Dr Senthorun Raj

The Queer Judgments Project (QJP) is an initiative that evolved from disparate conversations between the current co-curators (Professor Nuno Ferreira, Dr Maria Moscati, and Dr Sen Raj) about how legal judgments related to sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, and sex characteristics (SOGIESC) could have been written in more appropriate terms in light of the legal framework at the time. We wanted to cultivate a project that brought together friends, colleagues, and activists who were interested in improving and challenging the law and its application to make life better for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, queer and other (LGBTIQ+) people and communities. 

The main aim of the project is to re-imagine, re-write and re-invent, from queer and other complementing perspectives, judgments that have considered SOGIESC issues. The project has an international reach and multi-disciplinary scope. Individual contributors are free to choose which judgment they want to focus on, featuring voices from across the globe. Similarly, the audience for the outputs of our project includes people outside of academia, especially marginalised communities, and young people.

Criminal Law

Equalities Law

Critical Approaches to Law

Equality and Human Rights

International Human Rights Law

Samantha Morgan, The Spatial and Affective Dimensions of Litigating LGBTQI Rights: A Caribbean Case Study (Co-supervised with Dr Kay Lalor) (In Progress)

Catherine Jaquiss, Layers of Space and Affect Enmeshed: Obliterating Queer Stereotypes (Co-supervised with Dr Kay Lalor) (In Progress)

Darryl Peers, Queer Form: A Creative-Critical Methodology for Contemporary Scottish Fiction (Co-supervised in Creative Writing with Andrew McMillan and Dr Honor Gavin) (In Progress)

Monographs

• Raj, Senthorun, Feeling Queer Jurisprudence: Injury, Intimacy, Identity (Routledge,2020).

Edited Collections

• Raj, Senthorun and Nuno Ferreira and Maria Moscati (eds), The Queer Judgments Project (forthcoming, Counterpress). 
• Raj, Senthorun and Peter Dunne (eds), The Queer Outside in Law: Recognising LGBTIQ People in the UK (Palgrave, 2020).

Journal Articles

• Raj Senthorun (with Paula Gerber, Cai Wilkinson and Anthony Langlois), ‘Protecting the rights of LGBTIQ people around the world: Beyond marriage equality and the decriminalisation of homosexuality’ (2021) 46(1) Alternative Law Journal 1 – 8.
• Raj, Senthorun, ‘Teaching Feeling: Bringing Emotion into the Law School’ (2020) The Law Teacher 1 – 15.
• Raj, Senthorun (with Laura Graham, Vanessa Munro, Nicole Westmarland, Se-shauna Wheatle, Teela Sanders, Yvette Russel and Alexander Maine), ‘Dialogue on the Impact of Coronavirus on Research and Publishing’ (2020) 1 International Journal of Gender, Sexuality and Law 403–417.  
• Raj, Senthorun, ‘Contested feelings: Mapping emotional journeys of LGBTI rights and reforms’ (2020) 45(2) Alternative Law Journal 125–130.
• Raj, Senthorun, ‘Alleviating Anxiety and Cultivating Care: Young Trans People in the Family Court of Australia’ (2019) 45(1) Australian Feminist Law Journal 111–130.
• Raj, Senthorun, ‘Once More With Feeling: Queer Activist Legal Scholarship and Jurisprudence’ (2018) 24(1) International Journal of Human Rights 62–79.
• Raj, Senthorun, ‘A/Effective Adjudications: Queer Refugees and the Law’ (2017) 3(4) Journal of Intercultural Studies 453–468.
• Raj, Senthorun, ‘Dignified Futures: A Queer Case of Marriage Equality?’ (2015) 53(8) Law Society of NSW Journal 22–23.
• Raj, Senthorun, ‘Queering Refugee Law: Protecting LGBTI Asylum Seekers’ (2013) Cambridge Journal of International and Comparative Law Online 1.
• Raj, Senthorun, ‘Igniting Desires: Politicising Queer Female Subjectivities in Fire’ (2012) 28(1) Intersections: Gender and Sexuality in Asia and the Pacific 1–11.
• Raj, Senthorun, ‘Impacting on Intimacy: Negotiating the Marriage Equality Debate’ (2011) 14(6) M/C Journal 1–8.
• Raj, Senthorun, ‘Affective displacements: Understanding emotions and sexualities in refugee law’ (2011) 36(3) Alternative Law Journal 177–181.
• Raj, Senthorun, ‘Grindring Bodies: Racial and Affective Economies of Online Queer Desire’ (2011) 7(1) Critical Race and Whiteness Studies 1–12.
• Raj, Senthorun, ‘Bodies in new territories: Mapping masculinity, gender performativity and FTM embodiment in Jamison Green’s Becoming a Visible Man’ (2011) 9 Altitude 1–19.
• Raj, Senthorun, ‘Que(e)rying Violence: Rethinking Pleasure, Harm and Intimacy in Lesbian Sadomasochism’ (2010) 6(3) Gay and Lesbian Issues and Psychology Review 122–131.
• Raj, Senthorun, ‘Displaced subjectivities: the queer refugee body in law’ (2010) 8(1) Dialogue 1–19.

Book Chapters

• Raj, Senthorun and Peter Dunne, ‘Coming Inside and/or Playing Outside: The (Legal) Futures of LGBTI Rights in the United Kingdom’ in S. Raj and P. Dunne, The Queer Outside in Law: Recognising LGBTIQ People in the United Kingdom (Palgrave, 2020),  233 – 271.
• Raj, Senthorun and Peter Dunne, ‘Queering Outside the (Legal) Box: Recognising LGBTIQ People in the United Kingdom’ in S. Raj and P. Dunne, The Queer Outside in Law: Recognising LGBTIQ People in the United Kingdom (Palgrave, 2020), 1 – 19.
• Raj, Senthorun, ‘Queering Fears: Pro-LGBTI Refugee Cases’ in C. Ashford, A. Reed and N. Wake (eds) Consent and Control: Legal Perspectives on State Power (Cambridge Scholars Press, 2016), 124–151.
• Raj, Senthorun, ‘Evolving Bodies: Mapping (Trans)Gender Identities in Refugee Law’ in G. Brown and K. Browne (eds) The Routledge Research Companion to Geographies of Sex and Sexualities (Routledge, 2016), 221–228.
• Raj, Senthorun, ‘Disturbing Disgust: Gesturing to the Abject in Queer Cases’ in M. Ball, T. Crofts and A. Dwyer (eds) Queering Criminology (Palgrave, 2015), 83–101.

Book Reviews

• Raj, Senthorun, ‘Joseph J. Fischel: Screw Consent: Towards a Better Politics of Sexual Justice’ (2021) 29(3) Feminist Legal Studies 411-415.
• Raj, Senthorun, ‘Julia J.A. Shaw: Law and the Passions: Why Emotion Matters for Justice’ (2021) 55(1) The Law Teacher 109-111.
• Raj, Senthorun, ‘Toward Corporeal Cosmopolitanism: Performing Decolonial Solidarities’ (2019) The Sociological Review.
• Raj, Senthorun, ‘After Marriage Equality: The Future of LGBT Rights’ (2018) 19(1) Human Rights Review 139–141.
• Raj, Senthorun, ‘Law, Religion and Homosexuality’ (2016) 16(4) European Human Rights Law Review 472–473.
• Raj, Senthorun, ‘Homicide Law Reform, Gender, and the Provocation Defence’ (2015) 27(1) Current Issues in Criminal Justice 133–135.
• Raj, Senthorun, ‘Women’s Human Rights’ (2013) 28(77) Australian Feminist Studies 327–29.
• Raj, Senthorun, ‘Speak Now: Australian Perspectives on Same-Sex Marriage’ (2012) 37(2) Alternative Law Journal 141–142.

Essays

• Raj, S. ‘Grindring for Justice’. Right Now. Released March 2016.
• Raj, S. ‘Standing up to homophobia’. Sydney’s Child. Released August 2011.

Columns

• Raj, S.  ‘Gender(ed) gaps and our biases of knowledge’ Right Now. Released 16^th November 2015.
• Raj, S.  ‘Fighting Freedoms’. Right Now. Released 6^th July 2015.
• Raj, S.  ‘Bleeding Hearts’. Right Now. Released 4^th May 2015.
• Raj, S.  ‘A right to kill?’. Right Now. Released 3^rd March 2015.
• Raj, S.  ‘Feeling terror’. Right Now. Released 30^th January 2015.

Opinion

• Raj, S. ‘Stonewall riots: global legacy shows there’s no simple story of progress for gay rights’. The Conversation. Released 28^h June 2019.
• Raj, S. ‘How Indian judges wrote love into law as they decriminalised gay sex’. The Conversation. Released 10^th September 2018.
• Raj, S and A Sharpe. ‘Using AI to determine queer sexuality is misconceived and dangerous’. The Conversation. Released 15^th September 2017.
• Raj, S. ‘On sexuality, the law still caters to norms of public disgust’. The Conversation. Released 25^th July 2017.
• Raj, S. ‘Why gender theory deserves a place on the school curriculum’. The Sydney Morning Herald. Released 13th September 2016.
• Raj, S. ‘Come out to immigration officials or be deported? Gay asylum seekers will suffer under Morrison’s new regime’. The Guardian. Released 26th September 2014.
• Raj, S.  ‘Students expelled for being gay? It’s not OK’. The Guardian. Released 11^th November 2013.
• Raj, S.  ‘“Gay panic”: no longer a licence to kill’. The Guardian. Released 31^st October 2013.
• Raj, S. ‘Australia needs a dynamic response to the rise in HIV cases’. The Guardian. Released 21^st October 2013.
• Raj, S. ‘Is the death sentence right for the Delhi rapists?’. Daily Life. Released 18^th September 2013.
• Raj, S. ‘Australia’s debate on equal marriage remains stuck in rehearsal mode’. The Guardian. Released 12^th August 2013.
• Raj, S. ‘How Grindr has transformed users’ experience of intimacy’. The Guardian. Released 2^nd August 2013.
• Raj, S. ‘Religion and sexuality shouldn’t compete against each other’. The Guardian. Released 20^th June 2013.
• Raj, S. ‘Birth certificates fail to tell the whole story’. The Sydney Morning Herald. Released 19^th August 2011.
• Raj, S. ‘Are you gay enough to be a refugee?’. New Matilda. Released 9^th June 2011.
• Raj, S. ‘Mateship lost for gays in the military’. The Age. Released 14^th April 2011.
• Raj, S. ‘More to Mardi Gras than glitter and theatrics’. The Sydney Morning Herald. Released 4^th March 2011.
• Raj, S. ‘Activism and the gay community: What Uganda can teach us’. The Age. Released 31^st January 2011.
• Raj, S. ‘Students should not be afraid to be out and proud’. The Sydney Morning Herald. Released 26^th October 2010.
• Raj, S. ‘Could this be the year of the modern family?’. The Sydney Morning Herald. Released 14^th September 2010.

TV and Radio

• ‘Queer Histories’, Free Thinking, BBC Radio 3, 13^th February 2020.
• ‘Free Speech Debate’, Channel 4 News, Channel 4, 2^nd February 2019.
• ‘Swipe Right’, Hack Live, ABC Television, 1^st December 2016.
• ‘Gay Enough?’, Radio With Pictures, Sydney Opera House, 6^th October 2013.
• ‘Queer Hopes: Intimacy and Social Change’, Sydney Festival – Hope 2012, ABC Radio National, 9^th January 2012.
• ‘Sex, Technology and Cyberspace’, Compass, ABC Television, screened 5^th September 2010.