It’s launch day for No Is Not A Lonely Utterance! So I shared some of my reasons for writing the book 💜💜

The Call for Papers for SLSA2026 is now live! This year, alongside @sandraduffy.bsky.social, and @maxmorris.bsky.social, I will be running a current topic on "Law in the Culture Wars". If you have a paper idea, please feel free to get in touch with us! www.sussex.ac.uk/collaborate/...

At a time when some use the language of feminism to attack trans rights, it’s vital to see feminist activists and scholars counteract such attacks. Feminist Legal Studies is inviting papers for a special issue that will explore how feminist goals and trans liberation are connected. Check it out. ✊🏾🏳️‍⚧️

"Regression" is the word. Glad to see this special issue of Feminist Legal Studies using it.

📣🏳️‍⚧️ Call for Papers We are inviting papers for our special issue, “Feminist Responses to the Regression of Trans Rights: Strategies, Alliances, Hope.” The issue will be dedicated to trans-inclusive feminist legal analysis that addresses attacks on trans rights & lives. Details below. Please share.

“Like many others, we will continue to engage and, true to her spirit, also challenge her many ideas and insights.” We are excited to share our new special issue which explores the work of late feminist scholar Drucilla Cornell. You can read more here: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

📢 RECENTLY PUBLISHED: “Informed by comparative constitutional scholarship and queer legal studies, this article argues that art 156 represents the constitutionalisation of queer subordination by enshrining in the supreme law of the land the subordinate status of queer persons.” By Daryl W. J. Yang

”Reductionist views which subscribe to and perpetuate misleadingly binary constructs of sex play into misogynistic right-wing politics which harm us all… this is not a theoretical debate, it impacts lived realities and the liveability of our lives.” Feminist scholars demand trans equality.

I start by talking a lot about how I did not want to become a Libyan Penelope- a female relative of a Libyan dissident activist, silent and mourning, and how human rights activism proved the worst route out, forcing on me even more silence and mourning

A short reflection on my decade of working in the human rights sector and the daily anti-Arab racisms i had to navigate, kindly published by Feminist Legal Studies link.springer.com/article/10.1...

FYI: @senthorun.bsky.social published a paper in our journal that explores how the emotional dynamics of accountability and vulnerability emerge in the legal classroom and shape the teaching of LGBT rights. You can read it open access here: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

A new book rewrites judgments in cases decided by the ICC from a feminist perspective.

In this piece entitled “The Unbearable Arabness of Being: Anti-Arab Racisms in the Human Rights Sector,” Fatima Ahdash reflects on the orientalism and racism underpinning Western human rights organisations, arguing that a complete overhaul of the sector is urgently necessary. Read (for free) here:

A few of us have been working to set up a research network of legal scholars innovating in the teaching of race, colonialism & empire. We have received provisional approval as a new Collaborative Research Network (CRN) of the Law and Society Association (LSA)! www.lawandsociety.org/crn-58critic...

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...

Join us for an interactive day on research methods at university of Leicester September 17. PGR travel expenses paid for attendance. @silvilunazul.bsky.social and I will be speaking on decolonial and feminist methods. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/m4c-dialog...

New piece written with my most precious and treasured thinking partner, @samanthapinto.bsky.social. Thinking together about exhaustion, fatigue, and being feminist and bone tired.

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...

I have a new article out in @flsjournal.bsky.social on thinking about abortion and foetal disability from a reproductive/disability justice perspective link.springer.com/article/10.1... #openaccess

“This moment necessitates that we trace & map the linkages between the various forms of oppression & harm we witness, locate their manifestations in the spaces we move in, & draw on these lessons to fight back.” @norajaber.bsky.social & @leilaullrich.bsky.social reflect on being feminist fugitives.

RECENTLY PUBLISHED: “This paper examines the British civil law context… it considers that much can be learnt from the British approach when ensuring survivors of sexual violence undergoing forensic medical examination are adequately informed.” By Jessica Ritchie & Marianne Doherty

Feminist Studies is seeking three new editorial collective members. Application forms online: forms.gle/1CuqBvkBQe1g...

Transqueer Ecological Justice Call for papers, concept notes and creative works by 18 August for an online workshop in the week of the 24th November 2025. More details on scope and how to apply beow. Do reach out if you have any questions.

📢: RECENTLY PUBLISHED “This article explores FemTech’s role in addressing gender inequalities in healthcare… the article argues that it operates primarily as a financial asset market, prioritising profitability over health equity.” By Asta Zokaityte

We had a wonderful time in Edinburgh over the past few days for our annual Feminist Legal Studies retreat. We’ve had a lot of critical and hopeful discussions about doing intersectional feminist legal scholarship in hostile institutional environments and planning our feminist publishing futures.

CfP!!! The @anzsil.org Gender, Sexuality and International Law Interest Group will be holding a workshop on 'Feminist Approaches to International Law in Times of Atrocity, Anthropocene, and Authoritarian Capitalism' on 31 October at Melbourne Law School: drive.google.com/file/d/10YPs...

📢: RECENTLY PUBLISHED “This article is a call to further develop the emerging field of Critical Legal Masculinities Studies (CLMS) as a coherent and unified research project … this article also reflects on the benefits and caveats of operationalising CLMS.” By Ariël Decoster

We had a wonderful time in Edinburgh over the past few days for our annual Feminist Legal Studies retreat. We’ve had a lot of critical and hopeful discussions about doing intersectional feminist legal scholarship in hostile institutional environments and planning our feminist publishing futures.

NEW PAPER: “This paper examines Drucilla Cornell’s contribution to critical animal studies… posits links between the oppression of women & animals and advances an intersectional approach that demonstrates how power structures interconnect across human & nonhuman registers…” By Jan-Harm de Villiers

NEW PAPER: “This article examines Article 1010 of China’s Civil Code… that clarifies what constitutes sexual harassment, establishes civil liability for perpetrators, and imposes specific obligations & potential liability on relevant entities to prevent sexual harassment.” By Binwang Xiong et al.

'To labour in the university today is to work in the midst of violence – not only the overt violences of war, genocide, and occupation, but also the slow, cumulative violences of exploitation, extraction, and institutional capture.' Reflections on fugitive labour in @flsjournal.bsky.social

RECENTLY PUBLISHED: “This paper examines the British civil law context… it considers that much can be learnt from the British approach when ensuring survivors of sexual violence undergoing forensic medical examination are adequately informed.” By Jessica Ritchie & Marianne Doherty

Each day brings new ways tech is used to abuse women & girls showing the gaps in the law. Some law reform suggestions here for New Zealand. Bigger question: how do we future-proof the law? My suggestion for a law on intimate intrusions in @flsjournal.bsky.social link.springer.com/article/10.1...

My latest - ‘Beyond International Human Rights: Islamic Feminism as Alternative Rights Praxis’. Read here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... Soon to be published with @flsjournal.bsky.social

Delighted to be at the launch of Dr Daanika Kamal's important new book 📖 "Domestic Violence in Pakistan" 🇵🇰 (OUP, 2025) @flsjournal.bsky.social

Beautiful necessary writing for our times as Nora and Leila call for underground lawyering, for feminist occupation of in/visibility, for challenges to university forms, that at best ignore and at worst support genocidal conduct, and for ways of coming together to make paths to a better world

“At a time when those of us who are most precariously positioned are being most aggressively targeted, our work must be informed by care, by collectivity, & by deep political clarity.” Beautiful writing by @norajaber.bsky.social & @leilaullrich.bsky.social on resisting violence in academic spaces.

My latest, co-authored with Leila Ullrich. ‘Reflections on Fugitive Practices in the University: Labouring in the Wake of Violence’ @flsjournal.bsky.social link.springer.com/article/10.1...

“This moment necessitates that we trace & map the linkages between the various forms of oppression & harm we witness, locate their manifestations in the spaces we move in, & draw on these lessons to fight back.” @norajaber.bsky.social & @leilaullrich.bsky.social reflect on being feminist fugitives.

For those unable to join our queer legal discussion and celebration at the Centre for International Law and Humanities in Melbourne, you can listen to our exchange online here: m.soundcloud.com/iilahpodcast... 🌈🎓

🚨New article! Our latest is a phenomenal paper by Ben Golder, which situates the jurisprudential practice of the Feminist Judgments Projects within a wider category of ‘subjunctive jurisprudence' - 10/10, highly recommend! Read OPEN ACCESS here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

We invite signatures from UK law people for our open letter on the aftermath of FWS. *Please sign and share with your networks* as we will send to the relevant parliamentary human rights bodies on closure of the letter.

By defining “sex” in the Equality Act as “biological,” it ignored key case law, EHRC guidance, and even Parliament’s intent. This isn’t just a reinterpretation. It’s a rollback. We broke down what the Court left out. gender-matters.org/law/ignored-...

Hello World! Welcome to followers changing channels from LinkedIn. Thank you everyone following me for the first time. Here is a video link to an address I gave at the start of Trans History Week. Wherever you are, know the UK is trans-hostile. It will take 12mins of your life. youtu.be/IPU6XN4lOvw

Dr Victoria McLeod outlines how the Supreme Court’s reading of “sex” within the Equality Act to mean sex assigned at birth only places the UK now at serious risk of breaching its obligations under the European Convention on Human Rights. We need our courts to give space and listen to trans people.

Trans+ History Week 2025 is here – and not a moment too soon. 🏳️‍⚧️ Trans+ History Week 05–11 May 2025 While courts and commissions debate our existence, our legacy speaks for itself: We’ve always been here & always will be. Thank you 🙏 @thefoxfisher.bsky.social for the illustration 🖼️

Read this brilliant queer judgment by Emily Grabham in response to the UK Supreme Court decision to treat gender based discrimination in equality law in terms of “biological sex.” Grabham’s parodic judgment plays with the words contained in the original judgment to expose the court’s ridiculousness.

Thus, in relation to eg. rape crisis centre, litigation more likely to succeed. In relation to toilets, much less so. Real concern is that fear of litigation will lead orgs to capitulate not cos of legal obligation, but cos of fear/costs of litigation, which has been a key part of GC strategy.

However, this may, likely will, lead to further litigation, probably on grounds of harassment under EA. That is, some cis women may claim space rendered hostile, uncomfortable etc causing self exclusion. Whether such claims will succeed will depend on facts & nature/use of space.