples.”
This limited legal recognition of same-sex couples in Poland is a small step as LGBT folks there fight for greater legal and social support.
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Thank you to everyone who read and voted for Machines of Consent. It’s very exciting to see our first major project receive this recognition.
2025 was such an amazing year for transfemme literature, and everyone who was nominated in the TFR awards deserves a massive congratulations!!
I have the joy of working with a fantastic collective of feminist legal scholars as part of the Feminist Legal Studies Editorial Board. As a journal, we seek to publish engaging critical feminist research in both traditional scholarly and more creative formats.
Check it out and share with others.
Man in sparkling white jacket and glitter face holds up his book, “The Emotions of LGBT Rights and Reforms: Repairing Law.”
Man in shiny pink kurta and rainbow glitter face holds up his book, “Queer Judgments.”
Proud to sparkle with my two books that were published this year.
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As a gay Hindu, I’m privileged to be part of a community both religious and queer that is so vibrant. In this podcast, my wonderful friend Hiren Patel explores the decolonial roots of Hinduism alongside the gender fluidity and sexual variations that underpin various Hindu scriptures and stories. 🕉️🌈
26.12.2025 11:30 — 👍 36 🔁 10 💬 0 📌 0Sara Ahmed is so important here:
”I would describe citation as a rather successful reproductive technology, a way of reproducing the world around certain bodies…way[s] of making certain bodies and thematics core to the discipline, and others not even part”.
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Critical Times Law & Humanities Summer School University of Lucerne July 6-10, 2026. Open to PhD, PostDoc, Grads to re/think the significance of bodies in various contexts, situations and relations. Or to ask: do bodies still matter? Deadline: March 20, 2026
More Info: www.unilu.ch/en/faculties...
My new book explores how emotions shape legal conflicts over LGBT rights in places like the US, UK, and Australia and it considers how we might use law to repair the inequalities we face as LGBT folk. You can download a copy of the book for free here: edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-the-emo...
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Man in blue kurta holds up book, The Emotions of LGBT Rights and Reforms: Repairing Law.
I got to put on my blue kurta and launch my new book in Manchester.
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Man wearing glitter and rainbows on his face holds up yellow sign with text which reads, “Love is a human right” in Icelandic and English.
A reminder on World Human Rights Day: stay unapologetically gay.
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It’s World Human Rights Day. Today is a reminder that political talk of “respecting dignity” is just gaslighting when governments deport people who need asylum, enable genocide, censor LGBT folks, trash disabled lives, and police women’s bodies. We must refuse this and cultivate our shared humanity.
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Very excited to share the publication of Aishwarya Birla’s review of ‘Queer Judgments’ (Ferreira, Moscati & Raj)! 📚 A fantastic piece to kick off our book review publications. Submit/enquire at aflj.bookreviews@outlook.com
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