Trying to brainstorm the most annoying thing I could call San Francisco while I’m here. Might run with “Sanny Fran”

Having a great time at MichFest

I love when my phone is like “remember this photo from three years ago” and it’s like the indoor wasp nest I had to send to my landlord

listening to Sufjan Stevens' album Michigan while in Michigan

I have a new essay up today at the Metropolitan Review, looking at submerged populations in @maxdelsohn.bsky.social’s CRAWL and Anton Solomonik’s Realistic Fiction. Read it here: www.metropolitanreview.org/p/submerged-...

Isobel updating me on the puppygirl discourse like I missed an episode of a show

It’s my honor and pleasure to announce that I’m (re)self-publishing my debut poetry collection for its 10th anniversary! 🎊 The 10th anniversary expanded edition of “trigger” will be here on MAY 29! 🌈

submitting all my reimbursement requests for the year during the same week so I can pretend that I made a bunch of money

In the 80s, she wrote a lifestyle column for R-18 trans tabloid The Transvestian. In the 90s, her ground-breaking novellas defined Black trans indie publishing. In the early 00s, she helped organize the TWOC community, inspiring Monica Roberts to write. This is the story of Roberta Angela Dee.

I was interviewed for a podcast on trans philosophy along with Riley Lewicki and Alanah Mortlock (plus Isobel Bess showing up for a brief moment to mention her favorite Golden Girls character)!: www.buzzsprout.com/2363501/epis...

Should have been the Mandalorian and Goku

Catching I Love Boosters made me nostalgic for when Isobel and I saw Sorry to Bother You at the Bijou in Eugene

Usually when I get short hair I bring a photo of Monique Wittig but this time I’m thinking of getting a slightly modified Ann Northrop cut

I was interviewed for a podcast on trans philosophy along with Riley Lewicki and Alanah Mortlock (plus Isobel Bess showing up for a brief moment to mention her favorite Golden Girls character)!: www.buzzsprout.com/2363501/epis...

Joanna Wuest's book Born This Way is a good pick from this lineup press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

Really wish A24 would distribute a physical edition of On Becoming a Guinea Fowl so I can assign it in my classes easier

Anyway here’s the passage of Judith Butler that the Guardian censored years ago

Beneath the Ruin, a Ruin. The purpose of conflict is lost to time, but the echo of its aftermath remains. Here, in the soil, a map.

Please spread the word about this special issue in your feminist philosophy and feminist theory circles! It’s a great opportunity and there’s plenty of time to write something ✍️

writing about transphobia while watching a baby groundhog eat some clover

The cruel politeness of transphobia in the UK is really next level.

gender criticals will do the whole 'Orwell 1984 newspeak' thing about trans terminology and then codify 'having negative attitudes towards trans people is not having negative attitudes' into policy

made it through my first year on the tenure track

"To reach towards normality is to talk a little about abnormality." Scholar and activist Eli Clare speaks on transness and disability in an interview with @rikiwilchins.bsky.social

Syracuse expecting me to parallel park, solve a time puzzle, and figure out if I’m on the odd or even side of the street at the same time is giving COGIATI

Landlord is finally repairing our roof leak 🎉

Saw a Reader’s Digest AI issue at the grocery store and I’m glad my grandfather didn’t run into this while he had dementia

Fulden Ibrahimhakkioglu and I are editing a special issue of Feminist Philosophy Quarterly on Feminist Accountability and Transformative Justice! Completed essays are due January 4th. Details are here: philevents.org/event/show/1...

Isobel took me to see the documentary about the Indigo Girls so now I'm going to take her to actually see them in concert

All this Odyssey talk has me nostalgic for when I was t4t Helen of Troy in the late 2010s

Syracuse is neat because I’ll randomly run into someone who will talk about what it was like to hang out with Leslie Feinberg

New essay preprint!: "Weathering the Comic Storm: On Being Trans and Funny" - I reflect on my attempt to practice stand-up comedy, the ways that transphobia shapes local stand-up comedy scenes, and what weathering and trans care look like in this context! philpapers.org/rec/MARWTC-9

It's been interesting to see Journal of Controversial Ideas triple down on the transgenderism = transracialism comparison during a time when it's been most obvious that they have very different histories / momentums / relationships with law and policy.

not sure if I would have destealthed in the mid-2010s if I had known the 2020s were going to be like this, cis people really tricked me with their earlier chilling out stuff

Living in the USA as a trans person right now is like getting suspended between “you’re ontologically evil” (comical, ineffective, hyperbolic) and “you’re ontologically evil” (impending annihilation by the state).

a little disappointing for feminism that we’re not on the new White House list ngl

for my Feminist Thought final I'm having students (1) craft their own definition of feminism or (2) make a case for a refusal to define feminism and I'm pretty happy with how it's going so far

may have miraculously lined things up so I go on sabbatical the same year my 1st academic book comes out

if I'm able to secure this dual Canadian citizenship thing I've been working on I hope to enter an absurdist 'finding my Canadian identity' arc

New journal of controversial ideas issue is probably the most transphobic (technical philosophical term) one they've published so far. I would probably have to raise the percentage that I initially came up with in my "Circulation of Trans Philosophy" essay. philarchive.org/archive/MART...

My Facebook algorithm just shows me anti-trans misinformation rage bait disguised as queer media content, and when I use Google the AI says the stories are true and links back to the Facebook pages. The AI will call it misinformation if you ask if the sources are credible but not initially.

I had to look up a phrase that Isobel said to me and the top result was from hillbillyslang dot com

looks like I'm giving a talk on my Trans Fascination book in Melbourne later this year

planned my lesson on gender critical feminism while Isobel was streaming Castration Movie chap. 3 downstairs and it seemed to be a perfect pairing

If you hadn't heard, our Lingua Franca screening in Buffalo kicked ass. We had a great turnout and some really good conversations about the film. Next one is The People's Joker on 7/10, so mark your calendars. echosequence.space/transfilm

Wish I could get excited about something as much as Tribe Called Quest was excited about having a pager

Showing up to the U Buffalo faculty books celebration and silently eating all the focaccia while I contemplate buying a $75 signed copy of a Delany novel

Deep respect for Buffalo potholes, they got some competition with Philly up here

Buffalo come out! May Day! Let's watch a movie in the basement of a Victorian gothic cathedral and talk about work + care + intimacy + disposability.