I find these people who don't understand that sometimes writing is hard and the temptation for it to be easier is real equally alienating. Some days I desperately want writing to be easier but I don't want to make it easier at the cost of my own ability to think which is the faustian trade AI offers

In light of the conversation about how hard it is to promote your own book: Post a link to buy your book here and I’ll boost it cause you destroyed yourself to get it done, your publisher won’t help you sell it, and you deserve cheers and admiration for your accomplishment.

The concept of IQ will never escape its racist origins. It's all about legitimating hierarchy

Trump on Somali-Americans in Minnesota: "They're low IQ. I can generalize. They're low IQ people. They're bad people." (Note that moments later he claims Indianapolis is in Minnesota)

Sandra Wong, the great-granddaughter of Wong Kim Ark, in San Francisco today 👇🏽 bsky.app/profile/asam... #NoKings

Two days to go until our event with the amazing Raewyn Connell and @smrodriguez.bsky.social 🫶 Grab your free ticket now: www.lse.ac.uk/gender/event...

🌟CFP - Special Issue of @jofhistgeog.bsky.social on "Black Historical Geographies: Querying the Archive" edited by @carolinebressey.bsky.social & Mona Domosh - further details available here www.linkedin.com/feed/update/... Abstracts due w/ editors 30 April 2026, full articles by 30 September 2026 📄

If Andreessen is referring to Foucault then he's clearly forgotten about the work on "care of self," which is all about introspection, processing guilt, regret, etc. Foucault's study starts with the Ancient Greeks.

The problem here is not Andreessen's dollar store version of the Foucaultian account of the invention of the individual in European modernism, but the unfortunate conclusions that he draws from it. You know what does not have introspection.... #ChatGPT and #LLM #AI www.youtube.com/shorts/b6Zw5...

I had a phenomenology joke but you had to be there

I have a Descartes joke but I doubt you'd find it funny

Han Edgoose and I are organising a panel on Epistemic Injustice and Backlash at this year's MANCEPT Workshops! The call for abstracts is here, deadline May 1st: philevents.org/event/show/1...

The new issue of FPQ is out and looks interesting - I'd definitely recommend Celia Edell's paper on anti-trans legislation as scapegoating

This sounds like a fascinating and timely study. Congrats!

happy publication day to *The Future That Was* out today from @princetonupress.bsky.social press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

I have six public lectures or panels over the next two weeks, in NYC, online, Ottawa, and Chicago. It spans a few of my varied interests—psychoanalysis, trans politics, communist theory, science fiction. Thread with the events together.

Is there *anything* that Trump has done since his return to power that hasn't directly or indirectly benefited Putin or Netanyahu or both??

"In a podcast interview on Thursday, Mr. Bessent said that it was “unfortunate” that Russia stood to gain financially from the conflict in Iran but that he hoped it would benefit for only a “micro period.”" lol. lmao www.nytimes.com/2026/03/12/u...

Ok fam, I am back with another episode of "read a fucking book" 📚💙 I present to you: **Mansfield Park is Jane Austen's Most Important Novel!!!!!!; or, This Book is An Important Text About Enslavement in the British Empire** earrings and paintings by Crystal Galindo

Anti-trans judges want you to appreciate your sex. But if you do that in a way that fails to align with their cisnormative expectations then they'll diagnose you with "autogynephilia."

"encourage citizens to appreciate their sex" sounds both incredibly dystopian and like a euphemism for encouraging masturbation

Most people rejected his message. They hated Freud because he told them the truth.

"The John Hope Franklin Research Center is pleased to share that the archive of philosopher, scholar, and author Sylvia Wynter will be opened to the public beginning March 3." Alt text: photograph of Sylvia Wynter.

Trans Cosmologies 2: Art, Ritual & Memory 30 Apr–1 May · University of Stirling A two-day gathering of trans, gender-nonconforming and queer artists and thinkers exploring memory, ritual and cosmology through performance, scholarship and dialogue. More details and registration soon.

Political theorist William E. Connolly passed last week, leaving behind an influential body of work studying democracy, capitalism & culture To celebrate his legacy, we're unlocking his contributions to our journals thru 31 March on Project MUSE press.jhu.edu/newsro... 1/3

"Why is the “old cadre” of the communist party the only relic that Dean hauls around in Capitalism’s Grave?" I reviewed Jodi Dean's new book for Constellations, focusing on the question of leadership and the hope for a way out of this mess: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... It was great fun.

CFP: Special Issue of Moral Philosophy & Politics on "Citizenship and Global Inequality". Please consider sharing & submitting. Open to interdisciplinary work that engages with philosophical debates. #migcitsky #poltheory #philsky www.degruyterbrill.com/journal/key/...

US had to attack cos it knew Iran would hit US assets in retaliation for imminent Israeli strikes. Israel had to attack cos it knew Iran would hit Israel in retaliation for US strikes. Makes perfect sense

"despite affirming the term’s historical accuracy, the OU agreed to “not use the term ‘ancient Palestine’ in any future course materials”, and to “explain and contextualise its use in existing materials for current learners”." #OpenUniversity #AcademicFreedom www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Please consider sending an abstract to my panel ********* World Literature and the Global South: Frictions and New Horizons ********* I'm also looking at other project opportunities outside of the CFP. Please repost if you can!

Our book The Modern World After Colonialism is just out, isn't it pretty?

Coming in November from @brisunipress.bsky.social, In the Aftermath of Empire explores the impact of British imperialism on gender and sexuality law in four jurisdictions. Please tell your libraries to pre-order! bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/in-the-after...

"biocentric science produces ‘impoverished knowledge’ because it ignores the sociocultural genesis of the human through narrative/ it actively represses our awareness of sociogenesis by limiting the truth of human nature to the biological and insisting on its transcultural universality"

Such a great honour to have won @carceralgeography.bsky.social post grad paper prize on anticolonial reading of #migrationcrisis! #carcerality #phd #AcademicSky #BlackStudy #BrookeHouseIRC #SylviaWynter #FrantzFanon

1/🧵 A rolling thread listing the deficiencies in the Equality Act, particularly in relation to trans rights.

The @sfps.bsky.social invites PhD and early-career academics (= anyone w/o a tenure-track position) to submit to the annual Essay Prize on ‘Fanon at 100: Revolutionary Afterlives’. This doesn’t have to be based on Fanon’s writings if you explain how his work shapes yours: sfps.org.uk/sfps-essay-p...

does anyone know some places in the uk (+ bonus points if we can justify me going to 🇮🇪) that are important for queer especially trans people/culture/history? currently I have the vagina museum (london), glasgow women's library, and this shop is so gay (york) I'd especially love 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿&🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 ideas (+🇮🇪!) 🌈🎓

A true publishing event... The collected writings of the esteemed Katherine McKittrick, out now from the @uminnpress.bsky.social. www.upress.umn.edu/978151791706...

Trans Studies will only threaten the biocentrism of anti-trans discourse if it transforms the disciplinary structures of the university. My presentation to the 2nd International Trans Studies conference. #AcademicSky #AcademicResearch #HigherEducation 🌈🎓 www.researchgate.net/publication/...

There are some great special panels scheduled for this year's conference as well as two retrospectives on the work of Avital Ronell and Geoffrey Bennington. Early bird registration is now open, until April 30 www.tickettailor.com/events/derri...

"Biological sex" framing of transgender people is used to dehumanise us by not recognising our identity. Call it what it is: a slur. We are calling on all individuals and organisations that support the LGBTQ+ community. Please share and sign this open letter. tacc.org.uk/biological-s...

Really appreciate Justin Joque's review of Emily Bender and Alex Hanna's book "The AI Con" @harpercollins.bsky.social And for me it is this paragraph that is the money shot. olrsupplement.com/2026/02/17/t...

Thrilled this is out in the world - and thanks to @ulyverse.bsky.social for being the best coauthor! F@L is always a pleasure to write for and the editors of this special section were fantastic.

People can say it’s utopian or dreamy but it’s a fact that you have to believe new things are possible, fundamentally, in order to make them real. You have to make the choice to believe that more than this is possible & not be resigned to this being the way things have to be because it’s not at all.

Cornel West on the disciplinary division of knowledge: "You lose a sense of history! Its dynamism; the breakthroughs; the setbacks." West was in conversation with @bernardharcourt.bsky.social

What Is To Be Done? Historians of Crisis in a Moment of Crisis a special Issue of @jcwe.bsky.social is available to READ FOR FREE now on @projectmuse.bsky.social. 18 Civil War–era historians reflect on scholarship, teaching & today’s political crisis. Read it now👇 muse.jhu.edu/journal/516

This is a good example of the centrist fallacy: suggesting that the people willing to stand up to fascism, rather than appease it, are just as bad as the fascists. The notion of extremism is used to launder and naturalise liberalism.

On one side, you have trans people asking to be left alone and maintain our access to health care. On the other, a bunch of people who believe we shouldn't exist. But Cass believes both sides are the same. This whole interview is atrocious. www.bbc.com/news/article...

“Feminist-initiated scholarly programs in schools & universities across the country brought a critical lens to the biological determinism Trump invokes… suppression of gender studies is not only an attempt to suppress a critical analytical tool, but also knowledge itself.” Wise words by Joan Scott.

Trans students can't expect universities to protect them from the culture wars using diversity policies. The academy validates the anti-trans concept of "biological sex" through the disciplinary separation of knowledge, which sustains biocentrism www.cambridge.org/core/journal...