Is TWAIL predominantly an academic movement? How does one account for diversity, hierarchy and power within its praxis? In doing this, the lecture will also foreground the ways in which one can engage with critical approaches in meaningful, complex, and contingent ways.

1. TWAIL Feminisms both emerge from and point to consistent crisis in international law, sometimes of its own making. Nestled in this critical juncture, they carry the possibility of meaningful change. 2. TWAIL Feminisms challenge the existing 'universality' of certain worldviews and demonstrate how those are the views of a hegemonic few. If the universal is really someone else's idea of a normative then there can be many more universals that are considerate to more of us. 3. TWAIL Feminisms use gender both as a site (to unpack and analyse) and as a vantage (a place from where the view is sharper and ripe for a structural critique). It is a process, not a project where the doing of it allows for things to shift in unpredictable ways. This conversation is part of an excellent series run by Dr Matilda Arvidsson called Feminist Voices in Law. Please check out the incredible speakers and ideas that emerge from these voices; matildaarvidsson.com/feminis…