Our lives shall not be sweated from birth until life closes; Hearts starve as well as bodies; give us Bread, but give us Roses 🌹 youtu.be/ftVpyoSUpt8?...

🔈Join us for "21st-Century US: A Historical Assessment" U Paris Cité, Nov 20&21! Organized by @tamaraboussac.bsky.social @hbouvard.bsky.social & Anne Légier, supported by @echelles-umr8264.bsky.social @chcscuvsq.bsky.social @institutdesameriques.fr @mondesamericains.ehess.fr @parissaclay.bsky.social

Obligatory "first week of work" post: I'm settled into my new role teaching at Oxford, and it's just as lovely as it sounds 🍂

The Council of Europe’s Committee of Ministers has adopted a groundbreaking recommendation to the organisation’s 46 member states on equal rights for intersex persons👇 🔗 www.coe.int/en/web/porta... @coe.int #Consent #Equality #NoDiscrimination

If you're in Paris next month, please come to our book event at Sciences Po! We have an amazing international panel of editors, authors, and civil society reps who will discuss what feminist theory can offer the International Criminal Court 👩‍⚖️

“This, today, is not the end” Are these in absentia hearings against #Kony a new beginning? An end? Something else entirely? Yesterday these long-awaited, unprecedented hearings were adjourned. I watched & reflected on time, audience, #history, & #justice. lucygaynor.substack.com/p/this-today...

I've been doing a lot of immigration stuff recently & my small act of resistance has been trying to smile despite the "no smiling" rule. Here's my latest success:

A few thoughts about the SV allegations at the Intl Criminal Court:

I logged onto Etsy for the first time in a while & their "recommended for you" algorithm seems to have a very specific idea about my interests...

Quick weekend trip to the French Alps. Beautiful views & a lot of hills to climb! ⛰️

Today, in the databases of #justice: Ah, the "much-awaited [REDACTED]" which "confirm [REDACTED] particularly in the [REDACTED]. The life of trial (half)observation(?)

I just finished "Babel" by RF Kuang and cannot recommend it enough. Get yourself a copy! Assign it in your politics classes!

Really vibing with this article from E. Tendayi Achiume: "The Postcolonial Case for Rethinking Borders" www.dissentmagazine.org/article/the-...

I'm a big fan of Pride here in France. There's basically no corporate sponsorship & you can join the parade for as long as you want, wave signs, then go cool off in a café with lovely people. Happy Pride! 🌈🥰✊

Castration — both reversible and permanent — does lead to the reduction of testosterone and a diminished libido. But “there is literally no evidence that testosterone is the driving factor of individuals committing crimes of a sexual nature,” said a senior analyst with the Sentencing Project.

FYI - I'm speaking to the @ibvprev.bsky.social Atrocity Prevention Knowledge Exchange on 24 June (2:30pmGMT or 9:30EST) Topic: how legal, medical, & diplomatic practices determine who is/isn't counted as a victim of conflict-related sexual violence RVSP to [email protected] !

Gloria Anzaldúa, "Borderlands" (re: Los Angeles protests) ✊

The semester is ending here in Paris & I'm looking back on what worked best. In case anyone needs some syllabus help or summer reading, here are a few great readings from my IR/history course on "War and Peace" 🕊️

During and after today's hailstorm in Paris. Almost every surface is covered in melting ice and broken branches!

Currently starstruck listening to this queer law book event in Melbourne. It's such a power move to get some of the coolest & smartest people all in one room to launch THREE books. Congrats to @senthorun.bsky.social, @claerwen.bsky.social, @dsheikh.bsky.social, @juliadehm.bsky.social, etc! 🌈

I'm happy to announce that I made it through an entire lecture on transgender politics without ONCE referencing that one Emilia Perez song. Please clap.

Hey hi, your friendly reminder than doom posting or scrolling, cynic posting, will rot your brain and kill your capacity for hope What have you done today to do the opposite? Rest? Build community? Mutual aid? Check in with someone? Set an app timer?

Important 2025 update: Mumford & Sons can still make white people dance with their banjo music (I am white people) 🪕🥳

My very talented friend is finally releasing her masterpiece! Don't miss out!

Last day! Send us your best ideas! ✨

A behind-the-scenes view of today's job interview staging 🥳 (We really need more books in this apartment)

Important things to consider when choosing where to attend grad school: 💜 Color of the graduation robes 🎓 Floppiness of the hat 🥳 Excellence of the other PhD students Thanks @lseir.bsky.social!

Day 3 of my French "integration" course, with a reminder of what happens when feminist policy ideas are implemented by balding low-level bureaucrats: "A woman can refuse to have sex with her husband! That's her right! It's probably because she's probably having sex with 2-3 men on the side!"

Day 2 of my French "integration" courses & the theme this week seems to be: "If you make a mistake, we'll take away your children." Your children are sick? They can be taken away. You're not taking your children to school? Or they're not getting a secular education? They can be taken away.

I'm attending my first "civic integration" course today so I can extend my visa in France, and let me tell you, it's the most French thing I've ever experienced Vaguely racist? Yes. An outsized view of France's role in world politics? Also yes. But more than anything it's perfectly INEFFICIENT

Hello new followers! One day I'll get back to posting here, but for now I'm swamped with never-ending job applications, each of which requires 10+ hours of unpaid work But if you want to hire me, please reach out! I'll do international law or politics, or bake bread, or clean your yard! etc etc...

My partner's book is out today, and I'd like to publicly take credit for designing the amazing cover with my excellent artistic skills (1st picture) Luckily @silverbd.bsky.social was there to translate my nonsense into ✨ART✨ (2nd picture) Full thread in French: x.com/HugoBouvard/...

It's the first day of a new semester here in Paris & I didn't realize that the Paralympic bike route would interrupt my commute Not the worst detour though! 🇫🇷

Proud of how productive we've been this year! (Hugo edited the book; I grew the plants!)

I bought tickets to this concert months ago without realizing that it's 5 hours long 😬😬😬😬😬

Open letter about amending the crime of "apartheid" to include gender, and signed by a who's who of international law & global feminism! Gloria Steinem, Hillary Clinton, Fatou Bensouda, Navi Pillay, and many more: endgenderapartheid.today/legal-brief....

Just used this!

Getting back into Steve Reich's music as I finish my dissertation & this interpretation is so good: youtu.be/i36Qhn7NhoA?...

Some days he sleeps for hours and some days he won't shut up until I hold him like this. Definitely makes writing complicated but being a parent is worth it

Still figuring out what I want to use this app for, so until then I'm just going to post songs I'm enjoying! https://youtu.be/-auMY71v5cs (Just saw them last night, so I'm still riding the serotonin wave)