Law & Social Justice (L&SJ) is a research centre based at the University of Leeds School Law, engaging with questions about inequalities in welfare and social justice. https://essl.leeds.ac.uk/research-centre-law-social-justice
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Spaces are limited (to 50), but you can book your free seat here: hpph.co.uk/films/making...
We look forward to seeing you there!
This event is NEXT WEEK, so do come and join us if you can!
The screening will be followed by an interactive discussion with overseas-trained nurse Nelson Enah. The films are part of the research project, Making it to the Registers: Documenting Migrant Carers’ Experiences of Registration and Fitness to Practise, funded by the AHRC. Dir: Daisy Street Films.
Hosted as part of Refugee Week. The three short films feature conversations around the graphic novel Making it to the Registers. Professionals, researchers and artists discuss the challenges faced by refugee nurses and doctors, and the co-creation of a graphic novel based on their experiences!
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It's Pride month! So why not read a big gay article I wrote with @drfoxpopuli.bsky.social that we published under our actual drag names!
It's about Drag Race as a legal system, "dragging up" as a means of queering, and the rigid overbearing homonormativity of RuPaul
doi.org/10.1080/1752...
Save the date!
Law's a Drag are hosting our "Hate Crimes Live!" Cabaret
23 July, Wharf Chambers, Leeds
New legislation has expanded hate crimes laws. We use art, drag, comedy, and performance, to explore what this means for queer, trans, and disabled people:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/hate-crime...
📢 Coming soon!
This year, as part of #RefugeeWeek, @lsjleeds.bsky.social is hosting:
Making it to the Registers: a migrant healthcare workers' story
📅 Thursday 18th June
⏰ 12:00-13:00
📍 Hyde Park Picture House, Leeds
Seats are limited so book your free ticket now! 👇
tinyurl.com/429cuj7y
📽️ School of Law academic in the news!
🚍 Our Professor Anna Lawson was interviewed by the BBC on the subject of floating bus stops and their negative effect on the visually impaired community.
🔗 Watch her interview in the short video 👇
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Sight loss groups are concerned about new-style bus stops in places including Leeds and Cleckheaton.
There is growing consensus that so-called 'conversion therapy' practices are harmful and must be banned.
But which legal mechanisms should be used to do this?
My article (with Stuart Goosey), Criminalising “Conversion Therapy”, published in the MLR, takes up this urgent question shorturl.at/AHkfb
Alice Aforethought
Not to toot my own horn too much, but I wrote a book about the ways violent protest might (or might not) be justified in liberal democracies, which I do genuinely think is helpful in these turbulent times
Ask your library to order it, also cite it a lot please
www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/1...
