Ross Tugade

64. Feminist Careers in International Law In the Season 3 opener of Called to the Bar, Tamsin Phillipa Paige (Deakin Law School) is joined by an extraordinary panel to reflect on what a feminist career in international law can look like in pr

So I recently sat down with Sainted Judge Hilary Charlesworth (blessed be her name), Prof Di Otto, and Prof Christine Chinkin to record the Season 3 opener of #CalledToTheBar

Go have a listen: on.soundcloud.com/Vaq9CC1yiokQ...

Think I’m done w microblogging or whatever it was Twitter started. Or social media. Idk this is no fun anymore

Is this part of the Lucy Dacus concert marketing

I have the privilege of working with many fabulous feminist scholars as part of the @flsjournal.bsky.social editorial team. Those of you interested in critical feminist socio-legal issues (intersecting with a range of other topics), please read/follow the journal and think about contributing to it.

YouTube video by My Philippines ON THE PRESIDENT'S ORDER | Frontline

On The President’s Orders (2019), a PBS documentary on police and vigilante masked killings at the height of Duterte’s Drug War—“If they’re stubborn, shoot them.” My country’s policing and surveillance architecture came by way of American imperialism.

youtu.be/Iit4R9mgjFs?...

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“and then our goons will kidnap that life and send it to a concentration camp if we deem them the wrong color”

Everything is so bleak, man

Getting PTSD reading these words, 2016, 2022, how we all lost it here. I wish I had more comforting thoughts but yeah

Wait I should write these down as notes. Note to self

Days after Amanda Echanis was freed of the illegal possession claim, after spending 5 years in jail.

So it seems using illegal possession of firearms/explosives to jail activists is being abandoned by courts. Shifting to terrorist financing as a legal tool.

Acquitted of illegal possession of explosives but guilty of terrorist financing. In colloquialism, ano ‘to, grading by darts?

Time is a circle etc

I’m moving on to my next niche hyperfixation all thanks to the reels about Emilio Aguinaldo being abducted by Americans in 1901

Imperyalismo, ibagsak.

Hey there was this guy Rodrigo who once said, I will protect you! And Rodrigo is living the rest of his days as a cardboard standee

Living through a madman’s regime marked by withdrawal from international institutions and arbitrary use of lethal force by law enforcement is a nightmare we lived in not too long ago, and something I would never want any people to go through but here we are!!!

Gonna have an aneurysm over Pinoys on Facebook posting stuff like be careful of criticizing the US because you might need a visa soon or that Pinoys should support Trump because doing otherwise means falling for woke propaganda.

Trump accused of blatant breach of international law - ABC listen Law experts and politicians are labelling US President Donald Trump's actions in Venezuela a clear breach of international law.

If you want to know how bad this situation is, I am out here doing doctrinal analysis. www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

Being the “laboratory of US counterinsurgency” to descriptors like “special friendship with the US” only brings us fear every time imperial adventurism happens. Always seemingly at the mercy of empire.

A lingering anxiety we’ve always had from any sort of war talk in this country is the idea that however it goes, “maiipit kami”—we will get caught in the middle, entangled in the conflict of great powers. Being tethered to the fortunes of empire has always been our reality and it SUCKS.

very precedented times

What passes for international law expertise in this country is mostly: Allying with US = the most optimal thing to avoid war with China. I beg these Filipino lawyers to stop cosplaying expertise.

Reason-giving is good, actually.

The problem with liberal legalism is that it reduced any vision of the good society to reason-giving (or the appearance of it) but this doesn’t mean that making power account for itself isn‘t A Good Thing

America’s violent imperialism only ever gets more grotesque but also still the same? The Ship of Theseus of empires??

International lawyers often equivocate or speak in uncertainties when discussing if a particular act breaches international law. The fact that leading international lawyers have said in unequivocal terms that the US invasion of Venezuela is illegal shows how egregiously bad the situation is now.

If this doesn't come with a UNGA Uniting for Peace resolution and global condemnation then the prohibition on the use of force is finished and the UN will go the way of the League of Nations.

Ask the international lawyers in your life how they are because right now I wish I weren't 10 years sober

US Trillion Dollar Imperial War Machine

As an introvert

I just wanna be a hermit, man