Senthorun S. Raj
@senthorun.bsky.social
A/Prof in Human Rights Law ✨ Professional Gay🦩
Books:
📕 The Emotions of LGBT Rights and Reforms
📕 Queer Judgments
📕 The Queer Outside in Law
📕 Feeling Queer Jurisprudence
Links: https://linktr.ee/senthorun
(He/Him)
Books:
📕 The Emotions of LGBT Rights and Reforms
📕 Queer Judgments
📕 The Queer Outside in Law
📕 Feeling Queer Jurisprudence
Links: https://linktr.ee/senthorun
(He/Him)
Manchester Pride’s liquidation has left several LGBTQ+ creatives without compensation for their work. If you can afford, please consider donating to this fundraiser to help pay them for their work. Let’s keep defending queer and trans talent!
Donate here: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/qr/1n72bx0W
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Donate here: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/qr/1n72bx0W
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November 6, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Manchester Pride’s liquidation has left several LGBTQ+ creatives without compensation for their work. If you can afford, please consider donating to this fundraiser to help pay them for their work. Let’s keep defending queer and trans talent!
Donate here: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/qr/1n72bx0W
✊🏾🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
Donate here: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/qr/1n72bx0W
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A privilege to be invited to The University of Luxembourg this week to present on some new research that builds upon work in my latest book.
November 6, 2025 at 10:00 AM
A privilege to be invited to The University of Luxembourg this week to present on some new research that builds upon work in my latest book.
I’ll be in London next week to launch my new book about LGBT rights. Come along for good chats and refreshments! 🍷📖
📆: Tuesday 11th November
⏰: 6.30-8.00pm
📍: Council Room, King’s College London, The Strand
It’s free to attend. Just register for a ticket here: www.tickettailor.com/events/queer...
📆: Tuesday 11th November
⏰: 6.30-8.00pm
📍: Council Room, King’s College London, The Strand
It’s free to attend. Just register for a ticket here: www.tickettailor.com/events/queer...
November 4, 2025 at 8:00 PM
I’ll be in London next week to launch my new book about LGBT rights. Come along for good chats and refreshments! 🍷📖
📆: Tuesday 11th November
⏰: 6.30-8.00pm
📍: Council Room, King’s College London, The Strand
It’s free to attend. Just register for a ticket here: www.tickettailor.com/events/queer...
📆: Tuesday 11th November
⏰: 6.30-8.00pm
📍: Council Room, King’s College London, The Strand
It’s free to attend. Just register for a ticket here: www.tickettailor.com/events/queer...
Worth pointing out the biggest supporters of trans people (which is who bigots mean by “gender ideology”) are bisexual & lesbian women. All the public “concerns” about trans people (phase, indoctrination, regret, etc) are recycled forms of homophobia. This is why LGB solidarity with the T is strong.
November 2, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Worth pointing out the biggest supporters of trans people (which is who bigots mean by “gender ideology”) are bisexual & lesbian women. All the public “concerns” about trans people (phase, indoctrination, regret, etc) are recycled forms of homophobia. This is why LGB solidarity with the T is strong.
To channel Elle Woods for a moment: keep being fabulous in your research and practice.
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October 28, 2025 at 8:00 PM
To channel Elle Woods for a moment: keep being fabulous in your research and practice.
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I’m SO PROUD of my PhD student @sammorgn97.bsky.social who successfully defended her thesis yesterday. Sam wrote a brilliant thesis examining how we can use emotion and space to navigate the legal politics of LGBTQ+ rights advocacy in the Caribbean.
Now to celebrate! 🥂
@mmulawresearch.bsky.social
Now to celebrate! 🥂
@mmulawresearch.bsky.social
October 25, 2025 at 1:30 PM
I’m SO PROUD of my PhD student @sammorgn97.bsky.social who successfully defended her thesis yesterday. Sam wrote a brilliant thesis examining how we can use emotion and space to navigate the legal politics of LGBTQ+ rights advocacy in the Caribbean.
Now to celebrate! 🥂
@mmulawresearch.bsky.social
Now to celebrate! 🥂
@mmulawresearch.bsky.social
Performed a new act this week: “Be More Elle Woods: Fabulousness as Legal Practice.” Fabulousness is a way of seeing the world that attends to the messy, gritty, and painful while finding ways to cultivate creativity, beauty, curiosity and justice even in conditions where that might seem impossible.
October 23, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Performed a new act this week: “Be More Elle Woods: Fabulousness as Legal Practice.” Fabulousness is a way of seeing the world that attends to the messy, gritty, and painful while finding ways to cultivate creativity, beauty, curiosity and justice even in conditions where that might seem impossible.
I had the queer joy of sparkling with @saranahmed.bsky.social, as we discussed her new book, No Is Not A Lonely Utterance. We explored complaint as a way of cultivating feminist listening, queer world building, and institutional disruption. We reverberate with collective refusals to injustice.
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October 22, 2025 at 10:40 PM
I had the queer joy of sparkling with @saranahmed.bsky.social, as we discussed her new book, No Is Not A Lonely Utterance. We explored complaint as a way of cultivating feminist listening, queer world building, and institutional disruption. We reverberate with collective refusals to injustice.
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Colleagues: “Legally Blonde is a movie. You cannot channel Elle Woods in your legal work.”
Me:
Me:
October 21, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Colleagues: “Legally Blonde is a movie. You cannot channel Elle Woods in your legal work.”
Me:
Me:
13 years ago… I spoke to an Australian newspaper about why schools need policies that affirm sexual and gender diversity. As politicians target LGBT folk, it’s vital we resist the closering of our lives. We’re not “ideologies.” We’re people. And we deserve to thrive everywhere, including in schools.
October 17, 2025 at 7:05 AM
13 years ago… I spoke to an Australian newspaper about why schools need policies that affirm sexual and gender diversity. As politicians target LGBT folk, it’s vital we resist the closering of our lives. We’re not “ideologies.” We’re people. And we deserve to thrive everywhere, including in schools.
At a time when queer existence in universities is treated as an “ideology,” I’m proud to be on display at work being unapologetically gay.
October 9, 2025 at 7:35 PM
At a time when queer existence in universities is treated as an “ideology,” I’m proud to be on display at work being unapologetically gay.
Happy International Lesbian Day! ☀️
October 8, 2025 at 8:10 AM
Happy International Lesbian Day! ☀️
“To assemble, to say no, to do no, throws so much open … doing what we can, when we can, however we can, in the wear and tear, for as long as it takes.”
Just read @saranahmed.bsky.social’s energising new book on complaining as a collective task of feminist and queer world (un)building. Get a copy!
Just read @saranahmed.bsky.social’s energising new book on complaining as a collective task of feminist and queer world (un)building. Get a copy!
October 5, 2025 at 8:25 AM
“To assemble, to say no, to do no, throws so much open … doing what we can, when we can, however we can, in the wear and tear, for as long as it takes.”
Just read @saranahmed.bsky.social’s energising new book on complaining as a collective task of feminist and queer world (un)building. Get a copy!
Just read @saranahmed.bsky.social’s energising new book on complaining as a collective task of feminist and queer world (un)building. Get a copy!
My fabulous new friend and colleague crocheted me a queer flower bouquet. 💐🌈
September 30, 2025 at 9:30 AM
My fabulous new friend and colleague crocheted me a queer flower bouquet. 💐🌈
At a time when political resentments and despair shape caricatures of diversity and inclusion, it feels so refreshing to be back teaching Equalities Law to a group of thoughtful and critically engaged students.
September 29, 2025 at 7:25 PM
At a time when political resentments and despair shape caricatures of diversity and inclusion, it feels so refreshing to be back teaching Equalities Law to a group of thoughtful and critically engaged students.
4 years of being unapologetically gay together. 💕🌈
September 28, 2025 at 7:00 AM
4 years of being unapologetically gay together. 💕🌈
Love is agreeing to your boyfriend’s request to wear a hat. 🎩
September 26, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Love is agreeing to your boyfriend’s request to wear a hat. 🎩
My parents came to visit me in Canberra today and we had a wander to Floriade. They’re big fans of growing flowers. I mean, they did a pretty excellent job nurturing a pansy like me.
September 21, 2025 at 11:10 AM
My parents came to visit me in Canberra today and we had a wander to Floriade. They’re big fans of growing flowers. I mean, they did a pretty excellent job nurturing a pansy like me.
It was a privilege to be invited to give a guest lecture about queer judgment writing to A/Prof Wayne Morgan’s Law, Identities & Sexualities class. This is the first and longest running Law & Sexualities course (about 30 years now!) in Australia.
Thanks for the wonderful chats, Wayne!
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Thanks for the wonderful chats, Wayne!
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September 19, 2025 at 5:20 AM
It was a privilege to be invited to give a guest lecture about queer judgment writing to A/Prof Wayne Morgan’s Law, Identities & Sexualities class. This is the first and longest running Law & Sexualities course (about 30 years now!) in Australia.
Thanks for the wonderful chats, Wayne!
🌈🎓
Thanks for the wonderful chats, Wayne!
🌈🎓
A reminder: keep following the rainbow path. 🌈
September 11, 2025 at 7:25 AM
A reminder: keep following the rainbow path. 🌈
My new book explores how emotions like pain, shame, and anxiety shape the ways we conceive rights and pursue reforms to protect LGBT people. I think/feel through how we might live with discomfort as we seek justice.
You can read the book for free here: edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-the-emo...
You can read the book for free here: edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-the-emo...
September 8, 2025 at 11:10 AM
My new book explores how emotions like pain, shame, and anxiety shape the ways we conceive rights and pursue reforms to protect LGBT people. I think/feel through how we might live with discomfort as we seek justice.
You can read the book for free here: edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-the-emo...
You can read the book for free here: edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-the-emo...
Happy Father’s Day. I’m lucky to have a dad who never made me feel ashamed for not wanting to play cricket as a kid (which is blasphemous in most Sri Lankan households) and letting me strut about in heels and play with dolls instead. All kids deserve to grow up without gender policing! Thanks, Appa!
September 7, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Happy Father’s Day. I’m lucky to have a dad who never made me feel ashamed for not wanting to play cricket as a kid (which is blasphemous in most Sri Lankan households) and letting me strut about in heels and play with dolls instead. All kids deserve to grow up without gender policing! Thanks, Appa!
30 years ago this icon graced our TV sets and made us all gay.
September 4, 2025 at 11:00 PM
30 years ago this icon graced our TV sets and made us all gay.
It’s lovely to be in Canberra this month as a visiting fellow at the ANU Law School. On Thursday 18th September, I’ll be presenting some of the work from my new book which explores emotions and conflicts over LGBT rights. Come along if you’re around! Details here: law.anu.edu.au/news-and-eve... 🌈🎓
September 3, 2025 at 9:00 AM
It’s lovely to be in Canberra this month as a visiting fellow at the ANU Law School. On Thursday 18th September, I’ll be presenting some of the work from my new book which explores emotions and conflicts over LGBT rights. Come along if you’re around! Details here: law.anu.edu.au/news-and-eve... 🌈🎓
Working as a legal academic and writing on LGBT rights is not an abstract intellectual exercise. It’s deeply emotional. It requires political accountability and intellectual vulnerability.
September 1, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Working as a legal academic and writing on LGBT rights is not an abstract intellectual exercise. It’s deeply emotional. It requires political accountability and intellectual vulnerability.