Mitch Travis
@DrMitchTravis
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Associate Professor. Housed in @LSJ_Leeds at University of Leeds. @SLSA_UK trustee. Intersex Justice and Jurisprudential Futures. All views my own (he/him)
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If I was the vice chancellor of a large Russell Group University I would simply meet representatives of the Unions in order come up with a de-escalation strategy so that my students could graduate 🤷♂️🤷♂️
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Oh snap. Our book is up for pre-order from Waterstones (more places to follow) and they’ve got the beautiful cover! So exciting!
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Presenting expert evidence at the Council of Europe in Strasbourg today.
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3 of my dissertation students have got in touch to say they’re ecstatic to have me as my supervisor.
Even if it’s a total lie this is absolutely how you manage me.
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Very pleased to say I’ve been promoted to Associate Professor. My thanks go to
@mortonjen
and her red pen and
@AlastairMullis
latent obsession with ‘narrative’. All my gratitude to my colleagues at
@LSJ_Leeds
and wider
@Law_Leeds
crew without whom I’d be nothing.
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Really pleased to say that ‘A Jurisprudence of the Body’ is now available!
Edited by myself,
@chrisdtz
and Michael Thomson and featuring amazing work from
@MarthaLAFineman
@emiliecloatre
@UrquizaNayeli
@SheelaghMcG
@NotRightRuth
@AzizaAhmed
@clairemlhorn
@ECRomanis
and MORE!
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A student just said they thought I was 26 and I don’t care what they write in their essay they are passing this module.
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Reminder: if lecturers were able to brainwash students we would use our powers to make them understand where the module handbook is the first time we say it
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During one of my seminars today I gave a 5 minute summing up of the key issues and thanked the students for a fun and engaging session before realising I hadn’t let them out of their breakout groups and I was talking to myself.
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The last year has been the hardest of my career in terms of workload and mental health and so the well-being week email I received this morning encouraging me to do spiritual labyrinth walking and a legs bums and tums session seems like a particularly unfunny joke.
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Been married 6 years today. My daughter woke us up with balloons. To be clear an empty packet of balloons and demanded I blew them up.
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I wish someone loved me the way my dissertation students love creating their own acronyms
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Took the family to a theme park today and I can’t cope with this family log flume picture
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Can’t wait for the public to fork out billions for the queens funeral whilst we all die from fuel poverty. It’s gonna be mint.
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One of my students emailed me today just to say they were mega excited to learn about gender and the law and I replied to say I was mega excited to teach it and that’s the exact energy I live for.
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It’s hard to overstate how much this man has done for me.
He’s been kind when I needed kindness and patient when I needed patience.
Wishing
@AlastairMullis
a very long and happy retirement. Much love from all at
@Law_Leeds
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We’ve entered the six months where the clock in my car is wrong.
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Very excited to take over from Jen Hendry as the new co-director of the Centre for Law and Social Justice at the University of Leeds.
I’m joining the illustrious ranks of Michael Thomson, Julie Wallbank, Marie-Andree Jacob and Jen so there’s some big shoes to fill!
The end of July marked the end of my four-year tenure as Co-Director of
@Law_Leeds
' Centre for Law & Social Justice
@LSJ_Leeds
. Delighted to hand this role over to
@DrMitchTravis
, who joins Marie-Andreé Jacob to form an excellent leadership team for the Centre going forward.
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If I upset a whole group of students on the basis of a protected characteristic under the Equality Act I’d probably take some time to examine my actions and apologise 🤷♂️
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Debut of my new top combining my love of feminist theory and my ambivalence towards running.
Thank you too
@runningpunks
and
@DrAshleyMorgan1
for the design.
Don’t harass women
#ChangeTheDiscourse
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Jeez guys it was just a joke. You didn’t have to be so basic.
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Would anyone be interested in a law and science fiction reading group?
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#AlevelResultsDay2022
is Thursday. Remember when I did my A-levels we were part of the EU, energy was capped and climate change was reversible. My A-level experiences are irrelevant to you and so are everyone else’s tweeting about how they did well despite them.
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Academics. Reach out to your female students today. They are not ok.
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Congratulations to all those graduating from
@Law_Leeds
today. I’ll be smashing this tinny in your honour as soon as I’ve got these kids in bed
#LeedsGrad
And yes I have a man bun now
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So since 2014 $707,000,000 US Dollars has come into Europe with the express aim of rolling back women’s reproductive rights and LGBT rights.
Cool. Cool cool.
@Finn_Mackay
Posting link for other people reading.
Absolutely disturbing to be honest but it explains a lot of things.
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The age of ‘publish or perish’ is over. The age of ‘publish AND perish’ has begun.
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It is talent day at school tomorrow. My 5 year old daughter has registered her talent as ‘tennis’. She held a tennis racket only once in her life 2 months ago.
I have somehow imbued in her the reckless over confidence of the white man. Long may it continue. Take up space my love
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This is why I’m absolutely not dropping this.
How many students have been left thinking does this Uni or law school value the freedom to make transphobic claims over and above my personal safety?
If I was a student I would bring it up at every single open day.
And honestly, you can support academic freedom and stand up for free speech without signing a letter you know is signed by hateful people. The real impact of this letter is making students wonder if they are safe around you or not.
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To my students.
I’m always learning. Always listening.
If there’s more I can do to centre race in my classroom then talk to me. I try my best - but my best is better in conjunction with you.
Solidarity always
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Pretty sure Intersex Embodiment comes out today along with the much cheaper e-book. If yours arrives please send me photos! I want to see it out in the wild!
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Well well well. If it isn’t the entirely predictable consequences of my actions.
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We’ve heard a lot about silencing but what is it like to be trans academic right now?
Props to
@AlexSharpe64
and
@stephenwhittle
for continuing to inspire us.
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Fae Garland and I have this new article out in the Journal of Law and Society. It argues that the state needs to step in over intersex issues and saying ‘this is a medical issue’ won’t cut it.
Currently open access! I hope it’s useful for intersex friends
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Students and parents attending open days today: make sure to ask staff what concrete steps the University and its management have taken to end the ongoing industrial action.
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Honoured to be elected to the
@SLSA_UK
board of trustees. Such an amazing and important vehicle for UK law and legal theory and I’m so glad to be a part of it.
Thank you to all who attended today’s AGM at
#SLSA2021
.
We are delighted to announce that we have elected
@lawandsexuality
as our new Vice Chair, & we also have 3 fantastic new trustees!
Welcome
@DrMitchTravis
@bev_clough
and
@sabrinakgermain
!
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In September it’ll be 10 years since I started working with this bae - Fae Garland. 7 years since we started our research project together.
😍😍😍
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Flight attendant: Is anyone here a doctor?
Dad: *nudging me* that should've been you
Me: I am a Dr Dad
Dad: Not asking for a Gender Theorist, are they?
Me: Da...
Dad: Go and see if they are performing non-therapeutic medical interventions on the bodies of intersex children
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8 years ago I met my partner on a dating website.
Usain Bolt is nothing. Last Thursday I fell in love on the internet in one hour.
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Awww my partner carried out my threat and posed the children as my book and made these for me 😍😍😍
#WorldBookDay2023
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New article 'Management of ‘disorders of sex development’/intersex variations in children: Results from a freedom of information exercise'
It's open access and it has a number of important findings!
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Let me tell you about my strike day so far and how important time and space are to thinking 🧵
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My daughter drew on my son with a red pen, then drew on herself to make it look like he had struck first and she had been the victim.
#bigkarenenergy
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Proud to see these three PhD studentships being advertised for UK Black & Asian candidates at
@UniversityLeeds
If you scroll through the comments you’ll also see why they’re sorely sorely needed.
Please RT so we can recruit three great people and ruin a haters day.
Faculty of Social Sciences
@UniversityLeeds
invites PhD applications from candidates from UK Black, Asian & other minoritised ethnic groups. 3 scholarships available (full UK fees + maintenance grant at current UKRI rates) for studies starting Oct 1, 2024
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Been in self-isolation for four days with the whole family.
Still missed a MyHermes package.
🤦♂️🤷♂️
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Woah! Fae and have been cited by the UN’s Office of the High Commisioner for Human Rights!
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I’m not physically, emotionally or spiritually ready for 2023.
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If Joe Wickes doesn’t release a book called lean in quarantine then this whole situation is pointless
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So today marks 10 years of being a full-time permanent lecturer. It’s wild to think about all the great people I’ve met along the way. So just a general cheers to all who’ve supported me!
Here’s a picture of my young colleagues
@CJNewberyJones
and Fae Garland dancing in 2012
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I’m 37 and there ain’t no proof-reader, editor or supportive colleague alive who can teach me how to use a comma.
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Haven’t been to the pub since early 2020. So good to see these beautiful bae’s in the flesh
@mortonjen
@flying_plum
@GlexAreen
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Is anyone else obsessed with students who join your online class, don’t contribute anything and then don’t leave the session at the end? What is the world record for overshooting pretending to be in a seminar?
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Yesterday I watched my brother drop kick my other brother off a bouncy castle.
Not sure if that’s the old normal or the new normal but it sure was nice to see them again after a year and a half.
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The University of Leeds are having a workshop soon on ‘Ensuring students feel seen, valued’.
Great. But what are we doing to make staff feel valued?
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Are you suffering from sleepless nights, increased lethargy and a decrease in productivity? Why not view it as a taster session in parenting?
For an intermediate experience cook tiny versions of your own food, cut them up into small pieces, then throw them directly on the floor
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Really sad that
@LSJ_Leeds
founder and co-director Michael Thomson leaves Leeds today for a new position at UTS. He’s a very special person who has had a huge impact on my life and career. Here’s a picture of us together last night and roughly 10 years ago.
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I’m heading to London for an
@SLSA_UK
exec meeting. I’m wearing all black because I’m a goth. Do not think otherwise.
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New article from me and
@FaeGarland
drops today in
@FLS_journal
‘Gendered Childhoods, Linear Sex Development and Unruly Temporalities’
It feels particularly relevant given the increasingly hostile world that trans people face
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Massive props to the kind souls that handed it in/didn’t destroy it as a bomb threat.
I’ve learnt nothing from this experience. Zero personal growth. 👍👍👍
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Wouldn’t it have been cool if the
#alevel
algorithm had sought to address systematic disadvantage rather than compound it?
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Wait, the university’s ‘learning to teach remotely’ sessions are *checks notes* being held in large lecture theatres?
We’re doomed
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You know what’s worse than misspelling your own name in a email?
Not realising and them replying to that name.
Do I just continue to go by ‘Miych’?
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Me and
@GlexAreen
are putting together a panel proposal on ‘Jurisprudence of the Future: Law, Justice and Science Fiction’ at the Law, Literature and the Humanities Association of Australasia Conference. Hit us up by 4th September if you’d like to be part of it!
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