@martijnmos.bsky.social
Assistant Prof of IR @PolSciLeiden | Cornellian and Oxonian | Tennis aficionado | LGBT+ rights, Gender, International norms & EU politics
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.
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Please let me know your thoughts and don't hesitate to reach out if you have any questions about the special section! I hope it makes for some stimulating summer reading. And thanks to all the contributors for making the special section come true!
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Last, Jelena and I had the pleasure of speaking to Naureen Shameem and Neil Datta about the important work they have done as practitioners in the fight against anti-gender politics within international organizations. You can read our conversation here:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
The contribution by Rebecca Sanders and Laura Dudley Jenkins introduces the concept of "reactionary international norm building" to the study of anti-gender politics. They usefully present three Rs to describe this process: revisionist, retrotopian, and radical.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
@georgeradics.bsky.social looks at backlash politics against the UNDP's "Being LGBT in Asia" project in Indonesia, the Philippines, and Thailand. It's a much-needed contribution on a neglected region in anti-gender politics.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
On this topic, you may also be interested in reading this new network analysis by @giuliamariani.bsky.social:
10.1093/sp/jxaf015/8097952
Giuliana also contributed a review of a book by Agnieszka Graff and Elżbieta Korolczuk to our special section!
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Next, the amazing @lrubiogrundell.bsky.social and I look at the opportunities for anti-gender mobilization within the European Parliament. This venue, we argue, is increasing cause for concern.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
My article "God’s lawyers? The Christian Right at the European Court of Human Rights" looks at how ADF International and the ECLJ play a double game at the Strasbourg Court. They try to shape the Court's jurisprudence while also undermining its legitimacy.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
The section starts off with an introduction by Jelena and I in which we conceptualize international organizations as not just threats to the work of anti-gender actors, but also as opportunities that these actors seek to take advantage of.
Access it here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
I am elated to share that the special section "Threats and Opportunities: The Contestation of Gender and Sexuality in International Organizations" that I co-edited with the wonderful Jelena Cupać of the @wzb.bsky.social is finally out in @ifjpglobal.bsky.social! www.tandfonline.com/toc/rfjp20/2...
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✨📣 Very happy that our article with @martijnmos.bsky.social "Opportunity beckons: the anti-gender movement at the European Parliament" is out @ifjpglobal.bsky.social. You can find it open access here: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/NNB93...
16.06.2025 08:47 — 👍 11 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 2
📅 National strike on 10 June – universities take a stand ✊
🎓 Students & staff protest budget cuts to higher education.
📍Demo at Dam Square, Amsterdam
🏛️Leiden Uni supports the strike but stays open.
🤝Organised by FNV, AOB, LSVb & WOinActie.
🔗More info: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
It's on the reading pile for this summer!
05.06.2025 10:55 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Join us! Two vacancies for an AP of Political Science at Leiden!
www.universiteitleiden.nl/vacatures/20...
Nederlandse universiteiten hebben nog geen antwoord op de sloopkogel van Trump www.groene.nl/artikel/leun...
18.05.2025 11:39 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Lees dit artikel op de Volkskrant www.volkskrant.nl/buitenland/n...
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The 2026 Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, Genders and Sexualities has been canceled because no one US university dares to host the event in the current climate.
07.04.2025 08:54 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Beetje zoet. Aan de andere kant: de opdracht van de auteur voorin het boek stemt mild. ‘Voor Colin’, staat op de titelpagina. ‘We houden van je. Precies zoals je bent.’ - @marjapruis.bsky.social
www.groene.nl/artikel/wat-...
Bedankt voor het uitstekende onderzoek en het bespreekbaar en zichtbaar maken van een ziekte als ME/CVS. Veel was helaas erg herkenbaar, met name de (zeer gevaarlijke) nadruk die op psychosomatiek en cognitieve gedragstherapie wordt gelegd.
22.03.2025 17:52 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Deze week staat er een stuk in @groene.nl waarvan ik hoop dat niet alleen mensen die het rechtstreeks aangaat, maar ook heel veel anderen gaan lezen. Het gaat over de strijd van patiënten met long covid én ME/CVS om erkenning en hulp. www.groene.nl/artikel/waar...
21.03.2025 12:36 — 👍 45 🔁 28 💬 3 📌 1"in light of the recent events taking place in the U.S. under the new government, I no longer feel like I would be able to live, work and do research freely without fear."
From one of our PhD admits.
Disconcerting beyond measure. Allowing Pride was a precondition for EU membership. The ban goes against ECtHR jurisprudence. Let's see how Brussels and Strasbourg will respond.
www.politico.eu/article/orba...
The guy who asked Zelensky if he owned a suit, Brian Glenn, is a reporter for the pro-Trump media network Real America’s Voice and also Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's boyfriend. He got one of the rare Oval Office interviewer spots only after the White House blocked the Associated Press.
28.02.2025 18:35 — 👍 10661 🔁 3366 💬 1187 📌 756A large chunk of the international community rallying behind the ICC.
un.mfa.ee/joint-statem...
We owe a debt of gratitude to the thousands of trans servicemembers who’ve risked their lives to protect our country.
Donald Trump’s ban on trans people serving in the military is cruel and unconstitutional — and we’ll see him in court.
Join the fight back: hrc.im/transmilitaryban
