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Senthorun S. Raj @senthorun.bsky.social · 23h

“But taking sexual violence seriously and taking institutional responsibility are not the same thing… Fixing the future is a convenient way to avoid answering for the past.” Brenda Cossman writes painfully clearly on how institutions fail sexual assault survivors.

brendacossman.substack.com

Taking Sexual Violence Seriously Is Not the Same as Taking Responsibility

The Cornell case exposes how overlapping legal systems leave nobody accountable to the person at the centre of it all.

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Senthorun S. Raj @senthorun.bsky.social · 22h

“Success is measured by whether people become safer, freer and more able to organise, speak and live with dignity… That future can only be built in partnership with the communities whose lives are most directly affected.” Governments should better support local queer communities fighting to thrive.

genevasolutions.news

❝The UN rights council can't address anti-gay laws without condemning their colonial roots - Geneva Solutions

Fifty-two of the 65 countries that criminalise consensual same-sex intimacy inherited such laws from colonial rule. Yet a proposed UN resolution on decriminalisation omits that history, risking the fa...

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genevasolutions.news

❝The UN rights council can't address anti-gay laws without condemning their colonial roots - Geneva Solutions

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Senthorun S. Raj @senthorun.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

For those who need a reminder: the term “gender ideology” was coined by conservative religious and political groups to condemn abortion, same-sex relationships, trans existence, sex education, etc. Authoritarian regimes embrace it. We will only defeat these politics by refusing anti-gender rhetoric.

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Senthorun S. Raj @senthorun.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Insisting boys must be strong is “gender ideology.” Telling girls to be nurturing is “gender ideology.” Assuming that kids ought to grow up to be heterosexual and get married is “gender ideology.” This gender ideology is everywhere. It just goes unnoticed because society mandates it as “normal.”

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brendacossman.substack.com

Taking Sexual Violence Seriously Is Not the Same as Taking Responsibility

The Cornell case exposes how overlapping legal systems leave nobody accountable to the person at the centre of it all.

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Feminist Legal Studies @flsjournal.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

“Performers face opaque algorithmic management, restrictive content rules and limited autonomy. The Platform Work Directive’s reclassification mechanism could offer new rights, but many performers resist formal employment due to stigma, surveillance and legal risks.”

link.springer.com

Between Sex and Work: Regulating Webcamming Under the Platform Work Directive - Feminist Legal Studies

This article examines the European Union Platform Work Directive (PWD) through the lens of webcamming, a form of platformised sex work largely excluded from regulatory debates on platform labour. Draw...

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Senthorun S. Raj @senthorun.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Boyfriend and I celebrate 5 years of frolics. 🦩🐕

Two men take selfie in front of water. One wears a navy t-shirt with a bear on it while the other wears a white t-shirt with Pokémon on it and an open pink collared shirt.

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Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

"Why do we wait for those carrying the batons to confess when our bruised bodies tell the whole truth?" - Mohammed El-Kurd

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Senthorun S. Raj @senthorun.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

“The only evidence we have that LLMs can ‘think’ comes from our ability to make sense of the synthetic text they extrude… In order to interpret text, we have to imagine a mind behind the text.” This is a good piece on how we conceive “intelligence” when it comes to that nebulous thing we call “AI.”

undark.org

Interview: What Does the 'I' in AI Really Mean?

Five scientific experts discuss whether artificial intelligence is — or might one day become — truly intelligent.

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Senthorun S. Raj @senthorun.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

“Children should not be exposed to a technology whose future, effectiveness, and safety we cannot predict, and for which the evidence is mostly negative.” This open letter ask the British government to pause the roll of “AI-mediated tutors” for marginalised young people. Feel free to sign/share.

docs.google.com

OPEN LETTER: PAUSE THE NATIONAL ROLLOUT OF AI-MEDIATED TUTORING IN ENGLAND'S SCHOOLS

OPEN LETTER To the Rt Hon Andy Burnham MP, Prime Minister, and the Rt Hon Lucy Powell MP, Secretary of State for Education The Department for Education has announced plans to develop, what it calls, “...

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Senthorun S. Raj @senthorun.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

“To be silent on an issue, or to appeal to ‘both sides’ (as Sheeran did in his teleprompted apology), is itself to take a political stance – and when the issue is genocide, silence or equivocation is complicity.” A searingly simple point.

lrb.co.uk

Lorna Finlayson | Public Positions

Given much of the coverage of the Ed Sheeran-Macklemore debacle, you could be forgiven for thinking that Sheeran had...

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Senthorun S. Raj @senthorun.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

“We should stop and think about the tech we are using, or even discussing, and what it actually does.” “AI” does not think. “AI” does not feel. “AI” does not have agency. We need to stop talking about “AI” like it is a person and talk about it instead as technologies with specific functionalities.

buttondown.com

How to talk about "AI" without adding to the anthropomorphization

Emily M. Bender and Nanna Inie In our op-ed for Tech Policy Press ("We Need to Talk About How We Talk About 'AI'"), we made the case against the...

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Senthorun S. Raj @senthorun.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

“Instead of treating chronological ordering as the end point, we could look more closely at actively encouraging alternative open infrastructure that is resistant to future corporate capture and embodies genuine choice for community.” We need greater control over how algorithms shape our lives.

theconversation.com

Australians could soon be able to choose what appears in their social media feed. How would this work?

People should have meaningful choices about the systems organising their attention.

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Senthorun S. Raj @senthorun.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Feeling energised after spending a few days in Dublin with some cool feminist and queer scholar-activists.

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Senthorun 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.com

Why Niger explicitly criminalising asexuality is significant to everyone, regardless of identity

To understand Nigers asexuality criminalisation, we should see this law as part of a bigger – and growing – global trend among conservatives about 'traditional families'

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Senthorun S. Raj @senthorun.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

“We urge the Turkish authorities to immediately release all detainees, halt investigations, return seized equipment, and lift blocking orders. We also call on universities and academic associations to publicly support our detained colleagues.” Academics respond to attacks on LGBTI+ folks in Turkey.

velvele.net

Judith Butler, Noura Erakat, Slavoj Žižek and others join more than 1,250 academics in joint letter against repression of LGBTI+ people in Turkey

A joint call from more than 1,250 academics, including Judith Butler, Noura Erakat, Slavoj Žižek, Susan Stryker, Jasbir Puar, Elizabeth Anderson, Etienne Balibar and Peter Hallward.

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Senthorun 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.au

Gay Pride Week 1973

Five 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...

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Senthorun S. Raj @senthorun.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

“Job postings and interviews with senior security officials at Anthropic show that the frontier AI lab is building out an extensive monitoring system to keep tabs on activists who oppose the rapid development of artificial intelligence.” This is chilling. We must resist this sort of tech policing.

prospect.org

Anthropic Is Building a Predictive Surveillance System to Monitor Activists - The American Prospect

New hires and comments in interviews show that the AI giant is using its capabilities against dissenters.

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

New: Macklemore says Robert Kraft — who owns Gillette Stadium, where Macklemore & Ed Sheeran were to perform later this month — called Sheeran. Kraft rallied other owners together behind an ultimatum for Sheeran: if Macklemore stays on the tour, you won't be allowed in our venues.

I'm not sure how to start this. So I'm going to speak from the heart and share the truth. Ed Sheeran and his team have made the decision to remove me from The Loop tour.
But before I get into it, I want to say something that should be obvious. In this moment I think it matters. I am not a victim. Ed Sheeran is not a victim. Pink is not a victim. We have careers, money, opportunities, safety and audiences around the world. Whatever consequences any of us face for what we say, we get to go home to our families.

The victims are the Palestinian people. The men, women and children who have been killed, starved, displaced and forced to live through unimaginable violence. More than 20,000 children have been killed in Gaza alone. People are being killed today, and people will be killed tomorrow. I want to make sure that as I tell this story, we don't lose sight of that.

Ed is my friend. I've known him for 13 years. We've shared late nights, studio sessions and stages. He has this infectious magic about him that I've grown to love. I consider him a brother. And because of that, we've had some difficult conversations this past week. The type of talks rooted in love and respect for one another that still end in a place of fundamental disagreement. Nothing I'm writing here is out of spite or because I want to tear down his character. But as I told Ed multiple times on the phone, our friendship can't change my responsibility to tell the truth about what happened.

Last Monday, in the middle of all the media attention surrounding Pink and what I said at MetLife, Ed told me that Robert Kraft called him. We were scheduled to play Gillette Stadium later this month, which is owned by the Kraft Group. Ed told me that Kraft said I would not be allowed to perform in his stadium. Ed also told me that Kraft had rallied some of the other
stadium owners and collectively they gave him an ultimatum: if Macklemore stays on the tour, you will not be allowed to play in our venues.

Ed was in …

What I said at MetLife I have been saying on stages around the world for almost three years. So why is it an issue now? Because now I'm sharing a stage with one of the biggest artists in the world, in some of the biggest stadiums in America. At a certain level of exposure, "Free Palestine" becomes too much of a risk. If I kept doing the shows, saying Free Palestine, with Ed implicitly supporting it, the crowd getting loud and showing undeniable support for Palestinian liberation, what artist might speak out next? The stage becomes resistance. Maybe that's why this time it became so important to silence me.

And one of the most effective ways to enforce that silence has been to weaponize the accusation of antisemitism. Antisemitism is real. And that is exactly why the word matters too much to be used as a shield against criticism of the Israeli state. When criticizing Israel, opposing Zionism or saying "Free Palestine" gets conflated with hatred of Jewish people, it doesn't protect Jewish people. It protects Israel from accountability.

I hope this isn't the end of my relationship with Ed.
Thirteen years of friendship doesn't disappear because of one painful disagreement. I hope we both continue listening, studying what is happening in Palestine and wrestling with what neutrality means in a moment like this. My door will always be open to continuing that conversation.

When my brother Omar was doing the subtitles for the video I posted from MetLife, I thanked him. He told me there's a phrase in Arabic:
لا شكر على واجب
"La shukra ala wajeb." There is no thanks for a duty.
That stayed with me. Because that's what this has become for me and millions of others around the world. A duty. Not something deserving of praise or gratitude. Not brave. Human.

Who is winning the internet, who is getting canceled, who gets to play the stadium and who doesn't, all of it becomes so small when held against what we are actually witnessing in Gaza and the West Bank. An entire people be…

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Senthorun S. Raj @senthorun.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

“I said, ‘Free Palestine!’ I want those words to be loud and clear, so that people all the way in Gaza to the occupied West Bank know that we have not forgotten about them.” It’s shameful how those in positions of power get more offended by those who speak out about genocide than actual genocide.

independent.co.uk

Macklemore dropped from Ed Sheeran tour after ‘free Palestine’ speech

The rapper was opening for Sheeran on the US leg of his tour

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Senthorun 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.uk

Turkish police detain dozens in raids on gay bars and homes of LGBTQ+ activists

Human rights groups in Turkey have accused the government of using a family- values campaign to target the LGBTQ+ community.

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Senthorun 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. 🏳️‍⚧️

GIGGLE FOR GIRLS PTY LTD (ACN 632 152 017) & ANOR
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1 The applicants seek special leave to appeal from the whole of the judgment of the Full Court of the Federal Court of Australia (Perry, Abraham and Kennett JJ), which dismissed the applicants' appeal against the whole of the judgment of the Federal Court (Bromwich J) and upheld the respondent's cross-appeal.

2 There is no reason to doubt the Full Court's construction of s 7D(1) and (2) of the Sex Discrimination Act 1984 (Cth). Any appeal dependent on the demonstration of error in the Full Court's construction of those provisions
has insufficient prospects of success to warrant a grant of special leave to appeal.

3 Special leave to appeal is refused with costs.

Gageler CJ
Gordon J
Edelman J
Gleeson J
Jagot J
Beech-Jones J

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Senthorun S. Raj @senthorun.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

“The United Kingdom unveiled sanctions on illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank and said France and Canada would announce similar penalties later on Tuesday, in a coordinated move that underlined Israel’s growing isolation on the international stage.” A crucial (and overdue!) act.

cnn.com

UK, France and Canada sanction Israeli settlements in West Bank as Britain accuses settlers of ‘ethnic cleansing’ | CNN

The United Kingdom unveiled sanctions on illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank and said France and Canada would announce similar penalties later on Tuesday, in a coordinated move that ...

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Palestinian children watch The Lion King in Gaza. Photo: Omar Ashtawy

Children watch the movie on a screen outside. In the background the ruins of Gaza

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Senthorun S. Raj @senthorun.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

A reminder: you cannot stop fascism by conceding to the “legitimate concerns” of racists.

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Senthorun S. Raj @senthorun.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I’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. 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🇹🇼

【Event】Critique and Creativity in Legal Work: Pursuing Queer Judgments for Community Wellbeing and Human Rights

Can legal judgments only be written in accordance with existing legal language and rules? If we rethink a case from the perspectives of KU, trans people, and other marginalized communities, what might legal judgments not become? And how can a judgment truly respond to the community's safety, freedom, well-being, and justice while maintaining legal understandability?
This lecture invites Professor Senthorun (Sen) Raj from the Queer Judgments Project to discuss the methodology and political significance of "#酷兒化法律判決" (Queerized Legal Judgments) - Queerized legal writing is not just rewriting court judgments, but also a practice that combines critique and creation: scholars, activists, creators, lawyers, and judges reimagine and write about legal cases involving gender/sexuality, minorities, and other marginalized groups. It challenges the long-standing legal assumptions about "normal", family, gender, body, and rights, and questions: if the law truly puts the life of the community at the center, how can judgments be different?

The lecture will further discuss how #批判性的法律實踐 (critical legal practices) can help us reimagine litigation, judgments, reform, resistance, and the relationship between law and communities.

All are welcome to join the discussion, including those interested in #健康人權 (health and human rights), #性別正義 (gender justice), policy research, community participation, and critical research methods.

Lecturer | Professor Senthorun (Sen) Raj
● Professor of Legal Humanities and Human Rights, Manchester Law School, Manchester Metropolitan University
● Former Chair of Amnesty International UK
● Co-editor of Queer Judgments (2025)

Time | September 8, 2026 (Tue) 14:00–16:00
Location | National Taiwan University School of Public Health R604
Participation | No registration required, those interested can attend directly on the day.

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Senthorun S. Raj @senthorun.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

“I'm very upset and hurt right now. I've been angry and sad and I've not slept very well. I'm just very tired, I thought I was at the end of this process and now it feels like I'm trapped in limbo…” Institutionalised transphobia enables the obstruction of gender transition care. It’s so harmful.

wearequeeraf.com

“Devastated”: Up to 800 Trans+ patients affected by Welsh Gender Service surgery cancellations

Questions are being raised over the evidence behind NHS Wales's decision to cancel surgeries for Welsh Gender Service patients, who tell QueerAF of their 'absolute devastation'

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Senthorun S. Raj @senthorun.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

“The guidance will see Trans+ pupils segregated in third spaces, their personal agency and autonomy diminished, and their teachers forced to self-censor in the classroom, all of which serves to invisibilise Trans+ youth in the public sphere.” The British government continues to trash trans kids.

wearequeeraf.com

Section 28 2.0: A complex web of anti-trans guidance that will make it vastly harder to overturn

Anti-trans rhetoric has been spread across a growing myriad of guidance and documents, with Trans+ children headed back to school facing segregation and teachers banned from “encouraging” them to ques...

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Senthorun S. Raj @senthorun.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

“In late July, Germany's cabinet quietly approved a draft law that would create a broad legal basis for using artificial intelligence in visa, residence, and asylum procedures.” This is another worrying example of how governments are using “AI” to undermine the rights of people who seek asylum.

techpolicy.press

Germany's Draft Law on AI in Migration Raises Rights and Bias Concerns

Germany’s new AI migration law could reshape visa, asylum, and residence procedures. Natalie Welfens, Josefine Flesch and Bernard Quante examine risks.

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Senthorun S. Raj @senthorun.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

“Israeli forces have demolished more Palestinian homes in the occupied West Bank, as settlers attacked residents of the village of Burqa in an escalation of violence ahead of Israeli elections in October.” Israel’s dispossession and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians continues. It’s horrifying.

aljazeera.com

Israeli forces raze West Bank homes as EU weighs ban on settlement goods

Pogroms in the occupied West Bank continue, with Israeli forces demolishing homes and settlers attacking residents.

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Senthorun S. Raj @senthorun.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

“Detrans.ai is a computer program, not a person. It can’t actually ‘understand’ anything. Its code is written specifically to erase and invalidate people like me, and the program is simply executing those instructions.” Another worrying example of an “AI” chatbot producing dangerous misinformation.

rewirenewsgroup.com

This AI Chatbot Is Targeting Trans Users With Conversion Therapy

Detrans.ai says it helps users explore gender dysphoria in a balanced way, but it promotes anti-LGBTQ+ messages and relies on discredited science. Here is what this AI therapy chatbot actually told ou...

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Senthorun S. Raj @senthorun.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

We’re here. And we’re always queer. 🫶🏿🌈🫶🏾

Two racialised people hold up signs. One says, “Bollox to Borders! Grant safety to all LGBT asylum seekers.” The other sign says, “This is a safe space. Gay vibes only.”

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Senthorun S. Raj @senthorun.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Sparkled for Manchester Pride. And remember: stay unapologetically gay. ✨🌈

Man takes selfie with glitter and rainbow make up on his face. His t-shirt says, “Happy Pride.”

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Senthorun S. Raj @senthorun.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Trans people deserve so much better than having to live through hostile politics that caricature their existence as a problem. Behind all the “legitimate concerns” and “careful reviews” lies an entrenched fear that being trans is bad and is something doctors, politicians, etc should try and prevent.

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Senthorun S. Raj @senthorun.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

This is a clear reminder to all racialised, gay, and other minoritised people who seek to befriend fascists and pursue their politics. No matter how well you spout their poisonous rhetoric, they hate the nature of your existence, and the moment will come when you will be trashed with the rest of us.

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Senthorun S. Raj @senthorun.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

“Too often older LGBTQ+ people are regarded as simply ‘old’ and as a problem that needs dealing with. This ignores the rich, varied, amazing and remarkable lives many of us have lived.” Important report from the UK shows why we must better account for and address the needs of older LGBTQ+ folks.

scenemag.co.uk

Older LGBTQ+ people face greater risk of loneliness, poverty and poor health, report warns

A rapidly growing older LGBTQ+ population faces a future of poorer health, greater financial insecurity and increased social isolation unless urgent action is taken, a new report has warned. Analysis...

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Senthorun S. Raj @senthorun.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

This is an apt reminder that there are still academics and commentators who think the freedom to be racist (or bigot generally) is more of an issue to “defend” than the freedom of those of us who seek to challenge racism and are currently subject to censorship or abuse for calling people racist.

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Senthorun S. Raj @senthorun.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

“Dolly used to joke that if she was a man, she’d be a drag queen. In fact, she once entered a lookalike drag competition as herself—and lost. She was an indefatigable defender of her gay fans, guarding against hate and championing the underdog with her trademark compassion.” RIP, Queen.

motherjones.com

Here's to Dolly: union member, vaccine hero, literacy giant, staunch gay ally.

Community-based philanthropy and fighting for the underdog defined the superstar’s legacy.

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Senthorun 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.com

Judge 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.

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Senthorun 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.com

Academic Freedom and the Role of the Academic: Resistance, Solidarity, and the Politics of Knowledge - Feminist Legal Studies

Feminist Legal Studies -

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 25/08/2026

[Exit Queen.]

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Senthorun S. Raj @senthorun.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

“I’m at that point in my life where I just want to be able to do good things that can be carried on. I’m proud of my legacy so far, and I hope to just continue to do things that might be of use to other people…” Vale, Dolly Parton. An icon. A legend. A human who gifted us so much fabulousness. 💖

people.com

Dolly Parton, Country Music Legend, Dies at 80, Just 4 Days After Saying, ‘I Still Have so Many Things I Want to Achieve’

Dolly Parton has died at the age of 80. The country music legend was known for songs including “Jolene,” “I Will Always Love You” and “9 to 5.” She also starred in movies like ‘Steel Magnolias’ and ‘T...

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TACC @tacc.org.uk · 25/08/2026

Rest in Peace, Dolly a true ally to the community. 🙏🩵🩷🤍🩷🩵

Image of Dolly Parton supporting the LGBTQ+ Community

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Senthorun S. Raj @senthorun.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

“Living through a global resurgence of fascism, the greatest difficulty has proved to be not arguing against it, but convincing non-fascists that fascism’s adherents really mean it. That they believe what they are telling us they believe—and they will act accordingly.” We must resist fascist logic.

liberalcurrents.com

Fascists Really Believe It

Millions could die because of ideas intellectually and morally equivalent to the ‘lizard people’ conspiracy theory.

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Senthorun S. Raj @senthorun.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

As 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.

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Senthorun S. Raj @senthorun.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

“Because of a concerted campaign to promote anti-LGBTQIA+ rhetoric… search engine and social media algorithms now assume that LGBTQIA+ content is unpopular or offensive and should be suppressed, putting outlets at an inherent disadvantage.” We need to disrupt algorithms that trash good journalism.

wearequeeraf.com

Metric anxiety is fueling a dangerous decline in quality queer journalism

Why so many articles about queer people focus on celebs, rely on pics of hypermasculine guys and use rage-bait misinformation

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