Noa Ben-Asher
@nbenas.bsky.social
St. John’s law professor; interested in gender theory, critical legal studies, law and philosophy, and political theology; author of Secular-Christian Social Justice (forthcoming, NYU Press 2026) coffee and cinema lover; they/them 🏳️⚧️
I was moved by Coates here. I guess learning through pain makes you wiser.
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Ta-Nehisi Coates on Bridging Gaps vs. Drawing Lines
Podcast Episode · The Ezra Klein Show · 09/28/2025 · 1h 9m
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September 29, 2025 at 5:59 PM
I was moved by Coates here. I guess learning through pain makes you wiser.
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Join us as our Environmental & Energy Law Program kicks off its 2025-26 lecture series.
Professor @margotpollans.bsky.social will discuss "Inundations: Permeable Bodies and the Law."
📆: Wednesday, September 17
🕑: 12:00 - 1:00 PM
📍: Jeffries Hall 1020
This event is free and open to the public.
Professor @margotpollans.bsky.social will discuss "Inundations: Permeable Bodies and the Law."
📆: Wednesday, September 17
🕑: 12:00 - 1:00 PM
📍: Jeffries Hall 1020
This event is free and open to the public.
September 5, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Join us as our Environmental & Energy Law Program kicks off its 2025-26 lecture series.
Professor @margotpollans.bsky.social will discuss "Inundations: Permeable Bodies and the Law."
📆: Wednesday, September 17
🕑: 12:00 - 1:00 PM
📍: Jeffries Hall 1020
This event is free and open to the public.
Professor @margotpollans.bsky.social will discuss "Inundations: Permeable Bodies and the Law."
📆: Wednesday, September 17
🕑: 12:00 - 1:00 PM
📍: Jeffries Hall 1020
This event is free and open to the public.
What an honor to receive this award alongside @margotpollans.bsky.social @ariezra.bsky.social @darapurvis.bsky.social @ddangaran.bsky.social
August 26, 2025 at 12:44 AM
What an honor to receive this award alongside @margotpollans.bsky.social @ariezra.bsky.social @darapurvis.bsky.social @ddangaran.bsky.social
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Today's Skrmetti opinion is devastating to transgender children and families who live in states with cruel laws barring gender affirming care. But it is very important to recognize this opinion does not give private entities, legislatures, or the President carte blanche to discriminate! 1/x
June 18, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Today's Skrmetti opinion is devastating to transgender children and families who live in states with cruel laws barring gender affirming care. But it is very important to recognize this opinion does not give private entities, legislatures, or the President carte blanche to discriminate! 1/x
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this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...
May 16, 2025 at 3:25 AM
this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...
honored to be included.
Week in review: @ganeshsitaraman.bsky.social on Antimonopoly and Artificial Intelligence, @ntinatzouvala.bsky.social on Tariffs and Economic Sabotage, and @nbenas.bsky.social on Trans Healthcare Bans and White Nationalism.
And, as always, the best of LPE from around the web in the thread 👇
And, as always, the best of LPE from around the web in the thread 👇
Weekly Roundup: May 2
Ganesh Sitaraman on Antimonopoly and Artificial Intelligence, Ntina Tzouvala on Tariffs and Economic Sabotage, and Noa Ben-Asher on Trans Healthcare Bans and White Nationalism. Plus…
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May 2, 2025 at 5:08 PM
honored to be included.
Exactly! Suspend the rule of law to encounter dangerous terrorists..
Hard to find more graphic evidence of the legacy of the war on terror, legally and politically
Trump takes credit for Mahmoud Khalil's arrest by ICE:
March 10, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Exactly! Suspend the rule of law to encounter dangerous terrorists..
Ha?
"Spending $8,000,000 for making mice transgender"
WTF is he talking about?
WTF is he talking about?
March 5, 2025 at 2:46 AM
Ha?
Sounds fascinating and important. Can’t wait to read.
My article "A New Satanic Panic," forthcoming in the Yale Journal of Law and Feminism is now up on SSRN!
A brief thread
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A brief thread
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A New Satanic Panic
<p>A broad backlash to LGBTQ visibility and equality has emerged in recent years. Its conservative proponents have asserted that queer people are Satanic, calle
papers.ssrn.com
February 28, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Sounds fascinating and important. Can’t wait to read.
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Don't forget!
Friday (12:01am-11:59pm)
‼️#EconomicBlackout‼️
No spending money, ESPECIALLY no Amazon, Target, or Walmart, for 24 hrs, unless you absolutely have to (& if you have to, pls shop local & use cash).
Image @martharich63 (IG)
h/t @katiewhittemore22.bsky.social & @jesscraven101.bsky.social
Friday (12:01am-11:59pm)
‼️#EconomicBlackout‼️
No spending money, ESPECIALLY no Amazon, Target, or Walmart, for 24 hrs, unless you absolutely have to (& if you have to, pls shop local & use cash).
Image @martharich63 (IG)
h/t @katiewhittemore22.bsky.social & @jesscraven101.bsky.social
February 27, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Don't forget!
Friday (12:01am-11:59pm)
‼️#EconomicBlackout‼️
No spending money, ESPECIALLY no Amazon, Target, or Walmart, for 24 hrs, unless you absolutely have to (& if you have to, pls shop local & use cash).
Image @martharich63 (IG)
h/t @katiewhittemore22.bsky.social & @jesscraven101.bsky.social
Friday (12:01am-11:59pm)
‼️#EconomicBlackout‼️
No spending money, ESPECIALLY no Amazon, Target, or Walmart, for 24 hrs, unless you absolutely have to (& if you have to, pls shop local & use cash).
Image @martharich63 (IG)
h/t @katiewhittemore22.bsky.social & @jesscraven101.bsky.social
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The idea that courts will stop all of this is evidence of the crisis, not a reassurance that it wont arrive
I think part of the reason the NYT (et al.) don't yet see this as a crisis is its wildly erroneous belief that "nearly all intragovernmental government disputes eventually wind up" in federal courts. (1/3) "https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/opinion/trump-constitutional-crisis.html?smid=url-share
Opinion | Trump Dares the Courts to Stop Him
The president is challenging the constitutional order.
www.nytimes.com
February 13, 2025 at 7:22 PM
The idea that courts will stop all of this is evidence of the crisis, not a reassurance that it wont arrive
Denmark please..
This is when New York decides: is it Denmark or Poland? gothamist.com/news/immigra...
New York’s fight over whether to aid ICE heats up in Albany
While federal officials lambast the state’s immigration protections, some legislators call to bolster them.
gothamist.com
February 6, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Denmark please..
Rally for Trans youth NYC!
“Stand up fight back”!
“Stand up fight back”!
February 4, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Rally for Trans youth NYC!
“Stand up fight back”!
“Stand up fight back”!
Couldn’t agree more
It is vitally important that journalists speak to comparativists who study authoritarian takeovers, like @kimlanelaw.bsky.social, and not just to people whose expertise is in US domestic law and politics.
Please listen to @kimlanelaw.bsky.social explain that while the eank insanity of the past 12 days is new to America, it's familiar in Hungary (and Poland and Turkey) down to every particular. When lawyers are more dangerous than tanks in the street...
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February 1, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Couldn’t agree more
happy to participate in upcoming Virginia Law Review symposium on legal, cultural, and political aspects of gender affirming care (February 6-7).
@jessicaclarke.bsky.social @katieeyer.bsky.social @kredburn.bsky.social @tyroclem.bsky.social
@jessicaclarke.bsky.social @katieeyer.bsky.social @kredburn.bsky.social @tyroclem.bsky.social
February 1, 2025 at 2:45 PM
happy to participate in upcoming Virginia Law Review symposium on legal, cultural, and political aspects of gender affirming care (February 6-7).
@jessicaclarke.bsky.social @katieeyer.bsky.social @kredburn.bsky.social @tyroclem.bsky.social
@jessicaclarke.bsky.social @katieeyer.bsky.social @kredburn.bsky.social @tyroclem.bsky.social
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‼️ The State Department has REMOVED TQIA+ on their page of recommendations for queer travelers. This page yesterday said "LGBTQIA+" and now just says "LGB".
The federal government is trying to erase trans people from existence.
The federal government is trying to erase trans people from existence.
January 31, 2025 at 7:56 PM
‼️ The State Department has REMOVED TQIA+ on their page of recommendations for queer travelers. This page yesterday said "LGBTQIA+" and now just says "LGB".
The federal government is trying to erase trans people from existence.
The federal government is trying to erase trans people from existence.
This cert could explain why the Court refused to consider the Due Process parental rights claims in the gender affirming care case..
SCOTUS just agreed to take a case about whether it violates parents' rights to religious exercise if schools instruct kids on gender and sexuality in ways that conflict with parents' religious convictions. (Mahmoud v. Taylor)
www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...
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www.supremecourt.gov
January 17, 2025 at 7:50 PM
This cert could explain why the Court refused to consider the Due Process parental rights claims in the gender affirming care case..
While his heart breaks for those families facing gender dysphoria, mine breaks for those families who treat a binary order of sex and gender ideology as divine gospel
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/08/o...
Opinion | The Tennessee Trans Treatment Case Is About Age, Not Sex
The state’s ban on gender-affirming medical care for minors passes the constitutional test.
www.nytimes.com
December 8, 2024 at 6:26 PM
While his heart breaks for those families facing gender dysphoria, mine breaks for those families who treat a binary order of sex and gender ideology as divine gospel
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/08/o...
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Important point of clarification from Chase Strangio: there is a history of de jure discrimination against transgender people, in terms of exclusions from the military, criminal bans on cross dressing, and other laws. (Don't forget marriage restrictions).
December 4, 2024 at 4:30 PM
Important point of clarification from Chase Strangio: there is a history of de jure discrimination against transgender people, in terms of exclusions from the military, criminal bans on cross dressing, and other laws. (Don't forget marriage restrictions).
just got this in the mail. Congrats @profbcrawford.bsky.social and @linniss.bsky.social
I am honored to be in conversation with this group of thinkers
I am honored to be in conversation with this group of thinkers
November 25, 2024 at 1:22 AM
just got this in the mail. Congrats @profbcrawford.bsky.social and @linniss.bsky.social
I am honored to be in conversation with this group of thinkers
I am honored to be in conversation with this group of thinkers
