One way to understand the nature of legal work is to ask how the jurist becomes oriented towards their materials. What draws us in or excites us, what leaves us unmoved or repels us - (1/n)

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Excited to kick off a month long fellowship at the EUI in Florence with this workshop around my forthcoming book. Say hi if you’re around!

Last month, we Iaunched Queer Judgments in Melbourne alongside two other fantastic books on queer law edited by @pagingdrpaige.bsky.social & @claerwen.bsky.social. We had a lovely chat/performance about our books with @dansheikh.bsky.social, @juliadehm.bsky.social, Di Otto & Sarah Ward. Listen here:

Queer Connections: A Triple Book Launch

The Institute for International Law and the Humanities at Melbourne Law School was pleased to host a triple book launch to celebrate and draw out the connections between three recent edited volumes fo

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This Friday, to mark IDAHOBIT, IILAH is hosting a screening of CALL HER GANDA at Melbourne Law School from 2-5pm. The screening will be followed by a discussion with Sanam Amin, chaired by Di Otto. Register here: www.eventbrite.com.au/e/film-scree... For more about the film: www.callherganda.com

Have had the most joyful time exploring how the lecture-performance might reshape how we teach, feel, and think about law. Last week I shared ‘Much to do with Law, but More to do with Love’ at the narrm ngarrgu library: part queer legal history, part personal storytelling, part staged feeling.

A queer delight to celebrate queer legal scholarship today in Melbourne & launch our family of books: Queer Judgments, Queer Engagements with International Law, & Queer Encounters with International Law. @claerwen.bsky.social @senthorun.bsky.social @juliadehm.bsky.social @dansheikh.bsky.social 🌈🎓

Join @senthorun.bsky.social, @claerwen.bsky.social, @dansheikh.bsky.social, @juliadehm.bsky.social, Di Otto and others in Melbourne on Thursday (1st May) for some critical reflections and celebrations of queer legal scholarship. Join us in person or online: events.unimelb.edu.au/IILAH/event/... 🌈🎓

Senthorun S. Raj@senthorun.bsky.social · last yr.

Given recent legal shittyness, I’m glad I’ll be in Melbourne in a few weeks to join queer, trans legal scholars who are imagining how we might use/disrupt law in affirming ways. We’ll talk about the challenges of queer legal work and share queer joy with cabaret. Join us (online or in person)! 🌈🎓

Think I’m on to something here …

Rankings are foolish and meaningless unless I agree with them (which in this case I largely do): www.vulture.com/article/best...

Every Studio Ghibli Film, Ranked

The animation powerhouse behind some of the best films ever made is back with The Boy and the Heron.

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CLS friends - this is going to be a great event - Anderson's article in Theater Journal is terrific. muse.jhu.edu/article/8457... Ping @henriquecarvalho.bsky.social @illanwall.bsky.social @dansheikh.bsky.social

Quorum@qmulquorum.bsky.social · last yr.

Tickets now available for Patrick Anderson's presentation "Ephemeral Terror: Policing and Performance Theory", 19 March 6PM: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/patrick-an...

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

Queer Judgments Project@queerjudgments.bsky.social · last yr.

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...

Thrilled to share that my play “Much to do with Law, but More to do with Love” has won the 2025 Queer Playwriting Award presented by Midsumma Festival. So excited for the chance to travel and share this work with a wider range of audiences.

V. much enjoying this year’s birthday gift from my partner.

📚 I'm excited to share that my book, 'Refugee Displacement, Disability, and Human Rights: The Production, Processing, and Power of Data', is now accessible through libraries with institutional access to Taylor & Francis eBooks! 📚

The second is the call for streams for next years Critical legal conference. For those who don't know the conference, it is a really lovely welcoming space, all critical (broadly conceived) ideas welcome: criticallegalthinking.com/2025/02/04/c...

CLC 2025 University of Exeter

Following the theme, Surf ‘n’ Turf: Critical Laws of the Land and Sea, the Critical Legal Conference (CLC) 2025 at the University of Exeter offers an

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Illan wall@illanwall.bsky.social · last yr.

Two really important pieces on CLT this week. The first from @aycacu.bsky.social on 'Responsibility Under Genocide' using Arendt to explore the question of how we live alongside the genocide in Gaza: criticallegalthinking.com/2025/02/03/a...

Question for readers of queer theory: what is the single most purely enjoyable text you have encountered? I’m thinking of work that is both generative but also a joy to read. (Also acknowledging that my answer to this question changes on a weekly basis)

Cobbling together my *second* Taylor Swift paper of the year for the Law, Literature and Humanities Association meeting in Hong Kong.

My favourite show of the last 5 years, and one of my favourite books of all time.

Emily St. James@emilystjams.bsky.social · 2y ago

Apropos of absolutely nothing, a good holiday watch this year would be the Station Eleven miniseries (on Max in the States). Moving and surprisingly life-affirming, I promise it’s not just about a deadly pandemic.

Last year, I was invited to speak at the Swiss Institute of Feminist Legal Research and Gender Law about my work exploring the emotional dynamics of teaching LGBT rights in law schools (based in the UK). My paper has just been published in their collection. DM for a copy if interested. 🌈🎓

New paper out today: 'Law and the Environment: An Act of Legal Kintsugi?' From me, @cristyclark.bsky.social #katieobryan #alessandropelizzon & #johnpage DM me for a copy if you can't access it. www.euppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.3...

Law and the Environment: An Act of Legal Kintsugi? | Legalities

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La Trobe Law School is hiring! Two Level B positions, check out details below (along with a picture of my lunch spot if you needed any additional reasons to apply): careers.pageuppeople.com/533/caw/en/j... careers.pageuppeople.com/533/caw/en/j...

Fun thread and Williams’ article is my go to pick as well!

James Gilchrist Stewart@jgstewart.bsky.social · 2y ago

Patricia Williams in the Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review from 1987. Citation in Alt Text

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...

“The power of identity politics doesn’t lie in balkanisation … but in precisely what its contemporary adoption seeks to prevent: the recognition that the common enemy is the way in which society itself is designed.” Exactly. See also the Combahee River Collective: www.blackpast.org/african-amer...

(1977) The Combahee River Collective Statement •

We are a collective of Black feminists who have been meeting together since 1974. [1] During that time we have been involved in the process of defining and clarifying our politics, while at the same t...

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Nesrine Malik@nesrinemalik.bsky.social · 2y ago

'The readiness to repudiate identity politics & group them under “bad woke” is less about policy and more about the fact that social justice never really found a home amongst liberals, who were happy to capture its energy but not its demands.' The week's column www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

For years, I’ve had dinner table rants about why lawyers - and everyone who cares about justice in relation to storytelling - should listen to Taylor Swift. Now I also have an article to go with it: t.co/df4xIVtqoF

Call for abstracts: Law and Humanities Roundtable 2025: Jane Austen's Legal World, convened by Rebecca Probert (P.J.Probert@exeter.ac.uk) @uniofexeter.bsky.social July 11! Abstracts invited by Feb 11 for paper presentations on any aspect of law in Austen's novels. Details: tinyurl.com/y92375f8

It’s been a pleasure to be one of the co-curators of the Queer Judgments Project (@queerjudgments.bsky.social) and to be able to collaborate with fabulous folks from around the world. If you’re a scholar/activist/creative type interested in queer legal issues, please consider joining our network! 🌈🎓

Queer Judgments Project@queerjudgments.bsky.social · 2y ago

The Queer Judgments Project has just joined Bluesky. We are a group of scholars, lawyers, activists, and creatives interested in re-imagining and re-creating judgments from queer and other critical perspectives. Consider joining us! And please share with your networks! www.queerjudgments.org

Had a ball delivering the keynote today at the Melbourne Doctoral Forum on Legal Theory!

Dawning realisation about writing, more than a year out from finishing my PhD: it’s never going to be easy, at least not if it’s also going to be good. It might get easier with practice, maybe, but each new piece comes with its unique set of seemingly insurmountable psychic challenges. Oh well.