Shaimaa Abdelkarim
@shaimabdelkarim.bsky.social
assistant prof. in postcolonial legal theory and critical race studies ☀️
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Just a few hours left for this, but it's plenty of time. Even just answering the "overall do you agree" question can be meaningful. Speak against this endless cruelty.
The UK government is proposing radical and punitive changes to settlement rules. This is settlement, not citizenship. The consultation is open until 12 February; please respond to it and oppose these evil proposals. Amnesty have a good guide: www.amnesty.org.uk/resources/gu...
Guidance for responding to 'A Fairer Pathway to Settlement' consultation
We are Amnesty International UK. We are ordinary people from across the world standing up for humanity and human rights.
www.amnesty.org.uk
February 12, 2026 at 9:02 PM
Just a few hours left for this, but it's plenty of time. Even just answering the "overall do you agree" question can be meaningful. Speak against this endless cruelty.
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Today is the launch of the travelling exhibition, Picturing Scholasticide @unileiden.bsky.social. It raises awareness of Israel's destruction of Palestinian academic & intellectual life, & what can be done to support Palestinian scholars & institutions.
www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/20...
www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/20...
Picturing Scholasticide: Exhibition Launch
Picturing Scholasticide is a traveling exhibition initiated by staff and students of Leiden University to publicize the social and legal effects of Israel's effort to destroy Palestinian institutions ...
www.universiteitleiden.nl
February 11, 2026 at 10:27 AM
Today is the launch of the travelling exhibition, Picturing Scholasticide @unileiden.bsky.social. It raises awareness of Israel's destruction of Palestinian academic & intellectual life, & what can be done to support Palestinian scholars & institutions.
www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/20...
www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/20...
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"If Hind [Rajab]’s voice is a reproach, then the humanity of her would-be rescuers is redemption, however inadequate. For the hours they spent with her ... they expiate our collective guilt." | @idreesahmad.bsky.social
Hind Rajab and the Dying Light
Kaouther Ben Hania’s film retells the story of the 5-year-old’s final hours and amplifies her voice to indict the world’s silence over Gaza’s children
newlinesmag.com
February 12, 2026 at 7:09 PM
"If Hind [Rajab]’s voice is a reproach, then the humanity of her would-be rescuers is redemption, however inadequate. For the hours they spent with her ... they expiate our collective guilt." | @idreesahmad.bsky.social
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"this does not need a balm
this needs an ending"
--Dionne Brand, Nomenclature for the Time Being
Audio: milkweed.org/between-the-...
this needs an ending"
--Dionne Brand, Nomenclature for the Time Being
Audio: milkweed.org/between-the-...
Dionne Brand : Nomenclature — New and Collected Poems | Milkweed Editions
Today’s guest Dionne Brand, to borrow the words of John Keene, “is without question one of the major living poets in the English language.” Kamau Brathwaite called Brand “our first major exile female ...
milkweed.org
February 9, 2026 at 7:04 PM
"this does not need a balm
this needs an ending"
--Dionne Brand, Nomenclature for the Time Being
Audio: milkweed.org/between-the-...
this needs an ending"
--Dionne Brand, Nomenclature for the Time Being
Audio: milkweed.org/between-the-...
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A 2026 reminder: refuse selective empathy and oppose all politics/policies that consign people (such as migrants, Indigenous communities, disabled people, trans folk, Palestinians, etc) to their deaths.
January 1, 2026 at 10:40 AM
A 2026 reminder: refuse selective empathy and oppose all politics/policies that consign people (such as migrants, Indigenous communities, disabled people, trans folk, Palestinians, etc) to their deaths.
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📢 New series: 10 Questions With…
In a time of global crisis, feminist ideas matter.
10 Questions with Feminist Academics centres feminist thinking in today’s policy and movement debates.
🗓️ Launching Mon 2 Feb
💬 What feminist questions should we be asking right now?
In a time of global crisis, feminist ideas matter.
10 Questions with Feminist Academics centres feminist thinking in today’s policy and movement debates.
🗓️ Launching Mon 2 Feb
💬 What feminist questions should we be asking right now?
January 30, 2026 at 11:43 AM
📢 New series: 10 Questions With…
In a time of global crisis, feminist ideas matter.
10 Questions with Feminist Academics centres feminist thinking in today’s policy and movement debates.
🗓️ Launching Mon 2 Feb
💬 What feminist questions should we be asking right now?
In a time of global crisis, feminist ideas matter.
10 Questions with Feminist Academics centres feminist thinking in today’s policy and movement debates.
🗓️ Launching Mon 2 Feb
💬 What feminist questions should we be asking right now?
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NEW BOOK!
I'm very happy to say that my new book, Utopia, co-written with Douglas Mao, has been published on-line
academic.oup.com/book/62279
I'm very happy to say that my new book, Utopia, co-written with Douglas Mao, has been published on-line
academic.oup.com/book/62279
Utopia
Abstract. Ideal societies, better worlds, more just and peaceful ways of living: these have long been the stuff of human beings’ social dreaming. In this c
academic.oup.com
February 3, 2026 at 4:30 PM
NEW BOOK!
I'm very happy to say that my new book, Utopia, co-written with Douglas Mao, has been published on-line
academic.oup.com/book/62279
I'm very happy to say that my new book, Utopia, co-written with Douglas Mao, has been published on-line
academic.oup.com/book/62279
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Research Handbook on 3rd World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL)
[Eds] Antony Anghie, B.S Chimni, @michaelfakhri.bsky.social hri.bsky.social, Karin Mickelson & Vasuki Nesiah
Contribs: @azizaahmed.bsky.social @seanmacr.bsky.social @leslava.bsky.social
Read the Intro: doi.org/10.4337/9781...
[Eds] Antony Anghie, B.S Chimni, @michaelfakhri.bsky.social hri.bsky.social, Karin Mickelson & Vasuki Nesiah
Contribs: @azizaahmed.bsky.social @seanmacr.bsky.social @leslava.bsky.social
Read the Intro: doi.org/10.4337/9781...
November 14, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Research Handbook on 3rd World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL)
[Eds] Antony Anghie, B.S Chimni, @michaelfakhri.bsky.social hri.bsky.social, Karin Mickelson & Vasuki Nesiah
Contribs: @azizaahmed.bsky.social @seanmacr.bsky.social @leslava.bsky.social
Read the Intro: doi.org/10.4337/9781...
[Eds] Antony Anghie, B.S Chimni, @michaelfakhri.bsky.social hri.bsky.social, Karin Mickelson & Vasuki Nesiah
Contribs: @azizaahmed.bsky.social @seanmacr.bsky.social @leslava.bsky.social
Read the Intro: doi.org/10.4337/9781...
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Great opportunity: gendersexualityfeminist.duke.edu/black-feminist-theory-summer-institute
Deadline for applying: December 15, 2025
Deadline for applying: December 15, 2025
Year 5 of the Black Feminist Theory Summer Institute: Applications are open, more info on our website. Please spread the word.
October 14, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Great opportunity: gendersexualityfeminist.duke.edu/black-feminist-theory-summer-institute
Deadline for applying: December 15, 2025
Deadline for applying: December 15, 2025
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New article co-authored with @gautambhatia88.bsky.social published in @compconstudies.bsky.social on the vastly divergent approach of Indian courts on the right to housing in cases about home demolitions and evictions. It's open access for 3 months!
www.elgaronline.com/view/journal...
www.elgaronline.com/view/journal...
www.elgaronline.com
October 8, 2025 at 1:51 PM
New article co-authored with @gautambhatia88.bsky.social published in @compconstudies.bsky.social on the vastly divergent approach of Indian courts on the right to housing in cases about home demolitions and evictions. It's open access for 3 months!
www.elgaronline.com/view/journal...
www.elgaronline.com/view/journal...
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Call for Papers: Second International Conference of Critical Legal Geography// March 17-20, 2026 in Chile// Deadline: Nov 10, 2025// More info: cnlh.ubc.ca/call-for-pap...
October 7, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Call for Papers: Second International Conference of Critical Legal Geography// March 17-20, 2026 in Chile// Deadline: Nov 10, 2025// More info: cnlh.ubc.ca/call-for-pap...
twailr.com
September 16, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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This was a great chat I think. Alex on his usual excellent form and @rafeefz.bsky.social and Adam both brilliant as ever.
This is our first pod about the @versobooks.bsky.social pamphlet and it's good to start out with some of the best.
This is our first pod about the @versobooks.bsky.social pamphlet and it's good to start out with some of the best.
📢🇵🇸NEW EPISODE 📢🇵🇸 - @rafeefz.bsky.social, @pashukanist.bsky.social and Adam Hanieh on their new book, 'Resisting Erasure: Capital, Imperialism and Race in Palestine':
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podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/r...
Resisting Erasure w/ Adam Hanieh, Rafeef Ziadah and Robert Knox
Podcast Episode · Politics Theory Other · 08/20/2025 · 1h 19m
podcasts.apple.com
August 20, 2025 at 1:47 PM
This was a great chat I think. Alex on his usual excellent form and @rafeefz.bsky.social and Adam both brilliant as ever.
This is our first pod about the @versobooks.bsky.social pamphlet and it's good to start out with some of the best.
This is our first pod about the @versobooks.bsky.social pamphlet and it's good to start out with some of the best.
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My latest article is now out with @flsjournal.bsky.social - ‘Beyond international human rights: Islamic feminism as alternative rights praxis’. Available open access here: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Beyond International Human Rights: Islamic Feminism as Alternative Rights Praxis - Feminist Legal Studies
This article examines Islamic Feminism (IF) as an example of an alternative rights framework that falls beyond international human rights law (IHRL) in terms of its epistemic and conceptual grounding ...
link.springer.com
July 3, 2025 at 5:37 PM
My latest article is now out with @flsjournal.bsky.social - ‘Beyond international human rights: Islamic feminism as alternative rights praxis’. Available open access here: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Join us for an interactive day on research methods at university of Leicester September 17. PGR travel expenses paid for attendance. @silvilunazul.bsky.social and I will be speaking on decolonial and feminist methods. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/m4c-dialog...
M4C Dialogue Day: Dialogues on Feminist Decolonial Methods
A day for arts and humanities researchers to explore questions of voice, authority, methods, and the futures of anti-disciplinarity.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
August 4, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Join us for an interactive day on research methods at university of Leicester September 17. PGR travel expenses paid for attendance. @silvilunazul.bsky.social and I will be speaking on decolonial and feminist methods. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/m4c-dialog...
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‘Do the pilots who bomb children have children’
A list of questions from Palestinian children in Gaza, compiled by the staff of the Palestine Trauma Centre in Gaza:
July 17, 2025 at 6:32 AM
‘Do the pilots who bomb children have children’
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Physical copies of this, written by Adam Hanieh l, myself and @rafeefz.bsky.social seem to be appearing on the shelves.
If you can't find a copy it's still available for preorder from Verso - www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc...
If you can't find a copy it's still available for preorder from Verso - www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc...
July 11, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Physical copies of this, written by Adam Hanieh l, myself and @rafeefz.bsky.social seem to be appearing on the shelves.
If you can't find a copy it's still available for preorder from Verso - www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc...
If you can't find a copy it's still available for preorder from Verso - www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc...
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Darlings, the first time I'm seeing it in print. Thank you to @dr-di.bsky.social for the photo. Have so many feels. Still awaiting mine.
Please share pics when you receive yours. And, request your libraries to order it.
All royalties donated to Gaza.
Onwards comrades.
us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/th...
Please share pics when you receive yours. And, request your libraries to order it.
All royalties donated to Gaza.
Onwards comrades.
us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/th...
July 10, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Darlings, the first time I'm seeing it in print. Thank you to @dr-di.bsky.social for the photo. Have so many feels. Still awaiting mine.
Please share pics when you receive yours. And, request your libraries to order it.
All royalties donated to Gaza.
Onwards comrades.
us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/th...
Please share pics when you receive yours. And, request your libraries to order it.
All royalties donated to Gaza.
Onwards comrades.
us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/th...
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Brick-by-Brick, Wall-by-Wall: Co-Producing Transnational Feminist Abolitionist Knowledges
molly ackhurst, Shaimaa Abdelkarim (@shaimabdelkarim.bsky.social) & Silvana Tapia Tapia (@silvilunazul.bsky.social)
isrf.org/projects/bri...
molly ackhurst, Shaimaa Abdelkarim (@shaimabdelkarim.bsky.social) & Silvana Tapia Tapia (@silvilunazul.bsky.social)
isrf.org/projects/bri...
Brick-by-Brick, Wall-by-Wall: Co-Producing Transnational Feminist Abolitionist Knowledges
isrf.org
July 9, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Brick-by-Brick, Wall-by-Wall: Co-Producing Transnational Feminist Abolitionist Knowledges
molly ackhurst, Shaimaa Abdelkarim (@shaimabdelkarim.bsky.social) & Silvana Tapia Tapia (@silvilunazul.bsky.social)
isrf.org/projects/bri...
molly ackhurst, Shaimaa Abdelkarim (@shaimabdelkarim.bsky.social) & Silvana Tapia Tapia (@silvilunazul.bsky.social)
isrf.org/projects/bri...
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We thought we knew tired when we wrote this. Exhausted with @jennifercnash.bsky.social @differences.bsky.social doi.org/10.1215/1040...
On Exhaustion: Toward a Post-Care Feminism
This essay is a critical response to the emergence of “care” as the antidote to the multiple crises that plague the present. The call for care— intramural care, radical care, mutual aid, etc.—has prol...
doi.org
June 1, 2025 at 2:37 PM
We thought we knew tired when we wrote this. Exhausted with @jennifercnash.bsky.social @differences.bsky.social doi.org/10.1215/1040...
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My newest piece on how to end starvation and famine in Gaza. The UN General Assembly must authorize peacekeepers to accompany humanitarian convoys.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
If aid doesn’t enter Gaza now, 14,000 babies may die. UN peacekeepers must step in | Michael Fakhri
As a UN special rapporteur on the right to food, I have watched for 19 months as Israel starves children. The world must act now
www.theguardian.com
May 23, 2025 at 4:03 AM
My newest piece on how to end starvation and famine in Gaza. The UN General Assembly must authorize peacekeepers to accompany humanitarian convoys.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The Special Rapporteur on the right to food @MichaelFakhri writes in the @guardian: The GA must act to authorize peacekeepers to ensure aid delivery to Gaza. I have called on the GA before to act under the Uniting for Peace res. and fully endorse this.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
If aid doesn’t enter Gaza now, 14,000 babies may die. UN peacekeepers must step in | Michael Fakhri
As a UN special rapporteur on the right to food, I have watched for 19 months as Israel starves children. The world must act now
www.theguardian.com
May 22, 2025 at 6:49 PM
The Special Rapporteur on the right to food @MichaelFakhri writes in the @guardian: The GA must act to authorize peacekeepers to ensure aid delivery to Gaza. I have called on the GA before to act under the Uniting for Peace res. and fully endorse this.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Amazing workshop at Univeristy of Greenwich with Renginee Pillay and Tom Frost facilitating conversations on decoloniality, student-led coproduction and AI as part of the Reimagining Antiracist and Decolonial Law collective. Special issue coming soon 🎊 #RADLAW
May 22, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Amazing workshop at Univeristy of Greenwich with Renginee Pillay and Tom Frost facilitating conversations on decoloniality, student-led coproduction and AI as part of the Reimagining Antiracist and Decolonial Law collective. Special issue coming soon 🎊 #RADLAW
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This was a great chat! If you've not listened to the podcast before check it out for all this #utopia & #dystopia
A new episode of the Utopian and Dystopian Fictions podcast is coming tomorrow. It features a great interview with @aoifemod.bsky.social and @ruthhoughton.bsky.social, covering all things utopia, law, and feminist utopias.
April 11, 2025 at 6:09 PM