📣School of Law academic in the news! Our Professor @drmitchtravis.bsky.social is quoted in this @theguardian.com piece discussing the policy and legality of surgeries conducted on intersex children 👇 tinyurl.com/47uhv7ur @lsjleeds.bsky.social

Today is Intersex Day of Solidarity and Remembrance. It's an opportunity to highlight the continued struggles faced by intersex people globally, from unnecessary medical intervention or stigma. We all deserve to be treated with dignity, and live a life free from discrimination.

Congratulations to our own Professor Mitch Travis on a well-deserved promotion!

I’ve been promoted to Professor of Law and Social Justice at @lawatleeds.bsky.social Huge thanks to everyone who have supported me throughout my career to make this happen. There’s far too many people to thank so if you think you helped you probably did. Much love all!

Many many congratulations to my good friend @drmitchtravis.bsky.social on his promotion to Professor. I had the privilege of working with Mitch for the bones of a decade and this recognition of both his talent & hard work is extremely well deserved. 👏👏👏

A must read blog about a landmark decision for gender recognition, just published by the High Court today. Once again, @goodlawproject.bsky.social paid all the costs. goodlaw.social/78iw

Oceansize were a UK band that split up in 2011. Probably my favourite ever. Today they showcased some previously unreleased tracks and it is an absolute tonic for my soul.

The Cass review into children's gender services in the UK continues to be terrible. A new report from Australia led by the fantastic Dr. Julia Moore - and featuring me - looks into the issues in detail. My new piece. gidmk.substack.com/p/the-cass-r...

Excellent critiques of fws by legal people, feeling genuinely hearted to see so many different people willing to put their name to critiques of the ruling journals.kent.ac.uk/index.php/fe...

The Orphan Crusher is here to stay. If we don’t feed more Orphans to the Crusher the Orphan Crushing industry will die. It’s time to wake up to the reality of the Orphan Crusher. The Orphan Crusher is worth billions. We need to teach people to use the Orphan Crusher. It’s here to stay.

Please help me get the word out about the new websites for Legal Theory Blog and the Legal Theory Lexicon. Reposting here and on other social media sites is great. It would be especially helpful if law school faculty members could send an email to their colleagues with the new addresses.

New blog from Fae Garland and I in Feminists@law where we discuss the problems of biological sex in the recent FWS judgment journals.kent.ac.uk/index.php/fe... It’s quite accessible and I’ll be using it as a resource with my students.

It’s been 10 years since I first started at @lawatleeds.bsky.social I’ve had such an amazing time and worked with some incredible people. How should I mark this auspicious occasion?

I just want to be a K-pop Demon Hunter

Don’t say “I can’t believe Ozzy died today” say “I can’t believe Ozzy was alive yesterday”

Science fiction as legal imaginary is currently £80 cheaper than normal on the evil empires website. Could be a bargain for someone? www.amazon.co.uk/Science-Fict...

It was so cool to present at the Tanzquartier Wien (Contemporary Dance Institute of Vienna) yesterday. Thank you so much for the invitation to share my work and for setting up my presentation like a Bond Villain!

If you'd be interested in exploring questions of utopia/dystopia, I am putting together a panel for this fun two-day conference on Legal Methodologies @lawresearch-ncluk.bsky.social. Do get in touch if you fancy some utopia/dystopia Methods chats.

Had such a wonderful time at the Intersex Insights conference in Dublin this weeks. Brilliant to meet up with colleagues old and new and also loved spotting a well thumbed copy of our book in the wild!!

Really didn’t enjoy Captain America: Brave New World. 1) the characters were completely superficial. What were their motivations for anything? Who knows! 2) the plot was paper thin. 3) Fighting over adamantium was so obviously setting up a future film that it completely lowered the stakes.

Don’t die on me now laptop! Not today.

So it turns out I have coeliac disease. I hope everyone’s ready for me to make it my whole personality.

Forcing women to hand over a specific ID if they don't conform to gender stereotypes, what a victory

That little ravebot in series 2 episode 3 of Andor is such a vibe

AI is an ontologically conservative prospect incapable of imagining What Could Be. it will lie to you to the contrary.

Oh my god SIX famous people have a trans kid? How many famous people are there even, SEVEN??

⚖️ In an incredibly brave and principled move - one sure to trigger other legal action - the EHRC is being sued 🗣️ "This is the first legal action challenging the unlawful EHRC interim guidance that seeks to “regulate” the private lives of trans people - but it will certainly not be the last"

Really happy to share this episode of the 'Talking about methods' podcast, at Oxford's 'Frontiers of Socio-Legal Studies'. In this episode, Professor Linda Mulcahy and I chat about participatory research from an anti-colonial perspective: frontiers.csls.ox.ac.uk/participator...

Let’s make a band together, you and I.

So excited to have Crystal Hendricks as keynote at Intersex Insights! A powerhouse intersex advocate and human rights leader. Join us online or in Dublin at @dublincityuni.bsky.social on June 9-10 🎟️ dcu-snpch.zohobackstage.eu/IntersexInsi... #IntersexInsights #CHRISALIS #MSCA #CrystalHendricks

The FA banned ALL women from playing for 50 years. Why? Because, even after the men returned from war, women's football continued to be ridiculously popular. Thats it. That was the reason.

This effects 28 people. The cruelty is the point. www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

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I'd like to share with y'all a project I've poured my heart and soul into over the last couple of years: a database cataloguing every single older (pre-21st century) LGBT science fiction book I've managed to track down - currently just over 200 titles 🚀 LINK: tinyurl.com/oldgaySF

15 minutes each is NOT ENOUGH TIME to talk about queer legal dystopias/utopias but what a great panel! #SLSA2025 thanks for having us @drmitchtravis.bsky.social @drfoxpopuli.bsky.social @whiterxbbit.bsky.social @florarenz.bsky.social

Enjoyed discussions of temporality, counter-mapping and time dilation with fellow panellists Alex Simmonds & Jessica Hambly in yesterday’s Law(s) of the Future session convened by @glexareen.bsky.social & @drmitchtravis.bsky.social @slsauk.bsky.social #slsa2025

Coming up in April is the @ncl-congov.bsky.social 'Possible Futures in Law' workshop @lawresearch-ncluk.bsky.social. Working with futures, I'll be exploring Constituent Power as Utopian Impulse

It’s SLSA tomorrow! Looking forward to catching up with so many of my favourite socio-legal scholars! Plus @glexareen.bsky.social and I will be convening the Law(s) of the Future stream and it looks absolutely vital! Looking forward to seeing some of you there. 😁

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Hello hello New job in business law at @lawatleeds.bsky.social Come and work with me and other high calibre individuals! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMR107/l...

Looks like the Supreme Court is handing down their judgment in the For Women Scotland case on Wednesday 16th. The outcome of this case will likely dictate how the laws on Gender Recognition in the UK will change for the foreseeable future www.supremecourt.uk/cases/uksc-2...

Can’t believe I’m in my fourth once in a lifetime economic crisis. Lucky me I guess?

New article - #OpenAccess From domestic lists to kill-lists deployed in counter-terrorism operations, lists have been a central tool in tracing and identifying terrorist suspects #CounterTerrorism #AlgorithmicSurveillance #LegalPractice doi.org/10.5204/lthj...

We are confident this motion will pass as our HEC is generally united on this topic, but honestly, the way this investigation was conducted should be of concern to all, especially at a time of severe financial crisis for our sector. #UCU

Eid Mubarak!

I’m now at the ringing my solicitor and performing the ‘glass cage of emotion’ scene from Anchorman in its entirety stage of moving house.

I’m at the eating Ben and Jerrys and crying stage of moving house. But I don’t have Ben and Jerrys.

@wearequeeraf.com’s analysis of the puberty blocker “trial” adding to my own analysis that it is unethical, deliberately harmful, denies trans kids basic human rights and will not provide the data it claims it will.

Looking for something thought provoking, free to do next Friday? Join us at the Centre for the Study of Law and the Humanities. www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event...

Put wood in th’ole