Call for panelists! Join me for a panel on ✨Trans Studies and Deconstruction✨ at the Derrida Today Conference (July 2026, Paris). More info in 🧵 #Derrida #TransStudies #AcademicSky #AcademicResearch #PhilSky #gendersky #signalboost #FeministSky #cfp #lit #socialtheory 🌈🎓 @derridatoday.bsky.social

Looking forward to our coming conference this week on “Resistance, Refusal, Survival: Contesting Hostile Environments” and to having this great group of people at @unisg.ch! Organized together with @christineabbt.bsky.social & @mcbstyler.bsky.social

The New York City Trans Oral History Project has this wonderful two hour oral history with Miss Major. Take some time to listen to it; it's quite extraordinary. We have learned so much from Miss Major. nyctransoralhistory.org/interview/mi...

Check out our 2026 LGBTQ Caucus CFP: "Trans, Intersex, and Queer Freedom Dreams and Futurities" If you have something to say, let us hear it! Join us at Wake Forest University this March! Submissions Due Dec. 1st wgssouth.org/2026conference #lgbtq #queerstudies #southernstudies #academicsky

It's finally time for the almost-infinitely-deferred gift of Given Time II to be given. Almost. #Derrida #Heidegger #gift #AcademicSky #AcademicResearch #PhilSky 📚💙

"the sixties’ movements were really the first opening phase of the dynamic in which the series of “isms” (initiated by the black antiapartheid struggle for civil rights, women’s rights/feminism, indigenous & other of-color rights, gay & lesbian rights) erupted to challenge Man’s episteme, its truth"

good morning specifically to the FBI agent who introduced Mamdani’s dad to Marx

Call for inaugural issue of—Polyfora: A Journal of Speculative CoFutures—an interdisciplinary journal devoted to unearthing possible futures, accepting peer-reviewed articles, stories, artworks, and essays from many languages and perspectives: journal.cofutures.org

Hello dearies, I've made available online my syllabus for the course titled, Bodies and Sexualities: Transnational/Queer Feminisms It's a reading-heavy course (3hours each week, 8 weeks in all) for MA Year 2 students with a guest lecture. You can consult it here: doi.org/10.13140/RG....

several days ago i got my advance copy of Gendertrash, a compilation from @littlepuss.net of the legendary 90s trans zine, which releases today. only holding it did i really grasp the significance of the repub, amount of lost material recovered, and the honor of being asked to write the afterword. x

This conversation between Rosaura Martínez-Ruiz and @danielloick.bsky.social is really instructive in showing why abjection (and other European concepts of constitutive exclusion) must be carefully rethought for understanding structures of violence in the Global South. #AcademicSky #polphil #polisci

If you’ve been waiting to get the audio version of my book Black Disability Politics (narrated by @imanibarbarin.bsky.social), it’s currently deeply discounted on @libro.fm! libro.fm/audiobooks/9...

"By paying closer attention to the hatred of surplus populations in contemporary global fascisms, we can see another dimension of authoritarian domination: not just objectification—disposing the other—but also abjection, disposing of the other." An Exchange btwn Daniel Loick & Rosaura Martínez-Ruiz

Captivated by this 1988 edition of Ursula Le Guin's Always Coming Home. The artwork by Mike van Houten is beautiful, and the text features numerous illustrations, charts, maps, poems, and even music notation ⤵️ #BookSky #UrsulaLeGuin #speclit #ScienceFiction #FantasyBookSky #illustration 🪐📚 🏺

Looking forward to this! 🏳️‍⚧️📚 Thank you, @uminnpress.bsky.social, for publishing #TransPhilosophy ❤️‍🔥 🌈📚 🌈🎓 #AcademicSky #BookSky #PhilosophySky #TransStudies

TLC AND FRIENDS DISRUPT CAMBRIDGE BOAT RACE Here's our statement: Today we disrupted the University IVs Regatta races, preventing most of the boats from competing. By putting out an inflatable boat into the water for the duration of the racing afternoon, we left rowers unable to race.

Send in your abstracts for the Sadness + Gender conference we're holding in June 2026! We have some fantastic keynote speakers and specialist panels lined up and would love to see you all in Dublin! #cfp @ucdhumanities.bsky.social @ucddublin.bsky.social @molimuseum.bsky.social

This is a great article by Alex Adamson for Philosophy and Global Affairs that bridges trans studies, intersex studies, and decolonial feminism. #AcademicSky #AcademicResearch #TransStudies #IntersexStudies #DecolonialStudies #PhilSky #GenderSky #Wynter #Lugones #TransSky doi.org/10.5840%2Fpg...

🚨 Call for papers 🚨 Colonial, Postcolonial and Decolonial 12th annual workshop - a one-day in-person event focussing on the ethical commitments of academic research, scholarship and teaching 🎉 Send in your papers now 👉 https://ow.ly/nUy250XjIZw niharika pandit Sarah Gharib Seif

The Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies is hiring an Assistant/Associate Professor in Black Feminisms. Read more about the position and apply at https://go.umd.edu/WGSSBlackFeminisms🌈🎓 #AcademicSky #Blackademics #PhDSky

My next book Deviants and Trailblazers: A History of Trans Activism in Britain is in the @plutopress.bsky.social Spring/Summer 2026 catalogue (for a May '26 release)! This book is the first joined-up history of trans activism in the UK all the ways from the 40s to the present.

Equality and Human Rights Commission FAIL Its not just trans, its EHRC Incompetence... disabled people have been failed also. Close the EHRC now. www.disabilitynewsservice.com/ehrc-struggl...

My paper “trans perspectives in philosophy of mind” is out now in APA Studies on Feminism and Philosophy! #philsky #philosophy #transphilosophy cdn.ymaws.com/www.apaonlin...

Want to read some rad queer philosophy, in the form of short snazzy personal essays? Check out the most recent issue of the APA Studies in LGBTQ+ Philosophy, cheekily titled "Make philosophy queer again!" which I've edited! 1/

For me it's above sentence level as well: metaphors are the veins of a book, they need to connect and circulate cumulative, connected meanings, not just be rando. They're telling me something about how the narrator thinks & what the book's world map is.

Nearly missed this! Amazing news ❤️‍🔥

Over 50,000 cis women have signed the @nionwomen.bsky.social open letter rejecting the narrative that trans women are a danger to women. The real threat to women has never been trans women. The real threat to women is male violence. Add your name today: notinourname.org.uk/petition/not...

At our slow but steady pace, @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social, @commonnotions.bsky.social and I have been working on Project 2052. We have first round of story commissions out; a few stories in second drafts; and enough donations to pay everyone small honorariums. www.commonnotions.org/project2052

A benefit gig to help rebuild Peace Community Centre and Mosque in Peacehaven. Sunday 2nd November 2025 Doors open at 3pm The Gladestone 123 Lewes Rd Brighton BN2 3QB £10 suggested donations on the door. No one turned away for lack of funds. facebook.com/events/s/pea...

With the EHRC acting like it is. It shows that it is really important to keep trying to get in contact with your MP. We have seen that this is working.

*downs a glass of non-alcoholic fruit drink* alright, let's fucking go

Trans people are not a threat to cis women or anyone or taking away anyone’s human rights. Mahmoud’s actions reveal that transphobes would rather take away EVERYONE’S human rights, including those of cis women (whose rights to bodily autonomy will be next) than allow basic rights for trans people.

Trans people face exclusion when rights are treated as a zero-sum game, @commissionerhr.coe.int warns the UK gov. What does this mean? My article for @humanrightsjournal.bsky.social offers an explanation that also shows the coloniality of this approach to rights. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The documentary I made with Miss Major 10 years ago is on Vimeo on Demand. If you want to spend some time with her on screen tonight and learn some abolitionist trans history while you're at it, it's free to rent with the code "shinebright" vimeo.com/ondemand/major

my president

This week in 1988: 1,000+ ACT UP demonstrators shut down the FDA headquarters, demanding (and eventually winning) action on developing HIV/AIDS treatments. ACT UP's militant and creative actions always included powerful visual artwork, and paved the way for movements in the decades to come.

1/ I'm excited to share that Franz Knappik’s and my Cambridge Element on Hegel and Colonialism is finally out – open access below! We trace how Hegel defends European colonial rule, including transatlantic slavery, and how that defence runs through his entire philosophical system. Thread below ⬇️

📢Call for panelists!📢 I'm organising a Trans Studies panel for the @derridatoday.bsky.social Conference in Paris next year. Details in this thread 🧵 Please disseminate to colleagues, students, or frenemies who might be interested!

Tickets available now! The Pembroke Center Publics Lecture and the Shauna M. Stark ’76, P’10 Out of the Archive event Variations of Legal Violence: A talk by Judith Butler Wednesday, November 5, 2025 4:00 p.m. Free and open to the public. Registration is required: butleratpembroke.eventbrite.com

What if queer justice isn’t about inclusion, but about fighting disposability and* dreaming otherwise? This piece joins African feminism, Black trans studies & diasporic queer theory to resist Africana epistemicide & the GRIM imaginary of human rights. Now out <3 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

If only we had defeated not only the Nazis but also nationalism... I write about this in my article, "Postcolonial as the governmentality of immigration controls." journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Via @jennifercnash.bsky.social 19th (!) annual Duke Feminist Theory Workshop Registration is free. The line-up is amazing: Anne Cheng, Jane Ward, Erica Edwards, Sarah Haley, Hortense Spillers, Sharon Holland. Sign up! See you in Durham in March. readymag.website/u2853933671/...

In case you missed it, 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]

20th Nov 2025 at 2.00 pm (Paris time), I'll be giving a talk on queer & decolonial thinking & how it is evolving in our times. It's co-badged by Université Paris Cité & CLAGS, CUNY. Everyone is welcome. Image courtesy: Mario Patiño Hybrid event. Registration required: u-paris.fr/universite-o...

My article exploring the connections between language revitalization backlash and genocide is now out. Complimentary copies are available using the link below, or feel free to message me for a copy if the link doesn't work for you. utppublishing.com/stoken/autho...

This is for some friends of mine going through a really rough time after getting harassed out of their home by transphobic neighbours. If you can't afford to chip in a share would be hugely appreciated. www.gofundme.com/f/help-a-rom...

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