Excited to head back to the @abfresearch.bsky.social for a year www.americanbarfoundation.org/the-abf-welc...

With Rahul Sambaraju, I argue denial of racism and its coding in nationalism abets acts of racist violence. Thank you to @deirdre for running this piece. And thanks to Philomena Mullen for discussions on this, and @swethaa.bsky.social Ballakrishnen for injecting the word blasé into my head:

We might not be the people Sundaram and Kapur expected, but we are here, and the specter is upon us: what is the art history to come? Meghaa's latest on history, contradiction, postcolony, and the re(al)births of global modernism that await us. www.modernismmodernity.org/forums/posts...

Hello, Bluesky! 👋 We’re new here. At the American Bar Foundation (ABF), we conduct research at the intersection of law and society. Let’s connect and dive into today’s most pressing issues. Learn more about our work here: www.americanbarfoundation.org

With their new “Law and the Interloper” workshop series, longtime friends @swethaa.bsky.social and @suryaroy.bsky.social will “queer” law and society research by centering a multitude of marginalized perspectives. Read more here! bit.ly/3Bpn5Io #QueerTheory #LawAndSociety #LSAGrants

In this chat w/ @lawandsociety.bsky.social , @suryaroy.bsky.social and I talk about the plans we have for our post-LSA'25 workshop, long-term friendships as method, and the space of the interloper to consider law and society research. (Thanks, Crissonna for the engagement!)

I'm delighted to share this new publication which is the editorial introduction to a special issue: "Mobilising Queer Joy: Establishing Queer Joy Studies." Please share (the joy) and help us spread word of this new area of study. @queerjoylab.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Sometimes, but only sometimes, two wrongs can make a right. Based on an erroneous definition of transgender in a prior case, which was then codified, the Kerala High Court has found that intersex children cannot be subjected to surgeries based on parental consent alone. lawandsexuality.com

On behalf of dozens of students, faculty, staff, community leaders, and partner organizations who comprise the Environmental Law Program @ucirvine.bsky.social School of Law, we are pleased to share our 2024 Annual Report. Here's to a momentous year ahead! myemail.constantcontact.com/Environmenta...

Maryam Khan's latest on postcolonial state-making in South Asia and the unstable middles and alternative political possibilities that subsist in these contexts. Masterful complication of the "East-West symbiosis" in the Pakistani constitutional case. www.tandfonline.com/eprint/6EHC4...

Path dependencies of scholar activist / activist scholars, intergenerational cleavages in conversation and movements, and the grace to sit with inconvenient facts when working with causes close to our heart. Brilliant start to Day 2 of this HKU + @lawandsociety.bsky.social conference.

Grateful to Cynthia Farid, Yugank Goyal and Sergio Latorre for bringing together this community @ HKU to discuss scholar-activism and the nuanced majority world logics of knowledge production and collaboration.

Big thanks to TSR for supporting @snehaannavarapu.bsky.social and me in organising the symposium — 'Movement in (Ethnographic) Method: Space, Time and Theory'. Call for participants will be out soon! Also, do not miss the promising keynote lectures by Nayanika Mathur and @asiyaislam.bsky.social

Thanks to everyone who came to this today. The questions helped me reassess my own prefigurative priors re: methods and vulnerability. For those who missed it, the conversation drew from this (open source!) chapter in the Massoud+Chua book re: sociolegal methods - www.cambridge.org/core/books/o...

What does #LawAndSociety scholarship look like when approached from marginalized perspectives on the “periphery”? Join the conversation—apply for Law and the Interloper: #QueerTheory in Global Law and Society Scholarship by 12/15! adobe.ly/3Uqi1cN @swethaa.bsky.social @suryaroy.bsky.social

Had a truly generative time at the ABF thinking in community about my next project on queerness and everyday macro-(non)aggressions. Thank you to all who came and engaged with such generosity. 🥲 Next stop: NYC to talk about how this relates to law, humor and identity w/these awesome humans:

"Taking Kurdish queer struggles seriously can similarly “unflatten” our analyses of social and political dynamics at a local level"

Moving this from X to here - reminder that Black feminist theory summer institute applications are open. Details here: gendersexualityfeminist.duke.edu/black-femini...

For those of us who think about the institutional life of women's/gender/sexuality studies, this is interesting (and, I think, sad) news: news.ucsc.edu/2024/11/femi...

Advanced doctoral students, early career faculty, and recent J.D.s: Doing work in legal history, broadly defined? Apply for the 2025 Hurst Institute in Legal History, a two week workshop and seminar in June. Deadline 1/15/25. More info: www.law.wisc.edu/hurst-instit...

How have issue linkages featured in the framing of a transnational labour mobility regime? TWAIL-ing the Global Compact for Migration, I attempt to answer this question. Read the full article on @TWAILReview here bit.ly/4htIboW

In the Zong case the court heard how people had been thrown overboard to drown for an insurance claim. "The judges took their decisions on a technical point of evidence...nobody concerned in the case made any objection to slavery as a matter of principle." www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/403...

Workshop applications are still open for “Law and the Interloper: Queer Theory in Critical Global Law and Society Scholarship”! Apply before December 15th: adobe.ly/3Uqi1cN @swethaa.bsky.social @suryaroy.bsky.social #QueerTheory #LawAndSociety #AccessToJustice

Hello, legal ed scholars! Here's my starter pack of folks studying legal education (broadly defined). Happy to add to it. go.bsky.app/JdGzRAP

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...

Excited to be presenting (my first) keynote address at the Melbourne Doctoral Forum on Legal Theory this week! Even more excited that what I’ll be presenting is a chapter (co- authored with @crisveijk.bsky.social) from the exciting new books I co-edited with @pagingdrpaige.bsky.social!

*IT'S LAUNCH DAY!* I'm thrilled to present our LSSSE Annual Report, "Twenty Years of LSSSE: Sharing Trends in Legal Education," which tracks patterns in legal ed on everything from diversity to debt, from learning outcomes to student satisfaction. Take a peek 👇 lssse.indiana.edu/annual-resul...

Ack, I think I made the start of one (but it only includes people i know already are on here, so please @ me if you would like to be added) - go.bsky.app/BViLYTV

Nice to see my primary intellectual home and incubator here. Time to start a starter pack for LSA scholars (on it as soon as I figure out what a starter pack is/does 😂)

Looking forward to being in Chicago next week at the American Bar Foundation. I'll be presenting work on nonbinary identity navigation in the legal profession + a case for doing socio-legal research with a queer theory & CRT - "queerCRT" - lens. www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/speake...

I really enjoyed writing this chapter on vulnerability and methods for Massoud and Chua's book Out of Place (CUP'24). But when I wrote the piece, I couldn't have imagined this kind of engagement - thank you, David + SLR! www.sociolegalreview.com/post/out-of-...

Law and the Interloper is a project (in all its subversiveness) that @swethaa.bsky.social and I have been planning for a while. We’re doing a workshop around the time of the Law and the Society Association conference 2025. Have a look at the call for papers and join us!

Thinking about Stacy Wolf's influential work on how performance offers queered utopias in plain sight as I get ready to watch #Wicked, a truly ever-giving canon. academic.oup.com/book/25767

For my new followers: Here is my book the #TraumaofCaste from @natlanticbooks.bsky.social. It is one of the first to explore the history of #caste in North America. It examines inter-generational trauma & pathways to heal. #CasteInAmerica #Healing www.amazon.com/Trauma-Caste...

“We have a commitment to analysing and understanding sexual violence, as well as the ways in which institutions, including universities and academic publishers, provide what Nicola Gavey (2005) describes as the ‘cultural scaffolding’ for this violence.” Read here: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Excited to share our new PLS piece now up Virginia L. Rev. & @ssrn.bsky.social Co-authored w/ Kempis Songster & Gerald Torres, it explores the role participatory methods in legal scholarship can play in democratizing the law. 🧵 virginialawreview.org/articles/par...

It was the power and advocacy of the education worker labor unions that formed the Department of Education. It is going to be the power and advocacy of education worker labor unions that protects Higher Education from the Department of Education in the coming years. @AAUP

Queer scholars, this looks like a fantastic gathering for those of us who think/write/play with queer. This event is organised by @swethaa.bsky.social and @suryaroy.bsky.social and will be held at just after the Law & Society Association Meeting in Chicago on May 26 2025.

Following the next LSA meeting in Chicago'25, @suryaroy.bsky.social and I are hosting a "Law and Interloper" workshop. If you think/write about the queer / periphery / outsider / outlier and their connection to law, please consider applying! CFP below 👇

In this piece about "emotional grammar", Raj deftly foregrounds how queer classes "makes space for emotions, how mapping these emotions expose normative, critical, and theoretical tensions, and how these emotions challenge or reify institutionalised power dynamics within and beyond the classroom"

@mybisa.bsky.social BISA 2025 announcement is out and it’s that time of the year again. Fancy a roundtable on IR & the sexual/sexy? Subthemes: - erasure of (a)sexuality in the discipline - politics of sex & intimacy in pedagogy, theory, ethnography - the sexy/sexual as generative analytical frame

The Institute for Medical Humanities at Durham is offering scholarships for PhD students to attend the Queer Methodologies in Medical Humanities International PhD school - do check it out and share with your grads, esp. if from low- and middle-income countries: medhumsplatform.org/queer-method...

go.bsky.app/SY36J2i South Asian scholars and writers! Please reply if you’d like to be added. 🌸

Introducing the Ace/Aro Studies starter pack! If you are a scholar specializing in asexualities or aromaticism, let me know so I can add you. go.bsky.app/9TLnCmy

"...decolonial thinking is not leftist, but rather another thing entirely: it is a de-linking from the modern, political episteme articulated as right, center, and left; it is an opening towards another thing, on the march, searching for itself in the difference." Walter Mignolo

Saying hi to this new site by sharing my last ASR pub, w amazing colab @imarinescu.bsky.social! We show that privatized childcare services play a direct role creating family income inequality in the US, bc unaffordable childcare hurts lower income families most doi.org/10.1177/0003...

📢A “big” conference alert!📢 To all colleagues working in the fields of PIL, IEL, LPE, law & corporations, empire, colonialism: Liverpool is hosting the SLSA annual conference 2025 and the call for papers is out: www.liverpool.ac.uk/law/slsa-202...

UCI Law is excited to host the second Annual West Coast Sexuality, Gender, and Law Conference. CFP below and abstracts due 12/15. docs.google.com/document/d/1...