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Dr SM Rodriguez (they/them)

@smrodriguez.bsky.social

Asst Prof of Gender, Rights and Human Rights @ LSE, Penal Abolitionist, Black disabled QT 🏳️‍⚧️🌍, Author of "The Economies of Queer Inclusion" | all views are my own www.smrodriguez.com

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Dr SM Rodriguez (they/them)@smrodriguez.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Happy #PrideMonth! This podcast was such a fantastic opportunity to review a decade of work to #queer liberation, especially as it speaks to racial justice around the world. Check it out now 🌈🌈 #pride #queertheory #justice #rights

lsegender@lsegender.bsky.social · 3mo ago

@smrodriguez.bsky.social featured on Runway to Feminist Justice podcast by The Feminist Centre for Racial Justice! Listen now 🎧 open.spotify.com/episode/1BpZ...

Rahul Rao@rahulraothariel.bsky.social · 5mo ago

if you work in a UK uni, drop everything and read this (not news to many of us, but sobering to have the dots joined up; the stories are outrageous and heartbreaking)

‘I see it as trafficking’: the brutal reality of life as a foreign student in the UK

The long read: Universities in Britain rely on overseas applicants paying full fees, which has given rise to some unscrupulous recruiters and left many hopefuls and their families deep in debt

theguardian.com

Carceral Abolition@carceralabolition.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Enforcing the “Unnatural Offence”: Sodomy Legislation and Anti-Queer Panoptic Policing in Uganda link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Enforcing the “Unnatural Offence”: Sodomy Legislation and Anti-Queer Panoptic Policing in Uganda - Feminist Legal Studies

This article investigates the impact of the widespread characterisation of sodomy laws as “unenforced” or “unenforceable,” arguing that this presumed inactivity is a political fiction that obscures th...

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Kamau Franklin @kamaufranklin.bsky.social · 7mo ago

On Feb. 4, 1999. Amadou Diallo an African immigrant was shot 19 times in a hail of 41 bullets by NYPD, claiming his wallet was a gun. As organizers we hit the streets. African, immigrant, Black (also African) & others, all knew it was the same system of oppression

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Brendan Davey@brendandavey.bsky.social · 9mo ago

The asylum-seeking process before Trump was unfair, confusing, and evil. Obviously, his administration has been committed to making it worse since day 1. But the sheer maliciousness behind each and every step they take to doom some of the most vulnerable people in the world is disgusting. 6/

Brendan Davey@brendandavey.bsky.social · 9mo ago

I witnessed this insanity today. 7 cases I observed in a row went as follows: 1) Russian Asylum Seeker > DHS Lawyer motioned to "pretermit" their case and send them to Uganda. 2) Pakistani Asylum Seeker > DHS Lawyer motioned to "pretermit" their case and send them to Uganda. 1/

Hell Gate *subscribe today!*@hellgatenyc.com · 9mo ago

NEW: The Trump administration is stepping up its battle against NYC's immigrants—stopping their asylum cases and instead filing motions to send them to other countries across the world. One Latin American woman was told this week she'd be sent to Uganda. hellgatenyc.com/trump-asylum...

Dominique Baker@bakerdphd.bsky.social · 8mo ago

"Seen from this vantage, Good’s killing is not a 'mistake' but a reflection of how the agency is designed to operate...Abolishing an agency that teargasses two-year-olds and shoots mothers in the street isn’t radical. It is basic human decency."

Victor Ray@victorerikray.bsky.social · 8mo ago

In the first of what's likely to be many collaborations with @hebagowayed.bsky.social (and my @us.theguardian.com debut) we argue that abolishing ICE would be a good start.

Victor Ray@victorerikray.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Black folks and immigrants have long lived in a "perogative state" when it comes to law enforcement, and maybe pundits at the largest national outlets should recognize that their past support for punitive policing and immigration enforcement laid the groundwork for the current moment.

Heba Gowayed هبة جويد@hebagowayed.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Today there was an attempted ICE raid in Bensonhurst & community members showed up. Even though NYPD collaborated with ICE by trying to disburse the crowd; community members stood their ground & ICE left without kidnapping a single person per the rapid response groups I'm on. We protect us!

Dominique Baker@bakerdphd.bsky.social · 10mo ago

I told profs at my phd program that I didn't want to work at an "R1" directly after grad because I cared deeply about teaching and was very concerned the incentives at certain institutions would push me to ignore my pedagogy practice in order to try and keep my job. Truly no regrets.

Dr SM Rodriguez (they/them)@smrodriguez.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Looking forward to presenting on this esteemed panel! The piece I'll present is queer & Black feminist sociolegal theory & has been on my mind for a really long time due to experiences I've had lately with the criminal justice and social welfare systems in Jamaica, as well as ethnography in Uganda.

lsegender@lsegender.bsky.social · 10mo ago

🧑‍⚖️ Join us on 18 November for a conversation with @sumimadhok.bsky.social, @smrodriguez.bsky.social, Prof Nicola Lacey and Prof Susanne Baer! 🥂 Drinks reception after the event! 🤝 Co-hosted with @lselaw.bsky.social www.lse.ac.uk/gender/event...

Dr SM Rodriguez (they/them)@smrodriguez.bsky.social · 11mo ago

📢📢 Job advert 📢📢 LSE is hiring an Assistant Prof in Criminology and Social Policy to begin in Sept 2026! 🎡✨ London is calling ✨🎡 Applications due 2 November 2025 @lsesocialpolicy.bsky.social jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

Assistant Professor

Assistant Professor, , <p style="text-align: center;"><em><span>LSE is committed to building a diverse, equitable and truly inclusive university</span></em></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><em><spa...

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Feminist Legal Studies@flsjournal.bsky.social · 12mo 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…
Dr SM Rodriguez (they/them)@smrodriguez.bsky.social · 11mo ago

What if queer justice isn’t about inclusion, but about fighting disposability and* dreaming otherwise? This piece joins African feminism, Black trans studies & diasporic queer theory to resist Africana epistemicide & the GRIM imaginary of human rights. Now out <3 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Respatialising the global imaginary of gay rights: resisting Africana epistemicide and forging Solidaristic Imaginaries

This article critiques the global imaginary of LGBTQ rights, arguing that dominant metrics of state-based human rights frameworks, what I term the Gay Rights International Movement (GRIM), reproduc...

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christopher griffin@chris-brighton.bsky.social · last yr.

My new article addresses the claim that the rights of trans women 'clash' with the rights of cis women. I examine the coloniality of the concept of rights underpinning this idea, exploring the erotics of sacrificial feminism and zero-sum politics in general... 🧵 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Dispossessive rights: coloniality and trans-exclusion in zero-sum politics

The idea that rights are possessions that are given and lost is so ubiquitous within the dominant discourse that its metaphoricity is forgotten. This amnesia naturalises possessive individualism, a...

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