We have also written a detailed legal explainer about why we think the code of practice gets the law wrong.

How the Code of Practice gets the law wrong | Good Law Project

We’re supporting a legal challenge against the government’s transphobic statutory guidance – here’s why

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Fight back against the code of practice

The government’s transphobic code of practice is now up and running. But we’re not going to take it, we’re helping to fight back. Join us

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I have a chapter setting out a decolonial feminist approach to violence against animals in this newly published Research Handbook on Gender, Violence and Law, edited by Nikki Godden-Rasul and Sidonia Lucia Kula www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/res...

Research Handbook on Gender, Violence and Law

This Research Handbook rigorously explores how law responds to gender and violence, how law (re)produces gender and violence, and how law is gendered and violent. It analyses various legal systems, in...

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I am SO excited about the new essay we're publishing this Friday (for free!). If you have Thoughts about The Bride!, and other versions of Frankenstein's bride, I think you're going to Be Intrigued...

If you teach or are interested in international human rights law, check out the fully open-access textbook put together by my wonderful colleagues, with a couple of contributions from me!

University of Leeds - School of Law@lawatleeds.bsky.social · last wk.

The newly published ‘Open Access International Human Rights Law,’ is the culmination of a huge, award-winning collaboration between academics, post-graduate researchers, LLM and undergraduate students at the School of Law. The book is accessible to all and free of charge. 👇 tinyurl.com/4rbpuvhz

"Human Rights are supposed to be universal, we believe knowledge and understanding of them should be universal too!" - Associate Professor Stuart Wallace The new textbook 'Open Access International Human Rights Law' has been published!👇 tinyurl.com/4h26x826

Open Access International Human Rights Law

<p><em>Open Access International Human Rights Law</em> provides an accessible and comprehensive introduction to the principles, institutions and substantive protections that underpin international hum...

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As an academic, I have decided to pre-empt AI taking my job, so I am going to take ITS job! I am going to start hallucinating, lying to my students, and drinking 700,000 litres of water

I've an essay in the latest issue of Uncanny Magazine! Doctor Who in an Exciting Adventure with AI Slop, 1969 AD. www.uncannymagazine.com/article/doct...

Doctor Who in an Exciting Adventure with AI Slop 1969 AD - Uncanny Magazine

One of the joys of Doctor Who is when decades after first broadcast, a story’s themes are suddenly painfully relevant again, and you can marvel at the timelessness of the world’s greatest Science Fict...

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Strange Horizons 2027 Fundraiser

The annual Strange Horizons fundraiser! Support this free, online, award-winning, weekly magazine of SFFH, which runs entirely on reader - YOUR - donations!

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The Strange Horizons annual fund-drive is now live! Support us to continue publishing free, weekly, online SFFH fiction, poetry, art, and non-fiction for our 27th year! www.backerkit.com/c/users/3516... For new supporters - welcome aboard. For the regulars - you’ll notice something different. 🧵

I agree with all the takes about an attack on the humanities being an attack on critical thinking, &c. It’s also about joy, though. ‘Why bother studying that’ is always also a sneer at — why do you think you should get to do something you enjoy? Grow up and be miserable all the time!

📝 Call for Papers! Comics Forum, the amazing Leeds-based comics academic conference, has announced its theme for this year; Welfare! The conference will take place on 12-13 November 2026 at Leeds Central Library (UK) as part of Thought Bubble Festival.

I have a new open-access article on abortion rights protest out in a special issue of ZaöRV on Protest and International Law, which was 2.5 years in the making! www.inlibra.com/de/document/...

Zeitschrift für ausländisches öffentliches Recht und Völkerrecht / Heidelberg Journal of International Law

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I just went to see Supergirl, and I loved it, for the reasons that Chanda Prescod-Weinstein writes here. It's also a really good adaptation of Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow, imo. news.chanda.science/archive/you-...

You should go see Supergirl

It's pop art that is unapologetically political.

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If you read a review of Supergirl that doesn’t mention “misogyny“ or “sexual violence” or a synonym for at least one of these things, then you’re probably reading a reviewer who didn’t get it and doesn’t understand the seriousness of misogyny as galactic villainy

Very thankful for this letter to Becky Pepper-Jackson (the 16 year-old trans girl SCOTUS ruled against yesterday) from James Dale, a gay man whose expulsion from the Boy Scouts was upheld by the Supreme Court in 2000.

To the Trans Girl Who Just Lost at the Supreme Court: So Did I 26 Years Ago

A letter to Becky Pepper Jackson about her trans sports case defeat at SCOTUS yesterday

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Research is a core part of the work of universities, just as teaching is, and it's about time we stopped making out it's a 'treat' or a 'hobby'.

Len Scales.bsky.social@lenscales.bsky.social · last mo.

Difficult 'even' to thrive as a teaching institution: research is the seedbed of university teaching, in humanities no less than science. So blindingly obvious it shouldn't need saying. Astonishing, depressing, and self-destructive when those at the top treat humanities research as a 'nice to have'.

More than 500 mothers and babies died or were harmed at ‘toxic’ Nottingham NHS trust, report finds

More than 500 mothers and babies died or were harmed at ‘toxic’ Nottingham NHS trust, report finds

Donna Ockenden inquiry finds ‘bullying’ culture and ‘cruel’, dismissive attitude to women contributed to avoidable deaths * Ockenden report: latest updates * Maternity care scandal review: what are the key findings? * ‘Truly horrific’: five stories from the NHS maternity scandal More than 500 mothers and babies came to harm or died as a result of inadequate care in Nottingham, an inquiry into the NHS’s biggest ever maternity scandal has revealed. A total of 444 women and 76 newborn babies suffered “potentially avoidable” outcomes because they received substandard treatment over 13 years from Nottingham University hospitals NHS trust (NUH), a damning report led by the childbirth expert Donna Ockenden has found. Continue reading...

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‘Johnson was never going to give any of the Filton Four a sentence of only eighteen months. Not because of the criminal damage offence the jury had convicted them all of, but because of a decision he had made eight months before the first trial began.’ New on the blog: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ju...

Nicholas Reed Langen | Legislative Sleight of Hand

Every white Serco prison van that drove into Woolwich Crown Court on Friday morning was met with a cacophony of cheers,...

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15. A gov's decision to proscribe MAKES the actions of otherwise peaceful protesters terroristic / violent. This is the power of the state: to define what is criminal, or violent, or terroristic. Someone holding a cardboard sign BECOMES a criminal terrorist. But the public then react to this choice.

On Palestine Action appeal (gov. winning, PA remains proscribed terrorist org): 🧵 1. IMO we all knew the "purpose of the policy is to limit use of discretion" point was paper thin 2. IMO we all knew that if that failed, the proportionality point was also weak www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/u...

But that is exactly how the suffragettes operated. With a nationwide organisation of sleeper cells of arsonists and bombers. I’m gratefully people have reached out and referenced my work today. I remain (I believe) the only academic expert on the terrorism of the suffragettes. Links below:

Roland Smith@rolandmcs.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Strong statement from the Court of Appeal re Palestine Action. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The episode of BUFFY where Willow accidentally unleashes a demon on the internet and it has access to all digital information but is a liar and seduces her by engaging in romantic chats where it agrees with her about everything hits a little differently now.

It's been extremely easy these past couple of days to criticise Americans talking about Belfast for knowing all of fuck all about the Troubles. But to be totally fair to them they also didn't teach us shit about it in school in England either, which is worse in every way.

BBC: “So what advice did David Hockney give to you?” BBC Guest: “Fuck everyone.”

Here is what Justice Sotomayor wrote when SCOTUS allowed Alabama to gas a man to death last year www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

There are people all across Belfast helping relocate people, get them food, clothes, meds and more. You will likely never hear about them on the news. But they are many. And *they* are Belfast.

Article from 2025: “41% of 899 people arrested for taking part in the violent disorder [in summer 2024] had been reported for crimes associated with intimate partner violence.” www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Two in five arrested for last summer’s UK riots had been reported for domestic abuse

Police data indicates overlaps between public violent disorder and domestic violence and abuse

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That’s how you frame this. It’s not complicated. Masked men did a racist pogrom against people of colour in Belfast. That’s what happened. bsky.app/profile/sidd...

Siddhartha Mitter@siddharthamitter.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The FT, right to the point. www.ft.com/content/bbdf...

The scenes in Belfast last night were disgraceful. Families were targeted because of their skin colour or country of origin, leaving people frightened, homeless and fearing for their safety. The actions of one individual must never be used to stigmatise an entire community, nationality or faith.