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)
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
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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.
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@ox.ac.uk @oxfordcrim.bsky.social @lsegender.bsky.social
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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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<p style="text-align: center;"><em><span>LSE is committed to building a diverse, equitable and truly inclusive university</span></em></p>
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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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A Trump order seeks to impose involuntary confinement on homeless and mentally ill Americans.
Trans people are already at a higher risk. But a nightmare scenario of mass confinement hangs over the order - the right defines trans people as inherently mentally ill.
slate.com/life/2025/08...
Trans people are already at a higher risk. But a nightmare scenario of mass confinement hangs over the order - the right defines trans people as inherently mentally ill.
slate.com/life/2025/08...
Trump Just Took a Major Step Toward a Nightmare Scenario for Trans Americans Under the Guise of “Public Safety.” Don’t Be Fooled.
If we don’t change course soon, it will be too late.
slate.com
August 12, 2025 at 10:43 AM
A Trump order seeks to impose involuntary confinement on homeless and mentally ill Americans.
Trans people are already at a higher risk. But a nightmare scenario of mass confinement hangs over the order - the right defines trans people as inherently mentally ill.
slate.com/life/2025/08...
Trans people are already at a higher risk. But a nightmare scenario of mass confinement hangs over the order - the right defines trans people as inherently mentally ill.
slate.com/life/2025/08...
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If you have been stopped, challenged or harassed when using a gendered space (such as toilets or changing rooms) since the UK's Supreme Court ruling on the Equality Act we need to hear from you.
Let us know at: tinyurl.com/ReportALoo
#Trans #Transgender #Nonbinary #Queer #LGBTQIA #LGBTQ #LGBT
Let us know at: tinyurl.com/ReportALoo
#Trans #Transgender #Nonbinary #Queer #LGBTQIA #LGBTQ #LGBT
August 12, 2025 at 1:16 PM
If you have been stopped, challenged or harassed when using a gendered space (such as toilets or changing rooms) since the UK's Supreme Court ruling on the Equality Act we need to hear from you.
Let us know at: tinyurl.com/ReportALoo
#Trans #Transgender #Nonbinary #Queer #LGBTQIA #LGBTQ #LGBT
Let us know at: tinyurl.com/ReportALoo
#Trans #Transgender #Nonbinary #Queer #LGBTQIA #LGBTQ #LGBT
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“What does it mean for one’s citizenship to depend on the violence of deportation in order to have meaning? Can we imagine forms of citizenship that do not require violence in order to have meaning? What are ways that citizens can ethically participate in realizing this change?”
In her new book "Abolitionist Intimacies," Eithne Luibhéid talks about how queer, trans, & other marginalized migrants experience deportation. Read a Q&A with her on the blog today.
buff.ly/KWm79nA
buff.ly/KWm79nA
August 6, 2025 at 7:47 PM
“What does it mean for one’s citizenship to depend on the violence of deportation in order to have meaning? Can we imagine forms of citizenship that do not require violence in order to have meaning? What are ways that citizens can ethically participate in realizing this change?”
Who on here will be in Chicago next weekend for #ASA2025? It's been about seven years since I was a regular attendee and I am a bit nervous I've become estranged from the US scene 🫣 (thankful for that in general, but if these meetings are as large as they were pre-COVID...😬)
August 1, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Who on here will be in Chicago next weekend for #ASA2025? It's been about seven years since I was a regular attendee and I am a bit nervous I've become estranged from the US scene 🫣 (thankful for that in general, but if these meetings are as large as they were pre-COVID...😬)
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📘 "This study builds on and critiques theories of doing, redoing, and undoing gender by demonstrating how nonbinary transitioning disrupts dominant models of gender accountability, recognition, and self-determination."
@lseblogs.bsky.social @socwomen.bsky.social @asanews.bsky.social #sociology
@lseblogs.bsky.social @socwomen.bsky.social @asanews.bsky.social #sociology
July 11, 2025 at 1:32 PM
📘 "This study builds on and critiques theories of doing, redoing, and undoing gender by demonstrating how nonbinary transitioning disrupts dominant models of gender accountability, recognition, and self-determination."
@lseblogs.bsky.social @socwomen.bsky.social @asanews.bsky.social #sociology
@lseblogs.bsky.social @socwomen.bsky.social @asanews.bsky.social #sociology
Sociological Inquiry has just published my newest article, open access: "Reconceptualizing Gender Transitioning" video abstract linked below 👇🏾
www.linkedin.com/posts/sm-rod...
#genderstudies #sociology #nonbinary #transitioning
www.linkedin.com/posts/sm-rod...
#genderstudies #sociology #nonbinary #transitioning
✨How do non-binary experiences expand the meaning of gender transition? | SM Rodriguez
✨How do non-binary experiences expand the meaning of gender transition?
- My new article explores how transition isn’t always linear or binary, but instead can be fluid, relational, and strategic.
🌱 P...
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July 30, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Sociological Inquiry has just published my newest article, open access: "Reconceptualizing Gender Transitioning" video abstract linked below 👇🏾
www.linkedin.com/posts/sm-rod...
#genderstudies #sociology #nonbinary #transitioning
www.linkedin.com/posts/sm-rod...
#genderstudies #sociology #nonbinary #transitioning
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🚨🚨 Join us for Abolition Now! with @smrodriguez.bsky.social @slamble1.bsky.social and Leticia Sabsay!
This event explores how queer and trans theories illuminate the urgent need to dismantle carceral systems and reimagine safety, justice, and accountability.
Free tickets at link in bio! 🎟️
This event explores how queer and trans theories illuminate the urgent need to dismantle carceral systems and reimagine safety, justice, and accountability.
Free tickets at link in bio! 🎟️
February 21, 2025 at 3:28 PM
🚨🚨 Join us for Abolition Now! with @smrodriguez.bsky.social @slamble1.bsky.social and Leticia Sabsay!
This event explores how queer and trans theories illuminate the urgent need to dismantle carceral systems and reimagine safety, justice, and accountability.
Free tickets at link in bio! 🎟️
This event explores how queer and trans theories illuminate the urgent need to dismantle carceral systems and reimagine safety, justice, and accountability.
Free tickets at link in bio! 🎟️
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Happy Black History Month. Listen to, support, fund, and uplift Black people. #BHM #BlackHistoryMonth
Black journos: go.bsky.app/QvS5FNb
Black scientists: go.bsky.app/Ao3Qt9a
Black academics: go.bsky.app/RyKSzcb
Black democracy experts: go.bsky.app/6WTBzhX
Black in tech: go.bsky.app/2RAbS3g
Black journos: go.bsky.app/QvS5FNb
Black scientists: go.bsky.app/Ao3Qt9a
Black academics: go.bsky.app/RyKSzcb
Black democracy experts: go.bsky.app/6WTBzhX
Black in tech: go.bsky.app/2RAbS3g
February 1, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Happy Black History Month. Listen to, support, fund, and uplift Black people. #BHM #BlackHistoryMonth
Black journos: go.bsky.app/QvS5FNb
Black scientists: go.bsky.app/Ao3Qt9a
Black academics: go.bsky.app/RyKSzcb
Black democracy experts: go.bsky.app/6WTBzhX
Black in tech: go.bsky.app/2RAbS3g
Black journos: go.bsky.app/QvS5FNb
Black scientists: go.bsky.app/Ao3Qt9a
Black academics: go.bsky.app/RyKSzcb
Black democracy experts: go.bsky.app/6WTBzhX
Black in tech: go.bsky.app/2RAbS3g
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Happy Black History Month, MORE Black starterpacks to follow #BHM #BlackHistoryMonth:
Black gardeners/farmers: go.bsky.app/VJwu7qc
Black docs: go.bsky.app/3wc2Q3G
Black feminists/women studies: go.bsky.app/UdMxCfu
Black Authors: go.bsky.app/Thz8U7e
Black businesses: go.bsky.app/27regbf
Black gardeners/farmers: go.bsky.app/VJwu7qc
Black docs: go.bsky.app/3wc2Q3G
Black feminists/women studies: go.bsky.app/UdMxCfu
Black Authors: go.bsky.app/Thz8U7e
Black businesses: go.bsky.app/27regbf
February 1, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Happy Black History Month, MORE Black starterpacks to follow #BHM #BlackHistoryMonth:
Black gardeners/farmers: go.bsky.app/VJwu7qc
Black docs: go.bsky.app/3wc2Q3G
Black feminists/women studies: go.bsky.app/UdMxCfu
Black Authors: go.bsky.app/Thz8U7e
Black businesses: go.bsky.app/27regbf
Black gardeners/farmers: go.bsky.app/VJwu7qc
Black docs: go.bsky.app/3wc2Q3G
Black feminists/women studies: go.bsky.app/UdMxCfu
Black Authors: go.bsky.app/Thz8U7e
Black businesses: go.bsky.app/27regbf
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This event will be hosted by @lsegender.bsky.social and LSE International History, and facilitated by the brilliant Emrah Karakus 🔥
February 4, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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Celebrate Black History Month with Africana Philosophy!
Explore insightful works on Africana thought, ethics, and identity. We're welcoming proposals on emerging paradigms in Africana philosophy: brill.com/AFPH. #BlackHistoryMonth #Philosophy #AfricanaStudies
Explore insightful works on Africana thought, ethics, and identity. We're welcoming proposals on emerging paradigms in Africana philosophy: brill.com/AFPH. #BlackHistoryMonth #Philosophy #AfricanaStudies
February 3, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Celebrate Black History Month with Africana Philosophy!
Explore insightful works on Africana thought, ethics, and identity. We're welcoming proposals on emerging paradigms in Africana philosophy: brill.com/AFPH. #BlackHistoryMonth #Philosophy #AfricanaStudies
Explore insightful works on Africana thought, ethics, and identity. We're welcoming proposals on emerging paradigms in Africana philosophy: brill.com/AFPH. #BlackHistoryMonth #Philosophy #AfricanaStudies
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Scholars writing about #LGBTQ advocacy and #activism in #education please consider submitting to our Special Issue with @jqtsie.bsky.social Manuscripts due March 1. More details here: tinyurl.com/JQTSIE
January 30, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Scholars writing about #LGBTQ advocacy and #activism in #education please consider submitting to our Special Issue with @jqtsie.bsky.social Manuscripts due March 1. More details here: tinyurl.com/JQTSIE