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Trans-rights, neocolonialism & condemning transphobia - Doing Feminist Legal Work Fine Gael Minister for Health Jennifer Carroll-MacNeill spoke in the Dáil on December 3rd on the subject of transphobia, which she definitively and

Here, I wrote something.

"It is incumbent on the Irish government and the Irish public to fulfil the promise of the nation and to continue to fight any transphobic and neocolonial encroachment on Irish shores."

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"Yes, there are binary things in our biology, but to say that human beings come in two different types is false. And we can prove it."

Agustín Fuentes, bioanthropologist: ‘Saying that human beings are binary is a failure; it’s not biology, it’s philosophy’ The Princeton professor, author of ‘Sex is a Spectrum: The Biological Limits of the Binary,’ reflects on human diversity and the ideological impositions that simplify the variety of genes, gonads and ...

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It's not common, it's standard. Basically obligatory! Hang in there

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What forms of inclusion and exclusion does neurodiversity perform as a concept, field, and movement? How may lines of queer, trans, crip, decolonial, posthumanist, or Mad thinking shake up and overspill the conventional boundaries of neurodiversity?
Please join us for this important discussion! 🔥

Hamacher polemicizes against Seyla Benhabin who praises the advancement of international law but concedes that Arendt was "not wholly wrong" in criticzing the ongoing dehumanizations. Hamacher counters: "Arendt was not “not wholly wrong,” she was not wrong."

On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of Hannah Arendt's death, I am sharing Werner Hamacher's essay "The Right to Have Rights", including the most epic takedown in recent philosophical history.
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This is a picture of the book cover, which is an abstract looking planet in orange, green, and purple. "We Will Rise Again: Speculative Stories and Essays On Protest, Resistance, and Hope. Edited by Karen Lord, Annalee Newitz, and Malka Older." Below that, it reads: Available Now from Saga Press

In bookstores today! It's "We Will Rise Again," a book of hard-won hope in this dark season. I co-edited it with the wondrous @older.bsky.social and @drkarenlord.bsky.social -- it's an anthology of speculative stories and essays about protest and resistance! www.simonandschuster.com/books/We-Wil...

The Anti-Trans Playbook | Paisley Currah The current crusade against trans people imperils not just their rights but the survival of the legal doctrine built to protect all women from discrimination.

I have a piece in the current issue of the New York Review of Books on the anti-trans agenda and the dangers it poses for the rights of cis women. www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

This is what academic integrity looks like.

💥CfP for the Second International Congress on Political Theory happening at #UniPassau next year!

>> Send in your proposal until Dec 15 for the panel I‘m organizing👇🏼and join us @mathijsvdsande.bsky.social + @hypatiabeauvoir.bsky.social + Christian Leonhardt

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This is the most alarming story I’ve read today. Giving up the fight before it’s started

Echoes of Eugenics: Tracing the Ideological Persistence of Scientific Racism in Scholarly Discourse | Proceedings of the 5th ACM Conference on Equity and Access in Algorithms, Mechanisms, and Optimiza...

"Drawing on a corpus of over 15,000 scholarly articles published between 1800 and 2024, we map the linguistic landscape of eugenics in scholarly discourse to reveal its institutional, scientific, and sociopolitical entrenchment"

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What progressives won’t say about abortion The sanitised narrative ignores ethical truths

Kathleen Stock has written an article against "abortion permissiveness". She claims abortion requires "justification" saying the state should limit "unacceptable decision-making" by women about their own bodies.

This is who anti-trans activists proclaim as the feminist thought leaders of our time.

Ursula K. Le Guin's Futures: Theo Downes-Le Guin in conversation with SF Said 3rd December 6.30pm for 7pm Start In this special event, Theo Downes-Le Guin, Ursula K Le Guin’s son, literary executor and head of the Ursula K. Le Guin Foundation, discusses his work with his mother...

Ursula K. Le Guin's Futures: Theo Downes-Le Guin in conversation with SF Said @whatsfsaid.bsky.social

Burley Fisher Books @burleyfisher.bsky.social
3 December, 6.30 pm

This is going to be an ABSOLUTE TREAT! #LeGuin fans, #VarjakPaw fans, fans of most excellent conversation, come on out!

Over two decades ago, a Labour government repealed “Section 28” which aimed to prevent positive discussions about homosexuality and gay lives in schools. Now a Labour government pursues transphobia and erases trans and non-binary lives. Today’s political transphobia is basically recycled homophobia.

This all-male panel is deciding whether South Carolina women can be charged with murder for their pregnancies — and whether birth control and pro-choice websites stay legal.

This a real thing happening today. Don't look away.

Insurgent Visions: Feminism, Justice, Solidarity
A conversation with Chandra Talpade Mohanty and Linda Martin Alcoff
Monday, December 8, 2025
6:30pm ET online
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It's also interesting to wonder why W&B didn't simply go for 'transgender', which is surely capacious enough to capture the transgressive activities imagined by #Genet, and now encompasses the kind of challenge to binaristic thinking that Clang also represents.

#Derrida #Hegel 🌈📚 #queerbooksky 🌈🎓

The language of crossing feels a little too frontally oppositional (as Derrida might have put it), implying that we cross from one to the only other, a dialectic between two genders that the endless peals and clangs of the text overflow, deborder, infinitely multiply, render uncountable, etc.

If this is the aim, then W&B again take a surprising route in translating the transness of the Genet column, often opting for 'crossdressing' over the 'transvestism' of L&R. While the former is less old fashioned, it activates a very different semantic register, divesting us of the 'trans'.

This relève would make audible the relevance of Clang for today's scholars, allowing us to hear how this decades-old text chimes with some of the more transgressive tendencies in gender studies. And perhaps this genderqueering of Derrida also marks the relevance of trans theory for Derrida Studies.

Note that 'transing' is italicised, perhaps for emphasis, perhaps because W&B are introducing a foreign term, 'transing' not belonging to the Derridean lexicon until now. The translators are promising to translate Derrida into the language of contemporary #TransStudies and vice versa.

Screenshot of the first paragraph of the Translator's Preface to Clang, including the sentence quoted in my post.

In the first paragraph of their Translators' Preface, W&B say that in Clang 'a wholesale queering and transing of virile (homo)sexuality takes place, to the extent that we would struggle to know, in spite of the familiar, even stereotypical practices, what constitutes (a) sex and (a) sexuality'.

Instead of relève, W&B choose either to leave aufhebung untranslated, or, surprisingly, to return to 'sublation', a rendering that hasn't been heard without the accompaniment of eager death knells for some time.

#PhilSky #AcademicResearch #AcademicSky #GenderSky

These questions chime with many moments in Derrida that explore the relève of translation. Relève is D's translation (into French) of Hegel's aufhebung. It's curious that W&B move away from D's translation--and the translations of it, like 'relief' and 'relieve', that Leavey and Rand (L&R) chose.

To give an example of just one connection between Trans Studies and deconstruction, here are some thoughts about 🔔Clang🔔, the recent translation of Derrida's Glas by David Wills and Geoffrey Bennington (W&B). Why retranslate Glas today? What makes this a relevant text? Or a relevant #translation? 🧵

Final night tonight! It's been a phenomenal experience - if you're in London and want to support trans artists then COME!

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If cost is a barrier, just message me and we'll work it out - we want you there

Research Fellow (Rain within the Rainbow) at The University of Edinburgh Discover an exciting academic career path as a Research Fellow (Rain within the Rainbow) at jobs.ac.uk. Don't miss out on this job opportunity - apply today!

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The University of Edinburgh is recruiting for a funded full-time post-doc researcher to help with the "Rain within the Rainbow" project exploring LGBTQ+ suicide and suicide prevention through the life course in the UK.

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Hello internet, poet Caitie Moore wrote a crystalline elegy following the pulse nightclub shooting that is scrubbed from the internet because the online publication folded. Looking ahead to the ten year anniversary in June it should be republished where a lot of people can read it forever