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Justin Winchester

@justinrw.bsky.social

DPhil candidate @oxfordlawfac.bsky.social — @rhodeshouse.ox.ac.uk scholar 🇿🇦 — researching (in)equality, poverty, & human rights duties — Blog editor @oxhrh.bsky.social

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Alejandra Caraballo@esqueer.net · 4w ago

A trans woman was arrested in the UK for posting on Bluesky “I hope she was handcuffed to the bed as she screamed in agony." This was a reference to comments made by Widdecombe when she was prisons minister where she supported the handcuffing of Incarcerated pregnant women giving birth.

The National@scotnational.bsky.social · 4w ago

BREAKING: A staff member at the University of Aberdeen has been charged after posting online about the death of Ann Widdecombe More to follow

Feminist Legal Studies@flsjournal.bsky.social · 10mo ago

We are still open to submissions for our upcoming special issue, “Feminist Responses to the Regression of Trans Rights: Strategies, Alliances, Hope.” Please share this call for papers with anyone you think interested. The deadline for abstracts is Friday 31st October. 🏳️‍⚧️

Feminist Legal Studies@flsjournal.bsky.social · 11mo ago

📣🏳️‍⚧️ Call for Papers We are inviting papers for our special issue, “Feminist Responses to the Regression of Trans Rights: Strategies, Alliances, Hope.” The issue will be dedicated to trans-inclusive feminist legal analysis that addresses attacks on trans rights & lives. Details below. Please share.

Call for Papers: Special Issue of Feminist Legal Studies Feminist Responses to the Regression of Trans Rights: Strategies, Alliances, Hope Amidst continuing backlash against trans rights, recognition and inclusion, two recent decisions from the UK have substantially impacted not only trans people’s legal status but also legal and social narratives of sex, gender and identity. The narrative that trans inclusion has a chilling effect on the rights of others, particularly women, has been adopted uncritically by both the UK Supreme Court in For Women Scotland and the Office for Students in its finding that the University of Sussex’s trans-inclusion policy had a chilling effect on free speech. These cases highlight a backlash that has been ongoing for some time, and sparks debates and fear of what may lie in the near future for trans people and kin, as well as other gender-variant persons, not only in the UK, but across jurisdictions and in a global perspective. The discourse of the ‘gender critical’ movement is splintering both the feminist and LGBT+ movements globally, with some aligning politically with the Far- and Christian Right against trans rights, adopting their terminology of ‘gender ideology’ and potentially posing a wider threat to sexual and reproductive rights. While this a difficult situation for trans people, kin and allies, this special issue seeks to emphasise that legal battles – including battles (temporarily) lost – are also an opportunity to seek to reinforce old alliances and to form new ones, to find new legal frontiers and imaginaries, to reinforce the theoretical and methodological underpinnings of legal arguments as well as intergenerational memory of what feminist legal work is, has been and should be about. How, we ask, do these decisions (and those like them globally) reflect and reproduce structures of coloniality, heteronormativity and cisnormativity? What do these decisions add to critiques of legal feminism? What would be construct…
Pop Crave@popcrave.com · last yr.

A Saint Lucia court has struck down a law that criminalized same-sex relations. Previously, same-sex activity was punishable with up to 10 years in prison.

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Dr Amy Kavanagh@blondehistorian.bsky.social · last yr.

I want to talk about disability & boundaries. Last week I was being assisted by staff at a train station. We entered a lift, staff told me there was another dog in the lift & I said that was no problem. Guide Dog Ava was a little sniffy & interested in the dog, so I gave the "leave it" command 1/

Tax Justice Network@taxjustice.net · last yr.

🚨Who owns an AI-controlled company? AI may soon create & run companies with no human involved. This raises urgent questions for transparency, accountability & #BeneficialOwnership laws. Explore how rules must evolve 👉 bit.ly/4djoHBG...

When AI runs a company, who is the beneficial owner? - Tax Justice Network

AI is likely being used to help register new companies and make company decisions, creating new challenges for beneficial ownership transparency

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Jason Brickhill@jason-brickhill.bsky.social · last yr.

Judgment in IEJ case striking down the 🇿🇦 social relief of distress grant regulations, ordering the state to progressively increase the grant value & means threshold & remove barriers to access affecting millions of people, available 👇 www.saflii.org/za/cases/ZAG...

Institute for Economic Justice and Another v Minister of Social Development and Others (071891/2023) [2025] ZAGPPHC 29 (23 January 2025)

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Institute of Development Studies (IDS)@ids.ac.uk · last yr.

Unequal access to food - not food shortages - is the cause of #hunger in South Africa, say researchers, including IDS researcher Stephen Devereux. They argue that the government must deliver on the constitutional right to food and explain how 👇 www.ids.ac.uk/opinions/15-... #FoodSecurity #G20

15 million South Africans don’t get enough to eat every day: 4 solutions - Institute of Development Studies

At least 15 million South Africans suffer from food insecurity. That means they don’t have enough nutritious food to live healthy lives.

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Oxfam GB@oxfamgb.bsky.social · 2y ago

Renewed fighting around the city of Goma and across North Kivu in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has displaced hundreds of thousands of people. Without adequate access to water and basic resources, the risk of disease, is a threat. A donation can help our teams respond: bit.ly/DRC__Appeal

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