Apeksha
@legallyapeksha.bsky.social
PhD, University of Birmingham | Teaching Fellow, Aston University 👩🏽🏫 Feminism + TWAIL | Highly sarcastic ✌🏽
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Apeksha
@legallyapeksha.bsky.social
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Women’s Liberation in Postcolonial States: The role of ‘womanhood’ in women’s agency and liberation
Apeksha Gandhi examines construction of ‘woman’ and the nation-building period within postcolonial India. The author argues that the concept of womanhood, rooted in colonial and Western constructs,…
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I finally beat my imposter syndrome around doing a PhD last week which I'm going to celebrate as a mini milestone.
In celebration, here is a blog I wrote, supported by the lovely FTWAIL Collective 🫶🏼
I would love your feedback if you have time to read it!
twailr.com/womens-liber...
In celebration, here is a blog I wrote, supported by the lovely FTWAIL Collective 🫶🏼
I would love your feedback if you have time to read it!
twailr.com/womens-liber...
Is there an Arts + Law or Arts + Legal Education starter pack here?
Or any key sources or scholars anyone could recommend to read more into this type of research/pedagogy?
Thank you in advance 🥰🫶🏼
Or any key sources or scholars anyone could recommend to read more into this type of research/pedagogy?
Thank you in advance 🥰🫶🏼
September 12, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Is there an Arts + Law or Arts + Legal Education starter pack here?
Or any key sources or scholars anyone could recommend to read more into this type of research/pedagogy?
Thank you in advance 🥰🫶🏼
Or any key sources or scholars anyone could recommend to read more into this type of research/pedagogy?
Thank you in advance 🥰🫶🏼
I went to my first Society of Legal Scholars Conference at the University of Leeds this week and had a great time attending the Human Rights, Legal Education, and Legal Theory sessions.
#SLS2025
#SLS2025
September 5, 2025 at 9:21 PM
I went to my first Society of Legal Scholars Conference at the University of Leeds this week and had a great time attending the Human Rights, Legal Education, and Legal Theory sessions.
#SLS2025
#SLS2025
I finally beat my imposter syndrome around doing a PhD last week which I'm going to celebrate as a mini milestone.
In celebration, here is a blog I wrote, supported by the lovely FTWAIL Collective 🫶🏼
I would love your feedback if you have time to read it!
twailr.com/womens-liber...
In celebration, here is a blog I wrote, supported by the lovely FTWAIL Collective 🫶🏼
I would love your feedback if you have time to read it!
twailr.com/womens-liber...
Women’s Liberation in Postcolonial States: The role of ‘womanhood’ in women’s agency and liberation
Apeksha Gandhi examines construction of ‘woman’ and the nation-building period within postcolonial India. The author argues that the concept of womanhood, rooted in colonial and Western constructs,…
twailr.com
September 1, 2025 at 1:01 PM
I finally beat my imposter syndrome around doing a PhD last week which I'm going to celebrate as a mini milestone.
In celebration, here is a blog I wrote, supported by the lovely FTWAIL Collective 🫶🏼
I would love your feedback if you have time to read it!
twailr.com/womens-liber...
In celebration, here is a blog I wrote, supported by the lovely FTWAIL Collective 🫶🏼
I would love your feedback if you have time to read it!
twailr.com/womens-liber...
"You look happier"
Thanks, I just spent my morning learning about feminist methodologies in law
Thanks, I just spent my morning learning about feminist methodologies in law
July 11, 2025 at 10:05 AM
"You look happier"
Thanks, I just spent my morning learning about feminist methodologies in law
Thanks, I just spent my morning learning about feminist methodologies in law
If a book had to fall on my face and almost kill me at 10 o'clock at night, I'm glad it was one about women's movements around the world ✊🏽😔
July 5, 2025 at 9:40 PM
If a book had to fall on my face and almost kill me at 10 o'clock at night, I'm glad it was one about women's movements around the world ✊🏽😔
Fave pic from my trip to New York 🫶🏼
June 7, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Fave pic from my trip to New York 🫶🏼
Excited to be back at the @unibirmingham.bsky.social
studying for my PhD in Law under the supervision of Dr @shaimabdelkarim.bsky.social and Professor Mohammad Shahabuddin. ☺️🙏🏽📚
studying for my PhD in Law under the supervision of Dr @shaimabdelkarim.bsky.social and Professor Mohammad Shahabuddin. ☺️🙏🏽📚
May 9, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Excited to be back at the @unibirmingham.bsky.social
studying for my PhD in Law under the supervision of Dr @shaimabdelkarim.bsky.social and Professor Mohammad Shahabuddin. ☺️🙏🏽📚
studying for my PhD in Law under the supervision of Dr @shaimabdelkarim.bsky.social and Professor Mohammad Shahabuddin. ☺️🙏🏽📚
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My first time joining @ruthhoughton.bsky.social & @aoifemod.bsky.social's Utopias Reading Group today 📚 Discussing @gautambhatia88.bsky.social's brilliant 'The Sentence' and thinking through questions of forgotten histories, law, and anarchy in the global order (& many other things). Such a treat!
Coming up in May, @aoifemod.bsky.social and I will introduce Series 4 of the Utopias Reading Group. Dates for diaries: 7th, 14th & 21st May. Get in touch if you want to be added to the mailing list.
May 7, 2025 at 7:53 PM
My first time joining @ruthhoughton.bsky.social & @aoifemod.bsky.social's Utopias Reading Group today 📚 Discussing @gautambhatia88.bsky.social's brilliant 'The Sentence' and thinking through questions of forgotten histories, law, and anarchy in the global order (& many other things). Such a treat!
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We love having you as part of the group @legallyapeksha.bsky.social! It's great to be able to share so many different perspectives on the texts we read and from across multiple disciplines too.
Being the way that I am means that I find myself on multiple side quests and currently, that includes joining the #Feminist Utopia Reading Group convened by @ruthhoughton.bsky.social and @aoifemod.bsky.social
This week we discussed The Sentence by @gautambhatia88.bsky.social 🤓📚
This week we discussed The Sentence by @gautambhatia88.bsky.social 🤓📚
May 7, 2025 at 6:47 PM
We love having you as part of the group @legallyapeksha.bsky.social! It's great to be able to share so many different perspectives on the texts we read and from across multiple disciplines too.
Being the way that I am means that I find myself on multiple side quests and currently, that includes joining the #Feminist Utopia Reading Group convened by @ruthhoughton.bsky.social and @aoifemod.bsky.social
This week we discussed The Sentence by @gautambhatia88.bsky.social 🤓📚
This week we discussed The Sentence by @gautambhatia88.bsky.social 🤓📚
May 7, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Being the way that I am means that I find myself on multiple side quests and currently, that includes joining the #Feminist Utopia Reading Group convened by @ruthhoughton.bsky.social and @aoifemod.bsky.social
This week we discussed The Sentence by @gautambhatia88.bsky.social 🤓📚
This week we discussed The Sentence by @gautambhatia88.bsky.social 🤓📚
There are some movies that stay with you long after you leave the cinema and Sandhya Suri's "Santosh" is one of them 🙌🏽 #santoshmovie
April 25, 2025 at 11:15 PM
There are some movies that stay with you long after you leave the cinema and Sandhya Suri's "Santosh" is one of them 🙌🏽 #santoshmovie
🥳 We Met Our Younger Selves for Chai yesterday!
🏆 I hosted my first event for Aston University staff and students in collaboration with the Aston REACH Network yesterday.
🏆 I hosted my first event for Aston University staff and students in collaboration with the Aston REACH Network yesterday.
April 10, 2025 at 9:39 PM
🥳 We Met Our Younger Selves for Chai yesterday!
🏆 I hosted my first event for Aston University staff and students in collaboration with the Aston REACH Network yesterday.
🏆 I hosted my first event for Aston University staff and students in collaboration with the Aston REACH Network yesterday.
Join us for an afternoon of creativity + community-building! 🫖
I'm hosting *my first* event for staff + students with the Aston REACH Network, designed to facilitate conversations around identity + self-love whilst engaging in art + poetry.
🔗 Register: forms.office.com/e/5qgsWmqpmv
I'm hosting *my first* event for staff + students with the Aston REACH Network, designed to facilitate conversations around identity + self-love whilst engaging in art + poetry.
🔗 Register: forms.office.com/e/5qgsWmqpmv
March 25, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Join us for an afternoon of creativity + community-building! 🫖
I'm hosting *my first* event for staff + students with the Aston REACH Network, designed to facilitate conversations around identity + self-love whilst engaging in art + poetry.
🔗 Register: forms.office.com/e/5qgsWmqpmv
I'm hosting *my first* event for staff + students with the Aston REACH Network, designed to facilitate conversations around identity + self-love whilst engaging in art + poetry.
🔗 Register: forms.office.com/e/5qgsWmqpmv
#Adolescence is a good reminder that the radicalisation of young boys and men is something that requires collective efforts to address.
March 18, 2025 at 8:32 PM
#Adolescence is a good reminder that the radicalisation of young boys and men is something that requires collective efforts to address.
Whilst looking ahead at everything I have yet to learn, I am reminding myself to also look back at everything I have achieved.
An example of this is with writing. I'm always in my head about my writing but when I read old essays/drafts of articles I'm reminded of the creative genius I am 😅✨️
An example of this is with writing. I'm always in my head about my writing but when I read old essays/drafts of articles I'm reminded of the creative genius I am 😅✨️
March 10, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Whilst looking ahead at everything I have yet to learn, I am reminding myself to also look back at everything I have achieved.
An example of this is with writing. I'm always in my head about my writing but when I read old essays/drafts of articles I'm reminded of the creative genius I am 😅✨️
An example of this is with writing. I'm always in my head about my writing but when I read old essays/drafts of articles I'm reminded of the creative genius I am 😅✨️
There are some really wonderful people in academia who teach young colleagues about the importance of setting boundaries and that you don't have to prove your worth by working yourself to death and I love those people from the bottom of my heart!! 🫶🏼🩷
March 5, 2025 at 7:52 PM
There are some really wonderful people in academia who teach young colleagues about the importance of setting boundaries and that you don't have to prove your worth by working yourself to death and I love those people from the bottom of my heart!! 🫶🏼🩷
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The amazing @sandraduffy.bsky.social blog in The Morrigan
'if the slogan ‘trans rights are human rights’ is ever to be anything more than hollow words, society must start with the recognition of the real humanity of trans people ...'
Critical pt in today's world!
dflw.ie/trans-rights...
'if the slogan ‘trans rights are human rights’ is ever to be anything more than hollow words, society must start with the recognition of the real humanity of trans people ...'
Critical pt in today's world!
dflw.ie/trans-rights...
Trans Rights and Threatened Citizenship - Doing Feminist Legal Work
I have been mulling on the phrase ‘trans rights are human rights.’ Of course they are; no-one at this blog would contend otherwise. We chant it at protests,
dflw.ie
February 19, 2025 at 9:24 AM
The amazing @sandraduffy.bsky.social blog in The Morrigan
'if the slogan ‘trans rights are human rights’ is ever to be anything more than hollow words, society must start with the recognition of the real humanity of trans people ...'
Critical pt in today's world!
dflw.ie/trans-rights...
'if the slogan ‘trans rights are human rights’ is ever to be anything more than hollow words, society must start with the recognition of the real humanity of trans people ...'
Critical pt in today's world!
dflw.ie/trans-rights...
Men and women watching #Mrs are frustrated for different reasons.
Men are frustrated at the realistic portrayal of their misogynistic behaviours, which they otherwise considered to be normal. They're getting called out for the BS they put women through & they don't like it 🤷🏽♀️
Men are frustrated at the realistic portrayal of their misogynistic behaviours, which they otherwise considered to be normal. They're getting called out for the BS they put women through & they don't like it 🤷🏽♀️
February 16, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Men and women watching #Mrs are frustrated for different reasons.
Men are frustrated at the realistic portrayal of their misogynistic behaviours, which they otherwise considered to be normal. They're getting called out for the BS they put women through & they don't like it 🤷🏽♀️
Men are frustrated at the realistic portrayal of their misogynistic behaviours, which they otherwise considered to be normal. They're getting called out for the BS they put women through & they don't like it 🤷🏽♀️
This was so much fun to attend! 💫
a terrific seminar on Decolonial Methods: Gender, History and Law through Black Literature organised by wls colleagues and featuring Olaulowa Oni and bestie @ruthhoughton.bsky.social
January 13, 2025 at 6:08 PM
This was so much fun to attend! 💫
It's actually a core British value to take a photo or video of the first snow of the season and post it on all your socials ❄️
January 5, 2025 at 1:43 PM
It's actually a core British value to take a photo or video of the first snow of the season and post it on all your socials ❄️
I will never not be moved by the work of Saidiya Hartman 🙌🏽
December 4, 2024 at 3:14 PM
I will never not be moved by the work of Saidiya Hartman 🙌🏽
I'm always burnt out at this stage in the term but seeing my students all passionate and enthusiastic about women's rights today really lifted my spirits.
They created such kind and supportive spaces for their peers to share their experiences; I'm so proud of them 🥹❤️
They created such kind and supportive spaces for their peers to share their experiences; I'm so proud of them 🥹❤️
November 28, 2024 at 6:09 PM
I'm always burnt out at this stage in the term but seeing my students all passionate and enthusiastic about women's rights today really lifted my spirits.
They created such kind and supportive spaces for their peers to share their experiences; I'm so proud of them 🥹❤️
They created such kind and supportive spaces for their peers to share their experiences; I'm so proud of them 🥹❤️
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Us at #Doing #Feminist Legal Work have 2 new Best Practice Guides
1. Empirical Approaches to Family Law Research
2. Transitioning from PhD to an Academic Career
Thnx to all who contributed! Great collective work!!
All our Best Practice Guides are available
dflw.ie/publications...
1. Empirical Approaches to Family Law Research
2. Transitioning from PhD to an Academic Career
Thnx to all who contributed! Great collective work!!
All our Best Practice Guides are available
dflw.ie/publications...
November 25, 2024 at 5:21 PM
Us at #Doing #Feminist Legal Work have 2 new Best Practice Guides
1. Empirical Approaches to Family Law Research
2. Transitioning from PhD to an Academic Career
Thnx to all who contributed! Great collective work!!
All our Best Practice Guides are available
dflw.ie/publications...
1. Empirical Approaches to Family Law Research
2. Transitioning from PhD to an Academic Career
Thnx to all who contributed! Great collective work!!
All our Best Practice Guides are available
dflw.ie/publications...
This and the starter pack on Critical Legal Scholars is so cute and helpful! What a lovely way to (re)build community 🦋✨️
OK so I made a thing but can't figure out an easy way to remember all the people so if you identify as a jurisprudence person let me know and I'll add you
go.bsky.app/9AjCmGf
go.bsky.app/9AjCmGf
November 22, 2024 at 11:26 PM
This and the starter pack on Critical Legal Scholars is so cute and helpful! What a lovely way to (re)build community 🦋✨️
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Tolerance is a crime when applied to evil.
November 17, 2024 at 7:34 AM
Tolerance is a crime when applied to evil.