@queerjudgments
We are a collective of scholars, lawyers, activists, and creatives who are interested in re-imagining and re-creating judgments from queer and other critical perspectives. https://www.queerjudgments.org/
Group of people sit on chairs facing the camera with a background screen that says Feminist and Queer Judgments Movement.
Our fabulous co-curator Marica Moscati presents the Queer Judgments Project at Re:Law conference at Humboldt University in Berlin.
Over two decades ago, the European Court of Human Rights held that trans people should not be forcibly “othered” as a third gender. Recent decisions in the UK have obscured this, which is why we should push back on the idea that affirming trans folk in their gender is a “radical” move. It’s basic. 🏳️⚧️
The question is always "what if a kid is wrongfully transitioned" and never "what if a trans kid is denied the ability to transition and endures years of excruciating dysphoria and has to have multiple surgeries later in life to fix the issues caused by going through the wrong puberty."
“Frameworks permitting routine exclusion or discretionary verification of sex based on appearance or stereotypes would raise serious concerns under international human rights law…”
UN experts remind the UK that it must avoid gender policing and ensure trans folk can live with safety and dignity.
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QueerAF article headline that reads: What Trans+ kids say about draft education guidance that could force schools to segregate them.
“Draft education guidance is the latest in a long series of transphobic policies targeting schools.
“If this becomes law, it will only compound the harm already being done to Trans+ young people,” @sasha98.bsky.social 🧵
Some good news;
The @nionwomen.bsky.social petition has now passed 85,000 signatures increasingly demonstrating that the transphobes’ claim to be representing “women” is a lie.
Man in glitter wearing a rainbow Amnesty International t-shirt holds up a sign that says, “Protect Trans Kids. Provide Gender Affirming Care.”
I’m marching at the Sydney Mardi Gras tonight. As always, I’m here in unapologetic solidarity with trans folks who are enduring systematic political and social attacks on their existence.
We will keep marching for a world where we everyone can flourish with freedom, justice, and community.
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Coming in November from @brisunipress.bsky.social, In the Aftermath of Empire explores the impact of British imperialism on gender and sexuality law in four jurisdictions.
Please tell your libraries to pre-order!
bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/in-the-after...
Screenshot of author in a pink sherwani smiling with text which says “The Emotions of LGBT Rights and Reforms: Repairing Law.”
So excited to be heading to Melbourne on Thursday 12th March to give a talk on my new book. I’ll be talking about current conflicts over LGBT rights and how emotions shape the possibilities of social repair and law reform. Come along if you’re around!
Register here: www.monash.edu/law/research...
Frameworks initially developed to help legal advisors support LGBTQ+ asylum claimants are increasingly used by decision-makers as reasons for refusal. @apowelllaw.bsky.social discusses the findings in his new book, Queering UK Refugee Law 📖👇
blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...
Screenshot of article link.
“The Emotions of LGBT Rights and Reforms: Repairing Law gives language to what we know in our bodies and powerfully models embodied writing and analysis…”
Samantha Peters shares a beautiful review of my book, exploring imagination as justice work.
Read here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Are you a data nerd who enjoys thinking/being queer? Then share your work at the Queer Data Showcase in Manchester.
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Today is the start of LGBT+ History Month in the UK. I joined some cool people a while ago to reflect on why queer and trans histories are rich and powerful. Our histories can illuminate the possibilities of activism and politics, as we work to build a better world.
Keep the conversation going.
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“There’s no single answer that will solve all our future problems. There’s no magic bullet. Instead there are thousands of answers—at least. You can be one of them if you choose to be.”
― Octavia E. Butler, A Few Rules for Predicting the Future: An Essay
If you're around in London on Wednesday 11th of February, I will be giving a book talk at City St Georges, University of London.
Full details here: www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/news-and-eve...
“The Assembly has now called on member states to act swiftly, arguing that ending conversion practices requires not only legal bans, but sustained political will, properly funded services for survivors, and public education to prevent further harm.”
This is welcome news from Europe. 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
Have thoughts about queer museums, queerness in museums, or just plain being queer in museums? We'd love to hear from you. Early findings are turning out to be amazing, and we hope it helps museums do better. mqedu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... @alanaaaab.bsky.social
#Queer #Museums #QueerMuseums
Now published and free to download! 'Law and Justice in the 1950s' is a fantastic collection, edited by Fiona Cownie and Rosemary Auchmuty.
My chapter is on the Wolfenden Report, homosexuality and women - others cover everything from legal education to Beeching to London smog.
Copies of Celebrating Women in Legal History, edited by Lorren Eldridge, Emily Ireland and Caroline Derry. The blue and purple cover shows a door opening onto bookshelves.
Table of contents, showing chapters by Jennifer Aston, Christine Anne George, Anne Logan, Lisa Cowan, Nina Krsljanin, and Valentina Cvetkovic-Dordevic.
Table of contents, showing chapters by Maria Fletcher, Charlie Peevers, Seonaid Stevenson-McCabe, and Deborah Siddoway.
It's published! Histories of women legal historians, edited with @loreldridge.bsky.social and @dremilyireland.bsky.social
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/celebrati...
Feels like an appropriate day to repost my article in DLA Briefings on the human rights implications of treating trans people as a third sex
'A third sex: returning to an intermediate zone'
For those of you looking to follow some more queer scholar-activists in 2026, check out this starter pack with many fabulous folks.
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“The unsatisfactory situation in which post-operative transsexuals live in an intermediate zone as not quite one gender or the other is no longer sustainable.”
As the European Court of Human Rights made clear in Goodwin v UK (2003), forcing trans folk to live as a “third sex” erodes their dignity.
If you're interested in presenting or performing at the Fanniversary conference, please submit a title, biography and 150 word abstract of your work here www.vaginamuseum.co.uk/fanniversary...
We are particularly interested in work that bridges the gap between disciplines; works that agitate, distort and/or subvert heteronormative or cisnormative ideologies; and works that centre marginalised voices.
Call for papers, performances, facilitators. Fannyversary conference 2026. Feminism, gender and justice in an increasingly reactionary world. Deadline: February 6 2026. Details on our website.
This spring, we've teamed up with Open University to examine feminism, gender and justice within law, theatre and the humanities at our inaugural Fanniversary conference. We want to hear your proposals for papers, lectures, performances, workshops and more. www.vaginamuseum.co.uk/fanniversary...
Are you a private law nerd who flirts with queer scholarship? Are you a queer scholar with a curiosity about private law? Do you like hanging out with cool people? Then check out the Queering Private Law conference taking place in London in September this year and submit a paper if you’re keen!
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My suspicion is that the Trans community and allies left Twitter and arrived here early but it’s still worth re-upping this for those who left it a little longer:
go.bsky.app/N6Qai5F
Keen to publish in the AFLJ? We publish online year-round, but if you’re interesting in publishing in our 2025 General Issue, submit by 30 June. Our amazing Editors can’t wait to work with you! (Or contact us: australianfeministlawjournal@outlook.com)
“Poland’s ruling coalition has adopted plans to legally recognize ‘significant others’ in informal relationships, including between same-sex couples.”
This limited legal recognition of same-sex couples in Poland is a small step as LGBT folks there fight for greater legal and social support.
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Thank you to everyone who read and voted for Machines of Consent. It’s very exciting to see our first major project receive this recognition.
2025 was such an amazing year for transfemme literature, and everyone who was nominated in the TFR awards deserves a massive congratulations!!