set of epigraphs for my chapter on transphobia and the public

keep seeing the floating conclusion "we gotta eliminate the trans people" given a series of rotating premises in hopes that one or a cluster of them will finally stick

Theme: Joy, Care, and Resistance (other topics in social philosophy also welcome) University of Waterloo Waterloo, Ontario, Canada July 16-18, 2026 Keynotes: Kate Norlock and Quill Kukla Deadline is March 1, 2026. cswip.ca/call-for-pap...

2026 quickly pivoting from 'you can't have anything without AI' to 'you can't have anything because of AI'

Fascinating new interview of Philosopher Rowan Bell by @rikiwilchins.bsky.social asks whether the concept of gender identity is outliving its usefulness, and what might come after. Food for thought. www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

read Simplicity and now I'm interested in the NYC trans understanding of upstate NY

it's really damning for academia that the president of Bard College hasn't stepped down yet

Isobel told me I'm not allowed to ebay a Michfest shirt

someone should pay me and Isobel to do a Mystery Science Theater 3000-style commentary on the film "Female to Femme"

Starting my unit on intro to ontology of sex/gender today, running Beauvoir / Spillers / Haslanger / Young / Butler / Lugones / Byrne / Burke

Teaching Beauvoir again after a 2 year break

please buy my experimental music mp3s so my cat can get her infected teeth extracted and I can get a dental crown that I need and start going to physical therapy again

getting a shirt with "Please don't show me Mr. Show clips" on it so I can hang out with older millennials

putting "my girlfriend was published in Sinister Wisdom" in my bio

thinking about this quote from Mary Wollstonecraft (1792)

This is not encouraging.

what if the real sex trafficking cabal was just the patriarchy we made along the way

it's really funny to me that Anne Lawrence lists Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil in the "Further Reading" section about autogynephilia

helping with organizing a trans film series in Buffalo & doing an invited co-talk this semester about Castration Movie

the series is called Trans Film / Trans Space and we'll be kicking off at Hallwall's in March (it's in the basement of a 19th century Victorian gothic church that Ani DiFranco bought, couldn't dream of a cooler venue)

the power of the trans elder isn't in wise community stewardship or persisting through trauma, it is in accumulating a massive amount of gossip

one of my less cited essays develops a concept that Isobel uses all the time to explain things, and I consider that academic success

finished writing another book chapter, now to teach Wollstonecraft

Other Spaces is releasing a companion zine for the new Ishtar Sr. (@savandepaul.bandcamp.com) record! Copies are ready to go and will ship when the full album drops on 3/6. digital album: savandepaul.bandcamp.com/album/wifef-... zine: otherspaces.bandcamp.com/merch/ishtar...

thinking about commissioning art of trans woman Medusa laughing while eating salad for the cover of my book

I can either wrap up this current book chapter now or expand it by 1000 words to finally explain what Jesse Singal's deal is

using my snow days to write about the theory of autogynephilia

found a photo of a friend while reading through old issues of Transgender Tapestry

I heard you guys like hardware FM synth flute riffs so here's a little taste of the new Nameless Cartographer tape

post hoc ergo hoc tua

Excited to dig into some new trans horror!

you ever think about how good trans medicine could be if it wasn’t actively suppressed

Stoked to announce the next release from Other Spaces is a collab with Philly art pop afrofuturist Ishtar Sr. on the release of her new EP: wifef*cker ultraDELUXE. We'll be dropping a deluxe tour + lyrics zine alongside the album on 3/6. otherspaces.bandcamp.com/merch/ishtar...

Finalized my Intro to Feminist Thought Syllabus! My four units are: (1) Thinking Woman (history of feminist theory); (2) Thinking “Woman” (what is sex/gender); (3) Politicizing Women (feminist political theory); (4) Politicizing “Women” (political theories of coalition and difference)

You should purchase this beautiful magazine of trans photography. My photographs are included in it, including several that haven’t appeared anywhere else, and they’re truly some of my favorites. I’m really looking forward to seeing everyone else’s work. 💛

In 2023, Elon Musk banned the words cis and cisgender from Twitter. That's when I started writing this book. What could be so powerful, dangerous, & unsettling about these words? Where did they come from? And how might we reimagine them today? Available for preorder: www.amazon.com/Cisgender-Di...

Looks like I’ll be in Buffalo more often for trans film events

congratulations! your feed has been visited by the common yabby (Cherax destructor)

Visited my parents this past week and they are done with JK Rowling and Harry Potter over transphobia. I honestly thought this would never happen and didn’t push the issue with them.

I believe there is an audience for meditative conceptual gorge music recorded on the Appalachian trail using only a niche Japanese portable FM synth that's been painstakingly programmed to emulate the natural soundscape, and I will find that audience. isobelbess.bandcamp.com/album/even-t...

Headed to the APA today! Gonna be chatting about Talia Bettcher’s Beyond Personhood on Wednesday at 2, then giving a talk on Neil Hamburger, Graham Linehan, and becoming a hack on Thursday at 7pm!

Excited to welcome Plato into Team Gender Ideology

Headed to the APA today! Gonna be chatting about Talia Bettcher’s Beyond Personhood on Wednesday at 2, then giving a talk on Neil Hamburger, Graham Linehan, and becoming a hack on Thursday at 7pm!

The wisest decision I made in the section of my book about Graham Linehan is to engage with the memoir and interviews but stay away from the X page.

I shovel 🪏 ❄️ so she can pick up nunsploitation comics 🙏 📖

Just clearing the snow on / around my car took over an hour

Stayed up until 2 am writing about Neil Hamburger

Syracuse is kind of like if Seattle was ever so slightly less cloudy, snowed all the time, and didn’t have consistently good coffee

pondering my edible orbs

WATCH: Here's the segment CBS News pulled from "60 Minutes" last night