Dr SM Rodriguez (they/them)
@smrodriguez.bsky.social
Asst Prof of Gender, Rights and Human Rights @ LSE, Penal Abolitionist, Black disabled QT 🏳️⚧️🌍, Author of "The Economies of Queer Inclusion" | all views are my own
www.smrodriguez.com
www.smrodriguez.com
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Dear new echo chamber 🫱🏾🫲🏽 I'm SM (Dr S.M. Rodriguez). I'm Asst Professor of Gender, Rights & Human Rights at LSE and I spin a lot of plates in my life as a parent, community organiser, and academic. I read an intro that I liked in this style, so I'll write a thread of 8 fav things I've done (1/9)
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in case you're curious about how angry Minnesota is about ICE, it was -20 today
January 24, 2026 at 12:38 AM
in case you're curious about how angry Minnesota is about ICE, it was -20 today
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"Seen from this vantage, Good’s killing is not a 'mistake' but a reflection of how the agency is designed to operate...Abolishing an agency that teargasses two-year-olds and shoots mothers in the street isn’t radical. It is basic human decency."
In the first of what's likely to be many collaborations with @hebagowayed.bsky.social (and my @us.theguardian.com debut) we argue that abolishing ICE would be a good start.
Abolishing ICE isn’t enough – it’s time to center people’s humanity | Heba Gowayed and Victor Ray
It’s far from radical to reject a system predicated on violence – despite what thinktanks might claim
www.theguardian.com
January 18, 2026 at 5:03 PM
"Seen from this vantage, Good’s killing is not a 'mistake' but a reflection of how the agency is designed to operate...Abolishing an agency that teargasses two-year-olds and shoots mothers in the street isn’t radical. It is basic human decency."
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Black folks and immigrants have long lived in a "perogative state" when it comes to law enforcement, and maybe pundits at the largest national outlets should recognize that their past support for punitive policing and immigration enforcement laid the groundwork for the current moment.
January 18, 2026 at 1:10 PM
Black folks and immigrants have long lived in a "perogative state" when it comes to law enforcement, and maybe pundits at the largest national outlets should recognize that their past support for punitive policing and immigration enforcement laid the groundwork for the current moment.
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“Abolish ICE” isn’t radical, it doesn’t go far enough.
Latest in @theguardian.com written with my friend @victorerikray.bsky.social.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Latest in @theguardian.com written with my friend @victorerikray.bsky.social.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Abolishing ICE isn’t enough – it’s time to center people’s humanity | Heba Gowayed and Victor Ray
It’s far from radical to reject a system predicated on violence – despite what thinktanks might claim
www.theguardian.com
January 18, 2026 at 3:33 PM
“Abolish ICE” isn’t radical, it doesn’t go far enough.
Latest in @theguardian.com written with my friend @victorerikray.bsky.social.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Latest in @theguardian.com written with my friend @victorerikray.bsky.social.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
A phenomenal event and speaker ✨
We are delighted to welcome @nisrinelamin.bsky.social to LSE tonight as she gives our Annual Human Rights Day Lecture on the politics of hunger in Sudan. #LSEHumanRights #LSEEvents #Sudan
December 4, 2025 at 12:05 PM
A phenomenal event and speaker ✨
❄️📖Looking for poc sci-fi, epic fantasy, or magical realism novel recommendations for winter 📖❄️
(no YA or marvel-vibes, but ++ if queer or disabled)
Happy to exchange books 📚
(no YA or marvel-vibes, but ++ if queer or disabled)
Happy to exchange books 📚
December 4, 2025 at 11:39 AM
❄️📖Looking for poc sci-fi, epic fantasy, or magical realism novel recommendations for winter 📖❄️
(no YA or marvel-vibes, but ++ if queer or disabled)
Happy to exchange books 📚
(no YA or marvel-vibes, but ++ if queer or disabled)
Happy to exchange books 📚
Fantastic write up of a recent collaborative event between LSE Gender and LSE Law 🔥
Shared my reflections on a brilliant event by LSE Law School and the Department of Gender Studies—on sex/gender as legal status, the semiotics of criminality, colonial inheritances, and law’s ambivalence. Speakers: Lacey, Rodriguez, Baer. Chair: Madhok.
www.linkedin.com/posts/mosesl...
www.linkedin.com/posts/mosesl...
Last evening, I had the privilege of attending an extraordinary event co-hosted by the LSE Law School and the LSE Department of Gender Studies: ‘Gender and the Law: How law matters to gender or how… |...
Last evening, I had the privilege of attending an extraordinary event co-hosted by the LSE Law School and the LSE Department of Gender Studies: ‘Gender and the Law: How law matters to gender or how ge...
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December 1, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Fantastic write up of a recent collaborative event between LSE Gender and LSE Law 🔥
Final event of the term! See you at Oxford? (Or online!)
Very much looking forward to thinking with these two fantastic discussion groups 📖
Register here to attend:
www.law.ox.ac.uk/content/even...
@oxfordcrim.bsky.social @lsegender.bsky.social
Very much looking forward to thinking with these two fantastic discussion groups 📖
Register here to attend:
www.law.ox.ac.uk/content/even...
@oxfordcrim.bsky.social @lsegender.bsky.social
November 29, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Final event of the term! See you at Oxford? (Or online!)
Very much looking forward to thinking with these two fantastic discussion groups 📖
Register here to attend:
www.law.ox.ac.uk/content/even...
@oxfordcrim.bsky.social @lsegender.bsky.social
Very much looking forward to thinking with these two fantastic discussion groups 📖
Register here to attend:
www.law.ox.ac.uk/content/even...
@oxfordcrim.bsky.social @lsegender.bsky.social
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Today there was an attempted ICE raid in Bensonhurst & community members showed up. Even though NYPD collaborated with ICE by trying to disburse the crowd; community members stood their ground & ICE left without kidnapping a single person per the rapid response groups I'm on. We protect us!
November 19, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Today there was an attempted ICE raid in Bensonhurst & community members showed up. Even though NYPD collaborated with ICE by trying to disburse the crowd; community members stood their ground & ICE left without kidnapping a single person per the rapid response groups I'm on. We protect us!
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Our LSE Fellow R. Sánchez Rivera has published a new article in Oxford Intersections! 🥳
Read it now ➡️ academic.oup.com/edited-volum...
Read it now ➡️ academic.oup.com/edited-volum...
November 18, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Our LSE Fellow R. Sánchez Rivera has published a new article in Oxford Intersections! 🥳
Read it now ➡️ academic.oup.com/edited-volum...
Read it now ➡️ academic.oup.com/edited-volum...
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I told profs at my phd program that I didn't want to work at an "R1" directly after grad because I cared deeply about teaching and was very concerned the incentives at certain institutions would push me to ignore my pedagogy practice in order to try and keep my job. Truly no regrets.
November 19, 2025 at 3:16 PM
I told profs at my phd program that I didn't want to work at an "R1" directly after grad because I cared deeply about teaching and was very concerned the incentives at certain institutions would push me to ignore my pedagogy practice in order to try and keep my job. Truly no regrets.
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November 18, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Looking forward to presenting on this esteemed panel!
The piece I'll present is queer & Black feminist sociolegal theory & has been on my mind for a really long time due to experiences I've had lately with the criminal justice and social welfare systems in Jamaica, as well as ethnography in Uganda.
The piece I'll present is queer & Black feminist sociolegal theory & has been on my mind for a really long time due to experiences I've had lately with the criminal justice and social welfare systems in Jamaica, as well as ethnography in Uganda.
🧑⚖️ Join us on 18 November for a conversation with @sumimadhok.bsky.social, @smrodriguez.bsky.social, Prof Nicola Lacey and Prof Susanne Baer!
🥂 Drinks reception after the event!
🤝 Co-hosted with @lselaw.bsky.social
www.lse.ac.uk/gender/event...
🥂 Drinks reception after the event!
🤝 Co-hosted with @lselaw.bsky.social
www.lse.ac.uk/gender/event...
November 5, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Looking forward to presenting on this esteemed panel!
The piece I'll present is queer & Black feminist sociolegal theory & has been on my mind for a really long time due to experiences I've had lately with the criminal justice and social welfare systems in Jamaica, as well as ethnography in Uganda.
The piece I'll present is queer & Black feminist sociolegal theory & has been on my mind for a really long time due to experiences I've had lately with the criminal justice and social welfare systems in Jamaica, as well as ethnography in Uganda.
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📢 Still time to apply!
We are looking to recruit an Assistant Professor (Study of Crime/Criminal Justice and Social or Public Policy) whose core research examines crime and/or criminal justice with a demonstrable research interest in social or public policy.
More info here: buff.ly/Nxdn9c0
We are looking to recruit an Assistant Professor (Study of Crime/Criminal Justice and Social or Public Policy) whose core research examines crime and/or criminal justice with a demonstrable research interest in social or public policy.
More info here: buff.ly/Nxdn9c0
Department of Social Policy | Available positions
Jobs available in the Department of Social Policy
www.lse.ac.uk
October 20, 2025 at 8:43 AM
📢 Still time to apply!
We are looking to recruit an Assistant Professor (Study of Crime/Criminal Justice and Social or Public Policy) whose core research examines crime and/or criminal justice with a demonstrable research interest in social or public policy.
More info here: buff.ly/Nxdn9c0
We are looking to recruit an Assistant Professor (Study of Crime/Criminal Justice and Social or Public Policy) whose core research examines crime and/or criminal justice with a demonstrable research interest in social or public policy.
More info here: buff.ly/Nxdn9c0
"Haunting the Criminological Imagination: Abolition as Diasporicised Method" - Verryyy much looking forward to discussing my new work with Oxford Crim in December.
See flyer for details and register here forms.office.com/pages/respon...
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@ox.ac.uk @oxfordcrim.bsky.social @lsegender.bsky.social
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See flyer for details and register here forms.office.com/pages/respon...
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@ox.ac.uk @oxfordcrim.bsky.social @lsegender.bsky.social
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October 17, 2025 at 4:24 PM
"Haunting the Criminological Imagination: Abolition as Diasporicised Method" - Verryyy much looking forward to discussing my new work with Oxford Crim in December.
See flyer for details and register here forms.office.com/pages/respon...
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@ox.ac.uk @oxfordcrim.bsky.social @lsegender.bsky.social
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See flyer for details and register here forms.office.com/pages/respon...
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@ox.ac.uk @oxfordcrim.bsky.social @lsegender.bsky.social
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📢📢 Job advert 📢📢
LSE is hiring an Assistant Prof in Criminology and Social Policy to begin in Sept 2026!
🎡✨ London is calling ✨🎡
Applications due 2 November 2025
@lsesocialpolicy.bsky.social
jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...
LSE is hiring an Assistant Prof in Criminology and Social Policy to begin in Sept 2026!
🎡✨ London is calling ✨🎡
Applications due 2 November 2025
@lsesocialpolicy.bsky.social
jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...
Assistant Professor
Assistant Professor,
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October 17, 2025 at 3:16 PM
📢📢 Job advert 📢📢
LSE is hiring an Assistant Prof in Criminology and Social Policy to begin in Sept 2026!
🎡✨ London is calling ✨🎡
Applications due 2 November 2025
@lsesocialpolicy.bsky.social
jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...
LSE is hiring an Assistant Prof in Criminology and Social Policy to begin in Sept 2026!
🎡✨ London is calling ✨🎡
Applications due 2 November 2025
@lsesocialpolicy.bsky.social
jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...
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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.
Details below. Please share.
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.
September 22, 2025 at 9:35 AM
📣🏳️⚧️ 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.
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.
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From Haymarket Books, an Abolish the Border, Abolish the Police Reading List. “In solidarity with all those standing up for our communities against the brutality of immigrant detention and police repression, we offer an extensive reading list…” [haymarketbooks.org]
Abolish the Border, Abolish the Police Reading List
In solidarity with all those standing up for our communities against the brutality of immigrant detention and police repression, we offer an extensive reading list about border and police abolition. Drawing from over twenty years of activism on local and national levels,
www.haymarketbooks.org
October 6, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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What if queer justice isn’t about inclusion, but about fighting disposability and* dreaming otherwise?
This piece joins African feminism, Black trans studies & diasporic queer theory to resist Africana epistemicide & the GRIM imaginary of human rights. Now out <3
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
This piece joins African feminism, Black trans studies & diasporic queer theory to resist Africana epistemicide & the GRIM imaginary of human rights. Now out <3
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Respatialising the global imaginary of gay rights: resisting Africana epistemicide and forging Solidaristic Imaginaries
This article critiques the global imaginary of LGBTQ rights, arguing that dominant metrics of state-based human rights frameworks, what I term the Gay Rights International Movement (GRIM), reproduc...
www.tandfonline.com
October 6, 2025 at 3:55 PM
What if queer justice isn’t about inclusion, but about fighting disposability and* dreaming otherwise?
This piece joins African feminism, Black trans studies & diasporic queer theory to resist Africana epistemicide & the GRIM imaginary of human rights. Now out <3
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
This piece joins African feminism, Black trans studies & diasporic queer theory to resist Africana epistemicide & the GRIM imaginary of human rights. Now out <3
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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My new article addresses the claim that the rights of trans women 'clash' with the rights of cis women. I examine the coloniality of the concept of rights underpinning this idea, exploring the erotics of sacrificial feminism and zero-sum politics in general... 🧵 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Dispossessive rights: coloniality and trans-exclusion in zero-sum politics
The idea that rights are possessions that are given and lost is so ubiquitous within the dominant discourse that its metaphoricity is forgotten. This amnesia naturalises possessive individualism, a...
www.tandfonline.com
August 6, 2025 at 6:39 PM
My new article addresses the claim that the rights of trans women 'clash' with the rights of cis women. I examine the coloniality of the concept of rights underpinning this idea, exploring the erotics of sacrificial feminism and zero-sum politics in general... 🧵 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Submissions to our call for proposals are due October 3, 2025!
On April 6-7 2026, we will have the in-person conference and on April 8 it will be entirely online. Online attendees will have access to some in-person sessions, pending presenters' consent to being recorded.
#decolonialconference
On April 6-7 2026, we will have the in-person conference and on April 8 it will be entirely online. Online attendees will have access to some in-person sessions, pending presenters' consent to being recorded.
#decolonialconference
September 27, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Submissions to our call for proposals are due October 3, 2025!
On April 6-7 2026, we will have the in-person conference and on April 8 it will be entirely online. Online attendees will have access to some in-person sessions, pending presenters' consent to being recorded.
#decolonialconference
On April 6-7 2026, we will have the in-person conference and on April 8 it will be entirely online. Online attendees will have access to some in-person sessions, pending presenters' consent to being recorded.
#decolonialconference
que descanse en paz y poder
🕊️🙏🏾✊🏾
So many lessons learned by my early inspiration, Assata Shakur. I've been meditating on her words especially often lately, as I work her prison writings into a book chapter. Can't explain what she has meant for my organising and thinking...
🕊️🙏🏾✊🏾
So many lessons learned by my early inspiration, Assata Shakur. I've been meditating on her words especially often lately, as I work her prison writings into a book chapter. Can't explain what she has meant for my organising and thinking...
September 26, 2025 at 9:13 PM
que descanse en paz y poder
🕊️🙏🏾✊🏾
So many lessons learned by my early inspiration, Assata Shakur. I've been meditating on her words especially often lately, as I work her prison writings into a book chapter. Can't explain what she has meant for my organising and thinking...
🕊️🙏🏾✊🏾
So many lessons learned by my early inspiration, Assata Shakur. I've been meditating on her words especially often lately, as I work her prison writings into a book chapter. Can't explain what she has meant for my organising and thinking...
Very much looking forward to this! Thank you for sharing ✨
@smrodriguez.bsky.social will be in conversation with author @elierlick.bsky.social on their new book ‘Before Gender’ at @thecommonpress.bsky.social on 12 October! 🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️
www.outsavvy.com/event/30194/...
www.outsavvy.com/event/30194/...
September 17, 2025 at 10:09 AM
Very much looking forward to this! Thank you for sharing ✨
Really curious abt how other academics decide how many speaking & service engagements they accept per term. Does anyone have a strategy or do you just follow vibes? 🫣
(I have always followed my heart but I'm so low capacity rn that I know I have to balance inspo events and the need for a cut off)
(I have always followed my heart but I'm so low capacity rn that I know I have to balance inspo events and the need for a cut off)
September 2, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Really curious abt how other academics decide how many speaking & service engagements they accept per term. Does anyone have a strategy or do you just follow vibes? 🫣
(I have always followed my heart but I'm so low capacity rn that I know I have to balance inspo events and the need for a cut off)
(I have always followed my heart but I'm so low capacity rn that I know I have to balance inspo events and the need for a cut off)
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Job Opportunity!
University of California Berkeley - Assistant Professor - Global Black Geographies - Department of Geography
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University of California Berkeley - Assistant Professor - Global Black Geographies - Department of Geography
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University of California Berkeley - Assistant Professor - Global Black Geographies - Department of Geography | H-Net
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August 22, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Job Opportunity!
University of California Berkeley - Assistant Professor - Global Black Geographies - Department of Geography
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University of California Berkeley - Assistant Professor - Global Black Geographies - Department of Geography
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