Danish Sheikh
@dansheikh.bsky.social
Law, theatre, queerness, repair | Lecturer at La Trobe, Melbourne
https://scholars.latrobe.edu.au/dsheikh
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Danish Sheikh
@dansheikh.bsky.social
· Nov 15
Hi friends old and new! I write plays about the law and research creative forms of legal resistance as well as the reparative possibilities afforded by law. None of these things inform my personality, which is 90% arguing about Taylor Swift with strangers on the internet.
Pleased to have this be my lasting legacy to legal scholarship.
July 13, 2025 at 6:17 AM
Pleased to have this be my lasting legacy to legal scholarship.
Bonus points for getting to spend some time in the magical Tilburg woods.
June 13, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Bonus points for getting to spend some time in the magical Tilburg woods.
I was grateful for the chance to think about how dramaturgy plays out in my work: as a way to stage legal thought, as a means of bringing life into law, and as a training mechanism to practice the increasingly difficult task of repair.
June 13, 2025 at 11:47 AM
I was grateful for the chance to think about how dramaturgy plays out in my work: as a way to stage legal thought, as a means of bringing life into law, and as a training mechanism to practice the increasingly difficult task of repair.
Through conversations that ranged from walking and letter-writing as legal method, to the protocols of official wear at international courts, we found a range of entry points to talk about how we train ourselves to notice law, and what it might take to notice differently. (5/n)
June 13, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Through conversations that ranged from walking and letter-writing as legal method, to the protocols of official wear at international courts, we found a range of entry points to talk about how we train ourselves to notice law, and what it might take to notice differently. (5/n)
The workshop prompted participants to ask how we are oriented towards the various sources of international law, and how we bring them to life within our professional work. (4/n)
June 13, 2025 at 11:47 AM
The workshop prompted participants to ask how we are oriented towards the various sources of international law, and how we bring them to life within our professional work. (4/n)
These questions of orientation and genre are often relegated to the margins of legal scholarship. What a joy then to spend a day watching them take centre-stage at this wonderful workshop convened by @riclements.bsky.social and Alex Dela Cruz. (3/n)
June 13, 2025 at 11:47 AM
These questions of orientation and genre are often relegated to the margins of legal scholarship. What a joy then to spend a day watching them take centre-stage at this wonderful workshop convened by @riclements.bsky.social and Alex Dela Cruz. (3/n)
- these orientations affect the voices we choose to listen to and the causes we consider worth fighting/ thinking/ writing about. Conversely, how we narrate our work affects how it is received: style and form are inextricably linked to the content of our thoughts. (2/n)
June 13, 2025 at 11:47 AM
- these orientations affect the voices we choose to listen to and the causes we consider worth fighting/ thinking/ writing about. Conversely, how we narrate our work affects how it is received: style and form are inextricably linked to the content of our thoughts. (2/n)
One way to understand the nature of legal work is to ask how the jurist becomes oriented towards their materials. What draws us in or excites us, what leaves us unmoved or repels us - (1/n)
June 13, 2025 at 11:47 AM
One way to understand the nature of legal work is to ask how the jurist becomes oriented towards their materials. What draws us in or excites us, what leaves us unmoved or repels us - (1/n)
almost, but then it made it stronger ...
June 13, 2025 at 11:35 AM
almost, but then it made it stronger ...
Oh wow, absolutely!
June 13, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Oh wow, absolutely!
Aw that’s lovely. I hope we can all have coffee and say nice things about each other together sometime :)
June 5, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Aw that’s lovely. I hope we can all have coffee and say nice things about each other together sometime :)
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June 5, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Hi Sandra! Check out orinam.net which is a really excellent archival source for your questions.
Excited to kick off a month long fellowship at the EUI in Florence with this workshop around my forthcoming book. Say hi if you’re around!
June 3, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Excited to kick off a month long fellowship at the EUI in Florence with this workshop around my forthcoming book. Say hi if you’re around!
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Last month, we Iaunched Queer Judgments in Melbourne alongside two other fantastic books on queer law edited by @pagingdrpaige.bsky.social & @claerwen.bsky.social. We had a lovely chat/performance about our books with @dansheikh.bsky.social, @juliadehm.bsky.social, Di Otto & Sarah Ward. Listen here:
Queer Connections: A Triple Book Launch
The Institute for International Law and the Humanities at Melbourne Law School was pleased to host a triple book launch to celebrate and draw out the connections between three recent edited volumes fo
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June 2, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Last month, we Iaunched Queer Judgments in Melbourne alongside two other fantastic books on queer law edited by @pagingdrpaige.bsky.social & @claerwen.bsky.social. We had a lovely chat/performance about our books with @dansheikh.bsky.social, @juliadehm.bsky.social, Di Otto & Sarah Ward. Listen here:
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This Friday, to mark IDAHOBIT, IILAH is hosting a screening of CALL HER GANDA at Melbourne Law School from 2-5pm. The screening will be followed by a discussion with Sanam Amin, chaired by Di Otto. Register here: www.eventbrite.com.au/e/film-scree... For more about the film: www.callherganda.com
Film Screening: Call her Ganda
Please join IILAH for the Australian premiere of 'Call Her Ganda'
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May 12, 2025 at 10:03 PM
This Friday, to mark IDAHOBIT, IILAH is hosting a screening of CALL HER GANDA at Melbourne Law School from 2-5pm. The screening will be followed by a discussion with Sanam Amin, chaired by Di Otto. Register here: www.eventbrite.com.au/e/film-scree... For more about the film: www.callherganda.com
Have had the most joyful time exploring how the lecture-performance might reshape how we teach, feel, and think about law. Last week I shared ‘Much to do with Law, but More to do with Love’ at the narrm ngarrgu library: part queer legal history, part personal storytelling, part staged feeling.
May 7, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Have had the most joyful time exploring how the lecture-performance might reshape how we teach, feel, and think about law. Last week I shared ‘Much to do with Law, but More to do with Love’ at the narrm ngarrgu library: part queer legal history, part personal storytelling, part staged feeling.
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A queer delight to celebrate queer legal scholarship today in Melbourne & launch our family of books: Queer Judgments, Queer Engagements with International Law, & Queer Encounters with International Law.
@claerwen.bsky.social
@senthorun.bsky.social
@juliadehm.bsky.social
@dansheikh.bsky.social
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@claerwen.bsky.social
@senthorun.bsky.social
@juliadehm.bsky.social
@dansheikh.bsky.social
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May 1, 2025 at 11:25 AM
A queer delight to celebrate queer legal scholarship today in Melbourne & launch our family of books: Queer Judgments, Queer Engagements with International Law, & Queer Encounters with International Law.
@claerwen.bsky.social
@senthorun.bsky.social
@juliadehm.bsky.social
@dansheikh.bsky.social
🌈🎓
@claerwen.bsky.social
@senthorun.bsky.social
@juliadehm.bsky.social
@dansheikh.bsky.social
🌈🎓
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Join @senthorun.bsky.social, @claerwen.bsky.social, @dansheikh.bsky.social, @juliadehm.bsky.social, Di Otto and others in Melbourne on Thursday (1st May) for some critical reflections and celebrations of queer legal scholarship.
Join us in person or online: events.unimelb.edu.au/IILAH/event/...
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Join us in person or online: events.unimelb.edu.au/IILAH/event/...
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Given recent legal shittyness, I’m glad I’ll be in Melbourne in a few weeks to join queer, trans legal scholars who are imagining how we might use/disrupt law in affirming ways. We’ll talk about the challenges of queer legal work and share queer joy with cabaret.
Join us (online or in person)!
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Join us (online or in person)!
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Queer Connections: A Triple Book Launch
This event will celebrate and draw out the connections between three recent edited volumes focused on queer approaches to law: Nuno Ferreira, M...
events.unimelb.edu.au
April 28, 2025 at 5:00 AM
Join @senthorun.bsky.social, @claerwen.bsky.social, @dansheikh.bsky.social, @juliadehm.bsky.social, Di Otto and others in Melbourne on Thursday (1st May) for some critical reflections and celebrations of queer legal scholarship.
Join us in person or online: events.unimelb.edu.au/IILAH/event/...
🌈🎓
Join us in person or online: events.unimelb.edu.au/IILAH/event/...
🌈🎓
Oh wow I *love* that. Chucking it in the list.
April 12, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Oh wow I *love* that. Chucking it in the list.
Yeah that communal vibe is where I’m stuck with trying to find the right example.
Meanwhile “Yarnheads at the Rave” - I cannot get over what a great title this is??
Meanwhile “Yarnheads at the Rave” - I cannot get over what a great title this is??
April 11, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Yeah that communal vibe is where I’m stuck with trying to find the right example.
Meanwhile “Yarnheads at the Rave” - I cannot get over what a great title this is??
Meanwhile “Yarnheads at the Rave” - I cannot get over what a great title this is??
On point 1 - love that, chucking it in my list.
On point 2 - it indicates that you and I are basically the same person …
On point 2 - it indicates that you and I are basically the same person …
April 10, 2025 at 10:10 PM
On point 1 - love that, chucking it in my list.
On point 2 - it indicates that you and I are basically the same person …
On point 2 - it indicates that you and I are basically the same person …
Think I’m on to something here …
April 10, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Think I’m on to something here …
Rankings are foolish and meaningless unless I agree with them (which in this case I largely do):
www.vulture.com/article/best...
www.vulture.com/article/best...
Every Studio Ghibli Film, Ranked
The animation powerhouse behind some of the best films ever made is back with The Boy and the Heron.
www.vulture.com
March 28, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Rankings are foolish and meaningless unless I agree with them (which in this case I largely do):
www.vulture.com/article/best...
www.vulture.com/article/best...
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CLS friends - this is going to be a great event - Anderson's article in Theater Journal is terrific. muse.jhu.edu/article/8457... Ping @henriquecarvalho.bsky.social @illanwall.bsky.social @dansheikh.bsky.social
March 8, 2025 at 7:39 AM
CLS friends - this is going to be a great event - Anderson's article in Theater Journal is terrific. muse.jhu.edu/article/8457... Ping @henriquecarvalho.bsky.social @illanwall.bsky.social @dansheikh.bsky.social