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Jen Ang @jena.ng · 25/07/2026
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Jen Ang @jena.ng · 13/07/2026
And … breathe …
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Jen Ang @jena.ng · 26/06/2026
#Ephemera #FridayFinally
Pink roses full and blossoming on the bush
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Jen Ang @jena.ng · 25/06/2026
🎓Congratulations to all our @glasgow.ac.uk graduates - you’ve been fierce, fun, inspiring and full of heart! ❤️ I can’t wait to see what you get up to, and I’m so proud to know you. Now get out there and #ChangeTheWorld in ways only you can ✊🏾 #UniversityofGlasgow #UofGGrad26 #TeamUofG
Graduate and professor, smilingLarge sculpture which says “UofG”Four smiling professors and lecturers in academic gowns Light sculpture that says Law
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Jen Ang @jena.ng · 20/06/2026
#EdinburghPride, you’ve been amazing 🏳️‍🌈 - proud, mischievous, beautiful and most of all: defiant ❤️
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Jen Ang @jena.ng · 09/04/2026
📣Are you a journalist, criminal defence or human rights lawyer or civil society/NGO monitor focused on human rights or discrimination in #Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿? 🤝🏾 Join me and help build an independent data set on the state of human rights across the #UK - takes just 1 hour to complete a confidential survey 📝
Human rights in the home nations - rightstracker.org
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Jen Ang @jena.ng · 22/03/2026
“We are living in the imaginaries of those who have been long gone. We are living the world they wanted...” Angela Davis Nani Jansen Reventlow challenges us in her new book Radical Justice to grasp the roots & build new imaginaries of a better world 🌎
smiling woman in red top with a microphoneBook titled Radical Justice Building the World We Need by Nani Jansen Reventlow
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Jen Ang @jena.ng · 04/03/2026
Ready for this week like ... #venomouse #glasgow #streetart
graffiti paste up of a cat dressed in an astronaut suit with a laser gun
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Jen Ang @jena.ng · 18/02/2026
“To be on the right side of history is more important than winning” ✊ Warmth, beauty and defiant optimism from @ecetemelkuran.bsky.social and @nicolasturgeon.bsky.social to celebrate the 🚀 of “Nation of Strangers”🌿 in #Edinburgh @lighthousebks.bsky.social @canongate.co.uk
Two women laughing and talking in an interview about a bookBook titled Nation of Strangers rebuilding home in the 21st century by Ece Temelkuran
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Jen Ang @jena.ng · 05/01/2026
🎁 As “thank you” for supporting @lawmanity.com leave a comment below if you’d like a Sow Radical Seeds paper toy 🌱 (designed by the brilliant @folduptoys.bsky.social) and I’ll DM for your address 💌 #MakeItHappen #SowRadicalSeeds #2026
A paper toy of a small gardening watering seedlings with Sow Radical Seeds across the pedestal
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Jen Ang @jena.ng · 21/11/2025
This is Andrew. Today is the 8th anniversary of our first date, and this is where we first met. That day, Andrew’s honesty, sincerity and brilliant wit shone through. It took me another 7 years to fully appreciate his selflessness, unerring sense of justice and fierce loyalty to those he loves.
Photo of smiling man holding a card that says “Jen from Tinder - 1800”
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Jen Ang @jena.ng · 18/11/2025
Leadership is not just about policy; it is about setting an example in every community…where communities are resourced, solidarity grows 🌱 - Dr @SabirZazai.bsky.social 🎉 Happy 40th Anniversary @ScotRefugeeCouncil.bsky.social 🎈 #AyeWelcomeRefugees 🧡 #TogetherWithRefugees #NewScots #UntilWeAllBelong
Scottish refugee Council CEO Sabir Zazai speaking at a podium Happy 40th birthday card for Scottish Refugee Council Smiling woman with glasses
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Jen Ang @jena.ng · 18/11/2025
🤝🏾 We are at our best when we offer empathy over apathy, compassion over cruelty 🧡 @HumzaYousaf.bsky.social 🚪 When we open our doors, we also open possibilities ✨ Catherine ✨ 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Scotland is and will remain a diverse, multicultural society - Minister @KaukabStewart.bsky.social
New Scots portrait book to celebrate Scottish Refugee Council’s 40th AnniversaryHumza Yousaf MSP looking on while Minister Kaukab Stewart speaks in the Parliament lobby
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Jen Ang @jena.ng · 17/11/2025
👋🏽 Today is a good day for this reminder👇🏽 “We need leaders not in love with money, but in love with justice. Not in love with publicity, but in love with humanity.” #MartinLutherKingJr, St Louis, 10 April 1957 Read his speech in full 👉🏽 bit.ly/3LHU3bA
Protest sign in George Square Glasgow which reads “We need leaders not in love with money, but in love with justice. Not in love with publicity, but in love with humanity.”  Martin Luther King Junior
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Jen Ang @jena.ng · 31/10/2025
🪧 Are you part of a #grassroots or community organising movement in #Scotland? 🗣️ Opinionated, much? The brilliant @katenevens.bsky.social, Iffat Shahnaz and Megan McHaney are researching what you need to ✨thrive✨ for @jrf-uk.bsky.social 📢 Have your say: www.surveymonkey.com/r/26CCL2P
Photo of people protesting for justice titled What do Grassroots Movements in Scotland need to Thrive? Are you involved in community organising or grassroots movement building for social justice in Scotland? We’d love you to respond to our survey!
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Jen Ang @jena.ng · 31/10/2025
This is the office microwave - can someone talk me through the logic - we reheat “curry, Chinese, and pasta” but we cook “jacket potatoes, fresh vegetables and fresh fish” Like how limited is the cultural and culinary range of this theoretical microwave user? 🤷🏻‍♀️
Microwave with buttons labelled  “curry, Chinese, and pasta” and cook “jacket potatoes, fresh vegetables and fresh fish”
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Jen Ang @jena.ng · 30/10/2025
#DecriminaliseAbortionScotland #Abortion #Scotland #Decriminalise #ReproductiveRights #LetsChangeTheAct #OutdatedAbortionLaw @lawmanity.com
Let's change the act we need your help to change outdated abortion law in Scotland
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Jen Ang @jena.ng · 25/10/2025
Brilliant sunny day in #Edinburgh for #ScotlandDemandsBetter 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿with friends, family and Women Against the Far Right Scotland x @justrightscotland.org.uk ✊🏾❤️
Marchers protesting behind the women against the far right bannerFive smiling friends after protest Four smiling friends after protest
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Jen Ang @jena.ng · 24/10/2025
This is what #Fridays are for 🍭 #JellyBelly #Jellybeans #BobaTea #WhoKnew
Small plastic package of Bubble Tea flavoured Jelly Belly jellybeans
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Jen Ang @jena.ng · 20/10/2025
🕵🏽 Looking for a legal traineeship in the UK? Want to ✨make a real difference✨ by using #law to challenge injustice and #inequality? Read Rosa Grenfell's blog on her #JusticeFirstFellowship at @justrightscotland.org.uk and apply for LEF 2026 opportunities here 👉🏽 lef.org.uk/justice-firs...
screenshot of LEF website: How to apply for a fellowship
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Jen Ang @jena.ng · 29/09/2025
My heart is full today 💜 as I join 200+ brave, thoughtful & determined women in #Scotland to challenge far right claims that their divisive and racist solutions are necessary to protect women & girls ✍🏽 “We believe in a society where all women are safe, supported and free from abuse”
Photo of a number of prominent Scottish women and the text "Women Against the Far Right - Scotland' 200+ prominent women and women's organisations across Scotland have signed the open letter rejecting the far right's claims to protect women & girls & condemning the exploitation of violence against women to fuel hate and division."
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Jen Ang @jena.ng · 02/09/2025
🎤 New episode! This week, we hear from activist lawyer Harriet Wistrich on her decades-long commitment to seeking justice for women who kill their abusive partners ✊🏼 🎧 Tune in to the @lawmanity.com Podcast here: podfollow.com/1824535187 @h-cwj.bsky.social
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Jen Ang @jena.ng · 23/08/2025
Just found this baggie of joy in my desk drawer, and unreal how happy this made me 😁 🙌🏽 #JellyBelly #Jellybeans #SaturdayWorkingNotWorking
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Jen Ang @jena.ng · 08/08/2025
🎤 Like all new skills, learning to podcast has been scary, humbling ... and also a lot of fun! We now have 17 interviews in the bag for the @lawmanity.com 2025/26 season 🎧 Check us out: pnc.st/s/lawmanity 

Huge thanks to @halinarifai.com for guidance and to Natalia Uribe for producing the show!
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Jen Ang @jena.ng · 04/07/2025
#WeAreAllPalestineAction ✊🏾 🇵🇸 Royal Courts of Justice, London, 4 July 2025 @ 22.10
Protest sign that reads: we are teachers, nurses, firefighters, journalists, students, peace campaigners, ordinary people - we are all Palestine Action
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Jen Ang @jena.ng · 27/05/2025
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Jen Ang @jena.ng · 24/05/2025
Today’s task: standing against racism and fascism in #Edinburgh ✊🏾 to make sure - once again - that any fascist who takes to the streets in #Scotland will be outnumbered, outwitted and definitely out-danced by the glorious people who protest against them! 👏🏽 💃 🥁 #WeAreAllPalestinians #BellaCiao
Girl with her back to viewer holding protest sign which says “I stand for truth, for justice and for hope” with protesters in front of her
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Jen Ang @jena.ng · 20/05/2025
Thanks to @king_mountaineering and @hillgoers for a brilliant two days in the #Inverlael #Munros to bag Seana Braigh (third time lucky!) and Am Faochagach ⛰️ #Scotland #MunroBagging #HappyPlace #OnTopOfTheWorld
Girl with yellow backpack walking in mountain landscape Stream in foreground and rounded hills in background
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Jen Ang @jena.ng · 14/05/2025
In reply to Keir Starmer's harmful (and hurtful) immigration proposals this week, here's a blog from the archives 🎈 TLDR: ✋🏽Don't let other people define your fears 🫱🏼🫲🏾Take actions to reduce fear in others 📣Call it out, and talk about the real change we need to see www.linkedin.com/pulse/politi...
Graffiti of dog holding crayon with the words "love is the answer" and newsletter titled The Long View: the politics of fear, and how to defeat it
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Jen Ang @jena.ng · 13/05/2025
🙌🏽 This week, the Baring Foundation asked me to share five key moments in #law x social change in #Scotland in the last five years, and to identify five opportunities for govt + civil society to take action in the next five years 🗞️Read the blog here: baringfoundation.org.uk/blog-post/sc...
Photo of author smiling with text: 13 May 2025, Scotland: bending towards justice?. Jen Ang, director of Lawmanity and founder of JustRight Scotland, chooses her five key developments in terms of the law, social justice and human rights in Scotland over the past five years and looks ahead to the next five.
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Jen Ang @jena.ng · 11/05/2025
Happy Mother’s Day 🌹 to all you strong and loving mums, step-mums, grandmums and chosen mums out there! A bit of 🔥 from @messinabottle #messinabottle #blackowned #smallbusiness #genius
Black t-shirt which says: This woman figures sh*t out, gives no excuses and makes sh*t happen
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Jen Ang @jena.ng · 09/05/2025
Such a joy to celebrate #EuropeDay in #Scotland with old friends and new 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺 who continue to stand up for #EUCitizen rights in the UK ✊🏾 Particularly honoured to chair a @citzrights.bsky.social panel on “double discrimination” 🚫 faced by racialised EU citizens in the UK immigration system 🛂
Group of smiling people in front of Citizens Rights Project banner and European and Scottish flags
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Jen Ang @jena.ng · 09/05/2025
This week, the Long View shares some straight-to-the-heart inspiration from her trip to the US, a brief excerpt from "A letter to a young activist during troubled times" by Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés ⛵ www.linkedin.com/pulse/we-mad...
Boats in harbour, Ullapool, Scotland
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Jen Ang @jena.ng · 29/04/2025
👀 this fantastic t-shirt from MESS in a bottle - a black-owned woman-owned business in Baltimore 🔥
Black t-shirt which says: be brave enough to teach the history they are trying to erase
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Jen Ang @jena.ng · 26/04/2025
Me on #Saturday morning, after a week of working from home 👇🏾
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Jen Ang @jena.ng · 18/04/2025
This week, The Long View explains why legal recognition of identity matters 🛂, the role of the law in creating safety and belonging and how the recent Supreme Court case helps us to understand why equality law matters to all of us 🌈 www.linkedin.com/pulse/safety...
Child somersaulting on a Scottish beach, blue skies and warm sands
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Jen Ang @jena.ng · 16/04/2025
⚖️ Today, the @supremecourt.uk decided in the case #ForWomenScotland v Scottish Ministers that "sex" in the Equality Act 2010 means "biological sex". They also made it clear that the #EqualityAct protects trans people against discrimination and harassment on the basis of their perceived gender.
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Jen Ang @jena.ng · 12/04/2025
Today, this is the antidote to all sad and bad news … highly recommend for all curious-minded law students, lawyers and legal educators 💡 @illanwall.bsky.social #law #legaleducation #CLT
Book titles the Critical Legal Pocketbook
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Jen Ang @jena.ng · 11/04/2025
This week, The Long View takes some advice on crossing borders, and reflects on how we might revisit our family histories and "old" wisdom for lessons that it might now be timely to heed ⛅ www.linkedin.com/pulse/crossi...
Girl at airport window reaching for stuffed animal, airplane waiting for boarding at the gate visible behind her
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Jen Ang @jena.ng · 10/04/2025
“Ideas”
US ICE poster which says “if it crosses the border illegally it is our job to stop it: people, money, products, ideas
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Jen Ang @jena.ng · 02/04/2025
" #Gorse ?!" 😂 Are we srsly looking at a tag on a salt bin in a leafy #Edinburgh suburb that in honour of this wee prickly yellow fella, now in joyous bloom across #Scotland 's hills? #wildflowers #nature #photography #springtime #finally
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Jen Ang @jena.ng · 01/04/2025
📈 the ongoing need to prioritise intersectional data - so women and girls furthest from services are finally seen and heard 🙋🏾‍♀️🙋🏻‍♀️🙋🏽‍♀️ 🌻 our big hopes for #Scotland’s new #GenderEquality strategy Watch this space, for more news on our work and how to get involved in the new strategy!
Group of many different women, smiling, and waiting for change to come!
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Jen Ang @jena.ng · 01/04/2025
Today, the #NACWG and the EWP met with First Minister @johnswinney.bsky.social and Cab Scty Social Justice @sa4dunfermline.bsky.social We discussed: 🕵🏻‍♀️ Scot Gov policies on social care, unpaid care and childcare and the difference a well-informed and gender-competent approach could make
Panel of four people sitting at a table
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Jen Ang @jena.ng · 01/04/2025
🌻 “The things we are asking for, we should have had by now. I want to see a win. I want to show future generations that our efforts were not wasted - that [by bringing our lived experience + holding government to account] you can make change.” ✊🏾 Rosie S, The Empowering Women’s Panel (EWP)
Five smiling women Post it note that says Equally Seen
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Jen Ang @jena.ng · 28/03/2025
Today, the Long View is thinking about the passing of politician and legend, ✨@christinasnp.bsky.social, as well as the personal loss of a beloved cousin, earlier this year - and reflecting (in their honour) on the difference we all can make, every day 🎁 www.linkedin.com/pulse/differ...
Graffit paste up of a heart
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Jen Ang @jena.ng · 27/03/2025
📚 How do we end destitution? Read more here: bit.ly/3ELS96o @lawmanity.com's report was commissioned by @bethwcobbe.bsky.social @i-sphere.bsky.social + @jrf-uk.bsky.social 🙏 Massive thanks also to Fair Way Partners: Homeless Network Scot @scotrefugeecouncil.bsky.social + Simon Community Scot
Ending destitution in Scotland - a roadmap for policymakers
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Jen Ang @jena.ng · 27/03/2025
❤️ Heartfelt thanks to @elenawhitham.bsky.social @richardleonardmsp.bsky.social @paulsweeney.bsky.social @patrickharvie.bsky.social @emmaroddicksnp.bsky.social @foysolchoudhury.bsky.social and their colleagues for 🗣️ speaking passionately in support of the motion to end #destitution in #Scotland 🏡
MSPs calling for next steps to end destitution
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Jen Ang @jena.ng · 23/03/2025
“Courage isn’t in doing what comes naturally …🤨 Courage is doing what is awkward, tedious, annoying and inelegant in the face of uncertainty.” 👩🏻‍🏫 Love this from Alexandra Dufresne was back in 2017 - a call to action for young people who are not sure how to get started making political change 🪧💪🏽
Pink telephone and a sign that says “leave a message”
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Jen Ang @jena.ng · 21/03/2025
This week, the Long View celebrates the miracle of ordinary resistance ✨ and explains why having the courage to embody your own truths can help build a kinder and more compassionate world 🪷 www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-em...
Sign that says There Will Be No Miracles Here
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Jen Ang @jena.ng · 20/03/2025
Nashieli Remirez Hernandez, President of @the_ioi Rebecca Hilsenrath @phsombudsman.bsky.social Ger Deering @OfficeOmbudsman Ireland Margaret Kelly @nipsocomms.bsky.social @jacquibroadhead.bsky.social @compasoxford.bsky.social Liz Griffith @lawcentreni.bsky.social
Sunny afternoon view across estate grass and trees
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