Reposted by Nozizwe DubeSylvana Simons @sylvanasimons.bsky.social · 16/08/2026Vorige week wierp een witte man de vraag op of “woke”, oftewel antiracisme, seksisme, feminisme, etc. 👀, niet ondergeschikt moest zijn aan de klassenstrijd. Als deze week iets heeft aangetoond, is het dat sociaal economische klasse zwarte levens niet beschermt. Rest in peace, Professor Arday. 2123223
Reposted by Nozizwe Dubefolukeifejola @folukeifejola.bsky.social · 15/08/2026Ruth Wilson Gilmore defines racism as ‘the state-sanctioned or extralegal production and exploitation of group-differentiated vulnerability to premature death.’ 17528
Nozizwe Dube @nozizwe.bsky.social · 12/01/2026Last month, @eucourtofjustice.bsky.social issued its judgment on the Danish 'Ghetto' Law (C-417/23). Given the paucity of preliminary reference rulings about the Race Equality Directive, this judgment warrants some unpacking. Join us to discuss the 'Ghetto Housing' judgment tomorrow: bit.ly/4qcbvnX 012
Nozizwe Dube @nozizwe.bsky.social · 11/12/2025My article titled 'A Typology of Comparators and Comparisons in EU Equality Law' published in the Common Market Law Review received the honourable mention award of this year's Ius Commune Prize from the Ius Commune Research School. 230
Reposted by Nozizwe DubeEuropean University Institute @eui-eu.bsky.social · 07/11/2025At @eui-law.bsky.social, @gatybiyo.bsky.social explores how Western notions of private property often clash with Indigenous understandings of land, often reproducing colonial patterns of control.🌳 🔗 loom.ly/SepE78M 032
Reposted by Nozizwe DubeNozizwe Dube @nozizwe.bsky.social · 20/10/2025Building on Iyiola Solanke’s EUI Black History Month Lecture that highlights the need to decolonise EU law, I argue in this WP that uncovering the allegiance between EU law, coloniality & Whiteness must be at the heart of any social justice enterprise to decolonise EU law: hdl.handle.net/1814/93725 182
Nozizwe Dube @nozizwe.bsky.social · 22/10/2025In I.C. t Moldavië oordeelde het EHRM dat de arbeidsuitbuiting & seksueel misbruik van een vrouw met een intellectuele handicap discriminatoir was. In deze annotatie neem ik de manier waarop het EHRM deze intersectionele discriminatie benaderde onder de loep: #intersectionaliteit bit.ly/4qBGCtQ 010
Nozizwe Dube @nozizwe.bsky.social · 20/10/2025Building on Iyiola Solanke’s EUI Black History Month Lecture that highlights the need to decolonise EU law, I argue in this WP that uncovering the allegiance between EU law, coloniality & Whiteness must be at the heart of any social justice enterprise to decolonise EU law: hdl.handle.net/1814/93725 182
Reposted by Nozizwe DubeEUI Department of Law @eui-law.bsky.social · 01/10/2025Deconstructing EU law through a queer lens: a conversation with our researcher Davide Tomaselli. www.eui.eu/news-hub?id=...eui.euDeconstructing EU law through a queer lens: a conversation with Davide TomaselliIn this interview, EUI Law researcher Davide Tomaselli explores European asylum law through a queer perspective Drawing on legal practice and political theory 031
Reposted by Nozizwe DubeHuman Rights Here @humanrightshere.bsky.social · 24/09/2025🆕 New blog by Nozizwe Dube on #intersectional discrimination in #EUequalitylaw, presented at the Berkeley Center on Comparative Equality & Anti-Discrimination Law Conference. 🔗 Read the full blog post here: www.humanrightshere.com/post/the-r-e... 📷: Nozizwe Dube 011
Reposted by Nozizwe DubeMatiangai Sirleaf @matiangai.bsky.social · 27/08/2025Excerpts from my recent interview with @laconverse.bsky.social. The full article is available in English www.laconverse.com/en/tag/inves... and French www.laconverse.com. 073
Reposted by Nozizwe DubeDe Morgen @demorgen.be · 26/07/2025138 juristen waarschuwen Vlaamse regering: beroep tegen vonnis wapendoorvoer Israël ‘ronduit onverantwoord’ift.tt138 juristen waarschuwen Vlaamse regering: beroep tegen vonnis wapendoorvoer Israël ‘ronduit onverantwoord’Als de Vlaamse regering alsnog in beroep gaat tegen het vonnis over wapendoorvoer naar Israël, gaat ze eigenlijk in beroep tegen haar eigen regels, stellen 138 juristen in deze open brief. 2145
Reposted by Nozizwe DubeDavide Tomaselli @evadimus.bsky.social · 24/07/2025I 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!academic.oup.com‘Forced’ Refugees versus ‘Voluntary’ Migrants: Deconstructing a Binary through SOGIESC Claims of AsylumAbstract. This article addresses the consequences that SOGIESC claims of asylum have on international refugee law and its fundamental distinction between ‘ 1128
Nozizwe Dube @nozizwe.bsky.social · 02/07/2025Last week, I had the opportunity to attend and present my work on models of judicial review in equality jurisprudence at the EuConst Symposium. I am grateful to the other participants and discussants, in particular Prof. Silvia Suteu, for their insightful feedback and comments. 031
Reposted by Nozizwe DubeDavide Tomaselli @evadimus.bsky.social · 18/06/2025Happy 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-...verfassungsblog.deWhose Values? 194
Reposted by Nozizwe DubeIyiola Solanke @ivy180.bsky.social · 02/06/2025My working paper on the Danish public housing law case is out! In response to these colonial style compulsory rehousing rules will the CJEU define a 'racial group',? www.coleurope.eu/sites/defaul...coleurope.eu 021
Nozizwe Dube @nozizwe.bsky.social · 14/06/2025I recently presented my paper "A Typology of Comparators and Comparisons in EU Equality Law" at the Academy of European Law (ERA) Seminar on Current Reflections on EU Anti-Discrimination Law in Madrid. You can read the paper my presentation is based on here: kluwerlawonline.com/JournalArtic... 051
Reposted by Nozizwe Dubefolukeifejola @folukeifejola.bsky.social · 28/05/2025Pleased to share my new article! I reflect on what our responsibility is, as legal academics, to students experiencing racism and how we can surface the ways racism plays out "politely" such that the law school feels like a space to which they cannot fully belong. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....tandfonline.comSeeking the university that is ours: understanding, unpacking and unsettling Black students’ racialised (un)belonging in UK law schoolsThis article unpacks the nature of racialised (un)belonging experienced by law students – why for students of colour, the law school has often felt like a space to which they cannot fully belong. F... 13524
Nozizwe Dube @nozizwe.bsky.social · 28/05/2025Op 16 mei vond de boeklancering van 'Feministische en queer onderzoeksmethoden in het recht' plaats. Marie Spinoy, Elise Goossens, & Pieter Cannoot brachten auteurs samen om over de bijzondere methodologische uitdagingen bij de toepassing van feministische & queer onderzoeksmethoden te schrijven. 110
Reposted by Nozizwe DubeRefugees in Libya @refugeesinlibya.bsky.social · 15/05/2025“There are places in this world where law protects you like a second skin. It walks with you into offices, hospitals, airports, schools, police stations &c. &c. It makes people speak gently to you. It ensures that your name is recorded properly….” @davidyambio.bsky.social 033
Nozizwe Dube @nozizwe.bsky.social · 25/04/2025(Hoe) Moet het Nederlandse non-discriminatierecht emergente discriminatiegronden erkennen? Welke plaats moet intersectionaliteit krijgen in het wettelijk kader en de rechtspraktijk? Jennifer Alspeer & ik schrijven, op vraag van de Staatscommissie tegen Discriminatie & Racisme, een preadvies hierover 110
Reposted by Nozizwe DubeJens Theilen @jtheilen.bsky.social · 25/03/2025Do human rights provide a progressive counterpoint to migration law? In this article, I highlight their structurally conservative side & argue that the European Court of Human Rights legitimates the foundations of border regimes even when finding rights violations #migsky brill.com/view/journal... 1198
Reposted by Nozizwe DubeFeminist Legal Studies @flsjournal.bsky.social · 16/04/2025Feminist legal scholars Flora Renz and Davina Cooper wrote an article for our journal recently exploring how/why we should think about gender discrimination and legal responses to address it beyond biological frameworks. You can read it here (open access): link.springer.com/article/10.1...link.springer.comReimagining Gender Through Equality Law: What Legal Thoughtways Do Religion and Disability Offer? - Feminist Legal StudiesBritish equality law protections for sex and gender reassignment have grown fraught as activists tussle over legal and social categories of gender, gender transitioning, and sex. This article consider... 02014
Nozizwe Dube @nozizwe.bsky.social · 14/03/2025The current political climate is characterised by a backlash against human rights, exacerbating the discrimination of several communities. On @humanrightshere.bsky.social, I discuss how this year’s Zero Discrimination Day theme advocates for an intersectional approach to eliminating discrimination. 030
Reposted by Nozizwe DubeHuman Rights Here @humanrightshere.bsky.social · 03/03/2025🌍 Zero Discrimination Day ✊🏽 In this HRH Human Rights Day series post, Nozizwe Dube explores how the role of communities in fighting discrimination and building sustainable HIV responses. 📖 Read: rb.gy/oq9t59 📲 By: Vonecia Carswell, Unsplash #humanrights, #HIV, #intersectionaldiscrimination 031
Nozizwe Dube @nozizwe.bsky.social · 14/03/2025Het nieuwste nummer van het Tijdschrift voor Mensenrechten (Vlaanderen) is uit. Ik was, samen met Anne Oloo, gastredacteur voor dit nummer over Palestina. Hartelijk dank aan alle betrokkenen voor de samenwerking. Lees het nummer hier: mensenrechten.be/bestanden/up... 020
Nozizwe Dube @nozizwe.bsky.social · 04/03/2025Thank you @gatybiyo.bsky.social for the invitation to serve as a discussant for @ivy180.bsky.social’s wonderful lecture on Re-imagining EU Law and Institutions. I learned a lot and was inspired by Professor Solanke’s important work on decolonising EU law. 151
Reposted by Nozizwe DubeMarina Veličković @marinavelickovic.bsky.social · 03/03/2025wrote a thing about disciplinary crises & politics, CLS vs. marxism, letters & signing things & had lots of fun doing it ❤️🔥 14519
Reposted by Nozizwe DubeNozizwe Dube @nozizwe.bsky.social · 23/02/2025In the latest issue of the European Equality Law Review, I take stock of the Pay Transparency Directive's intersectional approach. I note potential challenges that lie ahead: the limits of intersectional discrimination's definition, comparators, burden of proof, & sanctions in intersectional claims. 122
Nozizwe Dube @nozizwe.bsky.social · 23/02/2025In the latest issue of the European Equality Law Review, I take stock of the Pay Transparency Directive's intersectional approach. I note potential challenges that lie ahead: the limits of intersectional discrimination's definition, comparators, burden of proof, & sanctions in intersectional claims. 122
Reposted by Nozizwe DubeDiamond Ashiagbor @diamondashiagbor.bsky.social · 14/02/2025Looking forward to reading this! Tackling systematic, structural, pre-market inequalities means it’s so important to challenge the assumption that equality = sameness of treatment, with a comparator. 241
Nozizwe Dube @nozizwe.bsky.social · 14/02/2025Equality law is an inherently comparative framework, as a claimant must compare themselves to a comparator to establish a presumption of discrimination. What types of comparisons are used in equality claims? Is relying on comparators desirable in equality law? My piece discussing this is out: 1237
Reposted by Nozizwe DubeJens Theilen @jtheilen.bsky.social · 16/01/2025Tomorrow it’s finally time for our workshop on Critical Approaches to European Human Rights at @hertiecfr.bsky.social, co-organised with @esrademir.bsky.social & @cohelongo.bsky.social and with an absolute dream line-up of speakers — looking forward to an intense day of thinking together #CritECHR 2308
Reposted by Nozizwe DubeRefugees in Libya @refugeesinlibya.bsky.social · 05/01/2025“Libya taught me what it means to be dehumanized. Europe teaches me what it means to be erased. The so-called asylum system in Libya and Europe is a failure, but not by accident, it was never meant for the Black African child.” @davidyambio.bsky.social www.refugeesinlibya.org/post/chronic...refugeesinlibya.orgChronicles of Blackness: Surviving the Shadows of Libya and Europe.As the 4th anniversary of the eviction of our protest in Tripoli, Libya is approaching. I try to pen down what is in my throat and what I see in Europe so far. To the reader, I do not know what you wi... 15537
Reposted by Nozizwe DubeSandeep Bakshi @sandeepbak.bsky.social · 14/12/2024Colonialism maintains a stranglehold on knowledge production through an elaborate publication infrastructure largely based in the global North which plays the role of gatekeeping on what qualifies as “legitimate”publishable knowledge. - Sylvia Tamale, Decolonization and Afro-Feminism, p. 281 2254
Reposted by Nozizwe DubeDave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 02/12/2024🚨I'm seeing some climate accounts posting overpopulation stuff, so I've removed the paywall from my article on the subject: Overpopulation Is A Racist Trope.climatelaundry.substack.com'Overpopulation' Is A Racist Trope. It's Time We Laid It To RestA new movie satirises the myth that climate change is a consequence of too many people. In the real world, our overpopulation obsession must be euthanised. 12426641115
Reposted by Nozizwe DubeNozizwe Dube @nozizwe.bsky.social · 29/11/2024Yesterday, I presented my paper titled “A Typology of Comparators and Comparisons in EU Equality Law” at the Ius Commune Conference in Utrecht. A 🧵on the paper’s main arguments. #EULaw #EUEqualityLaw #intersectionaldiscrimination #criticalracetheory 161
Nozizwe Dube @nozizwe.bsky.social · 29/11/2024Yesterday, I presented my paper titled “A Typology of Comparators and Comparisons in EU Equality Law” at the Ius Commune Conference in Utrecht. A 🧵on the paper’s main arguments. #EULaw #EUEqualityLaw #intersectionaldiscrimination #criticalracetheory 161
Nozizwe Dube @nozizwe.bsky.social · 26/11/2024De voorbije dagen stellen veel politici voor om het Nederlandse paspoort van mensen met een dubbele nationaliteit in te trekken. In deze blogpost leg ik uit waarom nationaliteitsafname rassendiscriminatie is & waarom dergelijke voorstellen een hellend vlak zijn. www.nemokennislink.nl/publicaties/...nemokennislink.nlWaarom is nationaliteitsafname rassendiscriminatieHet Nederlandse paspoort van mensen met een dubbele nationaliteit moet worden ingetrokken, vinden veel politici door het geweld tussen Ajax en Maccabi Tel Aviv. Maar wat betekent dat juridisch? 021
Reposted by Nozizwe DubeFeminist Legal Studies @flsjournal.bsky.social · 25/11/2024One year ago, we issued a statement to mark the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women. Our statement remains timely. 03828
Reposted by Nozizwe DubeDaphné Budasz @daphnebdz.bsky.social · 18/11/2024Trying to build a starter kit for Black Europe and Afropean scholars and activists - but many ppl I can think of are not (yet) on blusky. I need HELP 🖤 @eraldo.bsky.social @tnflorvil.bsky.social @afropean.bsky.social @historianmemory.bsky.social @camillahawth.bsky.social @jeannetteoho.bsky.social 1420092
Reposted by Nozizwe DubeDr. Shaonta’ Allen @shaonta.bsky.social · 15/11/2024Created this starter pack yesterday.. who else do I need to add?? Share and tag your faves!! #AcademicSky #BlackSky go.bsky.app/H4CUfnL 87399148
Nozizwe Dube @nozizwe.bsky.social · 10/11/2024In this Talking about Books video, I discuss how pivotal the book 'Critical Race Theory: The Key Writings that Formed the Movement' is for my doctoral research in which I conduct a critical race feminist analysis of EU equality law 👇🏾 youtu.be/K2VNLbOgIUk?... #EULaw #equalitylaw #criticalracetheory 070
Reposted by Nozizwe Dubefolukeifejola @folukeifejola.bsky.social · 12/10/2023This form was created to facilitate the sharing of invitation codes for "Global South" scholars who may not have the same network privileges as scholars in the "Global North". Scholars who are geographically located in the "Global South" will be given priority. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...docs.google.comBlueSky Invites for "Global South" scholars formThis form was created to facilitate the sharing of invitation codes for Blue Sky which do not seem to be reaching "Global South" scholars who may not have the same network privileges as scholars in th... 49487463