Last night, Law's a Drag held its first ever CABARET! We mixed lip syncs, comedy, and dance with a Q&A on the For Woman Scotland UKSC judgment, providing info about how it will affect equality law, and the lives of drag artists, and trans, nonbinary, intersex, and cis people in the UK 🏳️‍⚧️🌈🏳️‍🌈💖🎉🥰💋

Delighted that the summer I turned into a doctor is leading into the Autumn I started my new role as a Law Lecturer at Manchester Law School Excited to be joining a faculty of such brilliant, vibrant, creative academics 🥳

I acquired some vintage index card drawers to house my academic reading notes and this brings me more happiness than I care to admit

"I study feminist theories of embodiment" is OUT. "I'm a femininomenonologist ✨️💅" is IN.

a woman wearing a headband and earrings smiles with the words it 's gonna be gaggy behind her

ALT: a woman wearing a headband and earrings smiles with the words it 's gonna be gaggy behind her

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Law's a Drag@lawsadrag.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Join us for our CABARET! Our drag artists will be performing in response to the For Women Scotland judgment Raising awareness, fundraising for trand rights advocacy, sharing legal info, and having a camp old time 7pm, 28th September, Wharf Chambers, Leeds www.eventbookings.com/b/event/law-...

Punishment based writing buddy system - if either of us miss a day we have to eat a raw egg (this is medically ill-advised please don’t copy me)

Sascha Stronach🏳️‍⚧️, The Sunforge out now@understatesmen.bsky.social · last yr.

Alright, share your terrible writing tips that actually work. Mine is: stop for the day in the middle of a paragraph, a sentence, even in the middle of a word. It feels SO wrong but it makes it 1000x easier to pick up the thread the next day.

Whenever I’m asked to explain phenomenology

Hadas Weiss@hadas.bsky.social · last yr.

how it feels to be asked about your research

We are witnessing an ongoing genocide in Gaza and those who speak out against Israel’s violent actions in Palestine are sanctioned. It’s perverse (not to mention illegal) for countries to enable the perpetrators of genocide while punishing those who oppose it.

US sanctions UN expert Francesca Albanese, critic of Israel's Gaza offensive

Secretary of State Marco Rubio linked the move to her support for the International Criminal Court (ICC).

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Cayley "began receiving anonymous, threatening phone calls saying “you’re in a very dangerous position”. And last summer, the 🇳🇱 police & security services turned up at the court to warn that he was in considerable danger." Must-read article on why Cayley quit the #ICC. observer.co.uk/news/interna...

Threat of US sanctions over Gaza forced me out, says ICC ...

Andrew Cayley oversaw the ICC’s investigation into Israel and Hamas. As he gathered harrowing testimonies, he began to receive threatening phone calls

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Am I correct in understanding that the story in the UK today is that someone chose to chant "death to IDF" and *not* that the IDF is shooting civilians trying to access food at aid distribution sites? Right.

Over the weekend @benedictdouglas.bsky.social and I were lucky enough to run an amazing zine making session at the East Midlands NEU Activist Summer School Throughout the day we reflected on our role in addressing the rise of the right & its corrosion of our democracies 👇🏼Link to our zine below

It's your last chance to respond to the EHRC consultation. It closes at 11.59pm tomorrow. Get it done tonight. Tell them about the personal impact. Better to do something short and quick than not at all. Don't let them claim we didn't tell them.

Delighted to have been shortlisted for a Durham teaching innovation award and even more delighted that my supervisor @profturner.bsky.social won the excellence in supervision category 🥳 Durham Law School represented well with Catherine, myself and Can Eken (shortlisted for tutor of the year) 🎊🎉🍾

Issue #0 of Being Trans in Philosophy zine is out now! “We Are Not Trans in a Theoretical Way”. Download & print ur own 🖨️. being.transinphilosophy.org #beingtransinphilosophy #trans #philosophy #gender #feminism #zine #diy

The EHRC's lawyers admitted its position re. toilets adopted in its interim update (specifically mandating employers to have single-sex toilets instead of individual gender neutral cubicles) was wrong. We think they're even more wrong still, though.

Art was never my thing. But, a fabulous teach out at Newcastle today with Rebecca Coleman. Thinking about utopias, new materialism, materials and some Utopian Zine Making!

In today’s episode, Alice and Fox share some highlights from recent @lawsadrag.bsky.social activities! 🌈✨ From research papers on RuPaul’s Drag Race to Forum Theatre sessions, catch up on what the network has been up to. Want more?🔽 tinyurl.com/mffdpvaa #AcademicSky #LawSky #LawsADrag

Yearly reminder that pride is not just a nice little parade, it is grounded in resistance to oppression. This is especially important to remember this month, when in the UK and the US, our trans siblings are under threat. Their ability to enter public spaces on equal terms is being threatened; 1/

The UK must meet its fundamental international legal obligations, before it's too late www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

UK must impose sanctions on Israel to meet legal obligations, say more than 800 lawyers

Exclusive: Letter to PM signed by retired supreme court justices among others says lack of action will imperil international legal system

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Spent last week visiting Pompeii and Herculaneum - there were so many amazing things to see

Spent last week visiting Pompeii and Herculaneum - there were so many amazing things to see

I made a slideshow for my cat sitters with all the important (and not so important) info about my cat. This is my favourite slide

This goes not just for Zack, but for everyone: stop being squeamish about saying 'trans.' It's the trans community specifically under attack right now and a trans councillor who's had to resign because of that. Don't 'all lives matter' it. Say trans.

Zack Polanski@zackpolanski.bsky.social · last yr.

Huge solidarity with Dylan. Everyone deserves the right to live peacefully and our LGBTIQA+ community are far too often under attack. This Labour Party are failing to stand up for basic human rights. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

I spent the day doing research (reading queer & feminist zones) at the Baltic in Newcastle. It was pretty great

Last month, @lawsadrag.bsky.social hosted a Forum Theatre and Research Principles Lab. The day fostered meaningful discussions and creative exchanges, contributing to the ongoing development of ethical research practices within the field. Read more!👇 tinyurl.com/4erscev6 @joytwemlow.bsky.social

A group of us law academics put together a letter on FWS v Scottish Ministers UK Supreme Court ruling & we are asking other *UK based law folk* (academic activist practitioner etc) to sign More details 👇 #transrights #trans #transgender #lawsky #academicsky #UKlaw docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

A Law Letter on FWS v Scottish Ministers

A coalition of legal academics have drafted a letter setting out our support for trans rights and our concerns about the FWS v Scottish Ministers UKSC ruling. We are opening it up for signature to ev...

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Things you can do to help trans people in the UK right now: - Donate to the Good Law Project - Write to your MP (www.translegalproject.org/post/urgent-...) - Contact the EHRC and explain why their guidance is rubbish - Publicly, visibly and vocally support trans people