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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

Oh hell yeah 😎😎😎

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In the flesh! #philsky

Stoked to be in Melbourne today for the Diaspora, Home, Affect symposium, with Prof Mariana Ortega keynoting!

Being Trans in Philosophy issue #0 release. Subtitle: download, make your own. Url: https://being.transinphilosophy.org. Image of 5 zines arranged in the trans pride colors, stacked on top of well-known trans books.

Title: ‘welcome to the WTF.” Image of a biohazard symbol overlayed on a world map with lines radiating from the center of the symbol, and the spires of the biohazard symbol are impinging on two scared trans symbols. A very long list of anti-trans events since 2021 portraying the looming threats to trans life from violence, media, and governmental disenfranchisement. Footer text: https://being.transinphilosophy.org.

Text header: issue #0, june 2025, https://being.transinphilosophy.org, our stories, “we are not trans in a theoretical way”. A list of contributors with each name on a black badge over a purple splatter. The names are: Imogen Sullivan, Erin Beeghly, Ray Briggs, Anonymous, autogyniphiles_anonymous, Emmie Malone, Kelly Potter, Elin McCready, Penny Haulotte, Amy Marvin, Alex Adamson, Perry Zurn, Emil Eva Rosina, and Maximiliana Rifkin.

Text header: issue #0, june 2025, https://being.transinphilosophy.org, our stories, “we are not trans in a theoretical way”. A block of white text on a stippled purple star background reads: “being trans i not a controversial idea. it’s a lived reality.” Under the text appears a black and white image of a feminine eye.

Issue #0 of Being Trans in Philosophy zine is out now! “We Are Not Trans in a Theoretical Way”. Download & print ur own 🖨️. being.transinphilosophy.org

#beingtransinphilosophy #trans #philosophy #gender #feminism #zine #diy

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