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We are a collective of scholars, lawyers, activists, and creatives who are interested in re-imagining and re-creating judgments from queer and other critical perspectives. https://www.queerjudgments.org/
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For LGBT History Month, our co-editors wrote a blog reflecting on how the Queer Judgments Project re-imagines and re-writes cases to better support LGBT people who seek asylum and same-sex couples who migrate. blogs.sussex.ac.uk/sussex-centr... 🌈🎓 #LGBTHistoryMonth #AcademicSky #LawSky

Queer Judgments @queerjudgments.bsky.social is timely and "brings together [folx] who are interested in improving and challenging the law and its application to make life better for [LGBTIQ] and other minoritized people and communities." counterpress.org.uk/publications...

We are looking forward to hosting our next book launch at the City University of Hong Kong on 14th March. Please join us if you are around!

“The argument is not just that trans youth should not access hormones or surgeries, but that trans youth should not in any way be recognized in public space or even supported privately at school.” We must refuse to comply with a politics of intimidation that seeks to shun and erase trans people.

We love to see it! 🌈🎓

We had an amazing time launching our edited collection in Brighton today! Thanks to everyone who joined us online or in person for this celebration. You can download the book on a pay what you feel basis (free if you need!) via our publisher: counterpress.org.uk/publications... #AcademicSky 🌈🎓

It was lovely to attend the launch online tonight! 🌈🎓

We like to do law fabulously! 🌈🎓 💖📚

We had an amazing time launching our edited collection in Brighton today! Thanks to everyone who joined us online or in person for this celebration. You can download the book on a pay what you feel basis (free if you need!) via our publisher: counterpress.org.uk/publications... #AcademicSky 🌈🎓

Sparkling ready for the launch of our new book! counterpress.org.uk/publications... 📕✨ 🌈🎓

I work with these gorgeous humans! This is a hugely important project!! Respect and admiration - join us for the launch at Sussex Law this coming week💖🌈💜

We’re thrilled to announce the first book launch for the Queer Judgments edited collection. It is a hybrid event that will take place at 5.30pm on Tuesday 11th February at the University of Sussex. You can attend online if you cannot make it in person. Please register using the link. 🌈🎓

Congrats to @senthorun.bsky.social and everyone who worked on this - very excited to read it!!

The first book launch of Queer Judgments will take place in Brighton (UK) on Tuesday 11th February at 5.30pm. It’s a hybrid event, so you can join us online if you cannot make it in person. Please register here for a free ticket: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/queer-judg... 🌈🎓 #AcademicSky

Check out @apowelllaw.bsky.social’s great contribution to our collection. counterpress.org.uk/publications...

Thrilled that our rewritten version of the High Court's Norrie judgment has been published in the exciting 'Queer Judgments' collection! A huge thanks to my co-authors @odettemazel.bsky.social and Dianne Otto and to the editors, Nuno Ferreira, Maria Federica Moscati and @senthorun.bsky.social!

Queer Judgments brings together scholars, lawyers, and activists to re-imagine and re-write legal judgments that relate to LGBTQ+ folk. It’s been a labour of love and community. We hope our book energises pursuits for justice! Download a copy here: counterpress.org.uk/publications... #AcademicSky

Brillant to see @queerjudgments.bsky.social published! Congratulations!!!!

Lovely to see Queer Judgments published! The collection features contributions from some of our amazing editorial team too. Check it out.

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...

It's #LGBTHistoryMonth here in the UK, so what better time to crack open a book and read up on some queer history? From essays about how queer media shaped the world, to section 28, the aids epidemic and even the history of poppers, it's time to add some non-fiction to your TBR and get reading.

Today is the start of LGBT History Month in the UK. It’s tempting to imagine our history as one of linear progress but recent events remind us that progress is precarious. We struggle for recognition daily in a world that politicises us “ideology.” But our existence is our resistance. We persist. 🌈🎓

The fabulous @lovedayh.bsky.social is giving a lecture on queer engagements with international law later this month (26th Feb) at the University of Leicester. You can register for a free ticket here: www.tickettailor.com/events/cssah... 🌈🎓

Recent political attention might imply gender-affirming care is risky, controversial, perhaps even new. But Australian law views it as a legitimate medical treatment.

Super excited to announce the launch of the Gender + Sexuality Data Lab, a new data initiative at the University of Edinburgh exploring how data is reshaping the fight for LGBTQ equalities in the UK and around the world. 📊 gensexdatalab.com

As an editor of FLS, it was a delight to read this paper. It engages with rich Indigenous, trans and feminist scholarship to compellingly show why prison abolition is key for trans liberation and Indigenous sovereignty. Incarceration is an ongoing strategy of colonial governance for us to resist. 🌈🎓

“Many male MPs conveniently put the burden of safeguarding culture and religion on women and their bodies, nobody actually bothered to consider what the party of concern (women themselves) want regarding their bodily rights and autonomy.” Fixing women to their biology is sexist. We must resist it.

FYI: @amnestyuk.bsky.social has launched an online course for folks who want to learn more about feminist and queer approaches to gender justice. It explores connections between human rights struggles (abortion, trans care, LGBT education, etc) and provides tools for action. It’s free to access! 🌈🎓

This is a great collection, with a few chapters written by contributors to the Queer Judgments Project. Check it out!

Migrants are enduring hostile politics. In the UK, a bureaucracy designed to curb refugee claims has painful consequences for people, especially LGBTQ+ people who have to overcome ridiculous hurdles to prove their identity. I’ve written more about this here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... 🌈🎓

Nurture that heart.

@drfoxpopuli.bsky.social and I wrote a paper on RuPaul's Drag Race as a legal system! We talk about legal rules, principles and aesthetics in RPDR, using queer theory to critique the show. It's just been published (open access) - read it here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

We’re very excited that our first edited collection (published with Counterpress) is almost out! We have a fantastic collection of re-imagined judgments covering topics like sexual freedom, bodily autonomy, family, healthcare, community, migration, and much more. counterpress.org.uk/publications...

So exited to be speaking at this launch. The Edited Collection brings together 26 examples of alternative judgment writing drawing on queer theoretical perspectives to challenge the normativities of legal decision-making. looking forward to being at the University of Sussex on the 11th!

For the past few years, I’ve been working with scholars, lawyers, and activists from around the world on a project to re-imagine and re-write judgments from queer perspectives. It’s been a joy to see our first book come to life and we will launch it in Brighton (and online) next month. Join us! 🌈🎓

eeeeeeeeeeeeee... very excited!

We’re thrilled to announce the first book launch for the Queer Judgments edited collection. It is a hybrid event that will take place at 5.30pm on Tuesday 11th February at the University of Sussex. You can attend online if you cannot make it in person. Please register using the link. 🌈🎓

Launching Queer Encounters and Queer Engagements with International Law at Deakin Downtown. Wonderful talks from Di Otto, Gina Heathcote, Wayne Morgan, and @sophiejrigney.bsky.social

Sharing for new friends on #Bluesky: reconciliationsyllabus.wordpress.com/about/ a clearinghouse of ways that legal educators have taken steps to bring the work of the #TRC into their classrooms. Check it out and please consider writing a post on things tried. #ReconciliationSyllabus

It isn’t racism to point out that another country has laws criminalising homosexuality or that it enables violence against women. It is racist, however, if you only “care” about these issues when you want to vilify migrants from that country while excusing homophobia and misogyny closer to home. 🌈🎓

As everyone should know by now, the anti-trans rhetoric isn’t about “protecting women” in bathrooms or sports … but about removing trans people from public life. And it’s working. This is a big company, making a big change that isn’t about protecting anyone (except men from having to see tampons).

I’m genuinely at a loss for words - Katherine Franke is as brilliant as she is principled and her being forced out of a tenured position for her position on Gaza and student protests feels like a gut punch to whatever remains of academic freedom in the US.

Happy New Year! For those of you doing critical feminist socio-legal research this year, please consider submitting your work to Feminist Legal Studies. We are interested in critical, interdisciplinary, rigorous scholarship in both traditional scholarly (articles) and creative formats (reflections).

Friends! If you are in Melbs on 15 January, come along to this symposium to launch Queer Encounters and Queer Engagements with International Law. These books too a mammoth effort to make and I'm indebted to my friend @claerwen.bsky.social. Come celebrate them www.eventbrite.com.au/e/symposium-...

Octavia Butler couldn’t see the future. She saw what was happening in front of her and, in addition to studying the past, was able to imagine where it would lead. It’s important to tell the truth about her because mythologizing her is a disservice to her legacy.

This is our ethos. 💖

Working this energy in 2025. 🌈🎓

Happy New Queer!

I’ve said it before, I’ll repeat it now: whether you think a person “chooses” to be gay is irrelevant to whether you respect our existence. Our rights as gay people to live safely, pursue intimacy, create families, and build communities shouldn’t depend on if you believe we’re “born this way.” 🌈🎓