Book Review of 3 amazing books on #MagdelaneLaundries, & Mother&BabyHomes #MBH @flsjournal.bsky.social out. No way to sum up the ways in which survivors & affected people are continuily let down by the Govs on island of Ireland & religious institutions but these books try 1/3 bit.ly/3JKSngT

OPEN ACCESS: Bringing Governance Home: Feminists, Domestic Violence, and the Paradoxes of Rights in India This article offers a rich account of feminist legal strategy in India, tracing how domestic violence came to be codified, contested, and reframed within feminist and global legal frameworks.

It was an absolute pleasure to act, alongside Katie Jukes, as Guest Editor for the Queer Judgment focused special section of Amicus Curiae 7:1 The whole issue is available open access and available at the link below! lnkd.in/g_ZyaV3v

Submissions close at the end of the week (31st October)!

We’re so excited to be interviewed for @oxfordcsls.bsky.social’s “Talking about Methods” podcast. We discussed assembling a global collection that foregrounds the possibilities, tensions and hopes of re-writing judgments from queer and other critical perspectives. Listen to and share the podcast. 📻

Submissions close at the end of the week (31st October)!

Publish your work in the Bristol University Press series Gender and Crime in a Globalised World. Do get in touch!

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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. 🏳️‍⚧️

"Anti-immigrant march" is such a telling phrase. An immigrant is just a person who exercises the freedom they are born with, which is recognised by all human rights legislation, and moves across imaginary lines on the ground. Being "anti-immigrant" means anti-movement, anti-freedom and anti-person.

“To assemble, to say no, to do no, throws so much open … doing what we can, when we can, however we can, in the wear and tear, for as long as it takes.” Just read @saranahmed.bsky.social’s energising new book on complaining as a collective task of feminist and queer world (un)building. Get a copy!

Feminist Legal Studies is pleased to offer open access to our 2025 prize-winning article by Leon Laidlaw. This powerful article examines how colonial gender norms underpin prison systems, harming trans, Indigenous, and cis women. You can read it for free here: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

I’m really looking forward to this workshop that I’m co-organising with @pagingdrpaige.bsky.social! If you’d like to join us online, register here: www.eventbrite.com.au/e/feminist-a... or get in touch to join in person (limited spots available)

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