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Debra Haak @debrahaak.bsky.social · 2d

Call for proposals is live! Join us!!

Women, Disability, and Intersectionality:
Designing for Equality and Leaving No One Behind

Mar 13-14, 2026

#flsq #women #disability #intersectionality #feministlegalstudies #disabilitystudies

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Canadian Bar Association @cba-news.bsky.social · 3d

In case you missed it ➡️ One exceptional post-grad law student will be awarded the $25K CBA Viscount Bennett Fellowship. Don't let this opportunity pass you by! Deadline: November 18. https://bit.ly/46y2RG6

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LEX Network @lexnetwork.bsky.social · 18d

Opportunity! See Gender & Justice website for details-please circulate in your networks @drlandislife.bsky.social @afipcollective.bsky.social @marissaesque.bsky.social @veronicagago.bsky.social @requenaaguilar.bsky.social @oxfordcsae.bsky.social @fosfeminista.bsky.social @thinkcrea.bsky.social

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LEX Network @lexnetwork.bsky.social · Sep 3

📣General registration for4th joint annual conference 'A feminist Politics of Radical Hope in a Time of Oppression'
is now open.
Details: www.lexnetwork.org/radical-hope...

LEX now reviewing membership applications
Details: lexnetwork.org
@sharronfitz.bsky.social @genderandjustice.bsky.social

Radical-hope-conference – LEX Research Network

www.lexnetwork.org

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Peter A. Allard School of Law - University of British Columbia @allard.ubc.ca · 6d

Join us Oct 31-Nov 1 for the Vulnerability, Inequality and Justice Workshop, in person or virtually.

This workshop brings together scholars from across Canada to explore the concept of vulnerability in law and its role in the equality & justice project. Register now: allard.ubc.ca/about-us/eve...

Vulnerability, Inequality and Justice Workshop

This workshop brings together scholars from across Canada to critically engage with the concept of vulnerability in different areas of law and its role in the equality and justice project.

allard.ubc.ca

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Adam Radwanski @aradwanski.bsky.social · 8d

I’m in standing room at @torontobluejays.bsky.social , behind accessible seating, where a kid/teen in a wheelchair is distraught because he can’t see anything with everyone standing up. If anyone happens to be in a box or something with extra seats, this is your chance to do a good deed.

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Canadian Bar Association @cba-news.bsky.social · 13d

Help us spread the word! The $25,000 CBA Viscount Bennett Fellowship for post-grad law students is seeking applications. Deadline to apply is November 18: bit.ly/46y2RG6

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Debra Haak @debrahaak.bsky.social · 13d

I think you are overdue a trip back to Canada - but keep an eye out because we expect to offer remote opportunities to attend and present (in keeping with accessibility goals)! We'd love to have you present your work!

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Debra Haak @debrahaak.bsky.social · 13d

Save the date!
Feminist Legal Studies Queen's Annual Conference: March 13-14, 2026 @queensulaw.bsky.social
Women, Disability, and Intersectionality: Designing for Equality and Leaving No One Behind
Watch this space for further information including call for papers!
femlaw.queensu.ca/conferences/...

FLSQ Conference 2026 | Feminist Legal Studies

Women, Disability, and Intersectionality: Designing for Equality and Leaving No One Behind International Women's Day Annual Conference, Feminist Legal Studies Queen's and the Queen's Faculty of Law, ...

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Debra Haak @debrahaak.bsky.social · 19d

From a review of Jurist in Context

William Twining: the man who radicalised the middle ground by David Sugarman

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Debra Haak @debrahaak.bsky.social · 19d

I was sad to learn of William Twining’s death. He was my partner’s LLM supervisor; we spent time together most recently in 2019 before the world locked down. I’m sure I have a better photo somewhere, but this one captures that one simple day at his home. My deepest condolences to Penelope and family

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Debra Haak @debrahaak.bsky.social · 19d

An excellent read!

To serve future needs beyond those AI can meet, lawyers will require a new foundation that puts their humanity at the centre of who they are and what they do, expressed through (1) their legal intuition, (2) their professional integrity, and (3) their personal trustworthiness

Jordan Furlong @jordanfurlong.com · 24d

New from me at Substack: In the post-AI legal sector, lawyers will be called on for different functions than before. Here are three essential attributes lawyers must possess to meet that new demand. We need to start training lawyers to develop them -- now. jordanfurlong.substack.com/p/three-core...

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Lucinda Soon @lucindasoon.com · 22d

My article for the Law Institute Journal (LIJ) October 2025 special issue on lawyers’ wellbeing is now available on my Substack. Please have a read and if you can help me grow my audience, I’d be very grateful for a share if you like the article 🙏🏼

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On ethics and wellbeing

Global perspectives on regulating lawyer wellbeing

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Debra Haak @debrahaak.bsky.social · 28d

It begins, it has an end,
this is what you will
come back to, this is your hand.

-You Begin
@margaretatwood.bsky.social

readalittlepoetry.com/2011/03/22/y...

You Begin by Margaret Atwood • Read A Little Poetry

March is almost ending, and I haven't written anything I could be proud of. Drought, drought, says the Muse. But it's a lie. I am running away because I don't

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Debra Haak @debrahaak.bsky.social · 29d

And yet as a Toronto sports fan, the risk of loss was real

The Globe and Mail @theglobeandmail.com · 29d

Blue Jays topple Yankees 10-1 in first ALDS playoff match

After becoming AL East champions for the first time since 2015, Saturday’s game marks the only time Toronto has met New York in the postseason

www.theglobeandmail.com

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Debra Haak @debrahaak.bsky.social · 29d

Sex-motivated violence should be treated like a hate crime
www.brandonsun.com/opinion/2025...

Opinion: Sex-motivated violence should be treated like a hate crime

Canada recently introduced the Combatting Hate Act, legislation that will create three new criminal offences intended to strengthen protections against hate. The first new offence targets hate crimes....

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Debra Haak @debrahaak.bsky.social · Oct 3

For hate crime legislation to be more than symbolic, crimes motivated by hatred must be reported, recorded, prosecuted and sentenced as hate crimes for all identifiable groups — not just some of them. With Myrna Dawson @theconversation.com

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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · Sep 30

The road to reconciliation begins with truth
Mishiikenh Kwe ~ Anishinaabe
c. 2022

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Debra Haak @debrahaak.bsky.social · Sep 22

Good discussion of balancing autonomy and harm. Also important: “The science of decision making tells us that there are two fundamental things. What do you think of the evidence, and what are your values and preferences around applying that evidence.”

www.statnews.com/2025/09/22/e...

Author of reviews of gender affirming care decries ‘egregious misuse’ of the findings to justify bans

Gordon Guyatt, a co-author of systematic reviews of gender-affirming care, calls use of the findings to justify banning care "egregious."

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Debra Haak @debrahaak.bsky.social · Sep 20

For hate crime legislation to be more than symbolic crimes motivated by hatred must be reported, recorded, prosecuted and sentenced as hate crimes. That does not happen in cases of male violence against women, even though sex is an identified group in existing laws

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Treating Male Violence against Women and Girls as Hate in Canada | Canadian Journal of Women and the Law

Some incidents of male violence against women and girls (MVAWG) could be recognized as sex-motivated hate crimes. Often, however, crimes of male violence are neither treated as hate crimes nor reporte...

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Debra Haak @debrahaak.bsky.social · Sep 20

I'm pleased to see that sex is included as an identifiable group for the purpose of proposed hate crime and intimidation offences. But see my co-authored article w Myrna Dawson addressing current failures to treat male violence as hate (link in comment)

www.parl.ca/legisinfo/en...

C-9 (45-1) - LEGISinfo - Parliament of Canada

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Debra Haak @debrahaak.bsky.social · Sep 17

Mr. Williams is alleged to have sexually assaulted more than 300 victims between the ages of 12 and 18 at a provincially run youth detention centre

www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

Former swim instructor in Nova Scotia faces dozens of sexual-abuse charges

Donald Williams, 75, was arrested at his home last week in Dartmouth and faces 66 charges

www.theglobeandmail.com

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Debra Haak @debrahaak.bsky.social · Sep 16

www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...

Israel has committed genocide in the Gaza Strip, UN Commission finds

GENEVA – Israel has committed genocide against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, a...

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · Sep 13

I wrote a thing. As someone who survived the 1970s and kept the receipts.

Shocked by Epstein’s birthday book? That culture was everywhere before feminism | Rebecca Solnit

Feminism exposed the ubiquity of child abuse, rape, sexual harassment and domestic violence – and helped fight that culture

www.theguardian.com

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · Sep 14

“The science on the subject is pretty clear: according to the New England Journal of Medicine, rape is about four times more likely to result in diagnosable PTSD than combat."

During those years at the end of my teens
and the beginning of my twenties, I was constantly sexually ha-
rassed on the street and sometimes elsewhere, though harassed
doesn’t convey the menace that was often present.
The former Marine David J. Morris, author of a book on post-
traumatic stress disorder, notes that the disorder is far more com-
mon and far more rarely addressed among rape survivors than
combat veterans. He wrote me, “The science on the subject is pretty
clear: according to the New England Journal of Medicine, rape is about
four times more likely to result in diagnosable PTSD than combat.
Think about that for a moment— being raped is four times more psy-
chologically disturbing than going off to a war and being shot at and
blown up. And because there are currently no enduring cultural nar-
ratives that allow women to look upon their survival as somehow he-
roic or honorable, the potential for enduring damage is even greater.”
In war the people who try to kill you are usually on the other side.
In femicide, they’re husbands, boyfriends, friends, friends of friends,
guys on the street, guys at work, guys at the party or in the dorm, and,
the week I write this, the guy who called a Lyft and stabbed the
pregnant driver to death and the guy who went into a bank and shot
five women and the guy who shot the young woman who took him in
when his parents kicked him out, to name a few examples of the car-
nage that made it into the news. Morris calls PTSD “living at the
whim of your worst memories.”

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