Ottawa! Coming up!

The first two days of #PhiDisSocCh6 have been remarkable. The presentations and Q and As have been outstanding! Today is the third and final day. You can find today's program/schedule of events and registration link in this BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY post! biopoliticalphilosophy.com/2026/01/30/p...

This is an article we’ve been working on forever, about how preventing harm through better social movement infrastructure is great.

An uprising of children in a DHS concentration camp in Dilly, Texas! They focused on the mistreatment of Liam Conejo Ramos, a 5-year-old from Minnesota, abducted with his father by ICE last week Immigration attorney Eric Lee could hear shouting [and] believed “hundreds of children” took part.

What an honor to speak with Johanna Magin from @mindandlifeeu.bsky.social to speak at such length about my work, ranging from rituals, activism, art, reasonings and hope in ecological collapse in "The Enactive Fold"-Podcast! mindandlife-europe.org/events/seaso...

It's Tuesday. More @strangehorizons.bsky.social Criticism Special! Today, @r-emrys.bsky.social, Lila Garrott, and @alexisshotwell.bsky.social talk political agency & SFF. "Why isn’t the arc bending consistently toward justice? Speculative fiction provides opportunities for more nuanced responses."

Listening to his wife screaming with fear and grief and shock, and I think for those of us who have paid attention to police brutality and American history more broadly, it is painfully familiar and so hard to hear I hope he comes home safe and soon.

Academics and technologists are sounding the alarm about a growing crisis in scholarship as we know it: AI-generated citations of nonexistent papers that have infested real journals. Despite being fake, the sources are widely assumed to be authentic the more they appear in published literature.

my campus news put out a piece on the 'AI hype awareness' work i've been doing lately, from a higher ed perspective. we need to understand that we are being sold a bail-out for billionaires, not an educational future. www.uwindsor.ca/news/2025-11...

apologies to mattbors.bsky.social

Absolutely asinine to publish this while artists are literally starving and still making art anyway Humans are not out of ideas, it’s just that most of them are out of cash because of a few dipshit hoarders

PHILOSOPHY, DISABILITY, AND SOCIAL CHANGE 6 #PhiDisSocCh6 REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN FOR THIS RADICALIZING EVENT! LINK IN THE POST WHICH ALSO INCLUDES THE FINAL PROGRAM! DON'T MISS THE HOTTEST EVENT OF THE YEAR IN PHILOSOPHY! @shengokai.blacksky.app biopoliticalphilosophy.com/2025/12/18/p...

It's very hard to understand that everyone should just be accommodated. There's enough to go around, truly. You've been sold a story that we're all scrabbling for some finite resource, and They are taking it from you, and the answer to that taking is systemic punishment, backed by systemic violence.

Family Abolition ebook steeply discounted

I also don’t know how to help but this just made me think about aging queer disability community everywhere.

If reconciliation actually meant something, this would be the final word

King's books, many of which i have read and enjoyed, are conspicuously absent from Bad Indians Book Club. In case you were wondering if this was something a lot of us already knew.

I keep coming back to this

Folks seem to be forgetting this so I’m here to remind you: ‘So far, five boys Michael Jackson shared beds with have accused him of abuse: Jordie Chandler, Jason Francia, Gavin Arvizo, Wade Robson, and Jimmy Safechuck. Jackson had the same nickname for Chandler and Arvizo: “Rubba.”‘

y'know, if tech companies weren't so fired up to call every single thing "AI" it would be a lot easier to distinguish "ML spam filter that is well-sandboxed and tuned on your emails" from "giant context and IP-eroding foundation model that makes people paranoid and unhappy"

The only truly irreversible thing a trans child is likely to do is take their own life. "What if they do something irreversible?" actually means "theyre not allowed to make a decision!" You cant undo or reverse any decision you make, you can simply change your mind later and handle the consequences

For people making syllabi for next term, your regular reminder that an awesome person I don't know (but friends report is awesome in other ways than this) made this day/date generator to help us all: wcaleb.rice.edu/syllabusmake...

Leaked Texas A&M Document Exposes a Chilling Blueprint for Silencing Race and Gender in Higher Ed #AcademicSky drstaceypatton1865.substack.com/p/leaked-tex...

Everybody sad about the loss of Teen Vogue and independent left outlets in general can get their wallets ready to pre-order the next print issue of @pinko.online which will ship by the end of the year. It’s still here and it’s beautiful

This Tuesday I'll be joining Jasper Bernes in discussion, talking about his book The Future of Revolution. I'll be reading from a SF story I was wrote in response. It's about about revolutionary factory workers in Brazil, set in the world of Everything for Everyone. www.e-flux.com/events/67832...

Join socialist activist & scholar @redprof.bsky.social for the launch of Slavery and Capitalism: A New Marxist History, in conversation with @caradrianh.bsky.social. Sat Dec 6, 7pm-8pm. Doors open 6:30pm. Social Innovation Atelier, 95 Clegg St., Ottawa RSVP: octopusbooks.ca/mcnally

This is the con that changed how I think about what academia could be, and also saved my soul over the last six years and also it’s just incredibly fun, kind, and riveting. Come hang out with me in Montreal in June!

I hung out with Lois yesterday and we talked about these things. She is NEVER involved in ANYTHING like this. If you get a message or a social media DM claiming to be her, IT NEVER IS.

Is AI making job recruitment less meritocratic? We're getting some v interesting research studies on this question now, and the news is... not good. @jburnmurdoch.ft.com & I dive in, in the latest edition of our newsletter The AI Shift www.ft.com/content/e5b7...

i think its quite eye opening. in a sense trans women & trans people in general are by no means exceptional and many are of course complex and flawed people but there is something about moving beyond cisness that gives someone access to a self-consciousness and subjectivity that is enlightening.

I always described this one as my "coming out" essay because it exposed my #neurodivergence in a vulnerable way I had never done before, BUT I had no idea it exposed the inner world of my #DissociativeIdentityDisorder until a decade later, in 2024 ... open.substack.com/pub/karriehi...

Well, sorry to hear that Texas A&M isn’t interested in being an institution of learning

This looks really interesting; I spend a lot of time in my work teaching writing (both just, teaching writing, but also teaching writing as part of my teaching) thinking about how assignments can support neurodivergent students *and* faculty. www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...

I have for some time now told crows the story of my friend Marissa who tells stories to crows, and here at last is a story about that.

A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death. Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written." Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating. 🧪🧬🧫

Wowwwwww what the HELL

Do yourself a favor and read this excellent wide-ranging interview with the activist-scholar Cathy Cohen!

There are many reasons to love Marissa Lingen, and this is one.

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

"You make the best of it all and hope you can help make it a little better for the gurl after you." - Miss Major, 2023 💔

Our plane to Spain is in the air! 🙌🙌 Thank you so much to the countless people supporting us in every way and in particular all of the Rutgers students and faculty who have supported us every step of the way.

“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second. We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’

This week in rad Ottawa: October Chain Fast for Palestinian Family Reunification; Rallies of Allies for Court Support - Solidarity with Kebaowek; Film Screening: Gaza Fights for Freedom (2019); Sexual Bereavement - Queer Death Salon; & more! www.punchupcollective.org/reo-calendar/

Alexis Shotwell on anarchism. New episode on podcast platforms & pls smash like & subscribe on YouTube: youtu.be/V3evGc0mF5Y)

Out today: Drawing on nearly a decade of fieldwork, a sensitive, timely examination of how colonial power infiltrates family dynamics, enforces gendered mobility restrictions, shapes local economies. Checkpoint 300 by @casesofyou.bsky.social www.upress.umn.edu/978151791984...

An excellent interview with @lydiajean.bsky.social! "As a geographer, I’m really interested in thinking through the different scales of the carceral state. We often talk about the state as if it’s a monolith, instead of as a multi-scalar and contradictory assemblage of institutions."

Reconciliation is neither possible nor desirable, since there was never a positive relationship in the first place. Nonetheless...

At Broadview ICE facility, federal agents hurl tear gas and pepper spray at protesters blocking vans www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/19/t...

Special issue of Humana.Mente on Philosophy and Disability biopoliticalphilosophy.com/2025/09/20/p...

I had never really thought about the fact that The Lord of the Rings is the 500,000+ word version of “the master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house” but here’s the explanation.