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).

Incredibly important new study from Cal Horton @fiercemum.bsky.social - the first to look at England's post-Cass child/adolescent gender clinics. Dr Horton found patients and families are being actively harmed, with one young person describing appointments as "the worst thing I’ve ever experienced”.

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

In our latest, we speak with the director of Trans Income Project about their work providing material support to trans people in Louisiana and how they’re trying to fill the gaps created by the federal government’s attacks on trans coverage under Medicaid soundcloud.com/deathpanel/a...

Out today in HLR, my piece Skrmetti Beyond Scrutiny. What happened, what it means for trans rights and sex equality more broadly: harvardlawreview.org/print/vol-13...

Call-for-papers: Hypatia Special Issue on Feminist Philosophy of Mind Guest Editors: Gloria Andrada and Carolina Flores Deadline for submissions: 15th January 2026 Details and links to submit on the website:

Discussing Daniel Dennett on the competence to sign a contract as “the kind of free will worth having” in class today, I couldn’t resist bringing up this scene from A DAY AT THE RACES (1937)…is “indoctrinating students with Marxist ideology” really so bad? youtu.be/dbUDSxJFsDA?...

“Nobody does corruption like FIFA” you say? Let me tell you about the guy who used to run FIDE, the World Chess Federation. A 🧵. Between 1995 and 2018, Kirsan Ilyumzhinov: - Claimed to have been abducted by aliens on two separate occasions (this one’s to hook you in - he’s quite the character!);

Whoever wrote in the blurb for this edition of Edward Said’s Out of Place that the book reveals “an unimaginably rich world of colorful characters and exotic eastern landscapes” desperately needs to read some Edward Said

In @yougov.co.uk polling of the trans community, to the best of our knowledge the first of its kind ever conducted, an astonishing 84% said Britain is “fairly unsafe” or “very unsafe” for trans people. goodlaw.social/ncfw

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/

The documentary I made with Miss Major 10 years ago is available to stream free on Vimeo. If you want to spend some time with her and her loved ones, and learn some abolitionist trans history while you're at it, updated streaming link is here: vimeo.com/whatdowewant...

🆕️🚨 After painstaking research, dozens of FOIs and months of analysis we release the Gender Clinic Files which reveal waiting times for every GIC in the country. They lay bare, how far off the mark the Health Secretary's estimation of the average wait is 👇 www.wearequeeraf.com/gender-clini...

"Why would it bow to antidemocratic pressures by placing a professor on leave without their request, consent, or involvement? That any university would do this is beyond comprehension and is cause for alarm about the future of academic freedom in Canada."

New issue of Feminist Philosophy Quarterly is out, and it's a symposium on Katharine Jenkins's book 'Ontology and Oppression', guest edited by Susan Brison and @jennysaul.bsky.social:

📣🏳️‍⚧️ 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.

It’s my last week in Montréal/Québec/Canada and ngl, I’m really going to miss it! Feel very lucky to have had the chance to live and work here these last two years A photo thread: