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Poster which shows color photo scene of moving, a room with boxes and clothes sitting on the floor, a chair, and the end of a bed (white rails forming a headrest and a mattress with a red cover). The text of the poster is: "Impact (small logo top left)," "According to a new survey by the Movement Advancement Project, approximately 401,000 transgender people have relocated from one U.S. state to another since the 2024 presidential election." "The mass relocations in 2025 due to safety concerns, political conditions, and anti-trans laws nd policies have largely impacted conservative states across the country."

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This is 400,000 internal refugees in the united states because of state level policies and there remains fear that the federal government could make it worse.

The question, I assure you, regarding philosophy texts, the question is not at all: do you understand? Because the question is above all: what appeals to you in the texts? You may very well feel that something appeals to you without yet understanding it.

Neighbor: how's it going man

Me:

TAMU ended our women and gender studies program, degrees and certificates today. Apparently they aren’t allowed under the new don’t mention gender or sexuality in the classroom rules our board passed. I am so saddened by this. I worked as a grad asst to wmst (no gender in the 90s) for a few years

I think I’m kind of burned out on trying to convince anyone in authority that what I do is worthwhile. I’d rather just have my community love it. That’s good enough for me.

I wonder if I’ll ever stop being angry all of the time.

My first book ms is under review!

I must peep this!

And also Plato!!

Anything less than abolishing ICE is unacceptable. I don't want to hear people talk about training these motherfuckers or throwing more money at them. The entire institution needs to be permanently disbanded. Do not let politicians sell you on anything less.

Both my senators voted for me to have less rights lol

You never say that a philosopher contradicts himself; you will ask about a particular page, in what sequence to put it, at what level of the sequence.

So… The air of superiority that one acquires by dint of being stupid…. All that is unfortunate. But you’ve got to have a relation, at the extreme, only with what you love.

The succession of philosophers is not an eternal sequence of sages, still less a historical sequence, but a broken succession, a succession of comets. Their discontinuity and repetition do not amount to the eternity of the sky which they cross, nor the historicity of the earth which they fly over.

Generally, it works both ways: no one wants to be my disciple any more than I wanted to have any. A “school” is awful for a very simple reason: a “school” takes a lot of time, one turns into an administrator. Consider philosophers who have their own “school”:

Penelope Haulotte Instructor at the University of New Mexico, Central New Mexico Community College.

I made a website: penelopehaulotte.com

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

Well, I think societies like ours are structured around gender/sex roles, and transitioning is moving from one position to another. It is not a necessary feature of such systems that gender/sex position be assigned at birth

This is my view but I don’t think the “assigned at birth” bit is necessary. Trans experience is the experience of transitioning gender or sex. I think there is a dynamic to that which phenomenology can describe

Medical institutions treat trans people as a population to surveil, manage, and dissect, rather than as people to assist or treat with basic dignity.

Preprints of four new book reviews have just been published on our website!! symphilosophie.com/preprints-20...

1). Schelling on Trial: On Kirill Chepurin’s Bliss Against the World: Schelling, Theodicy, and the Crisis of Modernity (Oxford UP, 2025).

Review essay @benjaminnorris.bsky.social

I believe it is always my purpose to tell you as well: find yourself, if possible, find yourself in something that has not been created.

History, according to Foucault, circumscribes us and sets limits, it doesn't determine what we are, but what we're in the process of differing from; it doesn't fix our identity, but disperses it into our essential otherness. That's why Foucault deals with recent short historical series

The peer review process: 3 strangers yelling “more cowbell” at your life's work

anyone wanna read trans paper lol

lmao no I would never get hoisted like that, I mean it's my own freaking petard

Desire, or, it matters little, the unconscious: it is not imaginary or symbolic, it is uniquely machinic and as long as you have not reached the region of the machine of desire, as long as you remain in the imaginary, the structural or the symbolic, you do not have a genuine hold on the unconscious.