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Mireia Garcés de Marcilla

@mggarces.bsky.social

lecturer in law, university of liverpool / embodiment, medicine & feminist theory / allò que val és la consciència de no ser res si no s’és poble

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We are still open to submissions for our upcoming special issue, “Feminist Responses to the Regression of Trans Rights: Strategies, Alliances, Hope.”

Please share this call for papers with anyone you think interested. The deadline for abstracts is Friday 31st October.

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19.10.2025 10:45 — 👍 13    🔁 10    💬 1    📌 0
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Following from our MLR workshop last year, @zainamahmoud.bsky.social and I are organising a workshop on embodiment & colonialism in November! We are grateful to the @slsauk.bsky.social for supporting this event and look forward to what we hope will be a great discussion.

01.09.2025 13:06 — 👍 8    🔁 5    💬 1    📌 0

Get in touch with either Zaina or me (or both) via email if you have any questions!

01.09.2025 13:06 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Following from our MLR workshop last year, @zainamahmoud.bsky.social and I are organising a workshop on embodiment & colonialism in November! We are grateful to the @slsauk.bsky.social for supporting this event and look forward to what we hope will be a great discussion.

01.09.2025 13:06 — 👍 8    🔁 5    💬 1    📌 0

Very happy to share that today I'm starting a new role as Lecturer in Law at the University of Liverpool, @livunislsj.bsky.social. I'll really miss my wonderful colleagues at @uniexeterlawschool.bsky.social, but really excited about this new chapter!

01.09.2025 10:49 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly This is the eleventh contribution to NILQ's Reflections on Writing series.

For those of us who struggle with academic writing, Niki Lacey's words are, as always, insightful and re-energising: doi.org/10.53386/nil...

10.07.2025 12:16 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Sorry that this happened, Marina. I had a rejection (also fine) last week after waiting for 7 months (not fine). Editors & reviewers should be more thoughtful and kind - Rejection is part of the process, but the goal should be to make the article better, not to make the author despair.

23.06.2025 10:37 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Amia Srinivasan · Does anyone have the right to sex? When we see consent as the sole constraint on OK sex, we are pushed towards a naturalisation of sexual preference in...

I find myself coming back to this fantastic piece over and over again: 'In the very best cases, the cases that perhaps ground our best hope, desire can cut against what politics has chosen for us, and choose for itself.'

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

13.05.2025 09:05 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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A Law Letter on FWS v Scottish Ministers A coalition of legal academics have drafted a letter setting out our support for trans rights and our concerns about the FWS v Scottish Ministers UKSC ruling. We are opening it up for signature to ev...

A coalition of legal academics have drafted a letter supporting trans rights & sharing concerns about the FWS v Scottish Ministers ruling.

If you work in the legal profession in the UK (eg, academics, practitioners, anyone else 'doing law') please consider signing:

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

08.05.2025 08:58 — 👍 16    🔁 9    💬 1    📌 1
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Sophie Smith · Sleeping Women: On the Pelicot trial Gisèle Pelicot doesn’t conceive of her now ex-husband or the other men who raped her as ‘bad apples’, aberrations...

'Will we at least create the conditions that allow women to leave abusive men with dignity and in safety ... Or will we simply continue to ask underfunded justice systems to prosecute bad men out of existence?'

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

19.12.2024 09:06 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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