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Feminist Legal Studies
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Feminist Legal Studies is committed to an international and interdisciplinary perspective and to the promotion of feminist work in all areas of law, legal theory and legal practice.

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Feminist Legal Studies @flsjournal.bsky.social · Nov 23
📔: “The spirit and gist of a gathering of people who worked closely with Drucilla…”

Thrilled to announce the publication of our new special issue, “Limit, Transformation, Imagination — Honouring the Legacy of Drucilla Cornell” edited by Karin van Marle.

Read here: link.springer.com/journal/1069...
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Happy New Year! 🎊

In 2026, as ever, critical feminist legal scholarship has an important role to play in shaping dialogues about freedom, justice, and community.

As an interdisciplinary journal, we welcome critical feminist work. Consider submitting your work to us: link.springer.com/journal/10691
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January 1, 2026 at 3:45 PM
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This poetic/critical piece reflects on nine criminal prosecutions for suspected ‘illegal’ abortion in England that occurred between 2012 & 2025. This essay-meditation evokes the haunting, suffocation & cruelty imposed by the criminalisation of abortion.

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December 21, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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Sara Ahmed is so important here:

”I would describe citation as a rather successful reproductive technology, a way of reproducing the world around certain bodies…way[s] of making certain bodies and thematics core to the discipline, and others not even part”.
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December 21, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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“As feminist scholars committed to anti-colonial and abolitionist praxis, we understand knowledge production cannot be separated from the material conditions and structures of violence in which it is embedded.”

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December 21, 2025 at 12:40 AM
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Critical Times Law & Humanities Summer School University of Lucerne July 6-10, 2026. Open to PhD, PostDoc, Grads to re/think the significance of bodies in various contexts, situations and relations. Or to ask: do bodies still matter? Deadline: March 20, 2026
More Info: www.unilu.ch/en/faculties...
December 13, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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divorcehistory.bsky.social
📣Today we're launching the #CfP for the 1-day conference 'Broken Bonds: New Perspectives on Marital Breakdown in the English Common Law World 1801-1969' online & in-person 20 April 2026 #history #familylaw #divorce

CfP deadline is 2 Feb 2026

See 👇for details.

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December 11, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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stoffelalex.bsky.social
Next week I'm moderating an @histmat.bsky.social event on the instantly-canonical 'Feminism Against Cisness' with @riislover667.bsky.social, @reproutopia.bsky.social, Lola Olufemi, and @weakanalogy.bsky.social.

Thursday, December 11, 6pm GMT, online

To register: www.eventbrite.com/e/feminism-a...
December 1, 2025 at 3:28 PM
flsjournal.bsky.social
📔: “The spirit and gist of a gathering of people who worked closely with Drucilla…”

Thrilled to announce the publication of our new special issue, “Limit, Transformation, Imagination — Honouring the Legacy of Drucilla Cornell” edited by Karin van Marle.

Read here: link.springer.com/journal/1069...
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November 23, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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saranahmed.bsky.social
No! The Art and Activism of Complaining is being published by Feminist Press on April 7, 2026! We fill those speech bubbles: pop, snap, sizzle, shriek, scream, clatter, splatter! feministpress.org/collections/...
No!
An assembly of refusals portraying the radical power of “no” by the renowned scholar and author of The Feminist Killjoy Handbook, Sara Ahmed.To be heard as complaining is not to be heard, writes Sara ...
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November 21, 2025 at 9:25 AM
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florarenz.bsky.social
Funnily enough I just got called Sir by the train conductor because I have short hair and was wearing a hat… so what I’m saying is that I’m sure this will all work out great.
flyingrodent.bsky.social flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · Nov 20
The core aim of the Terf movement - a tiny number of newspaper columnists who melted the brains of middle aged reactionaries - was always to encourage maximum public hostility against transgender people, and give them the impunity to act upon it.
November 20, 2025 at 8:45 AM
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I wrote something reflecting on today.
goodlawproject.bsky.social Good Law Project @goodlawproject.bsky.social · Nov 20
Today is Trans Day of Remembrance.

Today we remember and grieve all those we have lost. But we also commit – collectively – to fighting for those of us who are left. There will be hope as long as we continue to stand together.
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November 20, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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senthorun.bsky.social
Today is Trans Day of Remembrance. Trans folk endure political violence that negates their identities, strips away their healthcare and excludes them from public life. They’re trashed as an “ideology.” But they’re people. They deserve to live in a world that unconditionally nurtures their existence.
November 20, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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We are seeking short reflections on:
Surveillance culture and technology
Artificial intelligence
Climate change
Fake news and misinformation
Reproductive justice
Racial and gender inequalities
Indigenous rights
More here: www.feministstudies.org/home.html
Feminist Studies
The first scholarly journal in women's studies and a flagship interdisciplinary venue for new areas of feminist research, theory, commentary, and art.
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November 13, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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Book Review of 3 amazing books on #MagdelaneLaundries, & Mother&BabyHomes #MBH @flsjournal.bsky.social out.

No way to sum up the ways in which survivors & affected people are continuily let down by the Govs on island of Ireland & religious institutions but these books try 1/3

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Claire McGettrick, Katherine O’Donnell, Maeve O’Rourke, James M Smith, Mari Steed: Ireland and the Magdalene Laundries: A Campaign for Justice. Bloomsbury, 2021. ISBN: 978-0-7556-1748-7 (HB). Katherin...
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November 10, 2025 at 10:58 AM
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OPEN ACCESS: Bringing Governance Home: Feminists, Domestic Violence, and the Paradoxes of Rights in India

This article offers a rich account of feminist legal strategy in India, tracing how domestic violence came to be codified, contested, and reframed within feminist and global legal frameworks.
Bringing Governance Home: Feminists, Domestic Violence, and the Paradoxes of Rights in India - Feminist Legal Studies
Feminists have had spectacular successes transnationally in shifting the norms governing family life through legislation proscribing domestic violence. This article looks at the case of India and asks...
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November 5, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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It was an absolute pleasure to act, alongside Katie Jukes, as Guest Editor for the Queer Judgment focused special section of Amicus Curiae 7:1

The whole issue is available open access and available at the link below!

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November 3, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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Submissions close at the end of the week (31st October)!
flsjournal.bsky.social Feminist Legal Studies @flsjournal.bsky.social · Sep 22
📣🏳️‍⚧️ 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…
October 27, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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queerjudgments.bsky.social
We’re so excited to be interviewed for @oxfordcsls.bsky.social’s “Talking about Methods” podcast. We discussed assembling a global collection that foregrounds the possibilities, tensions and hopes of re-writing judgments from queer and other critical perspectives.

Listen to and share the podcast. 📻
Nuno Ferreira and Senthorun Raj on The Queer Judgements Project
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October 29, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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Submissions close at the end of the week (31st October)!
flsjournal.bsky.social Feminist Legal Studies @flsjournal.bsky.social · Sep 22
📣🏳️‍⚧️ 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…
October 27, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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Publish your work in the Bristol University Press series Gender and Crime in a Globalised World. Do get in touch!
June 18, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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📢 criticallegalthinking.com/2025/10/20/c...
CfP: Brick-by-Brick, Wall-by-Wall: Co-producing Transnational Feminist Abolitionist Knowledges
19th June 2026 | London Community Space + Online  Are you committed to feminist justice beyond the criminal legal system?  Do you work across
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October 20, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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We are still open to submissions for our upcoming special issue, “Feminist Responses to the Regression of Trans Rights: Strategies, Alliances, Hope.”

Please share this call for papers with anyone you think interested. The deadline for abstracts is Friday 31st October.

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flsjournal.bsky.social Feminist Legal Studies @flsjournal.bsky.social · Sep 22
📣🏳️‍⚧️ 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…
October 19, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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folukeifejola.bsky.social
"Anti-immigrant march" is such a telling phrase. An immigrant is just a person who exercises the freedom they are born with, which is recognised by all human rights legislation, and moves across imaginary lines on the ground. Being "anti-immigrant" means anti-movement, anti-freedom and anti-person.
September 16, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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senthorun.bsky.social
“To assemble, to say no, to do no, throws so much open … doing what we can, when we can, however we can, in the wear and tear, for as long as it takes.”

Just read @saranahmed.bsky.social’s energising new book on complaining as a collective task of feminist and queer world (un)building. Get a copy!
Hand holds up the book, “No Is Not A Lonely Utterance: The Art and Activism of Complaining.”
October 5, 2025 at 8:25 AM
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Feminist Legal Studies is pleased to offer open access to our 2025 prize-winning article by Leon Laidlaw. This powerful article examines how colonial gender norms underpin prison systems, harming trans, Indigenous, and cis women.

You can read it for free here: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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October 1, 2025 at 6:00 PM