Tanya Serisier 🇵🇸
@tanyaserisier.bsky.social
Feminist academic working on sexual politics. Current project on public survivors. Member and activist Birkbeck UCU. Also cross stitches.
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My book is published! It’s a critical take on how emotions shape conflicts about LGBT rights and repair in equality law, gender recognition, bans on conversion practices, and sex education in schools. You can download it free via @edinburghup.bsky.social: edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-the-emo...
May 13, 2025 at 7:00 AM
My book is published! It’s a critical take on how emotions shape conflicts about LGBT rights and repair in equality law, gender recognition, bans on conversion practices, and sex education in schools. You can download it free via @edinburghup.bsky.social: edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-the-emo...
I had a great conversation on this podcast. Hopefully it's also a good listen!
www.podbean.com/eas/pb-vxzcw...
www.podbean.com/eas/pb-vxzcw...
Tanya Serisier on queer criminology, sexual violence, the left and feminism
Tanya Serisier on Gaza, queer criminology, sexual violence, and the left and feminism
You can read about her work here:
https://www.bbk.ac.uk/our-staff/profile/8858733/tanya-serisier
www.podbean.com
October 28, 2025 at 11:19 AM
I had a great conversation on this podcast. Hopefully it's also a good listen!
www.podbean.com/eas/pb-vxzcw...
www.podbean.com/eas/pb-vxzcw...
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This is what it sounds like when liberals politely launder genocide.
October 18, 2025 at 11:34 AM
This is what it sounds like when liberals politely launder genocide.
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📣 NEW EVENT! Members, sign up for the first LEX Seminar event of the academic year with Dr. Molly Ackhurst and Professor @tanyaserisier.bsky.social on the 30th of October at 2 pm GMT! Limited places available! Sign up here ➡️ www.lexnetwork.org/lex-seminar-...
October 8, 2025 at 10:52 AM
📣 NEW EVENT! Members, sign up for the first LEX Seminar event of the academic year with Dr. Molly Ackhurst and Professor @tanyaserisier.bsky.social on the 30th of October at 2 pm GMT! Limited places available! Sign up here ➡️ www.lexnetwork.org/lex-seminar-...
Full solidarity to @leicesterucu.bsky.social fighting horrendous cuts and a vicious punitive management.
Day 2 - more sunshine and happy faces on the pickets!
October 1, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Full solidarity to @leicesterucu.bsky.social fighting horrendous cuts and a vicious punitive management.
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From Spain to Palestine
September 3, 2025 at 10:42 AM
From Spain to Palestine
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This is a very useful read BUT I am still stunned that the press feels no need to ask Palestinian legal scholars this question
"As of February 2025, the only reasonable inference from the cumulative evidence is that Israel’s conduct in Gaza constitutes genocide." - @itamann.bsky.social
Eleven international law experts were asked: is there genocide in Gaza. Nine said yes. www.lto.de/recht/hinter...
Eleven international law experts were asked: is there genocide in Gaza. Nine said yes. www.lto.de/recht/hinter...
International Law Experts: Genocide in Gaza?
Does Israel’s conduct in Gaza constitute genocide? LTO asked eleven international law experts. After 22 months of war, a clear tendency is emerging.
www.lto.de
August 16, 2025 at 9:47 PM
This is a very useful read BUT I am still stunned that the press feels no need to ask Palestinian legal scholars this question
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Apropos of today’s news I just had a piece published in Radical Philosophy about the turn towards biological essentialism in law and policy. I’m arguing the SC decision in FWS and attempts to restrict disability welfare fundamentally come from the same place of wanting to limit state protections
Flora Renz · Law’s searching for biological truth: For Women Scotland and the UK Supreme Court (2025)
www.radicalphilosophy.com
August 8, 2025 at 7:31 AM
Apropos of today’s news I just had a piece published in Radical Philosophy about the turn towards biological essentialism in law and policy. I’m arguing the SC decision in FWS and attempts to restrict disability welfare fundamentally come from the same place of wanting to limit state protections
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BREAKING
Defend Our Juries website taken down as attack on freedom of speech worsens - blocking access to important legal info for protestors.
This is what happens when the Government uses anti-terror law to silence dissent.
www.wedonotcomply.org <— legal info here instead!
Defend Our Juries website taken down as attack on freedom of speech worsens - blocking access to important legal info for protestors.
This is what happens when the Government uses anti-terror law to silence dissent.
www.wedonotcomply.org <— legal info here instead!
August 6, 2025 at 5:22 PM
BREAKING
Defend Our Juries website taken down as attack on freedom of speech worsens - blocking access to important legal info for protestors.
This is what happens when the Government uses anti-terror law to silence dissent.
www.wedonotcomply.org <— legal info here instead!
Defend Our Juries website taken down as attack on freedom of speech worsens - blocking access to important legal info for protestors.
This is what happens when the Government uses anti-terror law to silence dissent.
www.wedonotcomply.org <— legal info here instead!
Very happy to be a signatory to this important open letter. There is a sign up link at the end of the article.
www.versobooks.com/en-gb/blogs/...
www.versobooks.com/en-gb/blogs/...
‘We support Palestine Action in Their Campaign Against Proscription’
As scholars dedicated to questions of justice and ethics, we are astonished and dismayed by the current priorities of Keir Starmer and his ministers. On the one hand they continue to offer material, m...
www.versobooks.com
August 6, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Very happy to be a signatory to this important open letter. There is a sign up link at the end of the article.
www.versobooks.com/en-gb/blogs/...
www.versobooks.com/en-gb/blogs/...
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Former senior UN relief official Jan Eliasson has dismissed these air drops as an "ineffective sideshow". But of course, they're not aimed at stopping the genocide. Nothing Starmer does is aimed at stopping the genocide. Its aimed at managing the domestic politics of his complicity in the genocide.
Starmer says plan to airdrop Gaza aid and evacuate ill children will go ahead
Starmer says plan to airdrop Gaza aid and evacuate ill children will go ahead
Leaders of UK, France and Germany call for lifting of aid restrictions and immediate ceasefire after holding talks
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Israel-Gaza war live – latest updates
Keir Starmer has confirmed the government will be “taking forward” plans to airdrop aid into Gaza and evacuate children who need medical assistance in an effort to relieve what Downing Street called an appalling situation.
Speaking to the French president, Emmanuel Macron, and the German chancellor, Friedrich Merz, on Saturday morning, the prime minister outlined the UK’s intentions to work with Jordan to carry out the plans. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
July 26, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Former senior UN relief official Jan Eliasson has dismissed these air drops as an "ineffective sideshow". But of course, they're not aimed at stopping the genocide. Nothing Starmer does is aimed at stopping the genocide. Its aimed at managing the domestic politics of his complicity in the genocide.
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a rough translation of the final sentence: “Since AFP was founded in August 1944 we’ve lost journalists in conflicts, and have had wounded and imprisoned co-workers, but none of us have any memory of having to watch a colleague die of hunger.”
🚨BREAKING: The last journalists working for AFP in Gaza have said they can no longer work for the news agency.
They are out of energy and they are starving to death.
I have never seen a statement from a news organisation like it.
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They are out of energy and they are starving to death.
I have never seen a statement from a news organisation like it.
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July 21, 2025 at 10:05 PM
a rough translation of the final sentence: “Since AFP was founded in August 1944 we’ve lost journalists in conflicts, and have had wounded and imprisoned co-workers, but none of us have any memory of having to watch a colleague die of hunger.”
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Ultimately, what is really being policed here is opposition to British foreign policy. This is political policing which will function to intimidate into silence people whose opposition to government policy is expressed in the same terms as are used by leading, mainstream civil society organisations.
Police in Canterbury today informed a protestor that the phrase "Israel is committing genocide in Gaza" could be considered a declaration of support for Palestine Action and therefore a terrorism offence.
July 16, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Ultimately, what is really being policed here is opposition to British foreign policy. This is political policing which will function to intimidate into silence people whose opposition to government policy is expressed in the same terms as are used by leading, mainstream civil society organisations.
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I honestly do not understand how you are able to ban the spreading of gender stereotypes if you are also to ban any encouragement for children to question gender.
None of this shit has been thought through coherently beyond a desperate desire to harm trans kids and people who support them.
None of this shit has been thought through coherently beyond a desperate desire to harm trans kids and people who support them.
Clause 72 in particular is functionally identical to Clause 28 of the Local Government Act in 1988:
"[S]chools... should avoid materials that... could be interpreted as being aimed at younger children, or that... encourage pupils to question their gender."
"[S]chools... should avoid materials that... could be interpreted as being aimed at younger children, or that... encourage pupils to question their gender."
July 15, 2025 at 2:02 PM
I honestly do not understand how you are able to ban the spreading of gender stereotypes if you are also to ban any encouragement for children to question gender.
None of this shit has been thought through coherently beyond a desperate desire to harm trans kids and people who support them.
None of this shit has been thought through coherently beyond a desperate desire to harm trans kids and people who support them.
Our union on the authoritarian attacks on Palestine solidarity action.
www.ucu.org.uk/article/1410...
www.ucu.org.uk/article/1410...
UCU statement: Stop authoritarian attacks on the Palestine movement
www.ucu.org.uk
July 10, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Our union on the authoritarian attacks on Palestine solidarity action.
www.ucu.org.uk/article/1410...
www.ucu.org.uk/article/1410...
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It doesn't matter if they are ever coming for you.
It was always ever already too much that they were coming for anyone.
It was always ever already too much that they were coming for anyone.
July 10, 2025 at 12:28 AM
It doesn't matter if they are ever coming for you.
It was always ever already too much that they were coming for anyone.
It was always ever already too much that they were coming for anyone.
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Today the order banning #PalestineAction as "terrorists" came into effect. But they are not terrorists. They are protesters trying to stop a genocide. This is a "first they came for ..." situation. Unless we stand in solidarity against this assault on our freedom, they will pick us off one by one.
July 5, 2025 at 6:12 AM
Today the order banning #PalestineAction as "terrorists" came into effect. But they are not terrorists. They are protesters trying to stop a genocide. This is a "first they came for ..." situation. Unless we stand in solidarity against this assault on our freedom, they will pick us off one by one.
This Friday morning at Birkbeck, a public lecture by transformative education organisation Makan on pinkwashing, gender and sexuality in Palestine. Come along!
www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event...
www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event...
Public Lecture: Pinkwashing, Gender and Sexuality
A public lecture contextualising 'pinkwashing' as a conflation of queerness and nationalist ideology.
www.bbk.ac.uk
July 1, 2025 at 8:16 AM
This Friday morning at Birkbeck, a public lecture by transformative education organisation Makan on pinkwashing, gender and sexuality in Palestine. Come along!
www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event...
www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event...
*Urgent action for academics and trade unionists - sign this letter opposing the ban on Palestine Action* The government's plan to extend terrorism laws by banning Palestine Action is a grave threat to civil liberties and freedom of expression. tinyurl.com/PalActionlet...
Defend the right to protest: no ban on Palestine Action - open letter
FAO: The Secretary of State for the Home Department, The Rt Hon Yvette Cooper MP
Re: Planned UK Government proscription of Palestine Action under the Terrorism Act 2000
We the undersigned, including e...
tinyurl.com
June 25, 2025 at 7:37 AM
*Urgent action for academics and trade unionists - sign this letter opposing the ban on Palestine Action* The government's plan to extend terrorism laws by banning Palestine Action is a grave threat to civil liberties and freedom of expression. tinyurl.com/PalActionlet...
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On LBC @zoejardiniere.bsky.social lists 3 previous instances where military aircraft have been targeted by campaigners in order to prevent them being used in war crimes, and she describes the govt banning Palestine Action as terrorists as an abuse of state power.
Well said.
Well said.
June 24, 2025 at 5:17 AM
On LBC @zoejardiniere.bsky.social lists 3 previous instances where military aircraft have been targeted by campaigners in order to prevent them being used in war crimes, and she describes the govt banning Palestine Action as terrorists as an abuse of state power.
Well said.
Well said.
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Short thread on Yvette Cooper's decision to ban Palestine Action. 🧵
June 23, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Short thread on Yvette Cooper's decision to ban Palestine Action. 🧵
'To labour in the university today is to work in the midst of violence – not only the overt violences of war, genocide, and occupation, but also the slow, cumulative violences of exploitation, extraction, and institutional capture.' Reflections on fugitive labour in @flsjournal.bsky.social
Reflections on Fugitive Practices in the University: Labouring in the Wake of Violence - Feminist Legal Studies
Feminist Legal Studies -
link.springer.com
June 19, 2025 at 6:33 PM
'To labour in the university today is to work in the midst of violence – not only the overt violences of war, genocide, and occupation, but also the slow, cumulative violences of exploitation, extraction, and institutional capture.' Reflections on fugitive labour in @flsjournal.bsky.social
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We feed you.
They hunt us.
They hunt us.
June 11, 2025 at 5:05 AM
We feed you.
They hunt us.
They hunt us.