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Davide Tomaselli

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Queering EU law with a PhD @eui-law.bsky.social

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EUI Queer and Feminist Studies Working Group @eui-qfg.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
🦄🔔Attention queers🦄🔔 Queer fragments is starting today in Florence! ⚜️⚜️ We're so excited to welcome all our amazing speakers, the programme is packed and enticing! Join online here if you're interested! 💻 www.eui.eu/events?id=58...
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Davide Tomaselli @evadimus.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Our joyful and enraged called to action reached so many people, and we're beyond excited to finally host some of them in Florence. Looking forward to these two days of queer engagemens. Find here to link to follow the works!
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EUI Queer and Feminist Studies Working Group @eui-qfg.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Members of our working group too took to the streets in Florence for International Women's Day 2026: EUI is transfeminist! 🦾🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️💅
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EUI Queer and Feminist Studies Working Group @eui-qfg.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
🌟EVENT ALERT🌟 On 12 Februray we're hosting @albertonicotina.bsky.social to present his book "Lidia Poet e le prime avvocate". We will discuss it with @martinicogi.bsky.social and Sara Molinari (@eui-law.bsky.social), both in Villa Salviati and online. Registere here: www.eui.eu/events?id=58...
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Lidia Poët e le prime avvocate Alberto Nicòtina - Bollati Boringhieri
Torino, aprile 1884: la Corte di Cassazione nega alla ventottenne valdese Lidia Poët il diritto di esercitare la professione di avvocato perché donna. Sul momento, la vicenda sembra destinata all’obli...
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EUI Queer and Feminist Studies Working Group @eui-qfg.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
🧚🏽🧚🏽 EVENT ALERT 🧚🏽🧚🏽 Tomorrow, we will host @frammaturo.bsky.social in Palazzo Buontalenti to discuss her latest book, "The Politics of Pride Events"! Join us on premise or online, registration is available here: www.eui.eu/events?id=58... Looking forward to the juicy discussions!! 💥💅🏽
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Pride events: between the global and the local
In this event, Dr. Francesca Romana Ammaturo will be discussing her recently published book titled
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EUI Queer and Feminist Studies Working Group @eui-qfg.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
‼️Deadline approaching‼️ One week left to apply for the Queer Fragments Conference! 💥🌟 The great proposals we received made us even more eager to collect more to make this conference, as we promised, joyfully and enragedly queer. Find more detailed info on the application process in the CfP! 🦄💅
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EUI Queer and Feminist Studies Working Group @eui-qfg.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
💥Extension announcement!💥 New deadline for proposals: 30 January (thanks so much to everyone who submitted amazing abstracts already!). New notification of acceptance: 27 February. In the meantime, we are happy to announce our confirmed keynotes: Mahdi Baraghithi and Anna Borgos! 💅🏽✨
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Mónica Morado Vázquez @monicamoradov.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
Still a couple weeks to apply for this amazing conference that can take you to Florence next June! 💥
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EUI Queer and Feminist Studies Working Group @eui-qfg.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
"Fatti più in là. Storie e lotte queer in Toscana dal 1969 a oggi" opens this Saturday, 29 November 2025 (6 p.m.), in Carrara 📍🏳️‍🌈 All the details are available here: www.facebook.com/profile.php?...
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Davide Tomaselli @evadimus.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
TDoR is a day to remember, mourn, and honour all the trans* lives lost to violence, hatred, and discrimination. Today, it is also a day to turn anger into fighting, and remembrance into love and care. Trans* lives matter: there can be no queer liberation if trans* people are left behind
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Davide Tomaselli @evadimus.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
In these daunting times, we invite participants to question implied wholes; to disrupt narratives while celebrating addenda, palimpsests; to ask, once again, why are queer lives made dispensable, unlivable. See you in Villa Salviati to turn our fragmented selves into sources of transformation 🦾💥
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Davide Tomaselli @evadimus.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
We'll host scholars, activists, artists, and practitioners in Florence to come together, think, and act starting from fragments as sources and inspirations; fragmenting as an instance of deconstruction and radical imagination; fragmentation as a posture to think through reality and practice change.
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Davide Tomaselli @evadimus.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
🦄QUEER ALERT💅 So happy to see this CfP out! Witnessing this conference come to light has been amazing. There is still so much to do, but I can't wait to meet the great people and ideas that will come around! There's time until 9 January to submit for QUEER FRAGMENTS: BREAKING, REPARING, TRANSFORMING
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EUI Queer and Feminist Studies Working Group @eui-qfg.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
The EUI PalestineWG successfully raised €30,000 to get Dr Wail Badah and his family out of Gaza. The fundraiser now aims for a new target of €55,000 to support 10 Gaza-based scholars too. We have five days left! Please donate and circulate if you can: chuffed.org/project/supp... #Gaza#Education
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Alice Fill @alicefill.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Excited to present Digital Patrolling this Monday 27 Oct, 12:00 at UniFi! Many thanks to Prof. Veronica Federico for the invitation. Honoured to have Prof. Francesca Biondi Dal Monte and Davide Tomaselli as discussants. If you would like to join, let me know! ✨
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EUI Queer and Feminist Studies Working Group @eui-qfg.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
🦄Queer Alert🦄 The EUI Queer and Feminist Studies Working Group, together with Storie di sessualità e genere from Università di Padova, is organising a two-day "InterQueer" workshop in Padova, on 29-30 January 2026. 👉Find the call for papers here: gender.eui.eu/wp-content/u...
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Davide Tomaselli @evadimus.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
This is why I cannot see my scholarly role complete without political engagement: be it within my institution, fighting for #grantequality, or outside, engaging, in recent times in particular, with movements supporting the liberation of #Palestine. I am curious to hear your thoughts on this!
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Davide Tomaselli @evadimus.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
I also reflected on the responsibilities that this privilege bears too. I do not believe that academia should aim for axiological neutrality: the knowledge we produce is irreducibly political, and so are the infrastructures, resources, and processes we build on to produce it.
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Davide Tomaselli @evadimus.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
I also had the opportunity to reflect on my experience at the @eui-law.bsky.social. I am very aware of the great privilege I benefit from by spending my time here as a researcher and by witnessing, daily, how knowledge is (or should at least) materially produced: in collaboration and in solidarity.
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Davide Tomaselli @evadimus.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
An example? When it comes to migration and asylum law, a (critical) queer legal scholar would rather fight for the abolition of borders than advocate for a multiplication of the existing categories populating a fundamentally unjust, violent, and racist border management system.
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Davide Tomaselli @evadimus.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
I argue that it is not enough to do research "about" LGBT people in order to be a queer scholar. Queer legal scholarship is about reflecting on our positioning, reassessing our epistemology and methodology, embracing the radical implications of critique, and taking a bold political stance.
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Davide Tomaselli @evadimus.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
During the conversation Marilea and I had, I shared my thoughts on what it means to take a queer and critical approach to migration and asylum law, and, more broadly, what it means to be queer and critical while doing (legal) research.
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Davide Tomaselli @evadimus.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
I am grateful to the @eui-eu.bsky.social, the Research Communications team, and especially Marilea Poppa for granting me the opportunity to speak about my ongoing PhD research! www.eui.eu/news-hub?id=...
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Deconstructing EU law through a queer lens: a conversation with Davide Tomaselli
In this interview, EUI Law researcher Davide Tomaselli explores European asylum law through a queer perspective Drawing on legal practice and political theory
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Davide Tomaselli @evadimus.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Starting the new academic year as a co-coordinator of the @eui-qfg.bsky.social! Exciting times and events ahead, stay tuned 🦄
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Davide Tomaselli @evadimus.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
I am curious and excited to hear what you think about this! In the meantime, a heartfelt thank you to all the people I encountered in these two years who were patient and kind enough to dedicate some of their time to discussing these topics with me: I owe you inspiration and motivation!
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Davide Tomaselli @evadimus.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
This grim conclusion, and the cogent call it extends to scholars inviting their critical engagement with questions of power within the law, still inspires my research, continuing now with my PhD project developing a #queer critique of EU law.
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Davide Tomaselli @evadimus.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
It is in this framework, then, that SOGIESC asylum can be understood as a new weapon in the arsenal of racist border politics: LGBTIQ+ rights discourses turn #homonationalist to justify, yet again, why certain people can be recklessly excluded.
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Davide Tomaselli @evadimus.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Reading classic themes of refugee law such as #discretion and #credibility through this lens, I show that the law of international protection cannot do without politics: its very functioning depends on othering processes.
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Davide Tomaselli @evadimus.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
By reviewing case law and scholarship in international refugee law, and particularly focusing on European asylum and migration law, I claim that the case of #SOGIESC asylum actually provides a tool to deconstruct the very foundation of refugehood: the binary between forced and voluntary movements.
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Davide Tomaselli @evadimus.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
At the same time, a new minority has obtained recognition in the international refugee law forum: asylum seekers claiming protection from persecution on the ground of their sexual orientation and gender identity. I basically ask: is someone paying the price of this evolution?
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Davide Tomaselli @evadimus.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
In this article, I ask the unsettling question of the politics of #asylum for #LGBTIQ+ people. Recent decades have witnessed an increasing tightening and violent governance of #borders supported by uncensored and often unrecognised racist, dehumanising discourses.
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Davide Tomaselli @evadimus.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
I started working on it as an LLM student at @uvalawschool.bsky.social and I submitted it as a PhD Researcher at the @eui-eu.bsky.social. It is for me a great satisfaction to see how dedication and patience, nurtured by passionate academic discussions, can really turn into public paper.
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Davide Tomaselli @evadimus.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
I am genuinely happy to share that my first big publication is now available online! "'Forced' Refugees versus 'Voluntary' Migrants" is the result of two years of research, writing, reflection, discussion, rethinking. Now I can't wait to debate it!
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‘Forced’ Refugees versus ‘Voluntary’ Migrants: Deconstructing a Binary through SOGIESC Claims of Asylum
Abstract. This article addresses the consequences that SOGIESC claims of asylum have on international refugee law and its fundamental distinction between ‘
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Davide Tomaselli @evadimus.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Considering how EU values played a central role in these "feminist" cases and how they're increasingly called for by EU institutions themselves, see the pending Commission v Hungary case, we think it's high time we took the critique of the legal politics of values seriously.
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Davide Tomaselli @evadimus.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
While this jurisprudential turn was mainly welcomed as good feminist news, we suggest that the way we gain wins for women and other oppressed groups is still dependent on problematic othering dynamics.
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Davide Tomaselli @evadimus.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Happy to see this piece published on @verfassungsblog.de! Together with Narin Nosrati we felt the need to reflect about the way we, as European legal scholars, interpreted the evolution of the CJEU's position in some gender-based asylum cases from last year. verfassungsblog.de/ecj-western-...
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Whose Values?
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Davide Tomaselli @evadimus.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Thanks to the @eui-history.bsky.social for the administrative work and to the EUI Queer and Feminist WG, especially Georgia-Taygeti Katakou, the EUI Constitutional Law and Politics WG, and the EUI Fundamental Rights WG for the organisational support. I hope to see many of you on the 14th of March!
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Davide Tomaselli @evadimus.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
The event will be held only on-premise to support respectful and enriching debate, while many amazing discussants from the @eui-law.bsky.social will help to trigger discussions (thanks in advance to Gráinne De Búrca, Silvia Suteu, @biljanak.bsky.social, Feifei Shen, and Emilia Vrahimi).
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Davide Tomaselli @evadimus.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
After many weeks spent organising this, I am so happy to finally extend the invitation to participate to all those who believe that the necessity to talk about this topic grows by the hour simply because, at the end of the day, the law is a big determinant of the livability of our lives.
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Davide Tomaselli @evadimus.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Registration is now open for this event on gender diversity in public law with Stefano Osella at the @eui-eu.bsky.social. www.eui.eu/events?id=57...
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Gender diversity in public law
This workshop is co-convened by the Queer and Feminist Studies Working Group, Human and Fundamental Rights Working Group, and Constitutional Law and Politics Working Group, and is dedicated to Stefano...
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Davide Tomaselli @evadimus.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
It was a true pleasure to engage with Janna's great work and I hope that the review shows how important this piece of research was for me and for my own understanding of refugee law. Needless to say, warmly recommended reading!
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Davide Tomaselli @evadimus.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
So happy that the review I wrote (my very first book review!) of Janna Wessels's "The Concealment Controversy" is out in the latest issue of the International Journal of Refugee Law! doi.org/10.1093/ijrl...
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The Concealment Controversy: Sexual Orientation, Discretion Reasoning and the Scope of Refugee Protection
Why is discretion so difficult to get rid of? Such is the fundamental question that steers Janna Wessels’ inquiry in her seminal research on the so-called
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