Excited for this conversation on my book in progress 🌸Radical Friendship: Human Rights as Ethical Practice🌸 funded by the Leverhulme Trust at SOAS @lawsocialchange.bsky.social this Thursday 21 May - join us!

Today, after 14 years, I’m resigning from the Labour Party. Jeremy Corbyn and I will co-lead the founding of a new party, with other Independent MPs, campaigners and activists across the country. Join us. The time is now. Sign up here to stay updated: actionnetwork.org/forms/join-t...

My latest article is now out with @flsjournal.bsky.social - ‘Beyond international human rights: Islamic feminism as alternative rights praxis’. Available open access here: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

My newest piece on how to end starvation and famine in Gaza. The UN General Assembly must authorize peacekeepers to accompany humanitarian convoys. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Finally got round to reading this piece from @ntinatzouvala.bsky.social - brilliant.

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...

This time last week I was in Rovaniemi, Finland examining a spectacular PhD thesis on truth, power and the homosexual legal subject. It was a triumph and an experience! Congratulations Dr Iiris Tuominen and thank you for my karonkka (PhD party) invitation ✨🙏🏾🍾

Eid Mubarak! ✨

Eid Mubarak! ✨

The Level, Brighton, earlier today 🇵🇸 ✊🏾

This cause is close to my heart - please sign: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...

Happy Holi! 🎨 ✨

One world week day 4: Sip & Paint - Women’s Voices - what a fun, nourishing and empowering event hosted by Women in Law Society, Sussex Law 💖

One world week day 4: Sip & Paint - Women’s Voices - what a fun, nourishing and empowering event hosted by Women in Law Society, Sussex Law 💖

Ramadan Mubarak! One World Week Day 3: absolute heaving scenes of joy and respect, there was mehndi, dates and daal!! Thank you Sabrina, Bee & our wonderful student community at Sussex Law/ Uni

Excited to launch our new project via this event for Law & Resistance Research Group Sussex Law… join me, my fabulous partner + chair Darcy Leigh and this brilliant panel NEXT WEEK to learn more about Rights & Resistance ‘After Liberalism’ criticallegalthinking.com/2025/03/10/c...

One World Week Day 2: Dancing and Belonging - an empowering way of reclaiming the moot room with ballet + hip hop! Thank you Marica Moscati @queerjudgments.bsky.social Morgan and Jordyn, Sussex Dance Soc and Law Soc 🙏🏾💖 🦢

Lovely start to One World Week at Sussex Law School with Black Legacies Reading Circle + check out our Wall of Belonging and Ramadan Experience Wall ❤️💜💚

Wishing a blessed Ramadan to all, but especially to my brothers and sisters in Palestine enduring hardship www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...

‘This decision should have been a catalyst for action, prompting the UK to introduce a formal Gaza family reunification scheme for families such as mine. Instead, the govt seeks to shut down possibility of reuniting in safety, fuelling anti-Palestinian sentiment’ www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

"Classifications such as “migrant” or “refugee” do not represent social groups as much as they symbolize state-regulated relations of difference and state-manufactured conditions of vulnerability." www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...

Critical Thinking published a fabulous symposium on my book Struggles for the Human with @dukepress.bsky.social and here's my response reflecting on the argument in relation to genocide in Palestine Thanks to Christine Schwöbel-Patel, @balsokhi-b.bsky.social and @illanwall.bsky.social

I spent this week volunteering with @care4calais.org, working in their warehouse and distributing jumpers, sleeping bags, tarps, hot drinks and wellbeing services for refugees at camps in Calais and Dunkirk. They urgently need volunteers for early March. If you can, please consider signing up.

Exhausted, not even end of week 3, but then you revive cos your final years engage with your ideas on friendship as a radical critique of rights or - as Bill put it ‘fight and form friendship’ ✊🏾💖

We had an amazing time launching our edited collection in Brighton today! Thanks to everyone who joined us online or in person for this celebration. You can download the book on a pay what you feel basis (free if you need!) via our publisher: counterpress.org.uk/publications... #AcademicSky 🌈🎓

This handsome most gorgeous man is 11 today 🎉✨🦴

What a wonderful launch by wonderful people 💖 So inspiring to hear and see the ‘choreography of queering academia’, bravo comrades 🌈💜✊🏾 @senthorun.bsky.social @nunoferreira.bsky.social and my dear Marica Moscati 🩰

Just published 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14616742.2025.2455477

I work with these gorgeous humans! This is a hugely important project!! Respect and admiration - join us for the launch at Sussex Law this coming week💖🌈💜

I have been having THOUGHTS and FEELINGS about the meaning and impact of the genocide in Gaza on international law as an academic discipline and area of practice and you can read them here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

For the past few years, I’ve been working with scholars, lawyers, and activists from around the world on a project to re-imagine and re-write judgments from queer perspectives. It’s been a joy to see our first book come to life and we will launch it in Brighton (and online) next month. Join us! 🌈🎓

What do you even say anymore?!?! 🤷🏽‍♀️🤬 www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

Our statement on the bill introduced today. This bill only adds to the demonisation and criminalisation of people on the move, just months after the racist riots that saw people trying to burn down asylum hotels. The bill has "asylum" in its title but does nothing to help people seeking safety.

Looking forward and what a stellar line up! 🤩💅🏽 Thank you for the invitation to join the conversation #CritECHR @jtheilen.bsky.social @esrademir.bsky.social 🙏🏾✨

After 15 months of genocide in Gaza, a ceasefire has been declared — but the US, UK & others must be held accountable for arming these atrocities. We’ll keep speaking out until the siege lifts, aid flows, schools & hospitals are rebuilt, the Occupation ends & Palestine is free.

We’re thrilled to announce the first book launch for the Queer Judgments edited collection. It is a hybrid event that will take place at 5.30pm on Tuesday 11th February at the University of Sussex. You can attend online if you cannot make it in person. Please register using the link. 🌈🎓

And while I’m posting about recent publications: I loved this special issue on “After Rights”, edited by Louiza Odysseos & Bal Sokhi-Bulley Lots of wonderful contributions critiquing and rethinking rights from many different directions. Very much recommended! www.tandfonline.com/toc/fjhr20/2...

Edward Said on intellectuals speaking ‘truth to power’ in ‘Nationalism, Human Rights, and Interpretation’, Oxford Amnesty Lectures, 1992. “For the Intellectual,to be “for” human rights means, in effect, to be willing to venture interpretations of those rights...of how they’re connected, involved..”

Fave stocking filler ❤️🌶️🌶️

"Israel has forcibly displaced 90% of Gaza’s 2.2 million inhabitants ... multiple times, into ever-shrinking, ever-changing pockets of land that lacked basic infrastructure, forcing people to live in conditions that exposed them to a slow and calculated death" www.amnesty.org.uk/genocide-rep...

Reflecting on the week and honestly the highlight was probably this mid-week lunch I grabbed from Nanima Asian kitchen in Kemptown #Brighton - gorgeous laksa, next time the keema pastries 😋

Its been a busy few days, and I forgot to post about this brilliant piece by Christine Schwöbel Patel on Lara Montesinos Coleman's book Struggles for the Human (in @dukepress.bsky.social's awesome series Insurgent Legalities) criticallegalthinking.com/2024/12/04/s...

📌 Tomorrow, UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese joins Amnesty International NI to discuss her latest report, Genocide as Colonial Erasure, where she examines the unfolding horrors in the occupied Palestinian territory. Join us for free 💻 : amn.st/6001tY7LN

This week we did a class on rights and protest for the int human rights law module. So heartening to see our students so engaged with ways to think rights otherwise given the world we live in