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Today's reading! #philsky

📣🏳️‍⚧️ 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.

Oh Hi #philsky! If you know someone who's got an article or chapter of mine on a syllabus please let me know the unit title so I can demonstrate impact 😊

Looking at works by Gaile Pohlhaus Jr and José Medina in Applied Philosophy today! #philsky

Excited to get back into the classroom today to introduce my students to social Imaginaries! #philsky

Excited to share "Religious Freedom and Meaning Vertigo: A Social Imaginaries Analysis of ‘The Persecuted Faithful’ in The Australian’s Op-Eds" forthcoming in For, Against, Together: Antagonistic Political Emotions edited by the brilliant @lucyosler.bsky.social & Thomas Szanto tinyurl.com/374skfza

So excited to be introducing my students to the incredible work of Helen Ngo today! I tell anyone who will listen to go read her work — if you're not familiar, get amongst it (esp. her fantastic book The Habits of Racism). #philsky

Weekend reading!

This week we started with Young's "Throwing Like A Girl" and have gone on to think through the intersectional disruptions to "I can" experience, especially with respect to phenomenologies of disability! #philsky

Today's class was all about Beauvoir and Irigaray! Such a treat to be able to introduce students to these texts 😊 #philsky

It's been a while!

Today in applied philosophy we'll start reading Fricker's Epistemic Injustice! We'll also be talking about social imaginaries and standpoint theory!! #philsky

🔓 ➡️ [OPEN ACCESS] "The Testimonial Double Bind for Disabled People" by Avram Hiller doi.org/10.1080/0269... Disabled people face a testimonial double bind about being believed and giving testimony #disability #identity #testimonial #injustice #socialepistemology #journal #article

Attention philosophers, x-philosophers and moral psychologists - I'm hiring! Two, 3-year research fellowships on an interdisciplinary project in the Philosophical Moral Psychology Lab at the Uehiro Institute, Oxford. Pass it on! For more info and to apply: tinyurl.com/mrwwuyaw

Today in HAF235 Sex, Bodies & Philosophy we'll be talking about androcentrism in the canon and the place of corporeality in philosophy! (Thiele, Gatens, Grosz, Lloyd, Jay and many more!) #philsky

Snuck in one last journal submission before things really ramp up in semester 2. Fingers crossed for Reviewer 2 blessings and minimal R&R! 🤞

Really important insights from Catherine Mills on philosophy in the time of impact #philsky @aaphilosophy.bsky.social

Today I get to share my paper '"How To Make Gravy" or, Making Sense of Blended Family Bereavement". This marks a stylistic turn in the way I do philosophy, and I'm really keen to see what kind of reception it gets! #philsky @aaphilosophy.bsky.social

Really enjoying all the stories from the panellists in the philosophy in the diaspora session, great way to finish the first day! #philsky @aaphilosophy.bsky.social

Learned so much from Lisa Ellis in her talk "Kantian Provisional Right in the Anthropocene"! What a great talk! #philsky @aaphilosophy.bsky.social

Really enjoying Dr Mary Graham's keynote "Metaphysical Identity: Time for an Australian Philosophy?" — learning much from the Dreaming and her lore. @aaphilosophy.bsky.social #philsky

Congratulations to the 2025 Annette Baier Prize winner! Stephanie Collins Monash University ‘States’ Culpability through Time’ Philosophical Studies 181: 1345-1368. #philsky @aaphilosophy.bsky.social

I can barely contain my excitement for the @aaphilosophy.bsky.social conference kicking off today! I'm especially excited for the announcement of the Annette Baier Prize winner (most outstanding philosophical paper by an Australasian woman)! #philsky

Excited to be part of it! #philsky

Stoked to be spending today at the Indigenous Knowledges Symposium ahead of the @aaphilosophy.bsky.social annual conference next week! #philsky

Oh hell yeah 😎😎😎 #AcademicLife #StateDaddy #DaggyDad #AusPol

In the flesh! #philsky

Stoked to be in Melbourne today for the Diaspora, Home, Affect symposium, with Prof Mariana Ortega keynoting!

Issue #0 of Being Trans in Philosophy zine is out now! “We Are Not Trans in a Theoretical Way”. Download & print ur own 🖨️. being.transinphilosophy.org #beingtransinphilosophy #trans #philosophy #gender #feminism #zine #diy

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1/2 The Annette Baier Prize 2025 shortlist: - Stephanie Collins ‘States’ Culpability through Time' - Emily Hulme ‘Plato’s Argument for the Inclusion of Women' - Madeleine Shield ‘Shame and the Question of Self-Respect’

I love the days when I get to be Reviewer 1 rather than Reviewer 2 ✨

“Trans-Inclusive Philosophies” #philsky #philosophy #trans

@transactualuk.bsky.social have created a guide to responding to the EHRC Consultation on the application of the Supreme Court ruling on “biological sex”. Bookmark, share, and respond (close to the deadline) if able 🙏🏻 Guide 👉🏻 transactual.org.uk/equality-act...

Article #1 for June is out into the wild! (It's been a solid 5 months of research ahead of an intense teaching period upcoming in Sem 2.) 🌞

Happy to say that, as committed, I've submitted TWO papers in May. (One more than my target! Small wins 😅)

Political theory/philosophy job in our Department! Deadline 26 May. Happy to answer questions by email. werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...

I also have a much shorter essay published on a longer history of transphobia in philosophy here: blog.apaonline.org/2024/10/16/p...

If you are interested in an analysis of recent transphobia in philosophy, I have an essay published on the topic here and there will be a chapter in my book titled The Philosopher: philpapers.org/archive/MART...

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May agenda: actually finish writing an article and submit it.

they brighten up the plain brick walls just a smidgeon!

Long-weekend reading!

@reginafabry.bsky.social citing my bible in her amazing talk on the case of counter- self-narration 😍

@marilynstendera.bsky.social using Beauvoir to make sense of games as existential imaginative practices.

So excited to see @bexmillar.bsky.social at the Narrative and Beyond workshop at Macquarie University today!!

Thanks to Bridget Archer, Liberal MP for Bass, for signing. Equality Tasmania’s pledge against anti-transgender electioneering and for trans inclusion. You can ask Bridget about LGBTIQA issues at our online election forum, 7pm Monday 21st. More here… events.teams.microsoft.com/event/b7bf43...

And so we meet again!