CFP for Oxford's annual graduate philosophy conference: www.philosophy.ox.ac.uk/oxford-philo...

This Sasha Velour performance deserves to have more views, it’s so good youtu.be/y0MTQSzRGPE?...

Trump is screwing up the science of sex -- and that has implications for everyone's health care. My latest: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

The new policy denies trans people access to surgery, clothing or toiletry items that align with their gender identity. People behind bars on hormone medications will be forced to taper off them. Instead, the primary treatments will be therapy and psychiatric medications like antidepressants.

Completely obsessed with Alysa Liu’s gold-medal-winning skate, it’s just sooo joyous: youtu.be/5iPjzBl-f_U?...

Re-reading this essay by Daniel Lavery on rapid onset gender dysphoria/what it means for something to be irreversible/"a reflexive, implicit horror of flesh" with a surprising and beautiful take on Paul's first letter to the Corinthians, one of my all-time faves: www.thechatner.com/p/is-flesh-a...

We are organising a conference!! Our main goal with this is to bring together the awesome emerging philosophical work in the social, political, aesthetic & ethical dimensions of language. CfP now open - deadline 2nd of April :) philevents.org/event/show/1... @cardiffphilosophy.bsky.social

“I can see you smile and say: what good will that do? Revolutions are not made by shame. And my answer is that shame is a revolution in itself; it really is the victory of the French Revolution over that German patriotism which defeated it in 1813. Shame is a kind of anger turned in on itself…/1

pure elite capture - the uk just folded to a hardline anti-trans campaign pushed by a tiny number of people www.thepinknews.com/2026/02/11/n...

The meaning of words is to be decided not by their use, usefulness, or history, but by their commercial benefit to the most powerful lobby groups. I have a recipe for almond milk in a cookbook from 1226. It has been used as a term in English for hundreds of years. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Went to a talk engaging with Richard Rorty’s Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity this afternoon, mention of which always reminds me of this pair of epigraphs from Terry Eagleton’s Ideology: An Introduction

PhD opportunity genderinsight.eu/en/recruitme...

My friend George has a new paper out in Synthese examining the distinctive badness of epistemic injustices committed against friends: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

What does it mean to be hot for revolution—to feel a desire to transform the world in your belly and your bones? Here's my latest, on how erotic desire feeds political agency. I draw on AIDS activism, disability justice & other movements against sexual oppression. philpapers.org/archive/WARH...

‘If I think about what this means, I want to cry’: what happens when a city loses its university?

Critica, the Latin American journal of philosophy, is seeking submissions to a special issue on social epistemology! For anyone interested in contributing, check out the details here:

I v much enjoyed this paper by Patrick Connolly making a case for the early 18thC theologian Susanna Newcome as the first utilitarian: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

For those in or near Oxford on 14 February, there are just a few spaces left for the #philosophyinthebookshop I’m guest hosting with @manongarcia.bsky.social, who will discuss her new book on the Pelicot trial, Living with Men @blackwelloxford.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/philosophy...

Park Chan-wook’s No Other Choice is a great movie about the 2025-26 academic job market

The New World asked me to speak to some British trans women about what life has been like for them over the past few years - here's what they had to say, in their own words: www.thenewworld.co.uk/marie-le-con...

Tareeq’s excellent title has reminded me of a bugbear of mine: how have none of the cool recent papers on what conversational silences can be used to communicate been titled “How To Do Things Without Words”? Someone needs to get on it!

📢 NEW EPISODE 📢 - @sarahljaffe.bsky.social on the murder of Renee Nicole Good by ICE and the history of organising and protest in Minnesota (and the centrality of the Somali community to those efforts). We also talked about the entwinement of the tech industry with ICE and the surveillance state:

Extraordinary feminist philosopher Vicky Spelman passed away last week... she wrote the 1988 classic Inessential Woman, which was an important salvo against the possibility of any "generic" category of woman. Many of us have taught her work, and all of us should revisit it. She'll be missed.

Preparing to teach Effective Altruism next week, it occurs to me that it’s 10 years since I started giving every month to GiveDirectly - imo giving lump sums of cash to people in extreme poverty with no strings attached is one of the best things you can do with your money: www.givedirectly.org

CFP for a special issue of Argumenta, guest edited by @lisabortolotti.com & @lalumera.bsky.social: THE EPISTEMIC INJUSTICE RESEARCH PROGRAMME: DEGENERATIVE OR PROGRESSIVE? Deadline 30th of September.

Home Office tells Gaza academic his bid to bring family to UK not urgent

Martin Peterson's creative response to being banned from teaching Plato (shared with his permission).

Texas A&M actually tells a philosophy professor he may not teach Plato.

Sending a paper off to a journal… “Submission. That was what they called it when you sent your work out. When you put your neck on the block and awaited the cold clarity of the blade.” (Brandon Taylor, The Late Americans)

May your year be blessed with accepts subject to minor corrections.

Gramsci’s “I Hate New Year’s Day” (h/t @leftofphilosophy.bsky.social): viewpointmag.com/2015/01/01/i...

As Jerry Cohen used to joke, next year will be about average. Worse than this year, but not as bad as the following one.

Favourite first-time reads of 2025

We are hoping to raise £5000 to allow us to increase our stocks and staffing to ensure we can support everyone who needs us this winter. Donate to our winter crowdfunder at www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/nobody-sho...

‘Some will take their own lives’: Puberty blocker bans in Queensland and NZ risk extreme harm to trans youth, UK expert warns

Today is International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers. If you can, join me and other amazing speakers in Soho this afternoon. Let's talk, remember, and keep fighting ☂️❤️

Trans academics in the UK have described a climate of fear and uncertainty in the wake of two high-profile court rulings, saying that the effects could push trans people out of academia #academicsky https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/trans-scholars-being-pushed-out-academia-researchers-warn

British Library staff asked for a decent pay. Instead they got ‘a few money-saving present ideas’, such as ‘consider not giving presents this holiday season’. They are on strike this week. I wrote about it for @lrb.co.uk. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/de...

This is from a satirical magazine written by Anthony Kenny and Julius Kovesi in Oxford, 1958-59. I have reviewed so many papers in the last 5 years that are basically just this.

Lorna Finlayson pens a review of three recent books on feminism by Judith Butler, Sophie Lewis, and a reissue of Andrea Dworkin. Convincing criticism of the first, good subtle observations bringing out the strengths of the latter two.

My article on the fraught politics of desire in the history of radical feminism has now been published at Hypatia. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

‘Bloodshed was supposed to stop’: no sign of normal life as Gaza’s killing and misery grind on

I have a new paper coming out in Inquiry called ‘The Perils of Epistemic Idealism': philpapers.org/rec/SHITPO-40. I argue that especially in applied, political work, philosophers have a tendency to assume that political harms are primarily a product of false beliefs and misguided concepts.

As of today, you can pre-order my book from the Routledge page, and for today only it's 25% off:

‘I wish I could say I kept my cool’: my maddening experience with the NHS wheelchair service

As my friend Tena Thau writes, if you care about free speech you should care about mass incarceration politicalphilosophyjournal.org/article/id/2...

Me at the LRB blog on the atrocious refugee policy of Mahmood and Starmer