Vanessa Wills

Black trans women give us so much and yet every. single. time! We fucking fail them.

. @katblaque.bsky.social 's beautifully stated boundary, "I only share my body with men who are willing to politically defend it," has gone viral with online feminists. But how many of us actually show up to politically defend *her*?

YouTube video by WHAS11 Trump discusses sending National Guard to NYC

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Reporter: "Do you still plan to deploy the National Guard to New York City?"

Trump: "Right now, other places need it more"

Trump: "But if they need it, I would do it."

Trump's message: Be "reasonable." Let somebody else try to play the tough guy.

Reporter: "Do you still plan to deploy the National Guard to New York City?"

Trump: "If they need it. Right now, other places need it more. We had a great meeting, yesterday. But if they need it, I would do it."

Marx's Ethical Vision Abstract. “The communists do not preach morality at all”; this line from The Communist Manifesto might seem to settle the question of whether Marxism has a

I also recommend Marx’s Ethical Vision by @vcwills.bsky.social academic.oup.com/book/57415?l...

Excited to welcome this outstanding group of speakers:
@robin-c.bsky.social (FU Berlin)
@kristingjesdal.bsky.social (Temple)
@terezahendl.bsky.social (Augsburg)
Michelle Meeks (Penn State)
Matthieu Renault (Toulouse)
Cecilia Sebastian (Wesleyan)
Vanessa Thompson (Queen’s)
@vcwills.bsky.social (GWU)

Poster titled Ethics and Politics in Marx. It features two book covers: Citizen Marx by Bruno Leipold (top right), with a historic painting of revolutionary figures, and Marx’s Ethical Vision by Vanessa Christina Wills (bottom left), showing a red-toned image of a woman illuminated by a beam of light. Event details on the right read: “May 26th at HU Berlin. Organized by Daniel James, Mirjam Müller, and Luna Powierski. If you would like to attend, please send an e-mail to ls.feminist.phil@hu-berlin.de.” The background is black with a worn texture.

Workshop | Ethics and Politics in Marx
26 May · HU Berlin · 10–18h

With @vcwills.bsky.social & @brunoleipold.com presenting their new books: Marx’s Ethical Vision & Citizen Marx. Comments by Gädeke, James, Müller & Wollner.

Register by 16 May: ls.feminist.phil@hu-berlin.de

Provocations by @ewmaroney.bsky.social , Peter Hudis, and @vcwills.bsky.social .

Nice joint review of @vcwills.bsky.social 's and my's book by @andrewhartman.bsky.social situating them as part of a "Marx boom" journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Heat a joy to discuss @vcwills.bsky.social and I’s books with @schlawinerkreis.bsky.social @mirjam-m.bsky.social Dorothea Gädeke and Gabriel Wollner

It was great! Thanks to @vcwills.bsky.social, @brunoleipold.com, @schlawinerkreis.bsky.social, Dorothea Gädeke, Gabriel Wollner and everyone who was there for the discussion.

Dialogues on Disability: Shelley Tremain Interviews Vanessa Wills Hello, I’m Shelley Tremain and I would like to welcome you to the one hundred and twenty-second instalment of Dialogues on Disability, the series of interviews that I am conducting with disabled ph…

Spectre's own @vcwills.bsky.social talking disability and her latest projects with Shelley Tremain for Biopolitical Philosophy.

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Now out! New issue of @philosopher1923.bsky.social on Marx & Philosophy (among other things)

I had the pleasure of putting this together, with brilliant pieces from @schuringa.bsky.social, @tatianallaguno.bsky.social @vcwills.bsky.social @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social Paul North and Sandro Brito Rojas

Economist, political theorist, and all-round bogeyman Karl #Marx was born on this date in 1818. Last fall Josh and Ray questioned his moral #philosophy with @vcwills.bsky.social from @gwu1821.bsky.social, author of "Marx’s Ethical Vision"—LISTEN: www.philosophytalk.org/shows/marx-a... #PhilSky

On the latest episode of Behind the News, @doughenwood.bsky.social and @vcwills.bsky.social mentioned this gem from Capital & it struck me as pertinent to Sam Altman’s recent promise/threat to release “a new [ai] model that is good at creative writing”

Behind the News with Doug Henwood News Podcast · 6 Episodes · Updated Weekly

A lovely and inspiring interview of Vanessa Wills by @doughenwood.bsky.social on the latest episode of his Behind the News podcast, on the question of Marx's ethics. What does it mean, as a Marxist, to talk about morality, about how things ought to be? podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...

YouTube video by Poor People's Army A Conversation between Comrades, with Vanessa Wills & Matt Pillischer

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Spectre's own @vcwills.bsky.social in conversation with @poorpeoplesarmy.bsky.social 's Matt Pillischer.

This is a eugenicist logic.

BREAKING: DHS Detains Palestinian Student from Columbia Encampment, Says Advocates Agents told him his student visa was revoked. But he had a green card. Agents then said that was revoked too.

NEWS: Last night, the Department of Homeland Security detained a Palestinian who helped lead the Columbia encampment.

Agents told him his visa was revoked. He said he had a green card. They were confused—then said that was revoked too.

His attorney demanded a warrant. Agents hung up instead.

That's awesome!! Thank you for sharing it and for letting me know that!

Aww that makes my day! Thank you! 💖

Grateful for Vanessa Wills’ perspective here. It also reminds me to question my learned inner cop voice. If I don’t have anything constructive to say, it’s maybe time for me to listen and learn.

Yup totally fine to share! 💖 Good looking out, I didn't foresee that the friends-only icon would quite reasonably raise this question!

This post choked me up a bit. Please fight for Helen and people like Helen. Not just because I like Helen’s brain, which I do, but also because cancer trials can save lives and people’s lives are worth saving.

@vcwills.bsky.social (Historian Vanessa Wills) this morning
Part one:
“If someone says they're going to use a ‘shock and awe’ strategy against you, that means there's never been a more important time to try, if possible, to keep a cool head as you stride into battle.”

What @vcwills.bsky.social said. #KennedyCenter

Cerberus, a private equity firm, buys a chain of hospitals, sells the land on which they sit, and charges them rent. The hospitals struggle and start cutting corners. Patients' care worsens, death rates climb. And Cerberus makes $790 million in profit.

Kennedy’s Lawyer Has Asked the F.D.A. to Revoke Approval of the Polio Vaccine Aaron Siri, who specializes in vaccine lawsuits, has been at Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s side reviewing candidates for top jobs at the Department of Health and Human Services.

i am convinced that these people are death worshippers who want to spread as much disease and sickness as possible (i also think this is all tied up in eugenic beliefs about the “survival of the fittest” www.nytimes.com/2024/12/13/h...

I read (most of) an earlier manuscript of this a while ago, @vcwills.bsky.social was my professor and mentor in things Marx in grad school. Finally ordered the book and it is really an instant classic in Marxist philosophy. The most thorough and original treatment of Marxian ethics I’ve read