I contributed a chapter on pastoral care to this guide for early career legal academia, produced by Association of Law Teachers! It's free to read and download here: lawteacher.ac.uk/early-career...

pokemon thought that will ruin your life: if it's charmander (salamander) and charmeleon (chameleon), charizard should be pronounced char-izzard

Grateful for our amazing performers, our wonderful friend @charlienwrites.bsky.social who kept everything running, my colleagues @joytwemlow.bsky.social & @drfoxpopuli.bsky.social for being perfect, and @lawatleeds.bsky.social for funding the event. Camp old time. Chuffed to bits mate. #lawsadrag

Last night, Law's a Drag held its first ever CABARET! We mixed lip syncs, comedy, and dance with a Q&A on the For Woman Scotland UKSC judgment, providing info about how it will affect equality law, and the lives of drag artists, and trans, nonbinary, intersex, and cis people in the UK 🏳️‍⚧️🌈🏳️‍🌈💖🎉🥰💋

And here's a taster of Alice @jgreenwoodreeves.bsky.social and Fox @drfoxpopuli.bsky.social in their lip sync mash-up... Thanks to the Uni of Leeds School of Law for providing funding for this event, for our artists for their performances, our friends for supporting us!

This is very funny thing for a President to say, but it's a truly fucking bananas thing for a President to voluntarily tell everyone he said.

Trump just ordered the military into Portland, and he’s giving them the green light to use lethal force on American citizens. Authoritarianism is an abstract concept but Trump is making its impacts real and tangible. Let’s be real about it: This is the beginning of dictatorship in America.

As an immigration lawyer, it seems to me that the only thing we talk about more than immigration is how we don’t talk about immigration

3. ⁠this is not the moment for an incredibly expensive increase in state surveillance infrastructure to be run for profit by private tech firms just before Labour ushers in an (even more) authoritarian right wing government. FIX THE GODDAMN COST OF LIVING INSTEAD YOU FREAKS.

Ok. They’ve pissed me off. I’m back to tell you 3 things about ID cards: 1. Migrants ALREADY HAVE biometric ID cards & govts have been trying to digitise them for years w repeated fuckups & failures causing complete chaos - they don’t work, you do not want that system for you.

Time is running out on this, the time to act is now. The draft code of practice will become official guidance if we do not pressure MPs to speak up. If you haven't already please email your MP. Everyone please share this.

This. We have had ID cards in Italy since always and people can readily see how the shadow economy is doing there

clawing and dragging my way to the end of this week, comrades

Excellent reporting from Heated and Atmos. It looks like some of the biggest investors in the anti-trans movement are fossil fuel billionaires who are trying to use trans issues to ensure that Republicans pass policies favorable to their industry. heated.world/p/fossil-fue...

Watching Scream 2, and the scene where they are clambering over ghostface to get out of the car wreck? Sooooo much more annoying than it is tense

Remember Tony Blair? He's back. In Keir Starmer form. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

new scam going around where they hire you for a job but pay you less than the value your labor produced

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28th September! THAT'S REAL SOON! Come join us for a drag cabaret, with performances from amazing local artists, and some much needed clarity about trans rights and the law! £5 tickets! Tickets online or at the door. Share, like, spread the news! www.eventbookings.com/b/event/law-...

Trump = vice signalling (I hate everyone, apart from myself). He's made hatred and violence fashionable again.

My wheelchair rugby team is fundraising for repairs if anyone feels inclined to chuck a few quid our way to buy new tires fundraising.spond.com/AYQMbcfXMW

morning all

📣🏳️‍⚧️ 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.

Timeline cleanse: IT’S FAT BEAR WEEK explore.org/fat-bear-week

The government is rounding people up and putting them into camps and nobody is talking about it as political violence Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

Virgin are calling themselves allies whilst banning trans people from using the appropriate facilities . Help us stop them 👇

You cannot trust information coming from Kash Patel's FBI. You cannot trust information coming from ICE. You cannot trust information coming the Trump administration. You cannot trust information coming from Republicans.

Believe trans people when we tell you the 'science' behind the Cass Report is as solid as the 'science' behind paracetamol causing autism.

Just a reminder that AI is not only a money-making grift but it's not even good. You can teach your students to use Google or GoogleScholar in the same amount of time it takes to learn how to use an AI and they will get better results.

Really good analysis of the failings of AI, with worked example. Those of you, not sent to sleep by Trump on open mic night at the UN, will have heard him claim he’ll use AI to track biological weapons sites. Searching for Weapons of Mass Destruction 2.0 👀

As a new academic term starts, check out our roster of academics here at the Centre of Law and Social Justice at Leeds! go.bsky.app/F1hFvdR @lawatleeds.bsky.social

Blog alert! I reflect on the need for a corpse desecration offence in England and Wales and how there is movement, at last, towards meaningful reform. I am looking forward to working with colleagues at the Law Commission in the near future. deadbodiesandthelaw.wordpress.com?p=374

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Coming soon! Ioannis Ktistakis, Judge at the European Court of Human Rights, will speak at our famous annual Liberty Lecture, on the subject of climate change and human rights School of Law! ⏰ 5-6:30pm 🗓️ 1st October 📍 School of Law, Leeds For tickets and more 👇 tinyurl.com/3cjdvcrh

It is TUESDAY of WEEK 0 (Welcome Week) and I already seem to have caught some sort of bug

So excited for this event THIS SUNDAY! Drag, justice, trans rights, lip syncs, tricks, nonbinary babes, legal info, and more! @drfoxpopuli.bsky.social and I are choreographing our own drag performance for it today... ...YALL ain't READY www.eventbookings.com/b/event/law-...

holy cannoli indeed

If you support revoking the settled status of people who, even on your own contentious definitions, came to the country “legally” and are “fully integrated”, what, other than xenophobia, is your rationale?

So excited for this event THIS SUNDAY! Drag, justice, trans rights, lip syncs, tricks, nonbinary babes, legal info, and more! @drfoxpopuli.bsky.social and I are choreographing our own drag performance for it today... ...YALL ain't READY www.eventbookings.com/b/event/law-...

Setting aside the merits of what Streeting is proposing, I'd love to know if he's had legal advice or is just winging it here. What he's proposing would be unlawful based on the EHRC's interim update/Sex Matters position.

That is before you look at personal cost to those people directly affected, the lives destroyed, all to play to racists. There's nothing "legitimate" about any so called "concerns" which lead to supporting anything like what Farage proposes. It's out and out xenophobia and racism. No ifs or buts. 3/

Coming up this week! Book your tickets for our big gay cabaret here: www.eventbookings.com/b/event/law-... 🏳️‍⚧️🌈🏳️‍🌈💋💖🎉

a 1 hour lecture on the battle of trafalgar and a 2 hour diatribe about why "your mother is an awful woman"

One of the most pernicious cissexual myths is that **trans ppl** are obsessed w gender when the average cis woman would never think of wearing a bow tie and the average cis man gets angry if he has to drink out of a coffee cup w too many dainty flowers glazed on it.

nobody will remember: - your salary - how “busy you were” - how many hours you worked people will remember: - the twenty-first night of september - changin' the minds of pretenders - chasin' the clouds away

The UK has recognised Palestine. It must now end its complicity in its destruction, and in the genocide of its people.

If you're not totally aware of how bots try to sway minds, here's a good example.

Other people may have other experiences but I followed the instructions here and it took about three minutes, two of which were clicking 'other' on cancellation reason and typing my reason, and that I would return after a Kimmel reinstatement and apology. Super easy.

you need cold, salt and a meal at the same time