The Centre for Innovation and Research in Childhood and Youth (CIRCY) at the University of Sussex showcased chapters from our Queer Judgments edited collection that relate to children. These include matters relating to gender affirming healthcare, adoption, reproduction, parental status and consent.

The Queer Judgments Project is about queer friendship & creativity. Recently, one of our contributors, Dr Joy Twemlow, crocheted this queer flower bouquet which she gifted to one of the editors, Dr Sen Raj. This bouquet represents the beauty, innovation, kinship & flourishing of queer communities. 💐

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...

My fabulous new friend and colleague crocheted me a queer flower bouquet. 💐🌈

We’re thrilled to announce Queer Judgments is out today! This collection covers topics relating to decriminalising gay sex, HIV, asylum, healthcare, reproductive justice, gender transition, and much more! It is available to download on a pay what you feel basis: counterpress.org.uk/publications...

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...

I have the honour of interviewing the fabulous @saranahmed.bsky.social about her new book, No Is Not A Lonely Utterance: The Art & Activism of Complaining next month (22nd October). Come join us at The Whitworth in Manchester for a critical discussion of refusals, community building, and solidarity.

Working as a legal academic and writing on LGBT rights is not an abstract intellectual exercise. It’s deeply emotional. It requires political accountability and intellectual vulnerability.

📣🏳️‍⚧️ 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.

“Europeans who do not fit the typical definition of male or female are grappling with an ‘alarming’ rise in violence, the EU’s leading rights agency has said, as concerted campaigns seek to sow disinformation and fuel hatred towards them.” We must stop the political/social abuses of intersex folks.

My new book explores how emotions like pain, shame, and anxiety shape the ways we conceive rights and pursue reforms to protect LGBT people. I think/feel through how we might live with discomfort as we seek justice. You can read the book for free here: edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-the-emo...

Academic selfie: unapologetically queer with the amazing and delightful @senthorun.bsky.social edition

”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.

It’s lovely to be in Canberra this month as a visiting fellow at the ANU Law School. On Thursday 18th September, I’ll be presenting some of the work from my new book which explores emotions and conflicts over LGBT rights. Come along if you’re around! Details here: law.anu.edu.au/news-and-eve... 🌈🎓

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.

Trans Legal Clinic need your support in funding this case. We all have a duty to do something, even sharing this will help, share it other platforms and to allies. If you can please donate to help fund this case, this is the most important part of the restoration of the our rights:

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...

I’m happy to report that you can’t “convert” people’s sexuality. I grew up seeing straight folk kiss on TV, hold hands on the street, publicise their weddings and talk about their families every day. And despite the rampant attempts to indoctrinate me into heterosexuality, I stayed flamboyantly gay!

Queer life cannot flourish in a world with racism and genocide. We must fight all forms of state violence. Today and every day. ✊🏾🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

I’m very excited to be launching my new book in Sydney next week! It’s happening in Sydney University at 5pm on Friday 29th August. We will be taking emotions, LGBT rights, justice, and solidarity. Come along if you’re around. It’s free to attend. Register here: www.eventbrite.com.au/e/symposium-...

Hello folks, I’ll be back in Sydney to launch my new book on 29th August! My book looks at how our emotions shape legal conflicts over LGBT rights and how we might confront those emotions in law to repair inequalities faced by LGBT people. Come along! RSVP here: www.eventbrite.com.au/e/symposium-...

A reminder: stay unapologetically gay.

Emotions like fear and anxiety dominate the political landscape for LGBT folks, migrants, and other communities. These emotions foster disinformation and paranoid thinking. We need to cultivate greater critical thinking, humility, curiosity, and solidarity to challenge oppressive emotional politics.

Ready to flaunt my fabulousness at Reykjavik Pride like the flaming homosexual that I am. 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

It’s a queer joy to be in Iceland this week and talk about my new book at the Reykjavik Pride conference. It was energising to be in an atmosphere of sunshine and (painted) rainbows while talking through some of the feelings that shape our struggles for legal and social justice. 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🇮🇸

Five years ago, on the kitchen table at my parents' house in Sydney, I delivered the Belfast Pride Lecture. During a global pandemic, I reflected on how we LGBTQ+ folk pursue justice in creative ways and cultivate capacities to sparkle with trauma. So, let’s keep organising to stay fabulous! ✊🏾🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

NLSIU’s Queer Archive for Memory Reflection and Activism (QAMRA) in collaboration with the Queer Judgments Project (QJP), are hosting a book discussion at the NLS Library on ‘Queer Judgments’ on Friday, August 1, 2025, 5:30 pm at National Law School of India. Register: www.nls.ac.in/news-events/...

So excited to be invited to speak at the Reykjavik Pride Conference next week. See you soon, Iceland! 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🇮🇸 hinsegindagar.is/en/conference/

Thrilled to announce I will be launching my new book in Sydney next month. The event will take place at 5pm on Friday 29th August at Sydney Law School. The event includes reflections from fab folk like Fleur Johns, Sarouche Razi, Alecia Simmonds and Shawna Tang. Join us if you’re around. RSVP here:

One week left to submit your abstract to our workshop, Feminist Approaches to International Law in Times of Atrocity, Anthropocene and Authoritarian Capitalism! The workshop will take place at Melbourne Law School on 31 October. Looking forward to seeing you there!

Check out the latest issue of Manchester Law Journal, where one of our co-editors (@senthorun.bsky.social) speaks about the importance of queer judgments work in times of rising fascism. Read the interview here: manchesterlawjournal.mmu.ac.uk/issue-2-2025/ HT @mmulawresearch.bsky.social 🌈🎓

Last year, one of my brilliant students interviewed me about doing queer legal research and how we might respond to escalating anti-LGBT authoritarianisms. It’s great to see it now out in print in the Manchester Law Journal! You can read the issue here: manchesterlawjournal.mmu.ac.uk/issue-2-2025/

Wonderful to see our book advertised in the London Review of Books (@lrb.co.uk). You can purchase our book or download it on a pay what you feel basis here: counterpress.org.uk/publications...

Today is International Drag Day. So please enjoy this video of me strutting the stage in Manchester at the House of MCR Ball. And remember: you can never be too fabulous.

It’s International Non-Binary People’s Day. Sending love to my non-binary friends/family today and every day. 💛🤍💜🖤

Earlier this year, Queer Judgments, was published. This collection brings together scholars and lawyers from around the world to re-imagine and re-write legal judgments affecting LGBTQ+ people. It’s been a joy to be one of the co-editors of the book. Get it here: counterpress.org.uk/publications...

“Semenya was legally identified as female at birth but has a condition which means her body naturally produces higher levels of testosterone than women without the condition.” Bureaucratic policing of sex in sports is harmful and excludes many women, including intersex athletes like Caster Semenya.

Wonderful to see our book advertised in the London Review of Books (@lrb.co.uk). You can purchase our book or download it on a pay what you feel basis here: counterpress.org.uk/publications...

I was invited to take part in Southwestern Law Review’s roundtable reflecting on the futures of LGBTQ+ rights. I shared a thought experiment on crafting a queer judgment as a critical-creative exercise in teaching. It’s wonderful to see my contribution now in print! DM for a copy if interested. 🌈🎓

“The UN Human Rights Council voted on Monday to renew the mandate of an LGBT rights expert, a move welcomed by advocates amid the absence of the United States, a former key supporter that is now rolling back such protections.” Good to see the UN HRC renew independent monitoring of LGBT rights. 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

Sense check: Do people outside the UK know that we are facing a nation-wide trans bathroom ban that is likely to become law without even having been debated in our legislature? Impossible to know how much of this cuts through.

Since 2023, I have hosted a transdisciplinary lecture series on gender and sexuality. Past recorded lectures are now on our brand new Youtube channel! Two wonderful lectures on intersex rights, and queer parenting laws in the UK await you! tinyurl.com/2jhv2de5 Please show us some love!💡💟 #lgbtqia+

We’ve said it before, we’ll keep repeating it: LGBT folk are not “propaganda” and our lives are not an “ideology.” We’re just people trying to live ordinary lives. And we deserve to thrive within homes, schools, workplaces, and communities without other people objecting to our existence. It’s basic.

Pride Month commemorates the Stonewall Riots, which began in the early hours of 28 June 1969. Patrons of the Stonewall Inn, a mob-run, low rent gay bar in the West Village of Manhattan said, “Enough!” to Police raids. Prominent among the rioters were trans women, drag queens, dykes and sex workers.

It’s been 56 years since the Stonewall uprisings. As Prides are celebrated around the world this weekend, it’s beautiful to see so many people coming together in solidarity to demand justice for themselves and their communities. We are still fighting but we are still thriving. Happy Pride! 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈