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Call for Papers: Special Issue of Feminist Legal Studies Feminist Responses to the Regression of Trans Rights: Strategies, Alliances, Hope Amidst continuing backlash against trans rights, recognition and inclusion, two recent decisions from the UK have substantially impacted not only trans people’s legal status but also legal and social narratives of sex, gender and identity. The narrative that trans inclusion has a chilling effect on the rights of others, particularly women, has been adopted uncritically by both the UK Supreme Court in For Women Scotland and the Office for Students in its finding that the University of Sussex’s trans-inclusion policy had a chilling effect on free speech. These cases highlight a backlash that has been ongoing for some time, and sparks debates and fear of what may lie in the near future for trans people and kin, as well as other gender-variant persons, not only in the UK, but across jurisdictions and in a global perspective. The discourse of the ‘gender critical’ movement is splintering both the feminist and LGBT+ movements globally, with some aligning politically with the Far- and Christian Right against trans rights, adopting their terminology of ‘gender ideology’ and potentially posing a wider threat to sexual and reproductive rights. While this a difficult situation for trans people, kin and allies, this special issue seeks to emphasise that legal battles – including battles (temporarily) lost – are also an opportunity to seek to reinforce old alliances and to form new ones, to find new legal frontiers and imaginaries, to reinforce the theoretical and methodological underpinnings of legal arguments as well as intergenerational memory of what feminist legal work is, has been and should be about. How, we ask, do these decisions (and those like them globally) reflect and reproduce structures of coloniality, heteronormativity and cisnormativity? What do these decisions add to critiques of legal feminism? What would be construct…

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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.

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If you know someone who's got an article or chapter of mine on a syllabus please let me know the unit title so I can demonstrate impact 😊

Looking at works by Gaile Pohlhaus Jr and José Medina in Applied Philosophy today! #philsky

Excited to get back into the classroom today to introduce my students to social Imaginaries! #philsky

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Religious Freedom and Meaning Vertigo: A Social Imaginaries Analysis of ‘The Persecuted Faithful’ in The Australian’s Op-Eds In Australia, divisive debate on the matter of religious freedom has come to the fore following the introduction of marriage equality in 2017 and increasing protections against trans and gender divers...

Excited to share "Religious Freedom and Meaning Vertigo: A Social Imaginaries Analysis of ‘The Persecuted Faithful’ in The Australian’s Op-Eds" forthcoming in For, Against, Together: Antagonistic Political Emotions edited by the brilliant @lucyosler.bsky.social & Thomas Szanto
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The Habits of Racism The Habits of Racism examines some of the complex questions raised by the phenomenon and experience of racism. Helen Ngo draws on the resources of Merleau-Ponty…

So excited to be introducing my students to the incredible work of Helen Ngo today! I tell anyone who will listen to go read her work — if you're not familiar, get amongst it (esp. her fantastic book The Habits of Racism).
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Weekend reading!

This week we started with Young's "Throwing Like A Girl" and have gone on to think through the intersectional disruptions to "I can" experience, especially with respect to phenomenologies of disability! #philsky

Today's class was all about Beauvoir and Irigaray! Such a treat to be able to introduce students to these texts 😊
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It's been a while!

Today in applied philosophy we'll start reading Fricker's Epistemic Injustice! We'll also be talking about social imaginaries and standpoint theory!! #philsky

The Testimonial Double Bind for Disabled People Disabled people face a testimonial double bind: Either (1) they give entirely positive testimony about their disability, which may not be believed, or (2) they give some negative testimony about th...

🔓 ➡️ [OPEN ACCESS] "The Testimonial Double Bind for Disabled People" by Avram Hiller doi.org/10.1080/0269...
Disabled people face a testimonial double bind about being believed and giving testimony #disability #identity #testimonial #injustice #socialepistemology #journal #article

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Attention philosophers, x-philosophers and moral psychologists - I'm hiring! Two, 3-year research fellowships on an interdisciplinary project in the Philosophical Moral Psychology Lab at the Uehiro Institute, Oxford. Pass it on! For more info and to apply: tinyurl.com/mrwwuyaw

Today in HAF235 Sex, Bodies & Philosophy we'll be talking about androcentrism in the canon and the place of corporeality in philosophy! (Thiele, Gatens, Grosz, Lloyd, Jay and many more!)
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Snuck in one last journal submission before things really ramp up in semester 2. Fingers crossed for Reviewer 2 blessings and minimal R&R! 🤞

Really important insights from Catherine Mills on philosophy in the time of impact #philsky
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Not quite yet, but I'm close!

Today I get to share my paper '"How To Make Gravy" or, Making Sense of Blended Family Bereavement". This marks a stylistic turn in the way I do philosophy, and I'm really keen to see what kind of reception it gets!
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Really enjoying all the stories from the panellists in the philosophy in the diaspora session, great way to finish the first day! #philsky
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Learned so much from Lisa Ellis in her talk "Kantian Provisional Right in the Anthropocene"! What a great talk! #philsky @aaphilosophy.bsky.social

Really enjoying Dr Mary Graham's keynote "Metaphysical Identity: Time for an Australian Philosophy?" — learning much from the Dreaming and her lore.
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Congratulations to the 2025 Annette Baier Prize winner!

Stephanie Collins
Monash University
‘States’ Culpability through Time’
Philosophical Studies 181: 1345-1368.

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I can barely contain my excitement for the @aaphilosophy.bsky.social conference kicking off today!

I'm especially excited for the announcement of the Annette Baier Prize winner (most outstanding philosophical paper by an Australasian woman)!

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Excited to be part of it! #philsky

Stoked to be spending today at the Indigenous Knowledges Symposium ahead of the @aaphilosophy.bsky.social annual conference next week! #philsky