Author | Lightnews

Halber Mensch halbes Plätzchen

@clairq.bsky.social

1.3K followers 980 following 290 posts

Club Tropicana's beverage pricing consultant (they/them) Read my stuff, nerds: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4554-7291

orcid.org

Posts Media Videos Starter Packs

Pinned

Halber Mensch halbes Plätzchen @clairq.bsky.social · May 5

I have found that since the Supreme Court's decision in FWS my skin is softer and more glowing, my curves are more luscious, my hips sway more when I walk, and when I wear my hair up, stray wisps of it seem to hang even more prettily around my face - anyone else finding this?

Reposted by Halber Mensch halbes Plätzchen

Dr. Sandra Duffy Golden @sandraduffy.bsky.social · 5h

It is also truly affirming being a legal expert exactly on this topic, and having the answer still need to be 'I don't know' when you get asked.

Abigail Thorn @theabigailthorn.bsky.social · 5h

I love living in a country where the law about what bathroom I can use is genuinely UNKNOWABLE, it’s like something from a Joseph Heller novel

Victoria McCloud 🏳️‍⚧️🌈‍♾️ @humanrightsvicky.bsky.social · 6h

This is 100% correct. Including as to the chaos the Gender Critical Ideological Movement so beloved of Labour has now descended into as their facade of respectability crumbles like the Berlin Wall.

www.liberalcurrents.com/nobody-knows...

1 5 21

Halber Mensch halbes Plätzchen @clairq.bsky.social · 1d

I always thought that eventually one day I would write a book or two, but if you had told undergraduate me that my first book would be about value and be published in a series called "New Directions in Modern Economics" I would have been very skeptical indeed. Anyway, pretty, isn't it?

2 5

Halber Mensch halbes Plätzchen @clairq.bsky.social · 2d

Ye gods this ILR stuff must be so so frightening for so many people

Halber Mensch halbes Plätzchen @clairq.bsky.social · 2d

Imagine starring in Pride and then showing this little solidarity

Halber Mensch halbes Plätzchen @clairq.bsky.social · 2d

There are actually only two genders and they are (i) being and (ii) becoming

1 7 19

Halber Mensch halbes Plätzchen @clairq.bsky.social · 3d

Serious question: would you rather hear Wham perform a set of Joy Division covers, or Joy Division perform a set of Wham covers

1 3

Halber Mensch halbes Plätzchen @clairq.bsky.social · 3d

hahahahahahaha turns out the existence of self-serving oligopolies is attributable to a moral failing on the part of consumers

Reposted by Halber Mensch halbes Plätzchen

Phil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 4d

The broader interests of capital long believed that they were concerned with ground rent, until the day of danger wrung from them the truth that they in fact wanted to be untouchable bigots doing coke and screaming at those they considered inferior. Etc.

2 12

Halber Mensch halbes Plätzchen @clairq.bsky.social · 4d

also it's gonna be hilarious when the gvmnt starts trying to do a patronising simulacrum of slightly leftist politics and the sensibles will all be like "big changes afoot as Labour moves to see off the threat from Polanski" and people just keep on treating labour like its an ebola outbreak

Halber Mensch halbes Plätzchen @clairq.bsky.social · 4d

honestly worth a fiver a month just for Labour to know how much I'm never again going to vote for one of their candidates

Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 4d

"Sir Keir Starmer has been warned that Labour is being deserted by a so-called Green wave of left-wing voters who are disillusioned with the party’s shift to the right on welfare, migration and transgender rights."

www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

Starmer warned of ‘Green wave’ exodus over Reform obsession

Labour may soon be ‘haemorrhaging’ left-wing voters to the Green Party, which is surging in polls, amid disillusionment with the party’s shift to the right

www.thetimes.com

1 1 7

Reposted by Halber Mensch halbes Plätzchen

Feminist Legal Studies @flsjournal.bsky.social · 5d

We are still open to submissions for our upcoming special issue, “Feminist Responses to the Regression of Trans Rights: Strategies, Alliances, Hope.”

Please share this call for papers with anyone you think interested. The deadline for abstracts is Friday 31st October.

🏳️‍⚧️

Feminist Legal Studies @flsjournal.bsky.social · Sep 22

📣🏳️‍⚧️ 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.

Call for Papers: Special Issue of Feminist Legal Studies

Feminist Responses to the Regression of Trans Rights: Strategies, Alliances, Hope

Amidst continuing backlash against trans rights, recognition and inclusion, two recent decisions from the UK have substantially impacted not only trans people’s legal status but also legal and social narratives of sex, gender and identity. The narrative that trans inclusion has a chilling effect on the rights of others, particularly women, has been adopted uncritically by both the UK Supreme Court in For Women Scotland and the Office for Students in its finding that the University of Sussex’s trans-inclusion policy had a chilling effect on free speech. These cases highlight a backlash that has been ongoing for some time, and sparks debates and fear of what may lie in the near future for trans people and kin, as well as other gender-variant persons, not only in the UK, but across jurisdictions and in a global perspective. The discourse of the ‘gender critical’ movement is splintering both the feminist and LGBT+ movements globally, with some aligning politically with the Far- and Christian Right against trans rights, adopting their terminology of ‘gender ideology’ and potentially posing a wider threat to sexual and reproductive rights.

While this a difficult situation for trans people, kin and allies, this special issue seeks to emphasise that legal battles – including battles (temporarily) lost – are also an opportunity to seek to reinforce old alliances and to form new ones, to find new legal frontiers and imaginaries, to reinforce the theoretical and methodological underpinnings of legal arguments as well as intergenerational memory of what feminist legal work is, has been and should be about. How, we ask, do these decisions (and those like them globally) reflect and reproduce structures of coloniality, heteronormativity and cisnormativity? What do these decisions add to critiques of legal feminism? What would be construct…

1 10 13

Halber Mensch halbes Plätzchen @clairq.bsky.social · 6d

it's a shame one can't simply ask a sensible and have them tell you - but like the rodent says the question would be literally unintelligble to them

1 4

Reposted by Halber Mensch halbes Plätzchen

Liam McHugh-Russell @xntl.info · 6d

It is a really interesting moment because, on the one hand, all the warnings and doubts and hedging the crits did for years came to pass in what felt like a flash. *Suddenly* the law, what it meant, and whether it would be followed became subject to political whim and, well: it wasn't sudden. 1/4

Ann Monster Lipton @annmlipton.bsky.social · 6d

It's really really hard to be in the business of teaching law right now.

1 5 5

Halber Mensch halbes Plätzchen @clairq.bsky.social · 6d

I realise that your question is rhetorical but I believe that it has an answer ...

Halber Mensch halbes Plätzchen @clairq.bsky.social · 7d

😫

1 1

Halber Mensch halbes Plätzchen @clairq.bsky.social · 9d

Loughborough Law you have to stop. You smoke too tough. Your swag too different. They’ll kill you Loughborough Law.

Loughborough Law @lawatloughborough.bsky.social · 9d

👋 Introducing Loughborough Law: a brand new law school bringing a critical and inter-disciplinary approach to legal research + teaching.

Follow this page for updates on our research and upcoming events.
@khorsey.bsky.social @clairq.bsky.social @andywoodhouse.bsky.social @maireadenright.bsky.social

1 3

Halber Mensch halbes Plätzchen @clairq.bsky.social · 10d

I downloaded my FB archive and hit the bricks a few years ago (you may have noticed??) - zero regrets

1 1

Reposted by Halber Mensch halbes Plätzchen

Kay Crosby @kaycrosby.bsky.social · 11d

I think it’s vital that we observe the international networks that are working to eliminate abortion access. And just as vital that we observe that journalists only notice attacks on reproductive and other bodily and social freedoms once they affect people those journalists regard as fully human.

Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 11d

yeah man, trans reporters, whom the ny times derogatorily calls "trans activists" so that normies won't listen to them, have been reporting on ADF activity in the UK since 2018.

bigotry in journalism makes you late to the story.

Max Colbert @mc00.bsky.social · 11d

Really important NYT investigation finds that the ADF has been working with Reform, 'courting the party since at least 2024' and that the British arm 'orchestrated Mr Farage’s appearance in Congress, reaching out to ask if he would like to give evidence on censorship'
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/w...

7 20

Halber Mensch halbes Plätzchen @clairq.bsky.social · 11d

[Anyone] "What TV show ..."

[Me] ...

Halber Mensch halbes Plätzchen @clairq.bsky.social · 11d

It is twee but it doesn't make them "perverts" - if it makes you think about taboo sex stuff that's coming from you

1 38

Halber Mensch halbes Plätzchen @clairq.bsky.social · 11d

holesome content

Halber Mensch halbes Plätzchen @clairq.bsky.social · 13d

👆

Halber Mensch halbes Plätzchen @clairq.bsky.social · 13d

😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 13d

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

Halber Mensch halbes Plätzchen @clairq.bsky.social · 16d

they will never ever realise this lol

Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 16d

At some point these imbeciles are going to realise that arts courses are *funding* the courses they do like and if they cut those places unis will just go bankrupt so no maths or science either.

1 4