You’d think the life of an LGBTQ studies professor is glamorous but I just watched every single 1992 campaign ad and interview for Pat Buchanan

Saw a squirrel kill and eat a mouse today

Oof really didn’t like The Substance

Beautiful autumn day in upstate New York picking up strawberry rhubarb pie at the historic cider mill getting my order of winter tires and making arrangements for the cat just in case the government labels trans critics as terrorists

WE MAKE THE TV GLOW is finally up on Archive for you all to enjoy!! Please share this far and wide. The world needs trans art, now more than ever. Made with love, from @aesnos.bsky.social and friends 💕 archive.org/details/we-m...

Buffalo! I'll be in town Oct. 26–27 for a screening of I Saw the TV Glow at Hallwalls and a trans studies symposium at UB. Both are free and open to the public. I'm hosting the film with @amymarvin.bsky.social and we'll be doing a joint talk about it at the symposium.

Excited to be part of this *incredible* trans studies lineup in Buffalo next month!

Really surreal reading this as our government tries its hardest to make being trans as miserable an experience as possible

Things sure would be wild for someone writing a book on unhealthy public obsessions with trans people right now

here are the first four pages of the zine I've been working on, sort of an experimental photocomic based on a poem using a process inspired by filmmaker Artavazd Peleshian's theory of distance montage

I have a few remaining copies of my 2020 poetry collection, Taphonomy, for sale on my bandcamp page. The publisher doesn't exist anymore, so these are the last print copies there will ever be. isobelbess.bandcamp.com/merch/taphon...

NEW: With a new first-time translation from Jamie Berrout, I'm delighted to share this 2023 interview with Mariposas Negras cofounder Laura Glover, originally printed in the zine Trans y Fugas. Mariposas Negras is a transfemme sex worker collective on the front lines of Mexican trans activism 🇲🇽

Katie Zhou explores the hopes and costs of gender avowal in Gender, Gender Expression, and the Dilemma of the Body, a free ETHICS article at doi.org/10.1086/735387 #philsky #PolTheory #legalphil #moralphil #moralphilosophy #legalphilosophy

Picked up NY license plates and a campus parking pass so the new job is feeling very official now!

How might we do philosophy *with* and *for* trans people, & *in* the places where trans people are? How might work with interviews, archives, & community phenomenologies be philosophical? Could trans philosophy open the way for a revolution in philosophical method? blog.apaonline.org/2025/08/06/h...

hey check out my new dungeon synth tape

Just found out seven years into the relationship that my girlfriend is a Phish phan

@echosequence.space playing a live score for the silent film Metropolis! (sound on)

Had a great time at the Bethlehem PA sci fi festival all day - caught showings of Terror of Mechagodzilla, Metropolis (with live score performed by my girlfriend), and Alien!

Successfully drove a U-Haul truck solo through the Pocono-Scranton-Binghamton nightmare construction zone on four hours of sleep ✨

My translation of poetry and prose by Liu Chen-Chun 劉宸君, the late Taiwanese transgender poet and writer whose life was tragically cut short by a mountain trekking incident at age 19. from “Before the Snowmelt” 我所告訴你關於那座山的一切

2014 aeropress guy: drip coffee? diner coffee? mister coffee? pfff! I make my coffee in a penis pump. I don't do it the normal way either, stupid. I do it upside down style. it's called the invert method. have you seen bojack horseman?

I am co-editing an issue of Puncta with Chris Jingchao Ma on Critical Trans Phenomenology! Submissions are due July 15th. Here is the CFP with full details: puncta.journals.villanova.edu/index.php/pu...

A new article on Alex Byrne and the HHS report, for which I provided a few quotes:

Deadline for critical trans phenomenology submissions is tomorrow!

We Both lol, lmao'd in Pleasure

Other Spaces is a nascent trans zine press and tape label. We publish work on space, time, and spatiality. We have a web page. echosequence.space/otherspaces

Hey all, super excited to announce I've had the pleasure of chatting recently with Jamie Berrout, who's been working with Mariposas Negras, a transfemme sex worker activist and art collective based out of Mexico City. They're launching a Spanish-language publication called Trans y Fugas! 🇲🇽 👀

back in the US after four hours on the plane reading about serpentwomen, hope I didn’t miss anything too important these past two weeks

1.5 hours from Philly. 2 hours from NYC. 3 hours from Baltimore. 5 hours from Pittsburgh. 10 hours from Louisville, which isn't as far as you can get from Louisville but I reckon it's far enough.

Today in the archives: article about a trans woman and a trans man who wanted to get married in 1973 but couldn’t!

read a positive feature article by NYT about a trans woman today (it was from 1974)

From the archive today: Viviane Namaste on trans visibility from 2014

Today in the trans archives I came across news articles about trans teachers getting fired for being trans in the 1970s - there’s a long history of our presence in teaching as a special threat. But also articles about students protesting the treatment of trans teachers.

Visiting the X Mansion today

standup open mic voice: do y'all uh do y'all like phenomena?

Reminder that Puncta is taking submissions for essays on critical trans phenomenology by July 15th! More information here: puncta.journals.villanova.edu/index.php/pu...

you used to be able to do a ten minute standup set at work but with woke these days you can only do long form improv

hi everybody! if you're an academic philosopher and would prefer your colleagues didn't produce propaganda which furthers the trump administration's attempt to eradicate transgender people from public life, consider reading/signing this open letter about it! dearprofessorbyrne.wordpress.com

Listening to Wichita Vortex Sutra and shaking my head during “Let the President execute his own desire” so people in the car know I disagree with it

see: @amymarvin.bsky.social's work on curiotization, which gave me an explanatory framework for understanding my own experiences of being largely shut out of media and lit criticism, and of having much of my writing relegated to special issues and niche publications philarchive.org/rec/MARTTC-9

anyway i’m begging anyone who writes for the NYRB, bookforum, the LRB, n+1 and other “highbrow” lit journals to review one of littlepuss’s books. we do a really good job with them! they are often unique in the field of contemporary letters!

The Alex Byrne situation is a parody of the situation in philosophy. If you aren't trans, and you want to be an authority on us, you can be a government expert in less time than it takes to get an undergrad degree. If your call for government censorship is critiqued you're the one being censored.

just received an extremely rude Zillow email

Looking up which bathroom I’m legally supposed to use in this layover location and getting hit with paywalls, we love Kafka

Trans philosophy is at the cutting edge right now of feminist social critique. Can’t wait to see how it deepens all our analyses over the next years

Some additional aspects of this essay - it was inspired by a joint Q&A we did when Isobel curated People's Joker locally. I also pitched a lit mag essay on I Saw the TV Glow & the suburbs as a technology of conversion therapy that wasn't picked up anywhere. So it was nice to bridge both films.

Summer reading!

cannot WAIT to read this!!!

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