Mat Fournier's Avatar

Mat Fournier

@matfournier.bsky.social

Queer/Trans/Environmentalist. Author of Dysphoric Modernism.

185 Followers  |  270 Following  |  3 Posts  |  Joined: 22.11.2024  |  1.4052

Latest posts by matfournier.bsky.social on Bluesky

Post image

Can masculinity resist patriarchy? In Simone de Beauvoir Studies, @matfournier.bsky.social traces a feminist transmasculine ethics through The Second Sex—exploring kinship, identity & resistance.
Read free for #PrideMonth: doi.org/10.1163/2589...
@beauvoirsociety.bsky.social

09.06.2025 12:20 — 👍 10    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 0
Preview
Full-Throated Explicit Dehumanization | Paisley Currah Perhaps because, unlike the Green New Deal, they actually exist, transgender people have been especially easy to single out and harm. Signed on the day of his inauguration, Trump’s executive order “De...
11.02.2025 13:35 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
Preview
Red Sun: Transecologies Beyond Nature Keywords: transecology, bodies, ecocriticism, trans studies, ecosystemsAbstract This article uses autobiographical experience and recent events, namely my own attempts at small farming and the 2023 me...

What lies at the heart of trans scapegoating is the will to pursue the devastations of extractivist capitalism. By nurturing the idea that Mother Nature is Real, Eternal, and Heterosexual, conversatives maintain the old binary of Man vs Nature.
www.tsqnow.online/post/red-sun

03.02.2025 00:21 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

On the other hand, isn't it just better than pretending, like all these Ivy League graduates with rich parents actually believing that they are revolutionary intellectuals?

29.01.2025 16:49 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The #WeeklyRead is “On Receiving Accounts from Others” by Sara Ahmed. The article appears in "Unaccountably Queer", a special issue of @differences.bsky.social (35:3) edited by Teagan Bradway

Read this article for free through March 31, 2025:

25.01.2025 14:00 — 👍 50    🔁 12    💬 0    📌 1
Preview
Sex Is as Sex Does — Paisley Currah In Sex Is as Sex Does: Governing Transgender Identity, Paisley Currah examines sex reclassification policies in the United States and explains how and why it fails transgender and non-binary people. T...

If you want to know more (much, much more) about how governments have decided who is male and who is female in the past, may I be so bold as to recommend my own book: www.paisleycurrah.com/sexisassexdoes

24.01.2025 19:42 — 👍 78    🔁 23    💬 2    📌 3

I've been presenting as male and traveling with a female ID (too hard to change them in France so far) for years. Mostly people don't even blink. Worse that has happened is that I sometimes need to explain.

22.01.2025 00:53 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
Post image

Congratulations to Mat Fournier (@matfournier.bsky.social)
on the official publication date of his new book, DYSPHORIC MODERNISM: UNDOING GENDER IN FRENCH LITERATURE. bit.ly/403M7Xc #ModernistLatitudes @columbiaup.bsky.social

26.11.2024 16:05 — 👍 14    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 1
« Il y a une coproduction des armes par l’État français et l’industrie » Dans son film Nous sommes des champs de batailles, disponible à prix libre depuis le 17 janvier 2025, le chercheur et militant Mathieu Rigouste montre comment les industriels de l’armement font du business avec la police et l’armée française. Interviews

« Il y a une coproduction des armes par l’État français et l’industrie »

17.01.2025 14:41 — 👍 4    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

I don’t take HRT to be valid, I take HRT to be hot and piss off conservatives.

16.01.2025 15:27 — 👍 387    🔁 44    💬 12    📌 1

@matfournier is following 19 prominent accounts