Extremely proud of the title “How to lose a culture war” & of the connections we make to FOSTA/SESTA & fears of reproductive futures reimagined. Short, free to read and hopefully provocative. My latest with @tsdav.bsky.social in @dialoguesdigsoc.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

📣🏳️‍⚧️ 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.

The call for papers is now open for the 9th Derrida Today Conference in Paris, France - from July 13-17, 2026. Details can be found on the website here: derridatoday.com.au/conference/ All enquiries: [email protected]

Talking about property and its afterlives. What a wonderful and inspiring workshop @brightonuni.bsky.social with @ksuenamu.bsky.social @danielloick.bsky.social and many more

Action against the slave trade from 1807 enabled British colonisation, but Jane Lydon shows here how achieving the abolition of slavery in 1833 and expanding territory through conquest were also interrelated, not separate, processes. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

CFP: After the Death of the Human: Michel Foucault’s 100th Anniversary International Conference, University of Lisbon, 18-19 June 2026. Deadline for abstracts: 30th Sept! progressivegeographies.com/2025/07/09/c...

Please join us for the workshop on property and its afterlives @brightonuni.bsky.social next week (Sept 19-20) with @ksuenamu.bsky.social @danielloick.bsky.social @talboto.bsky.social @viktoriahue.bsky.social and others

This looks freaking great. I wish I had seen it a bit earlier - study trip with mum students on Friday.

Zoom link and full abstracts are now available here 😊 blogs.brighton.ac.uk/cappe/2025/0...

📢 Job alert: The University of Queensland (Australia) is hiring in Feminist Philosophy (Continental focus). Scholars in the history of feminist philosophy are also encouraged to apply! Details here: www.seek.com.au/job/87037466 #philSky

You can join the discussion later this week, on the rise of "Global ‘Anti-Gender’ Politics: Nationalist, Populist and Feminist Convergences". This 2-day conference is free, online, and features 5 panels + a keynote by @reproutopia.bsky.social. Hope to see you there! #AcademicSky #PhilSky

Join us at UVic First Peoples House on Sept 25 & 26 for "Jurisdiction Back: Restoring Indigenous Governance through an Ethic of Care". Such an incredible gathering of Indigenous law & governance practitioners, scholars, artists, visionaries. Free registration forms.gle/i1WaihgZ6aMn...

Line-up for this year's Constellations conference.

Boycott them all.

Wonderful 2 day conference organised by some brilliant colleagues at the Uni of Brighton! I look forward to presenting our work on Giorgia Meloni with @giuliaevolvi.bsky.social and we cannot wait to listen to all the other contributors! Join us!

Join us next week for a free online two-day conference on global 'anti-gender' politics, hosted by the University of Brighton, featuring keynote @reproutopia.bsky.social! ❤️‍🔥 Starts at 09:30 GMT on Thursday 11 September. Further info ⤵️

Bring your reading group to a live discussion of Love in a F*cked-Up World! Bring all your questions about crushes, friendships, open relationships, robust support systems, conflict, hard feelings. Tickets: www.patreon.com/c/DeanSpade/...

This is "gender-critical" ideology in the BBC. It's only "GCs" who talk about sex being "observed at birth" (and it's an absurdity: sex is a category, not an object of perception). "Assigned at birth" is commonplace within e.g. medicine, but the BBC has been ideologically captured by transphobes.

📣 Workshop: Race, Racialisation, and Racism in the European Context: Crossdisciplinary Perspectives 25–26 Sept 2025 Department of Philosophy, Free University of Berlin. www.geisteswissenschaften.fu-berlin.de/we01/institu...

"For transgender and gender-diverse adolescents, gender-affirming health care is not optional—it is lifesaving. This is not rhetoric; it is evidence-based medicine." Powerful piece on the "Moral Injury of Denying Gender-Affirming Care" published in JAMA Pediatrics. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

I knew the contents of the packet in the post. Publication day yay! I can finally hold The Sage Handbook of Decolonial Theory. So many feels!

“A woman with an urgent need to right a historic wrong loses the ability to ground herself in everyday rationality—and writes a book that captures the situation so graphically it elevates her condition to the status of metaphor.” Vivian Gornick on Shulamith Firestone:

I spoke with Peggy Kamuf and Samuel Weber about the place of deconstruction in the 1990s canon wars debates, and its relevance to similar debates taking place today - very excited to share this with you all! olrsupplement.com/2025/08/28/t...

Sacrificing whole groups of people is the path to fascism, not the path away from it

We simply do not have to live this way.

New research from Christopher Griffin challenges the "rights as possessions" metaphor that fuels zero-sum thinking and division. When we frame rights as things to be won or lost, we create false conflicts. Full article: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #HumanRights #TransRights #WomensRights

If you're in the UK, come check out the Planetary Futures conference at the University of Manchester next month! There's a fantastic line-up of speakers and a limited number of bursaries available for early career researchers #extinction #climate #ecology blogs.manchester.ac.uk/chstm/2025/0...

It’s quite astonishing that so many UK Labour supporters don’t register Starmer’s war on Queer ppl. Apparently because, like Hitler, Starmer has some gay officials, he can’t be anti-LGBTQ! & they can’t be willing to aide him for political expediency. History alone tells us that’s balderdash. [1]

So pleased to see my first book published! 📙🥳 I look at how and why we might want to combine poststructuralist discourse theory, critical discourse studies and corpus linguistics. 👉 bit.ly/DtCdsCl @mcrlinguistics.bsky.social @springernature.com

Straight into my reading list, boom.

Thank god the BBC refused to broadcast this incendiary rhetoric! Imagine the offence that would have been caused to unsuspecting warmongers who tuned in to enjoy some music after a hard day defending genocide and ethnic cleansing.

A reminder of how the nation’s broadcaster views calls to end genocide.

This online course in "liberatory psychoanalysis" designed to challenge racism, cisnormativity, ableism, and coloniality sounds awesome! Sessions from @avgi.bsky.social, @drposadas.bsky.social, Ann Pellegrini, Nicole Nelson, Adrian Sanchez, and more. Info: p-hole.com

"Every people loves itself (my country, right or wrong), because, in the collective imagination, it is exclusively loved by God. But, through an ambivalence characteristic of all passional life, the principle of external exclusion also becomes the principle of the exclusion of the internal enemy."

CfP coming soon for the 9th Derrida Today Conference, which will be at the École Normale Supérieure, Paris, during 13-17 July 2026! Keynotes: Isabelle Alfandary, Marc Crépon, David Farrell Krell, @elissa-marder.bsky.social

"Our protest might still touch the future, but not the days before. We call this politics." -- Samera Esmeir, "The Days Before." Available now on the Critical Times blog: ctjournal.org/2025/08/21/t...

Jodi Byrd's introduction🔥 to their forthcoming book Indigenomicon now available to download!!! (Full book available in November!) www.dukeupress.edu/indigenomicon

The transphobes on X who are calling me "intellectually lazy" admit that they haven't even read my article... 🧐

After a wonderful summer of research at the @kinseyinstitute.bsky.social I am excited to share some of my findings! Join me on August 29th at 10 am EST in-person or over Zoom for my public lecture “Islands of Belonging: 20th-Century Trans Feminine Social Worlds and The Indiana Crossdresser Society"!

Hey, come talk with me about social change and complicity in this event about Audre Lorde's famous statement about "the master's tools"! The talk is on Zoom and in NYC on Tues Aug. 26 at 6pm Eastern (sorry for the awkward start time for my ppl outside the western hemisphere)

A timely intervention, analysing the metaphor and coloniality of the possessive paradigm of rights. A Wynterian reading of Lugones' critique of purity, the paper challenges claims of a zero sum clash between trans women's and cis women's rights, proposing enmeshed rights as an alternative. #PhilSky

The Supreme Court ruling makes public life more threatening and adversarial for everyone - cis, trans, and nonbinary www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

🚨 New journal alert! 🚨 We hear it's a great one 😉 And there's an open CFP for the next volume: journal.lib.uoguelph.ca/index.php/nn...

Transnationally, the world order is defining the rigid zones of being and non-being (cf. Fanon), based on the calcified thinking of former hierarchies. The zone of non-being is growing to include several categories of humans: occupied communities, transfolks, racialised people in global north. ⬇️

Apropos of today’s news I just had a piece published in Radical Philosophy about the turn towards biological essentialism in law and policy. I’m arguing the SC decision in FWS and attempts to restrict disability welfare fundamentally come from the same place of wanting to limit state protections

One year ago, the people of Brighton and Hove counter-protested the threat from anti-immigration rioters. It turned out to be a celebration on the streets!

“What does it mean for one’s citizenship to depend on the violence of deportation in order to have meaning? Can we imagine forms of citizenship that do not require violence in order to have meaning? What are ways that citizens can ethically participate in realizing this change?”

As we approach a new academic year, I'd like to humbly ask you to consider teaching from my new book *Abolition Time: Grammars of Law, Poetics of Justice,* published by the University of Minnesota Press in December 2024.

My new article addresses the claim that the rights of trans women 'clash' with the rights of cis women. I examine the coloniality of the concept of rights underpinning this idea, exploring the erotics of sacrificial feminism and zero-sum politics in general... 🧵 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The 12th annual international Gender Census 2025 is now open until at least 30th August 2025! survey.gendercensus.com It's for anyone whose gender (or lack thereof) isn't described by the M/F binary. It's short and easy, and results are useful in academia, business and self-advocacy.