This is happening NEXT WEEK! We have a huge line-up of amazing drag artists, we've summoned a leading hate crimes law expert in for a Q&A, and we are going to absolutely smash it Come join us, book tickets now - they are going fast!

Shreya Atrey is a leading feminist scholar of equality law. In this excellent paper, she explains how the UK Supreme Court misinterpreted the ground of “sex” for discrimination law purposes. It was never about biology fixed at birth — it was a ground designed to cover various gendered inequalities.

You look like you need a Puffin. Have a Puffin. 📷️ Sue Wood

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At the risk of looking biased, I'll go ahead and say that when it is all done and dusted, the government-driven demise of the UKHE sector will be considered, along with Brexit, among the most senseless examples of collective social and economic suicide among Western nations

Crash Krylova – Trans people in prison: For Women Scotland v Scottish Ministers [2026] CSOH 59 ukconstitutionallaw.org/2026/07/16/c...

Cis people do face some stigma for resorting to "unnatural" medical interventions, but using these technologies to affirm their "natural", "correct" (assigned) sex has always been more tolerated than trans people changing ours. This is not hypocrisy; it's gender working as intended.

A collective UEA #protest effort from @crwerren.bsky.social @storiesfromjack.bsky.social @suzmd.bsky.social & me: our evidence* to the current JCHR Inquiry "Security, safety & protest: the role of Human Rights" has just been made public... committees.parliament.uk/writtenevide... * it's not short

Shreya Atrey, "Grounds in Equality Law: Before and After For Women Scotland" (2026) 89(3) Modern Law Review 379 Link: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Happy St. Swithin's Day everyone! www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4BR...

Travel costs for the fair will be reimbursed to delegates from the University of Sheffield and the University of York. 👉 Register here: whiterose.ac.uk/event/phd-ca... #PhDCareers #DoctoralResearchers #LifeAfterPhD #AcademiaToIndustry #YorkshireBusiness

The Code of Practice will come into force on the 5th August. Here's what that means: goodlaw.social/3b7a2a

If you use Gmail, you need to read this. Google’s AI, Gemini, can read your emails, attachments, bank statements, etc. For many, this feature was switched on without consent. Here's how to turn it off 🧵 1/

"Backup pub quiz guy" strikes again ... www.tiktok.com/@edtgreenwoo... #sketch #comedyvideo #funnytiktok #shorts #relatablecontent #comedy #short #relateable #uk #english #pub #quiz #pubquiz #trivia

What’s a woman? We asked The Odyssey and you’ll never believe the answer…s! 1. Bird with a lady head 2. Shapeshifting witch 3. Baddie who came out of a bird egg 4. A whirlpool maybe 5. Tentacle monster who barks like a dog 6. More different shapeshifting witch 7. Weird horny island hermit

Really delighted to say that our article critiquing the Cass Review from Archaeological, Historical, Mythological, and Heresiological perspectives has been published in the Bulletin of Applied Transgender Studies. You can freely read it below 👇 bulletin.appliedtransstudies.org/article/5/1-...

As an academic, I have decided to pre-empt AI taking my job, so I am going to take ITS job! I am going to start hallucinating, lying to my students, and drinking 700,000 litres of water

This was always what was next. We know this, not because of any smug assumptions but because their strategizing is literally written down& sometimes on conference recordings. Never been secret. But the norm of extending credulity & pretending good faith where none is warranted has been a plague.

As an academic, I have decided to pre-empt AI taking my job, so I am going to take ITS job! I am going to start hallucinating, lying to my students, and drinking 700,000 litres of water

Well.

Looking for recommendations for the scariest / best horror podcast episodes, to make a mega playlist before spooky season hits If you have any suggestions please let me know! Stuff like Uncanny, Radio Rental - but the real standout episodes please!

Looking for recommendations for the scariest / best horror podcast episodes, to make a mega playlist before spooky season hits If you have any suggestions please let me know! Stuff like Uncanny, Radio Rental - but the real standout episodes please!

Amnesty International put out a major report documenting the influence of UK based anti trans gender critical organizations and their funding. Within hours, GC groups threatened defamation lawsuits and Amnesty was forced to pull it down. Proving the point they're anti rights. Anyways, here it is.

Britain’s biggest community solar farm forced to shut over grid overload fears. UK electricity privatised in 1990. National Grid paid £28bn in dividends since 1990. Still poor transmission and storage infrastructure. Yet record high prices and profiteering. Does anyone call companies to account?

🚨 48 HOURS LEFT 🚨 The mega-rich may gain an unrivaled level of access to MPs – and leave the average voter shut out. Support the annual cap on political donations https://goodlaw.social/1d328a

We deserve more than joyless survival.

It is my birthday tomorrow! My eyes are shit and I have had a shit year with ailments and fighting the DWP. I gig less because of this, and everything is expensive because of the blindness/shit hands. For my birthday, I would like money to survive another year of this. Help me make it to 40 easier.

If you're coming to Bristol Pride tomorrow, I will be speaking on the Main Stage at 5.10pm!

There's an OMB rule change that would require political oversight of scientific grants, and could pull any that don't "reflect presidential priorities" Another country has tried this before! It was the USSR and it was called Lysenkoism. By @thsaey.bsky.social www.sciencenews.org/article/omb-...

It's conference season, so I wanted to share the AI refusal statement I put at the end of my presentations and book talks. Feel free to use it!

I'm not 100%, but I think there's two problems with this: -GCism isn't grassroots. It's pretty clearly been dark money boosted. -I sincerely don't believe their infrastructure would function for anything pro-social. The vector of their 'peaking' worked because of the content, which was hate.

Anyone who's been to Law Literature and Humanities stream in recent years will know we run a faaaabulous session!

🎉Huge congratulations to @adamcrawford.bsky.social, who has received the @britishcriminology.bsky.social Outstanding Achievement Award at the @bsc2026conf-ntu.bsky.social! 👏 Read his acceptance speech👇

So: @drfoxpopuli.bsky.social and I are thinking of proposing a Law and Drag current topic for SLSA 2026 in Newcastle next year! The question is: who would be willing to join us...? Comment, DM, send to friends and foes, etc if interested or want to bounce ideas! @lawsadrag.bsky.social

Good morning. How are you? The weather's fine, the sky is blue: it's perfect for our seminar

i've never turned off anything quicker in my life. "Just because someone has chosen to share content publicly does not mean they have meaningfully consented to it being remixed, transformed or reused by AI systems." @legallyfeminist.bsky.social a how to for IG users: www.rnz.co.nz/news/busines...

ARTS NEWS: Inter Alia by Suzie Miller, starring Olivier award winning Rosamund Pike, is streaming in UK from today 👇 @nationaltheatre.org.uk; delighted that @jgreenwoodreeves.bsky.social will be reviewing for us; recent work by James G-Reeves aka Alice Aforethought includes … tinyurl.com/5bptu3fs

Last week, @drfoxpopuli.bsky.social and I presented our Law's a Drag papers at IVR 2026 at Kadir Has University, Istanbul. We talked about our cabarets, our analysis of the aesthetics of drag adjudication, and future projects! @lsjleeds.bsky.social @lawatleeds.bsky.social @lawsadrag.bsky.social

Hungary's public broadcaster admitting to having routinely delivered false news for years, and taking itself off air. One of the many extraordinary moments in post-Orbán Hungary, and a reminder to all those living under authoritarianism that the sun also rises.

Today’s free newsletter has a very simple message: The AI industry can not (and will not) be bailed out - AI is not too big to fail, OpenAI is not AIG, this is not 2008, and all of this is nothing like the Dot Com Bubble. And when it fails, we must let AI burn. www.wheresyoured.at/let-ai-burn/

Was delighted to speak at a conference on authoritarianism, the legal profession, and the Rule of Law at @lawatleeds.bsky.social today - during which, news re. both Farage and Le Pen dropped, mid-discussion. God I need a drink

"One Day in Manchester", a new report from Netpol, has found that Greater Manchester Police consistently used disproportionate and unnecessary force against antifascist protesters opposing Britain First’s national demonstration on Saturday 18th April 2026. netpol.org/2026/07/07/o...

One thing that I suspect is now going to happen is that universities will realise how many academics have been self-funding research when less of it starts to appear.

Labour wants growth! Without any investment in one of the only sectors to accelerate it! Which is collapsing! And nobody cares, because ever since Brexit, shitting on "the bourgeoisie" (aka 'woke' educated middle classes) has been treated as the only viable political position! We're so fucked!

Dr Derek Summerfield: "1,700 health professionals have been killed in Gaza.. a number are in prison.. they wanted to make an example of [Dr Hussam Abu Safiya].. he has clearly been under torture & starvation.. Israel has impunity, impunity is the key to understand these things"

'Academics fear they are being “set up to fail” after several institutions finished the academic year by announcing fresh job cuts, casting doubt over who will return after the summer break, and what courses they will be teaching.' 1/3

Believe Women is an epistemological stance. It doesn't mean you assume that every single woman is telling the truth and women never lie. It means you understand that in the system that we exist in, there's much more risk and pain for women coming forward about abuse than there is anything to gain.