One way to understand the nature of legal work is to ask how the jurist becomes oriented towards their materials. What draws us in or excites us, what leaves us unmoved or repels us - (1/n)

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Excited to kick off a month long fellowship at the EUI in Florence with this workshop around my forthcoming book. Say hi if you’re around!

Last month, we Iaunched Queer Judgments in Melbourne alongside two other fantastic books on queer law edited by @pagingdrpaige.bsky.social & @claerwen.bsky.social. We had a lovely chat/performance about our books with @dansheikh.bsky.social, @juliadehm.bsky.social, Di Otto & Sarah Ward. Listen here:

This Friday, to mark IDAHOBIT, IILAH is hosting a screening of CALL HER GANDA at Melbourne Law School from 2-5pm. The screening will be followed by a discussion with Sanam Amin, chaired by Di Otto. Register here: www.eventbrite.com.au/e/film-scree... For more about the film: www.callherganda.com

Have had the most joyful time exploring how the lecture-performance might reshape how we teach, feel, and think about law. Last week I shared ‘Much to do with Law, but More to do with Love’ at the narrm ngarrgu library: part queer legal history, part personal storytelling, part staged feeling.

A queer delight to celebrate queer legal scholarship today in Melbourne & launch our family of books: Queer Judgments, Queer Engagements with International Law, & Queer Encounters with International Law. @claerwen.bsky.social @senthorun.bsky.social @juliadehm.bsky.social @dansheikh.bsky.social 🌈🎓

Join @senthorun.bsky.social, @claerwen.bsky.social, @dansheikh.bsky.social, @juliadehm.bsky.social, Di Otto and others in Melbourne on Thursday (1st May) for some critical reflections and celebrations of queer legal scholarship. Join us in person or online: events.unimelb.edu.au/IILAH/event/... 🌈🎓

Think I’m on to something here …

Rankings are foolish and meaningless unless I agree with them (which in this case I largely do): www.vulture.com/article/best...

CLS friends - this is going to be a great event - Anderson's article in Theater Journal is terrific. muse.jhu.edu/article/8457... Ping @henriquecarvalho.bsky.social @illanwall.bsky.social @dansheikh.bsky.social

Queer Judgments brings together scholars, lawyers, and activists to re-imagine and re-write legal judgments that relate to LGBTQ+ folk. It’s been a labour of love and community. We hope our book energises pursuits for justice! Download a copy here: counterpress.org.uk/publications... #AcademicSky

Thrilled to share that my play “Much to do with Law, but More to do with Love” has won the 2025 Queer Playwriting Award presented by Midsumma Festival. So excited for the chance to travel and share this work with a wider range of audiences.

V. much enjoying this year’s birthday gift from my partner.

📚 I'm excited to share that my book, 'Refugee Displacement, Disability, and Human Rights: The Production, Processing, and Power of Data', is now accessible through libraries with institutional access to Taylor & Francis eBooks! 📚

The second is the call for streams for next years Critical legal conference. For those who don't know the conference, it is a really lovely welcoming space, all critical (broadly conceived) ideas welcome: criticallegalthinking.com/2025/02/04/c...

Question for readers of queer theory: what is the single most purely enjoyable text you have encountered? I’m thinking of work that is both generative but also a joy to read. (Also acknowledging that my answer to this question changes on a weekly basis)

Cobbling together my *second* Taylor Swift paper of the year for the Law, Literature and Humanities Association meeting in Hong Kong.

My favourite show of the last 5 years, and one of my favourite books of all time.

Last year, I was invited to speak at the Swiss Institute of Feminist Legal Research and Gender Law about my work exploring the emotional dynamics of teaching LGBT rights in law schools (based in the UK). My paper has just been published in their collection. DM for a copy if interested. 🌈🎓

New paper out today: 'Law and the Environment: An Act of Legal Kintsugi?' From me, @cristyclark.bsky.social #katieobryan #alessandropelizzon & #johnpage DM me for a copy if you can't access it. www.euppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.3...

La Trobe Law School is hiring! Two Level B positions, check out details below (along with a picture of my lunch spot if you needed any additional reasons to apply): careers.pageuppeople.com/533/caw/en/j... careers.pageuppeople.com/533/caw/en/j...

Fun thread and Williams’ article is my go to pick as well!

Melbourne friends: Delighted to share that my lecture-performance ‘Much to do with Law, but More to do with Love’ has been shortlisted for the Midsumma Queer Playwrighting Showcase. Catch me along with these other exciting new shows at Gasworks Theatre in 2025! www.midsumma.org.au/whats-on/eve...

“The power of identity politics doesn’t lie in balkanisation … but in precisely what its contemporary adoption seeks to prevent: the recognition that the common enemy is the way in which society itself is designed.” Exactly. See also the Combahee River Collective: www.blackpast.org/african-amer...

For years, I’ve had dinner table rants about why lawyers - and everyone who cares about justice in relation to storytelling - should listen to Taylor Swift. Now I also have an article to go with it: t.co/df4xIVtqoF

Call for abstracts: Law and Humanities Roundtable 2025: Jane Austen's Legal World, convened by Rebecca Probert ([email protected]) @uniofexeter.bsky.social July 11! Abstracts invited by Feb 11 for paper presentations on any aspect of law in Austen's novels. Details: tinyurl.com/y92375f8

It’s been a pleasure to be one of the co-curators of the Queer Judgments Project (@queerjudgments.bsky.social) and to be able to collaborate with fabulous folks from around the world. If you’re a scholar/activist/creative type interested in queer legal issues, please consider joining our network! 🌈🎓

Had a ball delivering the keynote today at the Melbourne Doctoral Forum on Legal Theory!

Dawning realisation about writing, more than a year out from finishing my PhD: it’s never going to be easy, at least not if it’s also going to be good. It might get easier with practice, maybe, but each new piece comes with its unique set of seemingly insurmountable psychic challenges. Oh well.

Be ungovernable 😇

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Hello to all those finding me here 👋 . Earlier this year my latest book co-edited with Alexander Maine was released by @elgarpublishing.bsky.social containing contributions from many fab scholars. The first English textbook on gender, sexuality and law: www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/gen...

Feel wildly under-qualified to do this, but here we go. I’ll be doing a keynote at the 17th Melbourne Doctoral Forum on Legal Theory, trying to work out my inchoate thoughts and feelings about repair with a bunch of grad students. What could go wrong.

Absolute banger of an essay👇🏽

Wow this was satisfying.

For the next two weeks, we’re offering ten free ebooks for getting free Another world is possible if we fight for it www.haymarketbooks.org/blogs/517-te...

Just winding up my first year in a continuing teaching position and deranged laugh-crying my way through my monograph manuscript, and I cannot emphasize how much it helped to listen to this wonderful conversation.

I've written a book www.bloomsbury.com/uk/litigants...

Just walked out of the movie starring Paul Mescal’s arms. Every single time the gladiators entered the Colosseum, all I could think of was Taylor entering the Eras tour stadium so I guess that really is my Roman Empire.

Morning swim at Marrinawi Cove with a not-too-shabby view.

Hi friends old and new! I write plays about the law and research creative forms of legal resistance as well as the reparative possibilities afforded by law. None of these things inform my personality, which is 90% arguing about Taylor Swift with strangers on the internet.

I keep hearing that every incumbent party has lost power in recent elections worldwide but that's not true at all. Claudia Sheinbaum of Morena won the presidency in Mexico with even bigger margins (30+ points) than AMLO. She did it with leftist populism so I guess that doesn't count.

Hello current and possible friends! I’ve had a go at creating a “starter pack” of queer scholar activist types who I know (so forgive all the omissions). It’s a small and growing list. Let’s build a fab and fun queer scholarly-activist community! 🌈✨ go.bsky.app/Ke4Ctey

In a week that's been laden with conversations about setbacks & the possibilities afforded by failure, here's a new essay written with Rupali Samuel about the failure of the marriage equality litigation in India, & the queer possibilities that emerge when we approach law slantwise. t.co/yG8R5APVwU

I am trying to move out of the Bad Place, so I will move my Called to the Bar propaganda primarily here. New episode on the post-PhD blues, grants, publications and the likes just dropped m.soundcloud.com/calledtotheb...

I cannot emphasize enough how utterly soothing a read this is.

I’m the editorial lead of a book sub-series on “Queer Law.” Part of Palgrave Socio-Legal Studies, we publish innovative books exploring marginalised lives and alternative legalities. Please consider submitting a proposal or sharing with your networks. link.springer.com/series/14679 #queer #books

Hi again bluesky, I give you some very blue water from Sydney’s Wylie’s Baths.