christopher griffin

A benefit gig to help rebuild Peace Community Centre and Mosque in Peacehaven after the recent arson terror attack which two people narrowly escaped from. All profits will go direct to them. Sunday 2nd November 2025 Doorscopen at 3pm The Gladestone 123 Lewes Rd Brighton BN2 3QB £10 suggested donation on the door. No-one turned away for lack of funds. Running order arranged due to travel and prior commitments, so are subject to change! Vegan Meat Raffle Mad Dog Collective Pussy Liquor Phat Problem Human Leather Shredosauraus Wrecks Captain Dann (acoustic set) Lou Noble Squimo DJ Caerwynfrei Raffle with tattoos, merch and more. First act on at 4pm. Last band finishes 11.15ish with DJ til close at midnight. Please contact Lex Angel if you would like to donate a raffle prize. https://facebook.com/events/s/peace-benefit-with-vegan-meat-/791306720479742/

A benefit gig to help rebuild Peace Community Centre and Mosque in Peacehaven.

Sunday 2nd November 2025
Doors open at 3pm
The Gladestone
123 Lewes Rd
Brighton
BN2 3QB
£10 suggested donations on the door. No one turned away for lack of funds.

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With the EHRC acting like it is. It shows that it is really important to keep trying to get in contact with your MP.

We have seen that this is working.

Bernie Sanders meme, with text as follows: I am once again updating my mega post about how awful the Cass Review is.

*downs a glass of non-alcoholic fruit drink*

alright, let's fucking go

Trans people are not a threat to cis women or anyone or taking away anyone’s human rights.

Mahmoud’s actions reveal that transphobes would rather take away EVERYONE’S human rights, including those of cis women (whose rights to bodily autonomy will be next) than allow basic rights for trans people.

Trans people face exclusion when rights are treated as a zero-sum game, @commissionerhr.coe.int warns the UK gov. What does this mean? My article for @humanrightsjournal.bsky.social offers an explanation that also shows the coloniality of this approach to rights. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Watch MAJOR! Online | Vimeo On Demand The award-winning documentary "MAJOR!" follows the life and campaigns of Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, a Black transgender elder who has been fighting for…

The documentary I made with Miss Major 10 years ago is on Vimeo on Demand. If you want to spend some time with her on screen tonight and learn some abolitionist trans history while you're at it, it's free to rent with the code "shinebright" vimeo.com/ondemand/major

my president

A photograph from the 1988 ACT UP demonstration outside the FDA. Many people are participating in a die-in on the front steps, holding mock tombstones with messages like "RIP - killed by the FDA" and "Dead from lack of drugs." A line of police officers (some with classic 80s mustaches) wearing riot helmets stands between them and the building; one cop wearing white gloves is walking through the demonstrators. Affixed to the 2nd story windows of the building is a series of posters and a large blank banner reading Silence = Death.

This week in 1988: 1,000+ ACT UP demonstrators shut down the FDA headquarters, demanding (and eventually winning) action on developing HIV/AIDS treatments. ACT UP's militant and creative actions always included powerful visual artwork, and paved the way for movements in the decades to come.

Hegel and Colonialism Cambridge Core - Classical Philosophy - Hegel and Colonialism

1/ I'm excited to share that Franz Knappik’s and my Cambridge Element on Hegel and Colonialism is finally out – open access below! We trace how Hegel defends European colonial rule, including transatlantic slavery, and how that defence runs through his entire philosophical system.

Thread below ⬇️

The conference will be held at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris, on​ 13–17 July 2026. Confirmed keynotes: @elissa-marder.bsky.social, Isabelle Alfandary, Marc Crépon, David Farrell Krell. More information is available here: derridatoday.com.au/conference/

This panel will explore the relationship between Trans Studies (broadly defined) and deconstruction/Derrida Studies. The aim is to allow scholars of any discipline to assess the salience of Derrida’s work for Trans Studies today; investigate the influence of Derrida in Trans Studies (and related fields) past and present; offer trans responses to Derridean deconstructions of sex-gender; share “transdeconstructive” readings and interpretations; and so on. Possible topics might include (but are by no means limited to): Trans embodiment: technicity, plasticity, drugs, etc. Trans-of-colour deconstructions of race and gender Hospitality, hostility, and the territorialisation of “woman” Deconstruction and poststructuralism in transfeminist theory Transing the boundary of the human: animals, beasts, monsters, etc. Decolonial and postcolonial deconstructions of sex-gender Drag and genderqueerness in Glas/Clang and beyond Transnational approaches to borders, sovereignty, etc. Phallogocentrism and cisnormativity in psychoanalysis Derrida’s gendered figures (hymen, khōra, etc.) Geschlecht: sexual difference(s) in Derrida’s reading of Heidegger The autoimmunity of anti-trans movements Please send an abstract of no more than 350 words to me, Christopher Griffin (chrisgriffinbrighton@gmail.com), by Friday 14 November. If you have any questions, or wish to discuss ideas in advance, please email me.

Panelists are invited to explore any aspect of the relationship between Trans Studies and deconstruction/Derrida Studies. Please send me an abstract of 350 words max by Friday 14 November, or email me before then to discuss. Suggested themes and topics in this image:

Graphic calling for panelists for a Trans Studies panel at the 9th Derrida Today Conference, to be held at the École Normale Supérieure (Paris)​ on 13–17 July 2026. Includes a photo of Derrida wearing a pink and blue shirt-tie combo that uncannily foreshadows the colours of the Trans Pride flag.

📢Call for panelists!📢 I'm organising a Trans Studies panel for the @derridatoday.bsky.social Conference in Paris next year. Details in this thread 🧵 Please disseminate to colleagues, students, or frenemies who might be interested!

Pembroke Center Publics Lecture Series. Variations of Legal Violence. Judith Butler. Distinguished Professor in the Graduate School. University of CA, Berkeley. Wednesday, Nov. 5, 2025. Free admission. Registration required.

Tickets available now!
The Pembroke Center Publics Lecture
and the Shauna M. Stark ’76, P’10 Out of the Archive event
Variations of Legal Violence: A talk by Judith Butler

Wednesday, November 5, 2025
4:00 p.m.
Free and open to the public. Registration is required: butleratpembroke.eventbrite.com

Respatialising the global imaginary of gay rights: resisting Africana epistemicide and forging Solidaristic Imaginaries This article critiques the global imaginary of LGBTQ rights, arguing that dominant metrics of state-based human rights frameworks, what I term the Gay Rights International Movement (GRIM), reproduc...

What if queer justice isn’t about inclusion, but about fighting disposability and* dreaming otherwise?
This piece joins African feminism, Black trans studies & diasporic queer theory to resist Africana epistemicide & the GRIM imaginary of human rights. Now out <3
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If only we had defeated not only the Nazis but also nationalism...

I write about this in my article, "Postcolonial as the governmentality of immigration controls."

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FTW 2026 Website Built with Readymag—a tool to design anything on the web.

Via @jennifercnash.bsky.social
19th (!) annual Duke Feminist Theory Workshop

Registration is free.
The line-up is amazing:
Anne Cheng, Jane Ward, Erica Edwards, Sarah Haley, Hortense Spillers, Sharon Holland.
Sign up! See you in Durham in March.

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In case you missed it, the call for papers is now open for the 9th Derrida Today Conference in Paris, France - from July 13-17, 2026.
Details can be found on the website here: derridatoday.com.au/conference/
All enquiries: conference@derridatoday.com

Flyer of Decolonial Queer Thinking. Image by Mario Patiño, artist. Image of a person of colour with a white veil and naked torso with a flower in their mouth.

20th Nov 2025 at 2.00 pm (Paris time), I'll be giving a talk on queer & decolonial thinking & how it is evolving in our times. It's co-badged by Université Paris Cité & CLAGS, CUNY. Everyone is welcome.
Image courtesy: Mario Patiño
Hybrid event. Registration required: u-paris.fr/universite-o...

Black text on a white background, showing the title and abstract of an academic article. The title is ‘Conquered Primitives Have No Written Language’: Language Revitalization, Reactionary Settler Colonialism, and Perpetual Genocide. For the abstract, please visit https://doi.org/10.3138/GSI-2024-0011.

My article exploring the connections between language revitalization backlash and genocide is now out. Complimentary copies are available using the link below, or feel free to message me for a copy if the link doesn't work for you.

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This is for some friends of mine going through a really rough time after getting harassed out of their home by transphobic neighbours. If you can't afford to chip in a share would be hugely appreciated.

www.gofundme.com/f/help-a-rom...

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Extremely proud of the title “How to lose a culture war” & of the connections we make to FOSTA/SESTA & fears of reproductive futures reimagined.

Short, free to read and hopefully provocative.

My latest with @tsdav.bsky.social in @dialoguesdigsoc.bsky.social

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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…

📣🏳️‍⚧️ Call for Papers

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.

Details below. Please share.

The call for papers is now open for the 9th Derrida Today Conference in Paris, France - from July 13-17, 2026.

Details can be found on the website here: derridatoday.com.au/conference/

All enquiries: conference@derridatoday.com

Talking about property and its afterlives. What a wonderful and inspiring workshop @brightonuni.bsky.social with @ksuenamu.bsky.social @danielloick.bsky.social and many more

‘Forced Free Labour’: Connecting the Abolition of Slavery and Settler Colonisation in the Thought of Henry George Grey This article investigates the connections between emancipation in Britain’s slave colonies and settler colonisation through the policies of Henry George Grey, 3rd Earl Grey (styled Viscount Howick ...

Action against the slave trade from 1807 enabled British colonisation, but Jane Lydon shows here how achieving the abolition of slavery in 1833 and expanding territory through conquest were also interrelated, not separate, processes. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

CFP: After the Death of the Human: Michel Foucault’s 100th Anniversary International Conference, University of Lisbon, 18-19 June 2026 CFP: After the Death of the Human: Michel Foucault’s 100th Anniversary International Conference, University of Lisbon, 18-19 June 2026 CALL FOR PAPERS Foucault-Conference-2026-CFUL-NEWDownloa…

CFP: After the Death of the Human: Michel Foucault’s 100th Anniversary International Conference, University of Lisbon, 18-19 June 2026. Deadline for abstracts: 30th Sept! progressivegeographies.com/2025/07/09/c...

Please join us for the workshop on property and its afterlives @brightonuni.bsky.social next week (Sept 19-20) with @ksuenamu.bsky.social @danielloick.bsky.social @talboto.bsky.social @viktoriahue.bsky.social and others

Great presentation, Giulia! Thanks for sharing your work

This looks freaking great. I wish I had seen it a bit earlier - study trip with mum students on Friday.

Zoom link and full abstracts are now available here 😊 blogs.brighton.ac.uk/cappe/2025/0...