Shaimaa Abdelkarim

Just a few hours left for this, but it's plenty of time. Even just answering the "overall do you agree" question can be meaningful. Speak against this endless cruelty.

Picturing Scholasticide: Exhibition Launch Picturing Scholasticide is a traveling exhibition initiated by staff and students of Leiden University to publicize the social and legal effects of Israel's effort to destroy Palestinian institutions ...

Today is the launch of the travelling exhibition, Picturing Scholasticide @unileiden.bsky.social. It raises awareness of Israel's destruction of Palestinian academic & intellectual life, & what can be done to support Palestinian scholars & institutions.
www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/20...

Hind Rajab and the Dying Light Kaouther Ben Hania’s film retells the story of the 5-year-old’s final hours and amplifies her voice to indict the world’s silence over Gaza’s children

"If Hind [Rajab]’s voice is a reproach, then the humanity of her would-be rescuers is redemption, however inadequate. For the hours they spent with her ... they expiate our collective guilt." | @idreesahmad.bsky.social 

Dionne Brand : Nomenclature — New and Collected Poems | Milkweed Editions Today’s guest Dionne Brand, to borrow the words of John Keene, “is without question one of the major living poets in the English language.” Kamau Brathwaite called Brand “our first major exile female ...

"this does not need a balm
this needs an ending"
--Dionne Brand, Nomenclature for the Time Being

Audio: milkweed.org/between-the-...

A 2026 reminder: refuse selective empathy and oppose all politics/policies that consign people (such as migrants, Indigenous communities, disabled people, trans folk, Palestinians, etc) to their deaths.

📢 New series: 10 Questions With…

In a time of global crisis, feminist ideas matter.

10 Questions with Feminist Academics centres feminist thinking in today’s policy and movement debates.

🗓️ Launching Mon 2 Feb
💬 What feminist questions should we be asking right now?

Utopia Abstract. Ideal societies, better worlds, more just and peaceful ways of living: these have long been the stuff of human beings’ social dreaming. In this c

NEW BOOK!

I'm very happy to say that my new book, Utopia, co-written with Douglas Mao, has been published on-line

academic.oup.com/book/62279

This Research Handbook provides a comprehensive overview of Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL) with chapters exploring different facets of TWAIL scholarship. It covers major doctrines and topics of international law, as well as TWAIL perspectives on central historical and theoretical debates. Expert authors present key insights into various themes that intersect with international law including economics, post-colonialism, religion, development, treaties, and human rights. The Research Handbook underscores the cornerstone concepts of TWAIL and examines their relationship with intellectual traditions such as Marxism and feminism. Contributing authors outline TWAIL’s perspectives on core areas of international law such as customary international law, treaties and human rights, as well as important contemporary issues, including debt, climate change, and public health. Ultimately, the Research Handbook showcases an expanded and enriched vision of international law, assessing how alternate methodologies can lead to a fairer legal system.

Research Handbook on 3rd World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL)
[Eds] Antony Anghie, B.S Chimni, @michaelfakhri.bsky.social hri.bsky.social, Karin Mickelson & Vasuki Nesiah
Contribs: @azizaahmed.bsky.social @seanmacr.bsky.social @leslava.bsky.social

Read the Intro: doi.org/10.4337/9781...

CfP: Brick-by-Brick, Wall-by-Wall: Co-producing Transnational Feminist Abolitionist Knowledges 19th June 2026 | London Community Space + Online  Are you committed to feminist justice beyond the criminal legal system?  Do you work across

📢 criticallegalthinking.com/2025/10/20/c...

Great opportunity: gendersexualityfeminist.duke.edu/black-feminist-theory-summer-institute
Deadline for applying: December 15, 2025

New article co-authored with @gautambhatia88.bsky.social published in @compconstudies.bsky.social on the vastly divergent approach of Indian courts on the right to housing in cases about home demolitions and evictions. It's open access for 3 months!

www.elgaronline.com/view/journal...

Call for Papers: Second International Conference of Critical Legal Geography// March 17-20, 2026 in Chile// Deadline: Nov 10, 2025// More info: cnlh.ubc.ca/call-for-pap...

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This was a great chat I think. Alex on his usual excellent form and @rafeefz.bsky.social and Adam both brilliant as ever.

This is our first pod about the @versobooks.bsky.social pamphlet and it's good to start out with some of the best.

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 ...

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...

M4C Dialogue Day: Dialogues on Feminist Decolonial Methods A day for arts and humanities researchers to explore questions of voice, authority, methods, and the futures of anti-disciplinarity.

Join us for an interactive day on research methods at university of Leicester September 17. PGR travel expenses paid for attendance. @silvilunazul.bsky.social and I will be speaking on decolonial and feminist methods. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/m4c-dialog...

‘Do the pilots who bomb children have children’

5 copies of the book Resisting Erasure: Capital, Imperialism and Race in Palestine.

Physical copies of this, written by Adam Hanieh l, myself and @rafeefz.bsky.social seem to be appearing on the shelves.

If you can't find a copy it's still available for preorder from Verso - www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc...

Darlings, the first time I'm seeing it in print. Thank you to @dr-di.bsky.social for the photo. Have so many feels. Still awaiting mine.
Please share pics when you receive yours. And, request your libraries to order it.
All royalties donated to Gaza.
Onwards comrades.
us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/th...

Brick-by-Brick, Wall-by-Wall: Co-Producing Transnational Feminist Abolitionist Knowledges

Brick-by-Brick, Wall-by-Wall: Co-Producing Transnational Feminist Abolitionist Knowledges

molly ackhurst, Shaimaa Abdelkarim (@shaimabdelkarim.bsky.social) & Silvana Tapia Tapia (@silvilunazul.bsky.social)

isrf.org/projects/bri...

On Exhaustion: Toward a Post-Care Feminism This essay is a critical response to the emergence of “care” as the antidote to the multiple crises that plague the present. The call for care— intramural care, radical care, mutual aid, etc.—has prol...

We thought we knew tired when we wrote this. Exhausted with @jennifercnash.bsky.social @differences.bsky.social doi.org/10.1215/1040...

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

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...

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

The Special Rapporteur on the right to food @MichaelFakhri writes in the @guardian: The GA must act to authorize peacekeepers to ensure aid delivery to Gaza. I have called on the GA before to act under the Uniting for Peace res. and fully endorse this.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Amazing workshop at Univeristy of Greenwich with Renginee Pillay and Tom Frost facilitating conversations on decoloniality, student-led coproduction and AI as part of the Reimagining Antiracist and Decolonial Law collective. Special issue coming soon 🎊 #RADLAW

This was a great chat! If you've not listened to the podcast before check it out for all this #utopia & #dystopia

Front cover of book: The Emotions of LGBT Rights and Reforms: Repairing Law by Senthorun Sunil Raj.

So excited that my book is now in press! It’ll be out next month.

Join us for a book launch with the author @quinnslobodian.com to discuss his latest book, 'Hayek’s Bastards: The Neoliberal Roots of the Populist Right'

🗓️ May 7th
📍 Khalili Lecture Theatre, SOAS
⏰ 12 noon to 1:30 PM
Please register here: forms.office.com/e/0F7RF8cKxk

Palestine beyond the colonial logic of international law The colonization of Palestine is not an anomaly in the liberal global order but its most glaring indictment. It exposes the hypocrisy of an international system that decries colonialism while institut...

Palestine beyond the colonial logic of international law mondoweiss.net/2025/04/pale...

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Conversation With: Dr Leila Ullrich and Dr Silvana Tapia Tapia. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar. Join us for a conversation with Dr Leila Ullrich and Dr Silvana Tapia Tapia on Dr Ullrich's book 'Victims and the Labour of Justice at the International Criminal Court: The Blame Cascade' (OUP 2024) ...

Please join @silvilunazul.bsky.social, @leilaullrich.bsky.social and I on May 1, 2pm for an online conversation on Leila’s book ‘Victims and the Labour of Justice at the International Criminal Court’. Registration link below 👇🏾
bham-ac-uk.zoom.us/webinar/regi...