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Martijn Mos 🏳️‍🌈
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Assistant Prof of IR @PolSciLeiden | Cornellian and Oxonian | Tennis aficionado | LGBT+ rights, Gender, International norms & EU politics
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📣🏳️‍⚧️ 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.

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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…
September 22, 2025 at 9:35 AM
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www.volkskrant.nl/kijkverder/v...
Schotwonden bij Palestijnse kinderen wijzen op gericht vuur
Artsen zagen in Gaza een verontrustend patroon: kinderen met een enkele schotwond in hoofd of borst, een teken dat er gericht op ze is geschoten. Dat blijkt uit onderzoek van de Volkskrant, die sprak ...
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September 14, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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I am elated to share that the special section "Threats and Opportunities: The Contestation of Gender and Sexuality in International Organizations" that I co-edited with the wonderful Jelena Cupać of the @wzb.bsky.social is finally out in @ifjpglobal.bsky.social! www.tandfonline.com/toc/rfjp20/2...
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July 16, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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✨📣 Very happy that our article with @martijnmos.bsky.social "Opportunity beckons: the anti-gender movement at the European Parliament" is out @ifjpglobal.bsky.social. You can find it open access here: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/NNB93...
Opportunity beckons: the anti-gender movement at the European Parliament
The European Parliament (EP) is commonly viewed as the most progressive institution of the European Union (EU), given its historic promotion of gender equality and lesbian, gay, bisexual, and trans...
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June 16, 2025 at 8:47 AM
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www.politico.eu/article/hung...
Hungary’s anti-LGBTQ+ rules breach EU law, top court adviser says
Legal opinion bolsters EU’s challenge against Viktor Orbán’s conservative culture war.
www.politico.eu
June 5, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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📅 National strike on 10 June – universities take a stand ✊
🎓 Students & staff protest budget cuts to higher education.
📍Demo at Dam Square, Amsterdam
🏛️Leiden Uni supports the strike but stays open.
🤝Organised by FNV, AOB, LSVb & WOinActie.
🔗More info: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
June 5, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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Join us! Two vacancies for an AP of Political Science at Leiden!

www.universiteitleiden.nl/vacatures/20...
Assistant Professor of Political Science
Assistant Professor of Political ScienceThe Institute of Political Science at the Faculty of Social Sciences at Leiden University is currently looking for at least two (2) assistant professors in Poli...
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May 21, 2025 at 8:24 AM
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Nederlandse universiteiten hebben nog geen antwoord op de sloopkogel van Trump www.groene.nl/artikel/leun...
Nederlandse universiteiten hebben nog geen antwoord op de sloopkogel van Trump
Door Trumps verwoestingsobsessie kunnen wetenschappers in Nederland niet meer samenwerken met Amerikaanse collega’s, zien ze cruciale data verdwijnen of stagneren hun onderzoeken. De wetenschappers mo...
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May 18, 2025 at 11:39 AM
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Lees dit artikel op de Volkskrant www.volkskrant.nl/buitenland/n...
Niod-onderzoeker: ‘Genocide is geen lichtknopje, maar een dimmer waarbij het geweld geleidelijk wordt opgevoerd’
Volgens genocideonderzoeker Uğur Ümit Üngör, verbonden aan de UvA en het Niod, is er op basis van wetenschappelijke inzichten geen ontkomen aan: ‘Israël heeft nu zoveel oorlogsmisdaden gepleegd in Gaz...
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May 17, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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The 2026 Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, Genders and Sexualities has been canceled because no one US university dares to host the event in the current climate.
Women Historians Conference Canceled, Co-Presidents Ousted
A message to prospective “Big Berks” attendees led to online blame on the planned host university and the political moment. But the cancellation is more complicated than that.
www.insidehighered.com
April 7, 2025 at 8:54 AM
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Beetje zoet. Aan de andere kant: de opdracht van de auteur voorin het boek stemt mild. ‘Voor Colin’, staat op de titelpagina. ‘We houden van je. Precies zoals je bent.’ - @marjapruis.bsky.social

www.groene.nl/artikel/wat-...
De godvruchtige stichting Civitas Christiana bekijkt de Lentekriebels door een wel erg perverse bril
De godvruchtigen van de stichting Civitas Christiana verspreiden laster met hun Zwartboek Lentekriebels. Ze gaan zo tekeer tegen het lesmateriaal van Rutgers en kinderboeken over intimiteit dat je je ...
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April 1, 2025 at 6:44 AM
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Three prominent Yale professors depart for Canadian university, citing Trump fears
History department power couple Timothy Snyder and Marci Shore and philosophy professor Jason Stanley will begin teaching at the University of Toronto’s renowned Munk School in fall 2025.
yaledailynews.com
March 29, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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Deze week staat er een stuk in @groene.nl waarvan ik hoop dat niet alleen mensen die het rechtstreeks aangaat, maar ook heel veel anderen gaan lezen. Het gaat over de strijd van patiënten met long covid én ME/CVS om erkenning en hulp. www.groene.nl/artikel/waar...
Hoewel long covid en ME/CVS steeds meer erkend worden, krijgen patiënten vaak te horen dat het tussen de oren zit
Tijdens de pandemie werd de groeiende groep patiënten met long covid grotendeels genegeerd. ME/CVS-patiënten ervaren dit al decennia. Langzaam leidt hun gezamenlijke strijd om erkenning tot resultaat....
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March 21, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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"in light of the recent events taking place in the U.S. under the new government, I no longer feel like I would be able to live, work and do research freely without fear."

From one of our PhD admits.
March 18, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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Disconcerting beyond measure. Allowing Pride was a precondition for EU membership. The ban goes against ECtHR jurisprudence. Let's see how Brussels and Strasbourg will respond.

www.politico.eu/article/orba...
Orbán bans Pride in Hungary as polls show rival surging
Fidesz says it’s trying to prohibit Pride to keep children safe from the so-called LGBTQ+ agenda, but opponents say the prime minister’s party is trying to create a wedge issue.
www.politico.eu
March 18, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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The guy who asked Zelensky if he owned a suit, Brian Glenn, is a reporter for the pro-Trump media network Real America’s Voice and also Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's boyfriend. He got one of the rare Oval Office interviewer spots only after the White House blocked the Associated Press.
February 28, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/o...
Opinion | Germany’s Far-Right Comeback
Germany’s attempts to “remember away” its Nazi past has instead paved the way for an extremist resurgence.
www.nytimes.com
February 20, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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A large chunk of the international community rallying behind the ICC.

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Joint Statement in support of the International Criminal Court (ICC) – Estonia in UN
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February 7, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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We owe a debt of gratitude to the thousands of trans servicemembers who’ve risked their lives to protect our country.

Donald Trump’s ban on trans people serving in the military is cruel and unconstitutional — and we’ll see him in court.

Join the fight back: hrc.im/transmilitaryban
January 28, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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Check out this special issue of @mobilization.bsky.social on "Weaving the Transnational Anti-gender Networks", edited by Manuela Caiani and @tranfi.bsky.social, and featuring a contribution by yours truly.

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Volume 29 Issue 4 | Mobilization: an International Quarterly
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January 13, 2025 at 12:14 PM