Bal Sokhi-Bulley
@balsokhi-b.bsky.social
Human rights and critical legal theory at Sussex Law School, ‘originally from’ Leicester, bhangra babe
http://www.sussex.ac.uk/profiles/395599
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Bal Sokhi-Bulley
@balsokhi-b.bsky.social
· Mar 11
Continuities of Liberalism and Fascism: Rights & Resistance 'After Liberalism'
You are warmly invited to join us for an interdisciplinary roundtable, ‘Continuities of Liberalism and Fascism: Rights ‘After Liberalism’, featuring
criticallegalthinking.com
Excited to launch our new project via this event for Law & Resistance Research Group Sussex Law… join me, my fabulous partner + chair Darcy Leigh and this brilliant panel NEXT WEEK to learn more about Rights & Resistance ‘After Liberalism’
criticallegalthinking.com/2025/03/10/c...
criticallegalthinking.com/2025/03/10/c...
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Today, after 14 years, I’m resigning from the Labour Party.
Jeremy Corbyn and I will co-lead the founding of a new party, with other Independent MPs, campaigners and activists across the country.
Join us. The time is now.
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Jeremy Corbyn and I will co-lead the founding of a new party, with other Independent MPs, campaigners and activists across the country.
Join us. The time is now.
Sign up here to stay updated: actionnetwork.org/forms/join-t...
July 3, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Today, after 14 years, I’m resigning from the Labour Party.
Jeremy Corbyn and I will co-lead the founding of a new party, with other Independent MPs, campaigners and activists across the country.
Join us. The time is now.
Sign up here to stay updated: actionnetwork.org/forms/join-t...
Jeremy Corbyn and I will co-lead the founding of a new party, with other Independent MPs, campaigners and activists across the country.
Join us. The time is now.
Sign up here to stay updated: actionnetwork.org/forms/join-t...
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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 ...
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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...
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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...
Finally got round to reading this piece from @ntinatzouvala.bsky.social - brilliant.
May 20, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Finally got round to reading this piece from @ntinatzouvala.bsky.social - brilliant.
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My book is published! It’s a critical take on how emotions shape conflicts about LGBT rights and repair in equality law, gender recognition, bans on conversion practices, and sex education in schools. You can download it free via @edinburghup.bsky.social: edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-the-emo...
May 13, 2025 at 7:00 AM
My book is published! It’s a critical take on how emotions shape conflicts about LGBT rights and repair in equality law, gender recognition, bans on conversion practices, and sex education in schools. You can download it free via @edinburghup.bsky.social: edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-the-emo...
This time last week I was in Rovaniemi, Finland examining a spectacular PhD thesis on truth, power and the homosexual legal subject. It was a triumph and an experience! Congratulations Dr Iiris Tuominen and thank you for my karonkka (PhD party) invitation ✨🙏🏾🍾
May 2, 2025 at 6:22 PM
This time last week I was in Rovaniemi, Finland examining a spectacular PhD thesis on truth, power and the homosexual legal subject. It was a triumph and an experience! Congratulations Dr Iiris Tuominen and thank you for my karonkka (PhD party) invitation ✨🙏🏾🍾
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The Level, Brighton, earlier today 🇵🇸 ✊🏾
March 22, 2025 at 2:20 PM
The Level, Brighton, earlier today 🇵🇸 ✊🏾
This cause is close to my heart - please sign: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...
Save Therapy for Vulnerable Children – Renew the Adoption & Special Guardianship Support Fund Now!
Thousands of vulnerable children are at risk of losing life-changing therapy because the Government has failed to commit to renewing the Adoption and Special Guardianship Support Fund (ASGSF) beyond M...
you.38degrees.org.uk
March 19, 2025 at 7:21 AM
This cause is close to my heart - please sign: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...
One world week day 4: Sip & Paint - Women’s Voices - what a fun, nourishing and empowering event hosted by Women in Law Society, Sussex Law 💖
March 13, 2025 at 8:50 PM
One world week day 4: Sip & Paint - Women’s Voices - what a fun, nourishing and empowering event hosted by Women in Law Society, Sussex Law 💖
One world week day 4: Sip & Paint - Women’s Voices - what a fun, nourishing and empowering event hosted by Women in Law Society, Sussex Law 💖
March 13, 2025 at 8:49 PM
One world week day 4: Sip & Paint - Women’s Voices - what a fun, nourishing and empowering event hosted by Women in Law Society, Sussex Law 💖
Ramadan Mubarak! One World Week Day 3: absolute heaving scenes of joy and respect, there was mehndi, dates and daal!! Thank you Sabrina, Bee & our wonderful student community at Sussex Law/ Uni
March 12, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Ramadan Mubarak! One World Week Day 3: absolute heaving scenes of joy and respect, there was mehndi, dates and daal!! Thank you Sabrina, Bee & our wonderful student community at Sussex Law/ Uni
Excited to launch our new project via this event for Law & Resistance Research Group Sussex Law… join me, my fabulous partner + chair Darcy Leigh and this brilliant panel NEXT WEEK to learn more about Rights & Resistance ‘After Liberalism’
criticallegalthinking.com/2025/03/10/c...
criticallegalthinking.com/2025/03/10/c...
Continuities of Liberalism and Fascism: Rights & Resistance 'After Liberalism'
You are warmly invited to join us for an interdisciplinary roundtable, ‘Continuities of Liberalism and Fascism: Rights ‘After Liberalism’, featuring
criticallegalthinking.com
March 11, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Excited to launch our new project via this event for Law & Resistance Research Group Sussex Law… join me, my fabulous partner + chair Darcy Leigh and this brilliant panel NEXT WEEK to learn more about Rights & Resistance ‘After Liberalism’
criticallegalthinking.com/2025/03/10/c...
criticallegalthinking.com/2025/03/10/c...
One World Week Day 2: Dancing and Belonging - an empowering way of reclaiming the moot room with ballet + hip hop! Thank you Marica Moscati @queerjudgments.bsky.social Morgan and Jordyn, Sussex Dance Soc and Law Soc 🙏🏾💖 🦢
March 11, 2025 at 7:16 PM
One World Week Day 2: Dancing and Belonging - an empowering way of reclaiming the moot room with ballet + hip hop! Thank you Marica Moscati @queerjudgments.bsky.social Morgan and Jordyn, Sussex Dance Soc and Law Soc 🙏🏾💖 🦢
Lovely start to One World Week at Sussex Law School with Black Legacies Reading Circle + check out our Wall of Belonging and Ramadan Experience Wall ❤️💜💚
March 10, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Lovely start to One World Week at Sussex Law School with Black Legacies Reading Circle + check out our Wall of Belonging and Ramadan Experience Wall ❤️💜💚
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Wishing a blessed Ramadan to all, but especially to my brothers and sisters in Palestine enduring hardship
www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...
www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...
Ramadan in Gaza: Ruins and unshakable faith
We have lost loved ones, homes, livelihoods, mosques, but our faith remains as strong as ever.
www.aljazeera.com
March 3, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Wishing a blessed Ramadan to all, but especially to my brothers and sisters in Palestine enduring hardship
www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...
www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...
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‘This decision should have been a catalyst for action, prompting the UK to introduce a formal Gaza family reunification scheme for families such as mine. Instead, the govt seeks to shut down possibility of reuniting in safety, fuelling anti-Palestinian sentiment’ www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Human rights are not a ‘loophole’ – why can’t families from Gaza like mine seek safety in the UK? | Ghassan Ghaben
When another Palestinian family was allowed to stay here, I saw a glimmer of hope. Now the prime minister wants to put it out, says Ghassan Ghaben of Gaza Families Reunited
www.theguardian.com
February 20, 2025 at 7:26 AM
‘This decision should have been a catalyst for action, prompting the UK to introduce a formal Gaza family reunification scheme for families such as mine. Instead, the govt seeks to shut down possibility of reuniting in safety, fuelling anti-Palestinian sentiment’ www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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"Classifications such as “migrant” or “refugee” do not represent social groups as much as they symbolize state-regulated relations of difference and state-manufactured conditions of vulnerability."
www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...
www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...
There Is No "Migrant Crisis" - Boston Review
The problem isn't new; it's the bordered logic of global apartheid itself.
www.bostonreview.net
February 18, 2025 at 2:30 PM
"Classifications such as “migrant” or “refugee” do not represent social groups as much as they symbolize state-regulated relations of difference and state-manufactured conditions of vulnerability."
www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...
www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...
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Critical Thinking published a fabulous symposium on my book Struggles for the Human with @dukepress.bsky.social and here's my response reflecting on the argument in relation to genocide in Palestine
Thanks to Christine Schwöbel-Patel, @balsokhi-b.bsky.social and @illanwall.bsky.social
Thanks to Christine Schwöbel-Patel, @balsokhi-b.bsky.social and @illanwall.bsky.social
@laramonteco.bsky.social beautifully responds to the symposium on Struggles for the Human: criticallegalthinking.com/2025/02/17/v...
Violent Legality and the Politics of Rights From Colombia to Palestine:
A Response to the Symposium on Struggles for the Human On the anniversary of publication of Struggles for the Human: Violent Legality and the
criticallegalthinking.com
February 17, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Critical Thinking published a fabulous symposium on my book Struggles for the Human with @dukepress.bsky.social and here's my response reflecting on the argument in relation to genocide in Palestine
Thanks to Christine Schwöbel-Patel, @balsokhi-b.bsky.social and @illanwall.bsky.social
Thanks to Christine Schwöbel-Patel, @balsokhi-b.bsky.social and @illanwall.bsky.social
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I spent this week volunteering with @care4calais.org, working in their warehouse and distributing jumpers, sleeping bags, tarps, hot drinks and wellbeing services for refugees at camps in Calais and Dunkirk. They urgently need volunteers for early March. If you can, please consider signing up.
While the government is obsessed with ‘smashing the gangs’ who profit from dangerous crossings, it fails to recognise that the demand for these smuggling networks exists because the UK has no safe routes for people seeking asylum. help.care4calais.org/page/164054/...
February 14, 2025 at 4:07 PM
I spent this week volunteering with @care4calais.org, working in their warehouse and distributing jumpers, sleeping bags, tarps, hot drinks and wellbeing services for refugees at camps in Calais and Dunkirk. They urgently need volunteers for early March. If you can, please consider signing up.