Queer Judgments Project @queerjudgments.bsky.social · 05/10/2026“Could queering offer another form of judgment, one more colourful, poetic, musical, and playful than that offered by law and legal format – judgment as discernment rather than decision?” Sean Mulcahy reviews Queer Judgments in Alternative Law Journal. Read: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... 021
Reposted by Queer Judgments ProjectUniversity of Leeds - School of Law @lawatleeds.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Law’s a Drag presents: Hate Crimes Live! 🌟 In July, Dr @jgreenwoodreeves.bsky.social and Dr Rosie Fox co-ran a public engagement cabaret in Leeds city centre, explaining recent changes to hate crimes legislation in England and Wales. Learn more about Hate Crimes Live! below👇 tinyurl.com/3navdn2n 188
Reposted by Queer Judgments ProjectSocio-Legal Studies Assocation @slsauk.bsky.social · 23/09/2026New academic year, new blog series! Check out '…six, seven, eight… every LAWYER can dance! Drawing on Dance to Teach Law' by Maria Federica Moscati ⬇️🩰 www.slsa.ac.uk/post/six-sev... This the first in our guest edited series on Creative Legal Education. A perfect pre-teaching read.slsa.ac.uk…six, seven, eight… every LAWYER can dance! Drawing on Dance to Teach LawTransformative, creative pedagogies are urgently needed in legal education. Far from the cutting-edge of pedagogical practice, legal education is heavily shaped by conservative notions of ‘professiona... 011
Reposted by Queer Judgments ProjectSenthorun S. Raj @senthorun.bsky.social · 19/09/2026“If they attack and pressure those who feel little to no sexual attraction or interest in sex, that is a gateway to attacking anyone who does have sex in any way that’s not ‘approved’ or ‘acceptable.’” Niger’s criminalising of asexuality is about enforcing patriarchal ideas of gender and sexuality.wearequeeraf.comWhy Niger explicitly criminalising asexuality is significant to everyone, regardless of identityTo understand Nigers asexuality criminalisation, we should see this law as part of a bigger – and growing – global trend among conservatives about 'traditional families' 36030
Reposted by Queer Judgments ProjectSenthorun S. Raj @senthorun.bsky.social · 15/09/2026“Gay Pride Week will hit all the institutions of our oppression… [and] seek to change the mind of the prejudiced, the fearful, the conditioned, the sexually repressed, all those who in oppressing us, oppress themselves.” 15 September 1973: the first national Gay Pride Week march happened in Sydney.nfsa.gov.auGay Pride Week 1973Five years before the first Mardi Gras, a national Gay Pride festival took place in Australian capital cities in September 1973. We share news footage of the Sydney demonstration and interviews with L... 0103
Reposted by Queer Judgments ProjectSam Rutherford (he/him) @echomikeromeo.bsky.social · 13/09/2026This article highlights the 'postcode lottery' - uneven impact - of these new transphobic policies. That was the case for S28 also. It's uneven because some are finding the agency to push back. We all have a responsibility to do this in the spheres in which we have leverage and influence. 03413
Reposted by Queer Judgments ProjectSenthorun S. Raj @senthorun.bsky.social · 14/09/2026“The organisation said 50 activists had been detained, more than 10 taken after police raids on their homes. It said that authorities had blocked several websites and social media accounts linked to LGBTQ+ organisations.” Chilling to see Turkish authorities escalate their attacks against LGBT folk.bbc.co.ukTurkish police detain dozens in raids on gay bars and homes of LGBTQ+ activistsHuman rights groups in Turkey have accused the government of using a family- values campaign to target the LGBTQ+ community. 23015
Reposted by Queer Judgments ProjectSenthorun S. Raj @senthorun.bsky.social · 10/09/2026“There is no reason to doubt the Full Court's construction of s 7D(1) and (2) of the Sex Discrimination Act 1984 (Cth).” Australia’s highest court has refused leave to anti-trans folks seeking to overturn the finding that “women” includes trans women for the purposes of sex discrimination law. 🏳️⚧️ 04111
Reposted by Queer Judgments ProjectSenthorun S. Raj @senthorun.bsky.social · 06/09/2026I’m in Taipei this week to present a talk on critical-creative queer legal work as part of @queerjudgments.bsky.social at the National Taiwan University (8th September). Come along if you’re around. 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🇹🇼 051
Reposted by Queer Judgments ProjectSenthorun S. Raj @senthorun.bsky.social · 29/08/2026We’re here. And we’re always queer. 🫶🏿🌈🫶🏾 25012
Reposted by Queer Judgments ProjectDaniel Grey @djrgrey.bsky.social · 27/08/2026"What becomes possible when people committed to rethinking legal education come together?" Some members of the exciting new Critical Legal Pedagogies of Race and Empire Network (CLPRE) led by @folukeifejola.bsky.social share thoughts about potential and practice. ⚖️🎓 www.youtube.com/watch?v=G405...youtube.comCritical Legal Pedagogies of Race and Empire Network LaunchYouTube video by Foluke Ifejola 076
Reposted by Queer Judgments Projectderek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 26/08/2026I appreciate that Dolly Parton refused to participate in "dress respectability" and, by her own account, modeled her aesthetic after a town "tramp," who she thought was beautiful. She separated aesthetics from character and understood "classiness" to be about how you treat people, not how you dress. 194354235284
Reposted by Queer Judgments ProjectSenthorun S. Raj @senthorun.bsky.social · 27/08/2026“A federal judge in Texas struck down a 2023 state law Tuesday that sought to restrict drag shows, ruling it was unconstitutional.” Nice to see a judge cite Dolly Parton in their judgment upholding the right of drag artists to perform. Bans on drag are just a flagrant violation of queer expression.nbcnews.comJudge strikes down Texas ban on drag shows, tells people offended by them ‘just don’t go’The federal judge, who cited Dolly Parton in his ruling, found that the state law violated the First Amendment. 1202
Reposted by Queer Judgments ProjectFeminist Legal Studies @flsjournal.bsky.social · 26/08/2026As we come together on the challenges we face, & the responsibilities we must reclaim, we are reminded that critical and collective forms of education begin with critique, move toward refusal of injustice, & culminate in the development of ideas, practices, techniques, & powers to re-world together…link.springer.comAcademic Freedom and the Role of the Academic: Resistance, Solidarity, and the Politics of Knowledge - Feminist Legal StudiesFeminist Legal Studies - 036
Reposted by Queer Judgments ProjectSenthorun S. Raj @senthorun.bsky.social · 26/08/2026“There is no such position as academic neutrality. The failure to critique the status quo is a political act of complicity in its inequalities, its injustices, and exclusions.” The Feminist Collective offers a manifesto about “academic freedom” for those of us who are struggling against injustice.link.springer.comAcademic Freedom and the Role of the Academic: Resistance, Solidarity, and the Politics of Knowledge - Feminist Legal StudiesFeminist Legal Studies - 04017
Reposted by Queer Judgments ProjectSenthorun S. Raj @senthorun.bsky.social · 23/08/2026As women, racialised, LGBT, disabled, working class folk have entered academia, we/they have exposed how knowledge is not some abstract thing to “discover.” Knowledge is produced in particular (hierarchical) social and political settings. Academia, like other institutions, reproduces inequalities. 05414
Reposted by Queer Judgments ProjectBloomsbury Politics & Area Studies @bloomsburypol.bsky.social · 15/08/2026Who designs the rules of inclusion? Listen to Kevin Guyan, author of 'Rainbow Trap: Queer Lives, Classifications and the Dangers of Inclusion', discuss this and more on Queer Lit podcast. 🎧Listen here: bit.ly/4wYaKCb 📘Kevin's book: bit.ly/45YorFlbit.lyRainbow TrapRainbow Trap reveals how the fight for LGBTQ equalities in the UK is shaped – and constrained – by the classifications we encounter every day.Looking across six… 062
Reposted by Queer Judgments ProjectSenthorun S. Raj @senthorun.bsky.social · 23/08/2026“The rollback of LGBTQ+ rights is a warning: movements that seek to undermine LGBTQ+ people are those that seek to control all of us—our freedom of expression, our personal medical decisions, and our privacy.” Fascist politics destroys our freedoms and it’s spreading globally. We must disrupt it.thelancet.comAttacks on LGBTQ+ health are a threat to allThe health of LGBTQ+ people has long been an indicator of wider advances in human rights and health equity. Modern LGBTQ+ liberation movements have achieved substantial progress towards the decriminal... 0207
Reposted by Queer Judgments ProjectSenthorun S. Raj @senthorun.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Racist systems (like slavery, colonialism, apartheid, etc) were built by academics from the social to biological sciences who legitimised racism as “objective truths” about society. This is why academic institutions need to confront the racial logics built into their systems of knowledge production. 06424
Reposted by Queer Judgments Projectfolukeifejola @folukeifejola.bsky.social · 08/09/2025My latest blog post is a detailed invitation to join a research network devoted to critical pedagogies of race and imperialism in law. In it, I outline who its organisers are, the reasons why we have set up the network,and what we hope to achieve in it. All welcome! folukeafrica.com/invitation-t...folukeafrica.comInvitation to join a Critical Research Network on Pedagogies of Race and EmpireFor some time, several colleagues and I have been thinking of how to consolidate and build on the work that we have been doing individually in translating our anti-colonial and anti-racist research… 16129
Reposted by Queer Judgments ProjectSenthorun S. Raj @senthorun.bsky.social · 15/08/2026“Academics want to promote their research outside of the university… However, in an increasingly queer- & transphobic public environment, this is becoming more difficult & more risky for researchers working on LGBTQ+ topics.” Apt report on how LGBTQ+ scholars in the UK navigate public harassment.cssd.ac.ukIs all publicity good publicity? Addressing Public Harassment in LGBT+ Research Impact and Engagement | The Royal Central School of Speech and DramaIs all publicity good publicity is a research project funded by the EDICaucus and a collaboration between Tig Slater, Sheffield Hallam University, Charlotte Jones, Swansea University, Rosie Ola-Marie,... 05026
Reposted by Queer Judgments ProjectSenthorun S. Raj @senthorun.bsky.social · 15/08/2026Minoritised academics face organised harassment for writing about racism, transphobia, genocide, etc. They/we are subject to forms of hostile exposure (whether in media or politics), which proves the point for why such scholarship is necessary in the first place. They/we all deserve so much better. 015139
Reposted by Queer Judgments ProjectSenthorun S. Raj @senthorun.bsky.social · 11/08/2026In 2019, the British government circulated a call for evidence to learn about the experiences of people with variations in sex characteristics. After 7 years, the report has finally been published and exposes the stigma, shame, and secrecy facing intersex folk. Read here: www.gov.uk/government/c... 26127
Reposted by Queer Judgments ProjectMitch Travis @profmitchtravis.bsky.social · 10/08/2026A few weeks ago, after a 7 year delay, the UK government quietly dropped the results of their 2019 Call for Evidence on variations in sex characteristics The results are striking but will of course seem deeply familiar to anyone working in this field. www.gov.uk/government/c...gov.ukVariations in sex characteristics (VSC): experiences of life in the UK for people with VSC and those who care for them 519683
Reposted by Queer Judgments ProjectJess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 05/08/2026🚨 BREAKING We are supporting a legal challenge to the Code of Practice. And we need your help. Join us in fighting back 👇goodlaw.socialWe’re supporting a legal challenge against the code of practice | Good Law ProjectThe government’s transphobic statutory guidance is now up and running – we’re fighting back 101872818
Reposted by Queer Judgments ProjectRuth Pearce @notrightruth.bsky.social · 05/08/2026A new essay for all my trans siblings and our allies. "As the UK enters a new era of state-mandated segregation, I find myself asking: was it all worth it?"ruthpearce.netWhat we have wonIt was the largest trans protest in British history. We travelled from across the country to central London. We were joined by allies, especially cis gay, lesbian, bisexual, and queer people who re… 14362147
Reposted by Queer Judgments ProjectSenthorun S. Raj @senthorun.bsky.social · 02/08/2026“Instead of relying only on couples living together, researchers will be able to understand the health of people with diverse sexual orientations much more comprehensively.” A promising change to the Australian Census. We need better data practices to account for the rich diversity of queer lives.theconversation.comFor the first time, the census will ask your sexual orientation. My new study shows why it mattersAre you straight, lesbian, gay, bisexual, pansexual, asexual or another sexual orientation? The census wants to know. Here’s why. 172
Reposted by Queer Judgments ProjectDr Kevin Guyan @kevinguyan.bsky.social · 29/07/2026📢 The Gender + Sexuality Data Lab is hiring a Research Assistant to join its project, ‘Box Breakers: Improving Organisational Data Practices for Minoritised Communities’. 22214
Reposted by Queer Judgments ProjectSenthorun S. Raj @senthorun.bsky.social · 25/07/2026“Every single person who marched today is proof that we are not going anywhere, that our joy is louder than their hate, and that London Trans+ Pride will keep fighting, keep loving and keep growing until every trans person is safe, seen, and free.” Solidarity with all marching for trans justice. 🏳️⚧️thenational.scot150,000 march through London in world’s largest trans pride, organisers sayProtesters voiced anger at the new guidance on single sex-spaces and fears that trans people are being excluded from society. 015230
Reposted by Queer Judgments ProjectGood Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 25/07/2026Over 150,000 came out in full force for London Trans+ Pride to say loud and clear: Trans rights are human rights 💖 41031286
Reposted by Queer Judgments ProjectJess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 25/07/2026Solidarity with all of our queer siblings in Berlin. No-one should be made scared to march in defence of their community, and in celebration of who they truly are. It is more important than ever that we all come together with pride, and look after one another. 134368
Reposted by Queer Judgments Project🏳️🌈 Dolly Darren 🏳️⚧️ @dollydarren.bsky.social · 23/07/2026Well, the @bishopsgateinst.bsky.social has got how to label toilets properly... 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 15518106
Reposted by Queer Judgments ProjectSenthorun S. Raj @senthorun.bsky.social · 23/07/2026It’s official: I’ve been promoted to Professor of Legal Humanities and Human Rights at Manchester Law School. My ability to think/research/write/teach anything is only possible because of the communities that continue to nourish me. So now, I’m just going to keep on sparkling. 🌈✨ 4142342
Reposted by Queer Judgments ProjectDr Tamsin Phillipa Paige @pagingdrpaige.bsky.social · 19/07/2026I won't say that this was enjoyable to record because talking about how my queer community is being demonised is always awful, but it is an important conversation with people whose company I value and enjoy. Thanks to @sandraduffy.bsky.social, @senthorun.bsky.social, and @adrienneringin.bsky.social 02912
Reposted by Queer Judgments Projectfolukeifejola @folukeifejola.bsky.social · 15/07/2026Join us for the launch of the Critical Legal Pedagogies of Race and Empire Network on 14 Sept 2026 at the University of Bristol (hybrid event). We'll explore how legal education can engage with race, empire, colonialism, and global justice www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/launching-...eventbrite.co.ukLaunching the Critical Legal Pedagogies of Race and Empire NetworkJoin us to kick off a fresh network diving into race, empire, and legal education with some great minds. 05837
Reposted by Queer Judgments ProjectDr Kevin Guyan @kevinguyan.bsky.social · 13/07/2026The Scottish Parliament's decision to collect and present data based on 'biological sex' has made it harder for researchers to use data to understand and tackle inequalities. 📝 I've written to the Scottish Parliament requesting information on this change: kevinguyan.wordpress.com/wp-content/u... 219066
Reposted by Queer Judgments ProjectSenthorun S. Raj @senthorun.bsky.social · 09/07/2026Just finished reading this fab collection of critical-creative writing pieces (“Abolition Science Fiction”) that invites us to imagine a world beyond prisons. We need more of this utopian thinking in our pursuits of justice and community. You can download the book for free here: abolitionscifi.org 294
Reposted by Queer Judgments ProjectSenthorun S. Raj @senthorun.bsky.social · 08/07/2026Flaunting some gay propaganda at work. 1756
Queer Judgments Project @queerjudgments.bsky.social · 06/07/2026The Queer Judge is taking a new shape and going places. It was written in the stars that the Queer Judge had to visit the UK Surpreme Court sooner or later. We got up to listening to poetry and doing some dancing. Watch this space - the Queer Judgments Project is letting its creative juices flow! 031
Reposted by Queer Judgments ProjectSenthorun S. Raj @senthorun.bsky.social · 06/07/2026I’m so excited to be back in Oz to teach a course on Law, Gender & Sexuality with a focus on feminist and queer judgment writing. At a time when many public institutions are censoring so-called “woke” subjects, it’s a privilege to be able to research and teach things that matter to our communities. 0305
Reposted by Queer Judgments ProjectSenthorun S. Raj @senthorun.bsky.social · 30/06/2026“The conservative judges’ written opinions were replete with transphobia — and even the dissenting, liberal position from the court failed to fundamentally uphold the rights of transgender athletes.” We have to dismantle institutionalised transphobia that results in these horrific legal decisions.truthout.orgSupreme Court Rules Against Trans Athletes in Verdict Replete with TransphobiaEven the dissenting, liberal position failed to fundamentally uphold the rights of transgender athletes. 2163
Reposted by Queer Judgments ProjectHuman Rights Watch @hrw.org · 30/06/2026The US Supreme Court has upheld state laws barring transgender girls and women from playing on school athletic teams. Transgender kids should have the same opportunities as any other kids — lawmakers in the US and elsewhere should make sure of it. 57821
Reposted by Queer Judgments ProjectSenthorun S. Raj @senthorun.bsky.social · 30/06/2026The scale of disinformation about trans people is breathtakingly painful. These moral panics are orchestrated by institutions that seek to normalise transphobic segregation. We must continue to challenge media, political, legal rhetoric that erodes trans lives under the guise of “defending biology.” 010440
Reposted by Queer Judgments ProjectKatelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 30/06/2026The trans sports ban are almost completely an invention of the media, conservative and mainstream. it has been years of lies, of shoddy fact checking on just completely false conservative claims, years of phony concern trolling. 2356671388
Reposted by Queer Judgments ProjectBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 30/06/2026Trans rights are human rights always and forever. 104154534145
Reposted by Queer Judgments ProjectMark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 30/06/2026For years, originalists have lectured us that they no longer look to "the Framers' intent," but to the "original public meaning" of the Constitution. Here, Kavanaugh throws all that out the window to lash the citizenship clause in his subjective guess as to what its Framers intended it to do. 45440113
Reposted by Queer Judgments ProjectSenthorun S. Raj @senthorun.bsky.social · 26/06/2026My cool colleagues and I have just published a conversation in Feminist Legal Studies about the political, poetic, and pedagogic possibilities of writing legal judgments using critical (Indigenous, Feminist, Queer) perspectives. You can read our reflections here: link.springer.com/article/10.1... 03620
Reposted by Queer Judgments ProjectSenthorun S. Raj @senthorun.bsky.social · 28/06/202657 years ago, queer and trans folk who frequented a bar called Stonewall decided to push back against state persecution and policing. They sang, threw things, shouted, danced, and were joined by many more people in solidarity. We mark this as the start of Pride. Pride is joy. Pride is resistance.theconversation.comStonewall riots: global legacy shows there’s no simple story of progress for gay rightsFifty years after the Stonewall riots, what is their political legacy for LGBTQ activism? 08127
Queer Judgments Project @queerjudgments.bsky.social · 27/06/2026We joined some critical legal scholars to discuss how Indigenous, Feminist, and Queer perspectives might be used to write judgments that better support the lives of minoritised people. We explore the political, poetic, and pedagogic possibilities of using critical-creative judgment writing methods.link.springer.comCritical Judgments in Hostile Times: A Roundtable on Indigenous, Feminist, Queer Perspectives - Feminist Legal StudiesFeminist Legal Studies - 053
Reposted by Queer Judgments ProjectTalia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 24/06/2026Much of the anxiety around representation would evaporate if more media was okay with depicting multiple trans and queer characters, so that identity was less foregrounded and a character's individual issues and traits weren't analysed through a lens of "does this reflect poorly on the group?" 445598