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We might not be the people Sundaram and Kapur expected, but we are here, and the specter is upon us: what is the art history to come? Meghaa's latest on history, contradiction, postcolony, and the re(al)births of global modernism that await us. www.modernismmodernity.org/forums/posts...

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Notice how NBC News has reported the story just repeating the Rufo/Gabbard framing, and not even mentioning that all the fired employees are trans/queer. www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...

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Half of Black LGBTQ employees in the US have faced discrimination or harassment at work due to their LGBTQ status. williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/publications...

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LGBTQ federal workers say they're terrified they're about to be fired for their gender identity, sexual orientation, or past efforts to support other queer and trans employees—in other words, a second Lavender Scare. Honored to have their trust with this story: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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new @teenvogue.com: @brittneymac15.bsky.social digs into the details of Trump's exec order on trans youth healthcare. I checked with an @aclu.org senior attorney on what trans youth and their families should plan for. in short: no changes RN; stay on top of your healthcare; don't comply in advance.

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Hello, Bluesky! 👋 We’re new here. At the American Bar Foundation (ABF), we conduct research at the intersection of law and society. Let’s connect and dive into today’s most pressing issues. Learn more about our work here: www.americanbarfoundation.org

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Revisiting something I wrote earlier this year about the estranged transphobic father to fascist pipeline open.substack.com/pub/autonomy...

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With their new “Law and the Interloper” workshop series, longtime friends @swethaa.bsky.social and @suryaroy.bsky.social will “queer” law and society research by centering a multitude of marginalized perspectives. Read more here! bit.ly/3Bpn5Io #QueerTheory #LawAndSociety #LSAGrants

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In this chat w/ @lawandsociety.bsky.social , @suryaroy.bsky.social and I talk about the plans we have for our post-LSA'25 workshop, long-term friendships as method, and the space of the interloper to consider law and society research. (Thanks, Crissonna for the engagement!)

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I'm delighted to share this new publication which is the editorial introduction to a special issue: "Mobilising Queer Joy: Establishing Queer Joy Studies." Please share (the joy) and help us spread word of this new area of study. @queerjoylab.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Sometimes, but only sometimes, two wrongs can make a right. Based on an erroneous definition of transgender in a prior case, which was then codified, the Kerala High Court has found that intersex children cannot be subjected to surgeries based on parental consent alone. lawandsexuality.com

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On behalf of dozens of students, faculty, staff, community leaders, and partner organizations who comprise the Environmental Law Program @ucirvine.bsky.social School of Law, we are pleased to share our 2024 Annual Report. Here's to a momentous year ahead! myemail.constantcontact.com/Environmenta...

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Maryam Khan's latest on postcolonial state-making in South Asia and the unstable middles and alternative political possibilities that subsist in these contexts. Masterful complication of the "East-West symbiosis" in the Pakistani constitutional case. www.tandfonline.com/eprint/6EHC4...

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Path dependencies of scholar activist / activist scholars, intergenerational cleavages in conversation and movements, and the grace to sit with inconvenient facts when working with causes close to our heart. Brilliant start to Day 2 of this HKU + @lawandsociety.bsky.social conference.

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Grateful to Cynthia Farid, Yugank Goyal and Sergio Latorre for bringing together this community @ HKU to discuss scholar-activism and the nuanced majority world logics of knowledge production and collaboration.

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Big thanks to TSR for supporting @snehaannavarapu.bsky.social and me in organising the symposium — 'Movement in (Ethnographic) Method: Space, Time and Theory'. Call for participants will be out soon! Also, do not miss the promising keynote lectures by Nayanika Mathur and @asiyaislam.bsky.social

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Thanks to everyone who came to this today. The questions helped me reassess my own prefigurative priors re: methods and vulnerability. For those who missed it, the conversation drew from this (open source!) chapter in the Massoud+Chua book re: sociolegal methods - www.cambridge.org/core/books/o...

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What does #LawAndSociety scholarship look like when approached from marginalized perspectives on the “periphery”? Join the conversation—apply for Law and the Interloper: #QueerTheory in Global Law and Society Scholarship by 12/15! adobe.ly/3Uqi1cN @swethaa.bsky.social @suryaroy.bsky.social

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Had a truly generative time at the ABF thinking in community about my next project on queerness and everyday macro-(non)aggressions. Thank you to all who came and engaged with such generosity. 🥲 Next stop: NYC to talk about how this relates to law, humor and identity w/these awesome humans:

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"Taking Kurdish queer struggles seriously can similarly “unflatten” our analyses of social and political dynamics at a local level"

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Moving this from X to here - reminder that Black feminist theory summer institute applications are open. Details here: gendersexualityfeminist.duke.edu/black-femini...

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For those of us who think about the institutional life of women's/gender/sexuality studies, this is interesting (and, I think, sad) news: news.ucsc.edu/2024/11/femi...

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Advanced doctoral students, early career faculty, and recent J.D.s: Doing work in legal history, broadly defined? Apply for the 2025 Hurst Institute in Legal History, a two week workshop and seminar in June. Deadline 1/15/25. More info: www.law.wisc.edu/hurst-instit...

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How have issue linkages featured in the framing of a transnational labour mobility regime? TWAIL-ing the Global Compact for Migration, I attempt to answer this question. Read the full article on @TWAILReview here bit.ly/4htIboW

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In the Zong case the court heard how people had been thrown overboard to drown for an insurance claim. "The judges took their decisions on a technical point of evidence...nobody concerned in the case made any objection to slavery as a matter of principle." www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/403...

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Workshop applications are still open for “Law and the Interloper: Queer Theory in Critical Global Law and Society Scholarship”! Apply before December 15th: adobe.ly/3Uqi1cN @swethaa.bsky.social @suryaroy.bsky.social #QueerTheory #LawAndSociety #AccessToJustice

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Hello, legal ed scholars! Here's my starter pack of folks studying legal education (broadly defined). Happy to add to it. go.bsky.app/JdGzRAP

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Melbourne friends: Delighted to share that my lecture-performance ‘Much to do with Law, but More to do with Love’ has been shortlisted for the Midsumma Queer Playwrighting Showcase. Catch me along with these other exciting new shows at Gasworks Theatre in 2025! www.midsumma.org.au/whats-on/eve...

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Excited to be presenting (my first) keynote address at the Melbourne Doctoral Forum on Legal Theory this week! Even more excited that what I’ll be presenting is a chapter (co- authored with @crisveijk.bsky.social) from the exciting new books I co-edited with @pagingdrpaige.bsky.social!

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IT'S LAUNCH DAY! I'm thrilled to present our LSSSE Annual Report, "Twenty Years of LSSSE: Sharing Trends in Legal Education," which tracks patterns in legal ed on everything from diversity to debt, from learning outcomes to student satisfaction. Take a peek 👇 lssse.indiana.edu/annual-resul...

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Ack, I think I made the start of one (but it only includes people i know already are on here, so please @ me if you would like to be added) - go.bsky.app/BViLYTV

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Nice to see my primary intellectual home and incubator here. Time to start a starter pack for LSA scholars (on it as soon as I figure out what a starter pack is/does 😂)

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Looking forward to being in Chicago next week at the American Bar Foundation. I'll be presenting work on nonbinary identity navigation in the legal profession + a case for doing socio-legal research with a queer theory & CRT - "queerCRT" - lens. www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/speake...

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I really enjoyed writing this chapter on vulnerability and methods for Massoud and Chua's book Out of Place (CUP'24). But when I wrote the piece, I couldn't have imagined this kind of engagement - thank you, David + SLR! www.sociolegalreview.com/post/out-of-...

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