Profile avatar
alonso-gd.bsky.social
Fellow in Human Rights at LSE Sociology. Blogs at Opinio Juris. Follow me on Twitch/Youtube. Views Personal. English / Español / Português
1,339 posts 12,808 followers 422 following
Prolific Poster
Conversation Starter

It’s so bonkers that UK law now recognises such a contested category as “biological sex”, as if this were somehow objective, but then defines it essentially as “sex assigned at birth”, so entirely based on subjective perception. It rly does feel like the goal is to enable the insecurities of bigots

Falei com a @folha.com acerca do asilo concedido pelo Brasil à ex primeira dama do Peru www1.folha.uol.com.br/mundo/2025/0...

I found this explainer of the UKSC’s recent decision re “what is a woman” very useful, if, frankly, demoralising. Turns out it’s not just now lawful to exclude trans women from women spaces, it is also lawful to exclude trans men that look too much like men. The full erasure of trans people

My analysis of today's UK Supreme Court judgment. The UK Supreme Court Rules That Trans Women Aren't Women Under the Equality Act 2010 www.wearequeeraf.com/uk-supreme-c...

He of course means racist white Americans inciting racial hatred in Europe, not racialised Americans protesting genocide in Europe. Because, boys and girls, say it with me: IT WAS ALWAYS ABOUT RACISM

I just spent an hour watching/commenting a UNGA debate on my Twitch and I’m sort of very surprised that a whole 42 people just like… watched it with me. Who says people are not interested in international law 😦

How bleak. This flies in the face of decades of work on gender theory - which apparently no one bothered to check. Solidarity with trans people today. It is not right. It’s messed up.

In class we often discuss how human rights are defined by more than the articles of a human rights treaty; how their meaning is often constructed by those who encounter or wield them, often without even invoking them. Sometimes “human rights” is locking hands with your community around a van.

1. O PT da dinheiro ilícito ao então candidato Ollanta Humala e sua esposa, Nadine 2. Eles são condenados a 15 anos por lavagem de dinheiro por esses pagos 3. Nadine foge à Embaixada brasileira 4. Lula outorga-lhe asilo diplomático (que não cabe no casso!) Gente… pode ser mais óbvio?

O Brasil destruindo as suas relações com o Perú em 3…2…1…

Ah yes. Another step towards the UK-EU Totally-Not-Membership-In-The-EU Framework for the Dynamization of Industry and Efficient Trade Optimization & Other Technocratically Sounding Names Treaty

2 minutes into The Last of Us Season 2 and I already think they botched it lol The game is simply un-adaptable

Isso aqui se chama execução extrajudicial. Criminoso não perde o seu direito à vida, a ser prendido e julgado, dependendo do modo de transporte que escolhe para fugir da justiça

The level of propaganda in display here… what these numbers indicate is that the fascists apprehend a lower percentage of undocumented immigrants than Biden did, meaning they are worse at fascism than Biden, not that less people are attempting to cross 🤦🏻‍♂️

Slapping an “AI” next to your expertise as the only way to finding a permanent academic job in the UK rn 😆

I find myself thinking of this exchange often these days

Suella Braverman announces that the racists are right: she's not English. And neither are those who have her same backstory Marco Rubio accepts power to enforce the racists' plans to deport his own people from the US. The racialised urge to pass as white defining the great oppressions of the 2020s

(Yes, Marco Rubio, in Spanish, means "Mark the Blonde One")

Marco Rubio, a US Latino, being the one leading the persecution of Latin Americans in the US, is a gut punch. But that "Rubio" means "the Blonde one" is the peak of irony, considering the thirst for belonging in white America is what is driving his blonde dictatorship wannabe role

The post👇🏽 has received enthusiastic engagement; > 400 reposts/likes etc across all three platforms- Tw, IG & Bsky. My posts on Palestine were being shunned on Tw; I don't have a huge following on IG. The point being: People across (my?) world wish to end genocide & bring perpetrators to book.

This may seem silly in light of the atrocities committed against him, but it is what I can do to humanise him: In Latin naming practices, Abrego García (yes it carries an accent) is not a compound last name, it’s 2 different ones. His short name is Kilmar Abrego (forename, paternal last name)

First they came for Mahmoud Khalil, and I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t a pro-Palestine student. Then they came for Kilmar Abrego, and I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t an undocumented immigrant. We are on the third verse of the Niemöller poem of our age. Think about that for a second

Gonna be watching this like a hawk on Weds and will also blog if I can.

I’m an anti-interventionist, so I’m not suggesting use of force is the answer here, but this is so on point. 200 years of doing whatever the hell it wants in the region and it is now, of all times, when it goes “oh but I couldn’t possibly infringe on their sovereignty! It’s too sacred!” 🙄

Sue, sue, sue and then sue some more

I hate that people call him by his last names alone - Abrego García. Almost as if his identity as a human being is only allowed to exist as far as the judicial case allows it. He has a name. His name is Kilmar. Free Kilmar from the torture camp you put him in

The Trump government’s utter destruction of Kilmar’s life project is reason enough to impeach him and put them all in jail

We’re looking for Assistant Editors. Come join the @opiniojuris.bsky.social team! opiniojuris.org/2025/04/14/c...

It's Jim Crow. And that's why Black folks have been telling you "this isn't who we are!" is a bold faced lie. This is exactly who this country has been to everyone at some point EXCEPT straight white men. The ONLY group to never have to fight for their rights is now "fighting back" against equality.

It’s frankly fascinating to see Douglas Murray complain that not-experts should not speak con Churchill considering how much he talks about colonialism - a topic he’s not an expert on.

Everything about Trump 2 is worse, even the spineless collaborationist comedian whitewashing stunt. Jimmy Fallon’s tussling of the hair was pathetic but omg Bill Maher is just cringe

I admit I am frustrated that it is taking too many Scaramuccis for them to have ego fights and start purging themselves from power