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Mireia Garcés de Marcilla @mggarces.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I am trying to find FGMPO statistics broken down by age of the person over whom thes are seized/made. I can't find it here but I have the vague memory of a table with this info. Does anyone have any ideas on where it might be available? thank you! www.gov.uk/government/s...

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Family Court Statistics Quarterly: January to March 2026

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 14/06/2026

‘The REF has now morphed into a hugely expensive, attention-engrossing status marker. Few things would improve the intellectual culture of universities more quickly than the complete abolition of this flawed and coercive exercise.’ Stefan Collini on higher education. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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Stefan Collini · Squadrons of Pigs: Bonfire of the Universities

The problems with Britain’s universities are systemic and deep-rooted, not just local or contingent. Yet political and...

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Marina Veličković @marinavelickovic.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

New substack dropped - this time on the possibility of teaching as a radical activity (in the context of the hellscapes that are neoliberal universities) Share / like / subscribe / or do all of the above findingwordsforthoughts.substack.com/p/teaching-a...

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Teaching as a revolutionary activity

Neoliberal universities as a place where radical thoughts come to wither away

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Mireia Garcés de Marcilla @mggarces.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

My new article out in the IJLC! In it, I argue the dominance of the human rights approach, while allowing the intersex struggle to gain legitimacy, visibility and recognition, risks fuelling a depoliticised framework of remedicalisation and increased penality. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Intersex human rights: a double-edged sword | International Journal of Law in Context | Cambridge Core

Intersex human rights: a double-edged sword

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 17/11/2025

‘By 1790, one in eight Liverpool households were dependent on the slave trade.’ John Kerrigan on Liverpool, the Atlantic slave trade and m. nourbeSe philip’s long poem 𝘡𝘰𝘯𝘨! www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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John Kerrigan · No Illusions: Syntax of Slavery

Slavery was accepted across most of the early modern world. No one wanted to be a slave, except when the alternative was...

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Feminist Legal Studies @flsjournal.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

We are still open to submissions for our upcoming special issue, “Feminist Responses to the Regression of Trans Rights: Strategies, Alliances, Hope.” Please share this call for papers with anyone you think interested. The deadline for abstracts is Friday 31st October. 🏳️‍⚧️

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Mireia Garcés de Marcilla @mggarces.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

Following from our MLR workshop last year, @zainamahmoud.bsky.social and I are organising a workshop on embodiment & colonialism in November! We are grateful to the @slsauk.bsky.social for supporting this event and look forward to what we hope will be a great discussion.

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Mireia Garcés de Marcilla @mggarces.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

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Mireia Garcés de Marcilla @mggarces.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

Very happy to share that today I'm starting a new role as Lecturer in Law at the University of Liverpool, @livunislsj.bsky.social. I'll really miss my wonderful colleagues at @uniexeterlawschool.bsky.social, but really excited about this new chapter!

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Mireia Garcés de Marcilla @mggarces.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

For those of us who struggle with academic writing, Niki Lacey's words are, as always, insightful and re-energising: doi.org/10.53386/nil...

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Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly

This is the eleventh contribution to NILQ's Reflections on Writing series.

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Mireia Garcés de Marcilla @mggarces.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

I find myself coming back to this fantastic piece over and over again: 'In the very best cases, the cases that perhaps ground our best hope, desire can cut against what politics has chosen for us, and choose for itself.' www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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Amia Srinivasan · Does anyone have the right to sex?

When we see consent as the sole constraint on OK sex, we are pushed towards a naturalisation of sexual preference in...

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Josh Jowitt @drjoshdoeslaw.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

A coalition of legal academics have drafted a letter supporting trans rights & sharing concerns about the FWS v Scottish Ministers ruling. If you work in the legal profession in the UK (eg, academics, practitioners, anyone else 'doing law') please consider signing: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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A Law Letter on FWS v Scottish Ministers

A coalition of legal academics have drafted a letter setting out our support for trans rights and our concerns about the FWS v Scottish Ministers UKSC ruling. We are opening it up for signature to ev...

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Mireia Garcés de Marcilla @mggarces.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

'Will we at least create the conditions that allow women to leave abusive men with dignity and in safety ... Or will we simply continue to ask underfunded justice systems to prosecute bad men out of existence?' www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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Sophie Smith · Sleeping Women: On the Pelicot trial

Gisèle Pelicot doesn’t conceive of her now ex-husband or the other men who raped her as ‘bad apples’, aberrations...

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