Dr SM Rodriguez (they/them)
Asst Prof of Gender, Rights and Human Rights @ LSE, Penal Abolitionist, Black disabled QT 🏳️⚧️🌍, Author of "The Economies of Queer Inclusion" | all views are my own
www.smrodriguez.com
- Reposted by Dr SM Rodriguez (they/them)On Feb. 4, 1999. Amadou Diallo an African immigrant was shot 19 times in a hail of 41 bullets by NYPD, claiming his wallet was a gun. As organizers we hit the streets. African, immigrant, Black (also African) & others, all knew it was the same system of oppression
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- Reposted by Dr SM Rodriguez (they/them)I witnessed this insanity today. 7 cases I observed in a row went as follows: 1) Russian Asylum Seeker > DHS Lawyer motioned to "pretermit" their case and send them to Uganda. 2) Pakistani Asylum Seeker > DHS Lawyer motioned to "pretermit" their case and send them to Uganda. 1/
- Reposted by Dr SM Rodriguez (they/them)in case you're curious about how angry Minnesota is about ICE, it was -20 today
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- Reposted by Dr SM Rodriguez (they/them)Black folks and immigrants have long lived in a "perogative state" when it comes to law enforcement, and maybe pundits at the largest national outlets should recognize that their past support for punitive policing and immigration enforcement laid the groundwork for the current moment.
- Reposted by Dr SM Rodriguez (they/them)“Abolish ICE” isn’t radical, it doesn’t go far enough. Latest in @theguardian.com written with my friend @victorerikray.bsky.social. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
- A phenomenal event and speaker ✨
- We are delighted to welcome @nisrinelamin.bsky.social to LSE tonight as she gives our Annual Human Rights Day Lecture on the politics of hunger in Sudan. #LSEHumanRights #LSEEvents #Sudan
- ❄️📖Looking for poc sci-fi, epic fantasy, or magical realism novel recommendations for winter 📖❄️ (no YA or marvel-vibes, but ++ if queer or disabled) Happy to exchange books 📚
- Fantastic write up of a recent collaborative event between LSE Gender and LSE Law 🔥
- Shared my reflections on a brilliant event by LSE Law School and the Department of Gender Studies—on sex/gender as legal status, the semiotics of criminality, colonial inheritances, and law’s ambivalence. Speakers: Lacey, Rodriguez, Baer. Chair: Madhok. www.linkedin.com/posts/mosesl...
- Final event of the term! See you at Oxford? (Or online!) Very much looking forward to thinking with these two fantastic discussion groups 📖 Register here to attend: www.law.ox.ac.uk/content/even... @oxfordcrim.bsky.social @lsegender.bsky.social
- Reposted by Dr SM Rodriguez (they/them)Today there was an attempted ICE raid in Bensonhurst & community members showed up. Even though NYPD collaborated with ICE by trying to disburse the crowd; community members stood their ground & ICE left without kidnapping a single person per the rapid response groups I'm on. We protect us!
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- Looking forward to presenting on this esteemed panel! The piece I'll present is queer & Black feminist sociolegal theory & has been on my mind for a really long time due to experiences I've had lately with the criminal justice and social welfare systems in Jamaica, as well as ethnography in Uganda.
- 🧑⚖️ Join us on 18 November for a conversation with @sumimadhok.bsky.social, @smrodriguez.bsky.social, Prof Nicola Lacey and Prof Susanne Baer! 🥂 Drinks reception after the event! 🤝 Co-hosted with @lselaw.bsky.social www.lse.ac.uk/gender/event...
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- "Haunting the Criminological Imagination: Abolition as Diasporicised Method" - Verryyy much looking forward to discussing my new work with Oxford Crim in December. See flyer for details and register here forms.office.com/pages/respon... ✨ @ox.ac.uk @oxfordcrim.bsky.social @lsegender.bsky.social ✨
- 📢📢 Job advert 📢📢 LSE is hiring an Assistant Prof in Criminology and Social Policy to begin in Sept 2026! 🎡✨ London is calling ✨🎡 Applications due 2 November 2025 @lsesocialpolicy.bsky.social jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...
- Reposted by Dr SM Rodriguez (they/them)📣🏳️⚧️ 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.
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- What if queer justice isn’t about inclusion, but about fighting disposability and* dreaming otherwise? This piece joins African feminism, Black trans studies & diasporic queer theory to resist Africana epistemicide & the GRIM imaginary of human rights. Now out <3 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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- que descanse en paz y poder 🕊️🙏🏾✊🏾 So many lessons learned by my early inspiration, Assata Shakur. I've been meditating on her words especially often lately, as I work her prison writings into a book chapter. Can't explain what she has meant for my organising and thinking...
- Very much looking forward to this! Thank you for sharing ✨
- Really curious abt how other academics decide how many speaking & service engagements they accept per term. Does anyone have a strategy or do you just follow vibes? 🫣 (I have always followed my heart but I'm so low capacity rn that I know I have to balance inspo events and the need for a cut off)
- Reposted by Dr SM Rodriguez (they/them)Job Opportunity! University of California Berkeley - Assistant Professor - Global Black Geographies - Department of Geography networks.h-net.org/jobs/68992/u...
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- Who on here will be in Chicago next weekend for #ASA2025? It's been about seven years since I was a regular attendee and I am a bit nervous I've become estranged from the US scene 🫣 (thankful for that in general, but if these meetings are as large as they were pre-COVID...😬)
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- Sociological Inquiry has just published my newest article, open access: "Reconceptualizing Gender Transitioning" video abstract linked below 👇🏾 www.linkedin.com/posts/sm-rod... #genderstudies #sociology #nonbinary #transitioning
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- Reposted by Dr SM Rodriguez (they/them)Happy Black History Month. Listen to, support, fund, and uplift Black people. #BHM #BlackHistoryMonth Black journos: go.bsky.app/QvS5FNb Black scientists: go.bsky.app/Ao3Qt9a Black academics: go.bsky.app/RyKSzcb Black democracy experts: go.bsky.app/6WTBzhX Black in tech: go.bsky.app/2RAbS3gat://did:plc:ja7mpieif4l6kub2homjnb2d/app.bsky.graph.starterpack/3lapmcp52rh22
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- Join me w @susanstryker.bsky.social & @onnigust.bsky.social in transnational thought. ✨ By foregrounding trans scholarship & its intersections with decolonial & abolitionist frameworks, this dialogue will inspire action & reimagine pathways toward collective liberation. www.lse.ac.uk/Events/2025/...
- This Wednesday with the Mannheim Centre for Criminology at LSE! Register here to attend: department-of-social-policy-lse.ticketleap.com/mannheim-cen... @lsesocialpolicy.bsky.social
- Last wk in my course Abolitionist & Anticarceral Feminisms, we discussed carceral spatial politics + focused on Gilmore & Walia to assess criminalisation as an instrument of state-sanctioned human trafficking. It was great to think abt this with the "illegalisation" of migration. So many 💡s went off
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- It's mother's birthday (Angela Davis) and I'm writing the conclusion of a manuscript that is absolutely in honour of her work to forge a coalitional politic against sexual violence 🥺🙏🏾 we love you, we thank you, we honour you.
- "In our current moment, it’s important to remind ourselves that we are not helping or saving anyone by falling into patterns of shock and reaction. Absorbing each blow head-on and then performing our disapproval online is not 'resistance'" organizingmythoughts.org/a-brutal-beg...
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- What an honour it was to be invited by Zanele Muholi to contribute to the closing discussions for Muholi's exhibition at the Tate. Faces and Phases is such a beautiful and powerful intervention to global understanding of Black queerness. If you haven't seen it yet, you've got til 26/1/25! #Blacksky
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- BLACK QUEER/TRANS PARENT NEEDS YOUR HELP. Our community member spent the holidays fearing that this may be the last one with their kid. Can you spare £5 or £10 to make sure they have legal representation to fight international relocation? www.gofundme.com/f/renny-and-... #trans #queer #lgbtrights
- Reposted by Dr SM Rodriguez (they/them)Friends, a petition I've created to go to Parliament for the protection of Trans Healthcare in the UK has just gone live. If you are in the United Kingdom, please sign and share this. If you are not in the United Kingdom, please share it. #Trans #LGBTQ #UK petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
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- First public lecture for this term is in less than a month! You can register to attend here: department-of-social-policy-lse.ticketleap.com/mannheim-cen...
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- Great opportunity below 👇🏾
- We're hiring an Assistant Professor in the field of #UrbanSociology, who can demonstrate expertise in the social and spatial life of the city, and how planning and/or design impacts urban life. Applications close Sunday 19th January 2025 (23.59 UK time).
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- One of my sweet kiddos gifted me this for Christmas and I spent the day in bliss.
- Does anyone else spend December reading every book they can?? Just finished Model Home by Rivers Solomon and I'm absolutely blown away. Black non-binary (and/or intersex) disabled protagonist navigating several hauntings. So resonant and so layered.
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- Reposted by Dr SM Rodriguez (they/them)imagine a country so furious about drag performers that it voted for polio
- New handbook for next term is complete 🙌🏾 and I am SO excited about how many books on abolition have come out since I last taught my undergrad version of the course (in 2020). 📚
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- BLACK QUEER FAMILY MUTUAL AID: Please contribute what you can to this community member of #BlackQueerParents who is currently fighting against an international relocation of their child to a place where they would not have parental rights 💔 gofund.me/76c6a78e #Blacksky #queer #lgbt #family
