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Bal Sokhi-Bulley

@balsokhi-b.bsky.social
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Human rights and critical legal theory at Sussex Law School www.sussex.ac.uk/profiles/395599

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Bal Sokhi-Bulley @balsokhi-b.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Excited for this conversation on my book in progress 🌸Radical Friendship: Human Rights as Ethical Practice🌸 funded by the Leverhulme Trust at SOAS @lawsocialchange.bsky.social this Thursday 21 May - join us!
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Bal Sokhi-Bulley @balsokhi-b.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
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Young lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18,457 children on Gaza’s list of war dead
Every name on a list compiled by health authorities in Gaza of the child victims of Israel’s offensive
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Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Today, after 14 years, I’m resigning from the Labour Party. Jeremy Corbyn and I will co-lead the founding of a new party, with other Independent MPs, campaigners and activists across the country. Join us. The time is now. Sign up here to stay updated: actionnetwork.org/forms/join-t...
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Nora Jaber @norajaber.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
My latest article is now out with @flsjournal.bsky.social - ‘Beyond international human rights: Islamic feminism as alternative rights praxis’. Available open access here: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Beyond International Human Rights: Islamic Feminism as Alternative Rights Praxis - Feminist Legal Studies
This article examines Islamic Feminism (IF) as an example of an alternative rights framework that falls beyond international human rights law (IHRL) in terms of its epistemic and conceptual grounding ...
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Michael Fakhri @michaelfakhri.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
My newest piece on how to end starvation and famine in Gaza. The UN General Assembly must authorize peacekeepers to accompany humanitarian convoys. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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If aid doesn’t enter Gaza now, 14,000 babies may die. UN peacekeepers must step in | Michael Fakhri
As a UN special rapporteur on the right to food, I have watched for 19 months as Israel starves children. The world must act now
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Bal Sokhi-Bulley @balsokhi-b.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Finally got round to reading this piece from @ntinatzouvala.bsky.social - brilliant.
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Senthorun S. Raj @senthorun.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
My book is published! It’s a critical take on how emotions shape conflicts about LGBT rights and repair in equality law, gender recognition, bans on conversion practices, and sex education in schools. You can download it free via @edinburghup.bsky.social: edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-the-emo...
Author wearing a rainbow dyed t-shirt takes a photo of them showing off their book, The Emotions of LGBT Rights and Reforms: Repairing Law.
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Bal Sokhi-Bulley @balsokhi-b.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
This time last week I was in Rovaniemi, Finland examining a spectacular PhD thesis on truth, power and the homosexual legal subject. It was a triumph and an experience! Congratulations Dr Iiris Tuominen and thank you for my karonkka (PhD party) invitation ✨🙏🏾🍾
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Melanie Richter-Montpetit @mellimo.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
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Bal Sokhi-Bulley @balsokhi-b.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
Eid Mubarak! ✨
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Bal Sokhi-Bulley @balsokhi-b.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
Eid Mubarak! ✨
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Bal Sokhi-Bulley @balsokhi-b.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
The Level, Brighton, earlier today 🇵🇸 ✊🏾
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Bal Sokhi-Bulley @balsokhi-b.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
This cause is close to my heart - please sign: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...
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Save Therapy for Vulnerable Children – Renew the Adoption & Special Guardianship Support Fund Now!
Thousands of vulnerable children are at risk of losing life-changing therapy because the Government has failed to commit to renewing the Adoption and Special Guardianship Support Fund (ASGSF) beyond M...
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Bal Sokhi-Bulley @balsokhi-b.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
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Bal Sokhi-Bulley @balsokhi-b.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Happy Holi! 🎨 ✨
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Bal Sokhi-Bulley @balsokhi-b.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
One world week day 4: Sip & Paint - Women’s Voices - what a fun, nourishing and empowering event hosted by Women in Law Society, Sussex Law 💖
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Bal Sokhi-Bulley @balsokhi-b.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
One world week day 4: Sip & Paint - Women’s Voices - what a fun, nourishing and empowering event hosted by Women in Law Society, Sussex Law 💖
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Bal Sokhi-Bulley @balsokhi-b.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Ramadan Mubarak! One World Week Day 3: absolute heaving scenes of joy and respect, there was mehndi, dates and daal!! Thank you Sabrina, Bee & our wonderful student community at Sussex Law/ Uni
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Bal Sokhi-Bulley @balsokhi-b.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Excited to launch our new project via this event for Law & Resistance Research Group Sussex Law… join me, my fabulous partner + chair Darcy Leigh and this brilliant panel NEXT WEEK to learn more about Rights & Resistance ‘After Liberalism’ criticallegalthinking.com/2025/03/10/c...
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Continuities of Liberalism and Fascism: Rights & Resistance 'After Liberalism'
You are warmly invited to join us for an interdisciplinary roundtable, ‘Continuities of Liberalism and Fascism: Rights ‘After Liberalism’, featuring
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Bal Sokhi-Bulley @balsokhi-b.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
One World Week Day 2: Dancing and Belonging - an empowering way of reclaiming the moot room with ballet + hip hop! Thank you Marica Moscati @queerjudgments.bsky.social Morgan and Jordyn, Sussex Dance Soc and Law Soc 🙏🏾💖 🦢
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Bal Sokhi-Bulley @balsokhi-b.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Lovely start to One World Week at Sussex Law School with Black Legacies Reading Circle + check out our Wall of Belonging and Ramadan Experience Wall ❤️💜💚
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Waqas Tufail @waqastufail.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Wishing a blessed Ramadan to all, but especially to my brothers and sisters in Palestine enduring hardship www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...
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Ramadan in Gaza: Ruins and unshakable faith
We have lost loved ones, homes, livelihoods, mosques, but our faith remains as strong as ever.
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Natalie Sedacca @nataliesedacca.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
‘This decision should have been a catalyst for action, prompting the UK to introduce a formal Gaza family reunification scheme for families such as mine. Instead, the govt seeks to shut down possibility of reuniting in safety, fuelling anti-Palestinian sentiment’ www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Human rights are not a ‘loophole’ – why can’t families from Gaza like mine seek safety in the UK? | Ghassan Ghaben
When another Palestinian family was allowed to stay here, I saw a glimmer of hope. Now the prime minister wants to put it out, says Ghassan Ghaben of Gaza Families Reunited
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folukeifejola @folukeifejola.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
"Classifications such as “migrant” or “refugee” do not represent social groups as much as they symbolize state-regulated relations of difference and state-manufactured conditions of vulnerability." www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...
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There Is No "Migrant Crisis" - Boston Review
The problem isn't new; it's the bordered logic of global apartheid itself.
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Lara Montesinos Coleman @laramonteco.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Critical Thinking published a fabulous symposium on my book Struggles for the Human with @dukepress.bsky.social and here's my response reflecting on the argument in relation to genocide in Palestine Thanks to Christine Schwöbel-Patel, @balsokhi-b.bsky.social and @illanwall.bsky.social
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Ben Whitham @drbenwhitham.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
I spent this week volunteering with @care4calais.org, working in their warehouse and distributing jumpers, sleeping bags, tarps, hot drinks and wellbeing services for refugees at camps in Calais and Dunkirk. They urgently need volunteers for early March. If you can, please consider signing up.
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Bal Sokhi-Bulley @balsokhi-b.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Exhausted, not even end of week 3, but then you revive cos your final years engage with your ideas on friendship as a radical critique of rights or - as Bill put it ‘fight and form friendship’ ✊🏾💖
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Queer Judgments Project @queerjudgments.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
We had an amazing time launching our edited collection in Brighton today! Thanks to everyone who joined us online or in person for this celebration. You can download the book on a pay what you feel basis (free if you need!) via our publisher: counterpress.org.uk/publications... #AcademicSky 🌈🎓
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Bal Sokhi-Bulley @balsokhi-b.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
This handsome most gorgeous man is 11 today 🎉✨🦴
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Bal Sokhi-Bulley @balsokhi-b.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
What a wonderful launch by wonderful people 💖 So inspiring to hear and see the ‘choreography of queering academia’, bravo comrades 🌈💜✊🏾 @senthorun.bsky.social @nunoferreira.bsky.social and my dear Marica Moscati 🩰
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Sumi Madhok @sumimadhok.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Just published 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14616742.2025.2455477
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Why Palestine is a feminist issue: a reckoning with Western feminism in a time of genocide
Published in International Feminist Journal of Politics (Ahead of Print, 2025)
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Bal Sokhi-Bulley @balsokhi-b.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
I work with these gorgeous humans! This is a hugely important project!! Respect and admiration - join us for the launch at Sussex Law this coming week💖🌈💜
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Ntina Tzouvala @ntinatzouvala.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
I have been having THOUGHTS and FEELINGS about the meaning and impact of the genocide in Gaza on international law as an academic discipline and area of practice and you can read them here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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International law as a discipline in crisis
One of the most influential international law articles of the past 20 years is entitled ‘International Law: A Discipline of Crisis’. Authored by Hilary Charlesworth in the aftermath of the NATO int...
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Senthorun S. Raj @senthorun.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
For the past few years, I’ve been working with scholars, lawyers, and activists from around the world on a project to re-imagine and re-write judgments from queer perspectives. It’s been a joy to see our first book come to life and we will launch it in Brighton (and online) next month. Join us! 🌈🎓
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Bal Sokhi-Bulley @balsokhi-b.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
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Bal Sokhi-Bulley @balsokhi-b.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
What do you even say anymore?!?! 🤷🏽‍♀️🤬 www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
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Trump orders US to stop Unrwa funding and withdraws from UN human rights council ahead of Netanyahu meeting – Middle East live
US president signs executive order to withdraw US from UN human rights council and prohibits future funding for UN agency for Palestinian refugees
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Ben Whitham @drbenwhitham.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Our statement on the bill introduced today. This bill only adds to the demonisation and criminalisation of people on the move, just months after the racist riots that saw people trying to burn down asylum hotels. The bill has "asylum" in its title but does nothing to help people seeking safety.
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Bal Sokhi-Bulley @balsokhi-b.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Looking forward and what a stellar line up! 🤩💅🏽 Thank you for the invitation to join the conversation #CritECHR @jtheilen.bsky.social @esrademir.bsky.social 🙏🏾✨
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Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
After 15 months of genocide in Gaza, a ceasefire has been declared — but the US, UK & others must be held accountable for arming these atrocities. We’ll keep speaking out until the siege lifts, aid flows, schools & hospitals are rebuilt, the Occupation ends & Palestine is free.
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Queer Judgments Project @queerjudgments.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
We’re thrilled to announce the first book launch for the Queer Judgments edited collection. It is a hybrid event that will take place at 5.30pm on Tuesday 11th February at the University of Sussex. You can attend online if you cannot make it in person. Please register using the link. 🌈🎓
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Queer Judgments Book Launch
Join us for the launch of the Queer Judgments Project's book, a global celebration of alternative ways of deciding on LGBTIQ+ cases!
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Jens Theilen @jtheilen.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
And while I’m posting about recent publications: I loved this special issue on “After Rights”, edited by Louiza Odysseos & Bal Sokhi-Bulley Lots of wonderful contributions critiquing and rethinking rights from many different directions. Very much recommended! www.tandfonline.com/toc/fjhr20/2...
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The International Journal of Human Rights
After Rights? Politics, Ethics, Aesthetics. Volume 28, Issue 8-9 of The International Journal of Human Rights
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Sumi Madhok @sumimadhok.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
Edward Said on intellectuals speaking ‘truth to power’ in ‘Nationalism, Human Rights, and Interpretation’, Oxford Amnesty Lectures, 1992. “For the Intellectual,to be “for” human rights means, in effect, to be willing to venture interpretations of those rights...of how they’re connected, involved..”
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Bal Sokhi-Bulley @balsokhi-b.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
Fave stocking filler ❤️🌶️🌶️
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Ben Whitham @drbenwhitham.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
"Israel has forcibly displaced 90% of Gaza’s 2.2 million inhabitants ... multiple times, into ever-shrinking, ever-changing pockets of land that lacked basic infrastructure, forcing people to live in conditions that exposed them to a slow and calculated death" www.amnesty.org.uk/genocide-rep...
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‘You Feel Like You Are Subhuman’: Israel’s Genocide Against Palestinians in Gaza
We are Amnesty International UK. We are ordinary people from across the world standing up for humanity and human rights.
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Bal Sokhi-Bulley @balsokhi-b.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Reflecting on the week and honestly the highlight was probably this mid-week lunch I grabbed from Nanima Asian kitchen in Kemptown #Brighton - gorgeous laksa, next time the keema pastries 😋
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Illan wall @illanwall.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Its been a busy few days, and I forgot to post about this brilliant piece by Christine Schwöbel Patel on Lara Montesinos Coleman's book Struggles for the Human (in @dukepress.bsky.social's awesome series Insurgent Legalities) criticallegalthinking.com/2024/12/04/s...
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Struggle as Co-Labouring, Con-Versing, and Con-Spiring
At the core of Struggles for the Human lies the struggle for human rights. Lara Montesinos Coleman dares ask the question that many a jaded
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Amnesty International UK @amnestyuk.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
📌 Tomorrow, UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese joins Amnesty International NI to discuss her latest report, Genocide as Colonial Erasure, where she examines the unfolding horrors in the occupied Palestinian territory. Join us for free 💻 : amn.st/6001tY7LN
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Bal Sokhi-Bulley @balsokhi-b.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
This week we did a class on rights and protest for the int human rights law module. So heartening to see our students so engaged with ways to think rights otherwise given the world we live in
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