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Dr Tamsin Phillipa Paige
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Associate Professor at Deakin Law. Apparently International Law's cool queer aunt. Once had an ANU student call me a handmaiden of Satan. Disabled. Aces. Editor of Queer and Feminist International Law book series (Routledge). She/Her
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Dr Tamsin Phillipa Paige @pagingdrpaige.bsky.social · Nov 12
Look people now that the migration from the platform Elon Musk is forcing us to dead name is well and truly on foot, you may want to check out this podcast that is all about international law and current events (with sweary and snarky takes from me, more earnest ones from my co-hosts)
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assignedmale.bsky.social
We owe it to these kids to keep fighting for truth to prevail.
4 frame comic. A woman with a long purple scarf is waiting for the subway. a street journalist approaches her and asks : miss! do you think we're approaching a moment when the public will recognize that allowing children to be transed was a terrible idea? She replies : considering that with each passing day, the public sees how much of the anti-trans movement was engineered by the wealthy to fuel culture war hate on the back of a vulnerable community, I'd say we owe massive apologies to trans people. just this week, we learned that a decade ago, epstein suggested using trans rights as a wedge issue, and that jk rowling's team was courting him. we also learned that what we were told about the closure of the tavi- stock clinic, the only youth clinic in the u.k. for gender-affirmative care, was nothing but lies. rowling's pal hilary cass forced the clinic to close after reports of 1000 complaints from families. we learned this week that it only received eight over 10 years, mostly about delays. in the meantime, the health dep't has been concealing trans children suicide numbers, which we now know rose dramatically following the closure. The terrible idea was always to scapegoat trans kids.
February 13, 2026 at 8:10 PM
pagingdrpaige.bsky.social
I'm really excited to be giving this talk next Friday, even if it will be midnight here while doing it. Log in and join me so you can hear me talk about my current obsession: Stories
lauterpachtcentre.bsky.social Lauterpacht Centre for International Law @lauterpachtcentre.bsky.social · 9h
Join us for next Friday's lunchtime lecture, 1 pm 20 February 2026: 'Reading International Law as Stories' with Prof Tamsin Paige, Deakin Law School. Sandwich lunch from 12.30 pm for all attendees. More info: buff.ly/TPCzOd3
February 13, 2026 at 10:30 PM
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drspacejunk.bsky.social
It goes without saying, but someone should say it: they're all men.
February 13, 2026 at 9:00 AM
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And season 3 of #CalledToTheBar is live! We open with a powerful conversation on feminist careers in international law. Tamsin Paige is joined by Dianne Otto, Christine Chinkin, and Judge Hilary Charlesworth to talk mentorship, activism, academia, and feminist practice
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64. Feminist Careers in International Law
In the Season 3 opener of Called to the Bar, Tamsin Phillipa Paige (Deakin Law School) is joined by an extraordinary panel to reflect on what a feminist career in international law can look like in pr
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February 13, 2026 at 6:04 AM
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Cartoon. Person says to other person „We invented a robot that answers questions.“, adding, „we just have to feed it 10 baby giraffes a day“. The other person asks „But it answers the questions correctly?“ Person responds „Oh my goodness, no. No no no no no.“ By Aram J. French Appropriated due to missing alt text
February 12, 2026 at 1:44 PM
pagingdrpaige.bsky.social
So I recently sat down with Sainted Judge Hilary Charlesworth (blessed be her name), Prof Di Otto, and Prof Christine Chinkin to record the Season 3 opener of #CalledToTheBar

Go have a listen: on.soundcloud.com/Vaq9CC1yiokQ...
64. Feminist Careers in International Law
In the Season 3 opener of Called to the Bar, Tamsin Phillipa Paige (Deakin Law School) is joined by an extraordinary panel to reflect on what a feminist career in international law can look like in pr
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February 13, 2026 at 6:41 AM
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Academic selfie: and my part of Jessup is done for the year edition
February 13, 2026 at 1:42 AM
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Another example of the flawed nature of so-called 'AI' LLMs. Keeps getting things wrong. Doesn't find all the literature. Essesntially, it doesn't know what it's doing. researchwhisperer.org/2025/05/20/h...
Help! I’m an Early Career Researcher and genAI doesn’t know who I am
I’ve been a relatively slow-adopter of the genAI movement in academia. For a while now I’ve been under the (misguided?) perception that if I used genAI in any way to conduct my research, I would so…
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February 12, 2026 at 6:13 AM
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Academic selfie: Mo Jessup Mo Problems edition
February 12, 2026 at 6:54 AM
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Albanese says if Herzog had not been here he ‘wouldn’t have been able to raise the issue of Zomi Frankcom with him’. Sorry? He couldn’t raise the killing of an Australian aid worker with the head of state of the country whose military killed her without first inviting him for dinner at Kirribilli?
Albanese on Herzog visit
February 11, 2026 at 10:27 AM
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Academic selfie: day one of Jessup judging edition
February 11, 2026 at 3:26 AM
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kkarapanagiotidis.bsky.social
Watching Albanese tell us that we the Australian public need to bring the temperature down is gaslighting at its worst.

We didn’t invite Herzog. You were warned this would undermine unity and social cohesion yet you insisted.
February 10, 2026 at 10:01 PM
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omarsakr.bsky.social
Fuck Israel and fuck everyone who defends it. Right now the president of this apartheid monstrosity is sitting down with Australia’s prime minister for a cozy dinner - fuck him, too.
Haaretz Israeli Court Denies 5-year-old Palestinian Cancer Patient Life-saving Treatment Because of Gaza Address The judge ruled that the fact that the boy currently resides in Ramallah is immaterial, since the government's policy to bar all Palestinians registered in Gaza from receiving medical care in Israel 'draws its validity from security and political considerations' Chen Maanit 05:48 PM • February 09 2026 IST
February 10, 2026 at 9:54 AM
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Why is it always those who set the house on fire are the first to ask why everyone is screaming? Politicians can’t inflame tensions in Australia by inviting President Herzog and then feign ignorance and shock at the public reaction.
February 10, 2026 at 10:55 PM
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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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BBC Radio 4 - Free Thinking, Queer Histories
How do we apply modern LGBT+ language and identities to historical figures?
www.bbc.co.uk
February 1, 2026 at 10:10 AM
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I’ll say it again: for me, the necessary indicator of a country might successfully begin a lunar settlement is whether it can consistently operate an inter-regional public transport system for 15-20 years.

Affordable, reliable, comfortable trains - in inhabited, oxygenated, temperate places.
February 9, 2026 at 12:34 AM
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Marko Milanovic does not mince words.
In 2025, we international lawyers—and the legal system in which we operate—are standing at the precipice. That things are beyond bad should not be in doubt. This is not some run-of-the-mill crisis of the kind that international lawyers revel in, as Hilary Charlesworth warned us against. This is collapse, or something collapse-adjacent. And we are not alone, here at the precipice. Everyone else is here too. Some don’t think things are as catastrophic as they first seem. Some are delighted with how things are going (though there are few international lawyers among them). Some are despairing (and here the international lawyers are legion). Everyone is anxious. I, too, am anxious, standing here at the precipice. I see the looming catastrophe, for our world and for our field. The catastrophe is already here. It is in Gaza, in Sudan, in Ukraine. It is in the global decline of democracy and rising authoritarianism, including in the United States, the linchpin of the current international order. The question is how big this catastrophe is going to get, and what will come after it. And that we just don’t know. We can’t know, standing, as we are, here at the precipice.
February 6, 2026 at 8:38 AM
pagingdrpaige.bsky.social
I really appreciate an institution that has "pass with revisions" instead of me having to decide if they are minor or major revisions
February 6, 2026 at 12:33 AM
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Enormously excited to announce that we will soon launch Season 3 of #CalledToTheBar with a blockbuster first episode on feminist careers in international law featuring Judge Hilary Charlesworth and Professors Christine Chinkin and Di Otto, chaired by @pagingdrpaige.bsky.social.
February 5, 2026 at 11:36 PM
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Highly recommended.
February 5, 2026 at 8:26 PM
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This is only related in a sideways manner, but: the story of any small slice of humanity is the story of humanity, just boiled down and distilled. So:

In 2020, we had a lot of conversations about harassment at SF/F conventions, and Isaac Asimov came up several times.
karenho.bsky.social Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 8d
the Epstein files are really devastating because they remind me of how many girls and women miss out on professional opportunities, mentorship and careers because of how many powerful, rich and influential men only view girls and women — and interactions with them — through the lens of sex
February 5, 2026 at 8:58 PM
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Comrades, if you want to read about CLS at a more accessible price, the good people at @edinburghup.bsky.social have released my book The Rise and Fall of Critical Legal Studies in paperback - edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-the-ris...
A picture of two paperback copies of The Rise and Fall of Critical Legal Studies by James Gilchrist Stewart in front of a bookshelf.
February 5, 2026 at 3:43 AM
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"The (UN) commission of inquiry has found that Herzog has incited genocide... Someone who incites genocide does not satisfy the good character test for entering Australia. On the contrary, a person who incites genocide should be arrested on arrival and tried under Australian and international law."
Isaac Herzog is accused of inciting genocide in Gaza. He shouldn’t be welcomed to Australia | Chris Sidoti
Anthony Albanese should recognise he made a terrible mistake in inviting the Israeli president to Australia and put a stop to this divisive political visit
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February 4, 2026 at 11:50 PM
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good day to reshare direkris.itch.io/you-are-jeff...
February 4, 2026 at 6:41 PM
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Everything by Radiohead (except Talk Show Host – that's their only good song, the rest are terrible)
charlypudding.bsky.social Charly, smiling politely @charlypudding.bsky.social · Mar 29
Fuck your favourite song. Tell me your least favourite song. The one that makes you die inside the moment you hear the first 3 seconds.
February 4, 2026 at 10:18 PM