‘By 1790, one in eight Liverpool households were dependent on the slave trade.’ John Kerrigan on Liverpool, the Atlantic slave trade and m. nourbeSe philip’s long poem 𝘡𝘰𝘯𝘨! www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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

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. 🏳️‍⚧️

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.

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.

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!

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...

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...

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...

'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...