My book is published! It’s a critical take on how emotions shape conflicts about LGBT rights and repair in equality law, gender recognition, bans on conversion practices, and sex education in schools. You can download it free via @edinburghup.bsky.social: edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-the-emo...

A pause while they draw up more specific guidelines is not a win. This needs serious pushback to reverse all attempts to censor 2SLGBTQIA+ material.

Excellent piece by Jennifer Llewellyn @restorativelab.bsky.social about how restorative justice offers a better way to address harm, engage communities, and bring about culture change in sexual violence cases.

Six takeaways from Skrmetti are circulating widely. All six contain errors: 1. The first takeaway quotes a law professor suggesting that a loss in Skrmetti will make other trans rights cases harder. In fact the opinion is narrow.

I'm excited to announce that my article "Pedagogies in the Meantime: Reflections on ADR and Restorative Justice in U.S. and Canadian Legal Education," co-authored with the brilliant Amy Cohen @templelaw.bsky.social, is available here on SSRN: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... 1/4

I will be watching the development of these new guidelines closely to ensure they do not unduly target 2SLGBTQ+ books. The vast majority of which are entirely appropriate for all K-12 schools. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/alber...

Seething with rage. To those who spread hate to win points in your drummed-up-of-a-distraction culture war, this was always the well-foreseen end of your vile rootless obsession. I am so sorry, Kady. We failed you.

Congrats to shortlisted authors & presses! Margaret Boittin ‪@cambridgeup.bsky.social‬‬ Elaine Craig @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social A Iavarone-Turcotte @pulaval.bsky.social @james-kelly.bsky.social @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social @jcyliew.bsky.social @fernpub.bsky.social MJ Mossman @wlupress.bsky.social

Many thanks to @albertaviews.bsky.social for excerpting the open letter of Alberta law profs and staff on the rights of 2S, trans, and gender diverse youth in its latest issue. Those wanting to read the full letter can find it on @ablawg.bsky.social. @annajanel.bsky.social @floralashes.bsky.social

Feminist Legal Studies (FLS) is now on Bluesky. FLS is committed to an international and interdisciplinary perspective and to the promotion of feminist work in all areas of law, legal theory and legal practice. We publish material in a range of formats. Follow us! link.springer.com/journal/10691

Criminalizing Dissent? Toronto: join me, @policingblack.bsky.social, @judreb.bsky.social & others for this community teach-in about the city's proposed bubble zone bylaw. Tuesday, May 20, 5:30pm at TMU. Info & RSVP: communityteachin.rsvpify.com

I’m thrilled this is out in the world! It was a joy to collaborate with such incredible co-editors & brilliant contributors. Eternally grateful to @rcalo.bsky.social & @mfroomkin.bsky.social for the opportunity to keep learning from our dear friend Ian’s impact on the field and the community 🤖💜

I shared some thoughts on the supreme court, EHRC's interim guidance and the feminist dystopia some call 'gender critical' feminism yesterday. feministkilljoys.substack.com/p/meaningles...

Supreme Court of Canada is scheduled to hear the Kanyinda case in 2 weeks. I'm honoured to act as counsel for @fcjrefugeecentre.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy & @madhucentre.bsky.social in their joint intervention. We argue the Canadian Charter must meaningfully protect substantive equality of migrants.

Somehow only just caught this. Brilliant from Sara Ahmed (@saranahmed.bsky.social) as always. feministkilljoys.substack.com/p/patriarcha...

At no point did Alito—or any other Republican justice—consider the message it sends to the kids of LGBTQ parents when their peers have to walk out of the classroom to avoid exposure to families like theirs. These children will be the victims of the Supreme Court's decision. slate.com/news-and-pol...

"these are life choices that people make" is straight from ye olde homophobic playbook. It's the thought process that that led to lesbians being treated as predators in women's changing rooms for decades. It is exactly the same and it is just as wrong now as it was then.

Black feminist scholars have written for decades about how the gender/sex binary is a colonial imposition. As Afro-feminist legal scholar Sylvia Tamale says, “sex, gender, and sexualities which do not conform to the institutionalized binaries totally disorganize the capitalist-patriarchal matrix…”

“Any effective response to the anti-gender movement will entail a critique of the new forms of authoritarianism and the passions they exploit.” Judith Butler shows us how anti-gender rhetoric fuels current authoritarianism by producing social fears/anxieties. We must disrupt the emotional politics.

Grateful for this profile of my recent work on gender equality and trans justice. www.uwindsor.ca/dailynews/20...

Thrilled to announce the publication of our new book, Queer Judgments! This collection brings together scholars from around the world to re-imagine and re-write legal judgments that relate to people who experience sexual, gender, and related marginalisation. counterpress.org.uk/publications... 🌈🎓

We’re 10 days from We Robot in Windsor. Register now to save your spot! Join us for a community-building robot art party on Thursday April 3, for dinner downtown on April 4, and for some truly incredible conversations on April 4 & 5 at @windsorlaw.bsky.social. See www.werobot2025.ca for details!

The political conditions to erase trans people did not just appear. Social anxieties about transition, fears about “trans predators,” and hostilities towards gender fluidity cultivated a climate that degrades trans life. Transphobia dressed up as “legitimate concern” led us to such violent politics.

Article drop! In my new paper "Finding Equality" published in the Journal of Law & Equality, I explore the possibilities and limits of feminist judgment projects, with a focus on creative rewriting and poetry as a means of radical legal and political organizing. 1/3 papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

People who seek asylum face political, social, and legal hostilities. In my new article, I explore how such hostilities function as an “emotional grammar” of refugee law in the UK, especially when determining someone’s queerness, credibility, and persecution. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... 🌈🎓

Canadian universities are required by provincial human rights laws to provide a learning environment free from discrimination, but have failed to do so for trans students & students in gender studies program. It's time to act, argues @danieldelgobbo.bsky.social policyoptions.irpp.org?p=115918

Trump & Poilievre have consistently used women’s rights issues to deny the very existence of trans people. In this 2-part series on the increase of transphobia, @danieldelgobbo.bsky.social explores what the panic around trans rights mean for gender equality in Canada. policyoptions.irpp.org?p=115912

In this article, my second in the series, I explain what the rise of transphobic rhetoric means for Canadian universities, with a focus on campus violence. Recalling the UWaterloo attack in a “gender studies” classroom in 2023, schools must act to protect students now. @windsorlaw.bsky.social

In this article, my first in a two-part series @policyoptions.irpp.org released today, I explain there is a continuity between trans rights and women’s rights in the U.S and Canada. Feminist, queer, and trans struggles for gender equality should be united, not opposed. @windsorlaw.bsky.social

I’ve written three op-eds in response to the mainstreaming of harmful, anti-trans rhetoric in Canadian and U.S. law and society. In my first piece here, Asha Holland and I explore the moral panic around trans athletes and how universities can protect trans students. @windsorlaw.bsky.social

Grateful to be featured on this profile of new University of Windsor law faculty. (Also, this is my first post on Bluesky. How does this app work exactly??!)