Path dependencies of scholar activist / activist scholars, intergenerational cleavages in conversation and movements, and the grace to sit with inconvenient facts when working with causes close to our heart. Brilliant start to Day 2 of this HKU + @lawandsociety.bsky.social conference.

Grateful to Cynthia Farid, Yugank Goyal and Sergio Latorre for bringing together this community @ HKU to discuss scholar-activism and the nuanced majority world logics of knowledge production and collaboration.

Thanks to everyone who came to this today. The questions helped me reassess my own prefigurative priors re: methods and vulnerability.

For those who missed it, the conversation drew from this (open source!) chapter in the Massoud+Chua book re: sociolegal methods - www.cambridge.org/core/books/o...

Had a truly generative time at the ABF thinking in community about my next project on queerness and everyday macro-(non)aggressions. Thank you to all who came and engaged with such generosity. 🥲

Next stop: NYC to talk about how this relates to law, humor and identity w/these awesome humans:

Following the next LSA meeting in Chicago'25, @suryaroy.bsky.social and I are hosting a "Law and Interloper" workshop. If you think/write about the queer / periphery / outsider / outlier and their connection to law, please consider applying! CFP below 👇