christopher griffin

The 4 Track Demos are raw af.

Transnationally, the world order is defining the rigid zones of being and non-being (cf. Fanon), based on the calcified thinking of former hierarchies. The zone of non-being is growing to include several categories of humans: occupied communities, transfolks, racialised people in global north. ⬇️

Flora Renz · Law’s searching for biological truth: For Women Scotland and the UK Supreme Court (2025)

Apropos of today’s news I just had a piece published in Radical Philosophy about the turn towards biological essentialism in law and policy. I’m arguing the SC decision in FWS and attempts to restrict disability welfare fundamentally come from the same place of wanting to limit state protections

Thank you!

One year ago, the people of Brighton and Hove counter-protested the threat from anti-immigration rioters. It turned out to be a celebration on the streets!

One year ago, the people of Brighton and Hove counter-protested the threat from anti-immigration rioters. It turned out to be a celebration on the streets!

Dank!

“What does it mean for one’s citizenship to depend on the violence of deportation in order to have meaning? Can we imagine forms of citizenship that do not require violence in order to have meaning? What are ways that citizens can ethically participate in realizing this change?”

A copy of the book "Abolition Time: Grammars of Law, Poetics of Justice" is shown propped up on a ledge against a background of trees and greenery.

As we approach a new academic year, I'd like to humbly ask you to consider teaching from my new book *Abolition Time: Grammars of Law, Poetics of Justice,* published by the University of Minnesota Press in December 2024.

Thank you very much!

Thank you to Hasret Cetinkaya and Sharmila Parmanand for editing the special issue that the article will be part of. If you can't access the paywalled version, please try this: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/9YNAA...

... before proposing 'enmeshed rights' as an alternative to the dominant metaphor of possessive rights. My work is in conversation with Sylvia Wynter and María Lugones, as well as @sumimadhok.bsky.social, @reproutopia.bsky.social, and @hvoegele.bsky.social, amongst others!

Dispossessive rights: coloniality and trans-exclusion in zero-sum politics The idea that rights are possessions that are given and lost is so ubiquitous within the dominant discourse that its metaphoricity is forgotten. This amnesia naturalises possessive individualism, a...

My new article addresses the claim that the rights of trans women 'clash' with the rights of cis women. I examine the coloniality of the concept of rights underpinning this idea, exploring the erotics of sacrificial feminism and zero-sum politics in general... 🧵 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Title: Gender Census 2025. Text: If you can't easily put yourself into just one of these two boxes, you are invited to take part. Illustration: Two boxes, each with photos of relevant dictionary pages.

The 12th annual international Gender Census 2025 is now open until at least 30th August 2025!

survey.gendercensus.com

It's for anyone whose gender (or lack thereof) isn't described by the M/F binary. It's short and easy, and results are useful in academia, business and self-advocacy.

The reason 1 of the elements of committing genocide was codified as "deliberately inflicting conditions of life calculated to bring about their physical destruction" is because most genocides are from indirect deaths, not direct murders. If the disabled are dying en masse like this, it's a genocide.

YouTube video by Al Jazeera English Sylvia Wynter: Beyond man | DigiDocs

Al Jazeera recently hosted a series of short animated films about radical thinkers. Here's the Sylvia Wynter one. youtu.be/WufVxu6EYao?...

A reminder from Said for our brutally damaged world.

Every single empire in its official discourse has said that it is not like all the others, that its circumstances are special, that it has a mission to enlighten, civilize, bring order & democracy, & that it uses force only as a last resort.
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I think the time is right to set up an *Independent EHRC*, along the lines of Independent SAGE.

The idea here is that it will be truly independent of government interference and will encourage true cross-community and intersectional support & collaboration.

The main criteria for becoming…

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The journal Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia has published a special issue called "Deconstruction 20 years after Derrida’s Death." Includes articles by Mina Karavanta, Michael Naas, François Raffoul, Simon Glendinning, and many others. www.publicacoesfacfil.pt/category.php...

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

On Judging Sex/Gender—A Case of Epistemic Domination: A Reply to Talia Mae Bettcher, Resa-Philip Lunau Dear Talia Mae Bettcher, I am truly honored that we can have this conversation about epistemic domination, trans testimony, sex/gender presentation as evidence, and the complex relationship between concepts and understanding. I want to express my heartfelt gratitude for your generous and thoughtful letter. It is a profound honor that you took the time to write, and I am deeply moved that you found my engagement with your work constructive and my contribution worthy of your attention.

On Judging Sex/Gender—A Case of Epistemic Domination: A Reply to Talia Mae Bettcher, Resa-Philip Lunau

Dear Talia Mae Bettcher, I am truly honored that we can have this conversation about epistemic domination, trans testimony, sex/gender presentation as evidence, and the complex relationship…

Prof Clare Hemmings reviews Transfemme Futures by @fullnommunism.bsky.social and Mijke van der Drift ⬇️

Letter to member of the Women and Equalities Committee, June 2025 Please fill out the form below by Friday, 20 June 2025, to add your signature to this letter. Share this form widely to anyone who might be interested. The author, Anna Langley, is doing this to help...

Here (open letter you can sign): docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Another template here too: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Putting the Femme in Feminist: Trans Feminism and the ‘Male Lesbian’ in the American Second Wave A slur, a joke or a post-structuralist case of mistaken identity. To the extent that the male lesbian has been discussed, she has figured dismissively. Yet throughout the period historicised as Ameri...

In this #OpenAccess article, Aino Pihlak and Emily Cousens show how the Salmacis Society disrupted dominant antagonisms between ‘trans’ and ‘lesbian’ in the 1970s, offering a trans, sex-positive, lesbian femme-inism to help reanimate lesbian feminism today.

Read it here 👇

doi.org/10.1111/1468...

Poster for the conference The Philosophy of Angela Y. Davis, taking place 22–23 May 2025 at the University of Bergen (UiB), Faculty of Humanities (FoF). The background features a mural of Angela Davis with large glasses and a red backdrop, painted on a tiled wall. A blurred figure walks by in the foreground. The poster includes details such as: Keynotes: Joy James, Lucius T. Outlaw, Jr. (highlighted in green) Speakers: Robin Celikates, Kristin Gjesdal, Tereza Hendl, Daniel James, Franz Knappik, Michelle Meeks, Matthieu Renault, Cecilia Sebastian, Vanessa Thompson, Vanessa Wills Venue: Hegel (anti)kolonial #9 | Critical Theories Colloquium | Sydnesplassen 12/13, Ground floor meeting room Website: hegelantikolonial.wordpress.com/the-philosophy-of-angela-y-davis/ Logos and design credit: University of Bergen and JBC Art 2019 / Ville de Malakoff – Séverine Fernandes.

The full programme for The Philosophy of Angela Y. Davis (22–23 May, Bergen) is now online:

hegelantikolonial.wordpress.com/the-philosop...

The event is hybrid – join us in Bergen or online.
Register via the site to get the Zoom link.

Hope to see many of you there – in person or on screen!

Radical feminists are acting like a cult | Roz Kaveney Roz Kaveney: The banning of trans people from RadFem2012 is just one of the disturbing aspects of this monolithic conference

this article from 2012 about one of the ground zeros for current transphobia is a fascinating insight into how things have changed in such a short time in terms of acceptability www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

An article I wrote on the similarities between the 'Tree of Life' in biological discourse and the Book of Genesis has been published -- let me know if you'd like a PDF (10.1353/sub.2025.a959048) (special thanks to @lint_ax for his research advice!)

Headshot of Rhea Ienni in front of a city skyline.

Researcher Highlight: Rhea Ienni is a philosophy PhD student at Loyola University Chicago and the 2022 winner of the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (SPEP) S. Kay Toombs Prize.

Submit your creative and critical international responses to the rise of the Far Right : to be published in Interfere Journal. I am co-editing the issue

blogs.brighton.ac.uk/cappe/2025/0...

Patriarchal Hammers Some thoughts on the recent judgement by the Supreme Court

"The idea that there are two sexes, that we can always tell them apart, is the patriarchal hammer, used to flatten so many of our differences and to direct us in often violent ways down narrow routes." Brilliant analysis by @saranahmed.bsky.social feministkilljoys.substack.com/p/patriarcha...

Rethinking Gender/Sex Identity Until quite recently, investigations of gender/sex development operated from a baseline assumption that gender/sex is dichotomous or binary. Most such studies constructed gender/sex outside of or adj....

1/5 I am pleased to announce a new paper, based on a talk I gave last year at the annual meeting of the Human Biology Association. This link is open 4 a free read for a while but eventually it will get pay-walled because I can't afford open access. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...