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Feminist Legal Studies @flsjournal.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

📣🏳️‍⚧️ Call for Papers We are inviting papers for our special issue, “Feminist Responses to the Regression of Trans Rights: Strategies, Alliances, Hope.” The issue will be dedicated to trans-inclusive feminist legal analysis that addresses attacks on trans rights & lives. Details below. Please share.

Call for Papers: Special Issue of Feminist Legal Studies

Feminist Responses to the Regression of Trans Rights: Strategies, Alliances, Hope

Amidst continuing backlash against trans rights, recognition and inclusion, two recent decisions from the UK have substantially impacted not only trans people’s legal status but also legal and social narratives of sex, gender and identity. The narrative that trans inclusion has a chilling effect on the rights of others, particularly women, has been adopted uncritically by both the UK Supreme Court in For Women Scotland and the Office for Students in its finding that the University of Sussex’s trans-inclusion policy had a chilling effect on free speech. These cases highlight a backlash that has been ongoing for some time, and sparks debates and fear of what may lie in the near future for trans people and kin, as well as other gender-variant persons, not only in the UK, but across jurisdictions and in a global perspective. The discourse of the ‘gender critical’ movement is splintering both the feminist and LGBT+ movements globally, with some aligning politically with the Far- and Christian Right against trans rights, adopting their terminology of ‘gender ideology’ and potentially posing a wider threat to sexual and reproductive rights.

While this a difficult situation for trans people, kin and allies, this special issue seeks to emphasise that legal battles – including battles (temporarily) lost – are also an opportunity to seek to reinforce old alliances and to form new ones, to find new legal frontiers and imaginaries, to reinforce the theoretical and methodological underpinnings of legal arguments as well as intergenerational memory of what feminist legal work is, has been and should be about. How, we ask, do these decisions (and those like them globally) reflect and reproduce structures of coloniality, heteronormativity and cisnormativity? What do these decisions add to critiques of legal feminism? What would be construct…

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Liam Gillespie @liamgillespie.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

New article by me: The March for Australia’s racism can’t just be blamed on far-right ‘extremists’ - it’s been enabled by the mainstream | Liam Gillespie www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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The March for Australia’s racism can’t just be blamed on far-right 'extremists’ - it’s been enabled by the mainstream | Liam Gillespie

The weekend’s protests provided an alibi to nationalism, obscuring the central place racism has always occupied

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Erman Örsan Yetiş, PhD @ermanorsanyetis.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

My new article on possibilities and challenges of engaging men in resisting #antigenderism toward #genderequality and #socialjustice for lasting social transformation is published in Humanities & Social Sciences Communications @springernature.com #openaccess here: rdcu.be/eyoBH

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Senthorun S. Raj @senthorun.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

This is your ongoing reminder that anti-migrant (“illegals”) and anti-trans politics (“gender ideology”) are current anchors of several authoritarian governments. People who tolerate, even selectively, such politics are facilitating the rise of fascism. This is why solidarity is key to oppose this.

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Gabriel Caluzzi @gabrielcaluzzi.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

“I Don’t Know for Certain”: A Content Analysis of Reddit Posters’ Accounts of Drink Spiking New paper looking at relationships, contexts and impacts of alcohol & drug-facilitated sexual violence ('drink spiking'). Led by Jess Ison & @alcoholandmedia.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Rosemary L Hill @rosemaryhell.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

It was great to talk to Oliver Carter about our book 'Unsilenced: Women Musicians, Gender-Based Violence, and the Popular Music Industry' (by @hellharpy.bsky.social , @snappyalligator.bsky.social and me). Podcast: linktr.ee/soundadvicepod Book: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/unsilenced-9798765101742/

Rosemary Hill and Olly Carter on a video call for Sound Advice podcast.

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Purplepingers ☭ @purplepingers.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Finally figured out how to use google maps properly to map all the empty homes that have been submitted and it’s pretty wild

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Nick Feik @nickfeik.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

Australia could be taking advantage of the millions of students now too scared to go to university in America. Instead both Dutton and Albanese are threatening to *massively reduce* intl student numbers.

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A/Prof Bianca Fileborn (she/they) @snappyalligator.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Happy re-learn how to program your oven clock day, Victoria

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A/Prof Bianca Fileborn (she/they) @snappyalligator.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

"I continue to teach my daughter not to smile or say thank you in the face of unwanted compliments. And if she is perceived as bad mannered, I’m OK with that. Men’s egos are no longer the priority. And what is? My daughter – discovering her own self-worth." www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

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A moment that changed me: my 11-year-old daughter received an unwanted compliment – and I taught her how to respond

At a party, a man looked my child up and down in admiration, before praising her looks. I saw her visibly shrink. So I taught her the value of bad manners

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LEX Network @lexnetwork.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Delighted to share that Gender & Justice has launched

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Senthorun S. Raj @senthorun.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

FYI: @amnestyuk.bsky.social has launched an online course for folks who want to learn more about feminist and queer approaches to gender justice. It explores connections between human rights struggles (abortion, trans care, LGBT education, etc) and provides tools for action. It’s free to access! 🌈🎓

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Gender Justice: Addressing Challenges - Online Course - FutureLearn

Defend human rights and advance gender justice by tackling discrimination and the anti-gender movement. Gain insights and actionable strategies from Amnesty International.

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The Chaser @chaser.com.au · 05/02/2025

Today two world-class cunts came together to have a cunt-off at the White House Read more: chaser.com.au/world/cunt-o...

Image of Trump and Netanyahu. Headline: Cunt out-cunts Cunt

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A/Prof Bianca Fileborn (she/they) @snappyalligator.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

We have been censored in the US for our research on LGBTQ+ sexual violence. My co-authors and I are extremely concerned about research and activism being censored and the speed with which organisations have acquiesced to transphobic, homophobic and misogynist demands.

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A/Prof Bianca Fileborn (she/they) @snappyalligator.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

“Gender-affirming care is potentially life-saving, or at the very least life-affirming. It almost invariably leads to better social and emotional outcomes. Further restricting access is not the “protection” its opponents claim.” theconversation.com/can-a-child-...

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Can a child legally take puberty blockers? What if their parents disagree?

Recent political attention might imply gender-affirming care is risky, controversial, perhaps even new. But Australian law views it as a legitimate medical treatment.

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A/Prof Bianca Fileborn (she/they) @snappyalligator.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

“We’ve been talking about this issue... for 50 years... You can play around with the current structures of the adversarial system – and we have – but it hasn’t really changed much. It’s time we try something else.” www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

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‘Rape is effectively decriminalised’: how did sexual assault become so easy to get away with?

Few alleged offenders are found guilty. Many victims are retraumatised. What is getting in the way of the Australian criminal courts providing justice to sexual assault survivors?

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Dr Sophie Hindes 🌈💗they/them @drsophiehindes.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

📢 New pubs! Thrilled to share our two papers in Trauma, Violence & Abuse. We scoped the field of LGBTQ+ adult sexual violence research, analysing what's known & how the field can improve LGBTQ+ inclusion. Open access—links in comments! Authored with @snappyalligator.bsky.social & Jess Ison

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A/Prof Bianca Fileborn (she/they) @snappyalligator.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

It's new publication day x 2 for @drsophiehindes.bsky.social Jess Ison and me! We reviewed and critically evaluated the literature on LGBTQ+ sexual violence. Article 1 looks at prevalence rates and perpetration of SV for LGBTQ+ people: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Dr Sophie Hindes 🌈💗they/them @drsophiehindes.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Join us at the upcoming 'Beyond Deficit Thinking: Strengths-Based Approaches to LGBTQ+ Research and Practice Forum' hosted in-person at La Trobe City Campus on the afternoon of 11th March. Hybrid option available. lnkd.in/g4ZWGXVh

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Pandymonium @pandymonium.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

The question that should always be asked first is 'what sort of man wants to be a cop?' Once the 'wants to help people' bs has rightly been rejected what's the answer? He wants to feel superior, be dominant, and force others to capitulate under the guise of 'the law' www.sbs.com.au/news/article...

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'Alarming' number of Victoria Police staff investigated for alleged domestic violence, sex crimes

Hundreds of Victoria Police members have been investigated for alleged sex crimes and family violence, both on and off duty, prompting alarm from the force's chief.

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couldn't agree more with Tariq, don't take ur foot off the gas! the genocidal settler colonial apartheid state & all oppressive regimes must fall! "we deserve more than a ceasefire. we deserve liberation — everywhere, all of us. don't take your foot off the gas — we have so much work to do." Tariq

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we deserve more than a ceasefire. we deserve liberation — everywhere, all of us. don't take your foot off the gas — we have so much work to do.

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A/Prof Bianca Fileborn (she/they) @snappyalligator.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Is “fucked if I know” an acceptable response to reviewers’ requests to further articulate the theoretical implications of an empirical study? Asking for me. 🫠

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A/Prof Bianca Fileborn (she/they) @snappyalligator.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

100% We need to shift the focus from survivor's 'needing' to speak to whether and how we listen to what they're saying.

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A/Prof Bianca Fileborn (she/they) @snappyalligator.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

It was an unequivocally bad idea to leave journal article revisions requiring extensive engagement with dense theory to do in my first week back at work 😅😭😰 #academiclife #regrets

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A/Prof Bianca Fileborn (she/they) @snappyalligator.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

Nice present waiting on my first day back for the year! Shout out to my co-authors @rosemaryhell.bsky.social @hellharpy.bsky.social order your copy now, it’s actually affordable! www.bloomsbury.com/au/unsilence...

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Emily Mayo @emilymayo.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

The facts are in on this: The younger a child is when they are put into prison, the more likely it is they will continue to be in prison across their lifetimes. These policies harm children, families and communities and create crime.

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Rosemary L Hill @rosemaryhell.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

New book! Unsilenced: Women Musicians, Gender-Based Violence, and the Popular Music Industry.

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A/Prof Bianca Fileborn (she/they) @snappyalligator.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

This is so sad. Time to rewatch her epic Snatch Game.

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