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Ross Tugade

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Filipino lawyer and writer. PhD researcher, UNSW Faculty of Law & Justice.

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Ross Tugade @rosselle.bsky.social · Nov 17

I guess we’re *sort of* doing introductions again?

Posting a link to my stuff here to pin!

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Gonna watch Quezon on Friday so I can join the Discourse

Ross Tugade @rosselle.bsky.social · 2d

Exactly one angry netizen complaining about the 1935 Constitution in the comments section of a review of “Quezon” (in Mr Avanceña’s wall no less). Legal transfers bleeding out into Facebook thanks to Jerrold Tarog’s film, I guess??

Ross Tugade @rosselle.bsky.social · 9d

Someone has to write how increasingly corny the Philippine Bar Exams have become. The 2026 Bar chair’s special letter to examinees took it up a notch by sounding like an Alpha Male motivational script.

Ross Tugade @rosselle.bsky.social · 11d

Spring is shaping to be me versus wattle and my inner saboteur.

Ross Tugade @rosselle.bsky.social · 11d

Nothing like a rawdogged 6km afternoon walk under the sun to make me realise a key concept I overlooked in my project. I call this the idiot walk

Ross Tugade @rosselle.bsky.social · 16d

Encountering truly devastating grief four months into the PhD—TWICE—not in my bingo card but it is life, which must go on, and the best way to honor the people I lost is to just believe in me and make the distance make sense

Ross Tugade @rosselle.bsky.social · 22d

The only Rodrigo to whom Ninoy’s quote applies on the Filipino worth dying for. The other Rodrigo, let us make sure he never returns.

Ross Tugade @rosselle.bsky.social · 22d

One of the few times I will invoke that Filipino nationalist card is to defend our pop girlie Olivia Rodrigo. I have claws out.

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Dr Melanie O'Brien @drmelob.bsky.social · 26d

The IIMM has released a report on the destruction of #Rohingya property in #Myanmar, positioning this as #genocide. I spoke to @janethanderson.bsky.social, who covered the report. www.justiceinfo.net/en/150350-my...

Myanmar: Making sure there is no return

On September 29, the UN Fact-Finding Mechanism on Myanmar publishes a report on “the destruction and seizure of Rohingya homes, farms, mosques, and other property in 2017.” An integral part of the gen...

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Ross Tugade @rosselle.bsky.social · Sep 23

Extracting every last centavo from Filipinos whom they see as disposable. BILLIONS of cash stacked on top of each other as spoils for politicians. I hate this so much

Ross Tugade @rosselle.bsky.social · Sep 23

This is probably the biggest PH corruption scandal I have seen in recent memory. This is just one district, one province. They build poor infra on purpose to rake in BILLIONS. Meanwhile, it is so common now for Pinoys to die and lose homes in floods.

www.rappler.com/philippines/...

'All Bulacan 1st District projects from 2019 to 2025 are substandard' – Brice Hernandez

(1st UPDATE) On average, only 30% to 50% of the contract amount actually goes to the construction of the project

www.rappler.com

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Ross Tugade @rosselle.bsky.social · Sep 23

Starting Duterte’s presidential campaign to the present, ‘DDS’ has earned a certain currency. To be a ‘proud DDS’ is to signal loyalty to the President and his violent vision. Now ‘DDS’ appears in the charges to refer to the perp group. It’s only apt. After all, DDS is really ‘Davao Death Squad.’

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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…

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Ross Tugade @rosselle.bsky.social · Sep 22

The outrage in Manila shouldn’t come as a surprise when state violence has always been an everyday reality.

Photos by Ezra Acayan.

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Ross Tugade @rosselle.bsky.social · Sep 21

In solidarity with the protests happening back home.

Ross Tugade @rosselle.bsky.social · Sep 19

I am only 60% successful in making Filipino-style spaghetti without the Del Monte cheat code sauce.

Ross Tugade @rosselle.bsky.social · Sep 16

José Rizal, the best of us, consoling us centuries after that we are not indolent, we are simply built for another weather system

Ross Tugade @rosselle.bsky.social · Sep 16

The last time I had insomnia this bad was when I moved to Europe briefly for LLM. My indio tropical colonised brain is not wired for four seasons

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UN Human Rights Council Investigative Bodies @uninvhrc.bsky.social · Sep 16

#Israel has committed genocide against Palestinians in #Gaza, theUN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory & Israel said in a new report, urging all States to fulfil their legal obligations to end it.

➡️ bit.ly/4mjBAi2

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Ntina Tzouvala @ntinatzouvala.bsky.social · Sep 16

my terrific phd student @rosselle.bsky.social wrote this excellent case note on CEDAW and the rights of Filipino women survivors of Japan’s wartime sexual slavery. Important case that highlights the responsibilities (and appalling behaviour) of home states journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Assessing the CEDAW Committee’s determination of continuing gender-based discrimination against wartime sexual slavery survivors in the Philippines - Ruby Rosselle L. Tugade, 2025

This case note examines the Views of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women in Alonzo et al. v. The Philippines, the first internation...

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Ross Tugade @rosselle.bsky.social · Sep 16

Published in Intl J of Discrimination & the Law: I analyse CEDAW’s Views on the communications from Filipina survivors of Japan’s WWII sexual slavery. The Views show that PH’s continuing breaches highlight the lasting, gendered legacies of war. Open access: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Assessing the CEDAW Committee’s determination of continuing gender-based discrimination against wartime sexual slavery survivors in the Philippines - Ruby Rosselle L. Tugade, 2025

This case note examines the Views of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women in Alonzo et al. v. The Philippines, the first internation...

journals.sagepub.com

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Ross Tugade @rosselle.bsky.social · Sep 13

Because a guy named Curlee only wanted to show off his 40 luxury cars 😭 now millions are ANGRY

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Ross Tugade @rosselle.bsky.social · Sep 13

More than a century of just waiting for the national elite to fall, and I’m not holding my breath being used to disappointment in Philippine politics, but it would be extremely satisfying to have a revolutionary moment triggered by tacky internet content

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Ntina Tzouvala @ntinatzouvala.bsky.social · Sep 12

I wrote a short piece on definitions that conflate anti/semitism with (anti)-Zionism and the dangers that their adoption poses specifically for international lawyers, including for our Palestinian colleagues and students: voelkerrechtsblog.org/defining-awa...

Defining Away Palestine

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