Feminist Ethics and Social Theory (FEAST)

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New article from Ana Maria Miranda Mora looks interesting for ppl interested in love and freedom (and Hegel)

(Posting this in an uncomfortably personal capacity, rather than as a representative of FEAST, but I’m quite confident most feminist philosophers would agree)

This discussion is best had with the authors. But I’ll note that, if the authors are right that there’s no “brute fact” biological cause behind these outcomes, then excluding trans women from the gender analysis seems like special pleading… esp because trans women are obviously targeted by sexism

I suggest reading it more carefully. The point is that the variables are often gender-driven variables (e.g. insufficient access to training time for women’s athletes) that are misconstrued as sex-based

Last week to send us abstracts for our next conference of the RUTA Association for Central, South-Eastern, and Eastern European, Baltic, Caucasus, Central and Northern Asian Studies in Global Conversation exploring the role of rooted and embodied knowledges as catalysts of change and shifts in power

Resharing my essay on philosophy & Gendertrash from Hell in light of the reissue! blog.apaonline.org/2024/10/16/p...

Routledge International Handbook of Queer Death Studies This Handbook aims to provide a comprehensive, international cartography of Queer Death Studies, offering broad, in-depth insights into the field and its emergence through tentacular transdisciplinary...

This monumental work is out: 63 chapters! Incredible editing by Nina Lykke, Tara Mehrabi and Marietta Radomska. Honoured to have our chapter here with Magdalena Górska & Ewa Majewska on Metamorphic Necropolitics: Deadly Othering in European East–West Power Relations www.routledge.com/Routledge-In...

Harriet Jacobs Cambridge Core - History of Philosophy - Harriet Jacobs

New Cambridge Element on Harriet Jacobs, author of 'Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl' - free to download for the next two weeks

Three maxims for countering sex essentialism in scientific research - Biology of Sex Differences To explain observed disparities in health outcomes between men and women, sex essentialist approaches assign causal primacy to sex-related biology. In this essay, we present three case studies to illu...

Here's an excellent piece of advisory philosophy of science, identifying best practices for empirical research looking at biological sex explanations. The examples of overlooked gender (NOT biosex) effects in women's drug sensitivity, COVID lethality, and ACL injury all are fascinating.

Clarifying and historicizing "homonationalism" among other terms within the liberal -> fascist metamorphosis

Technically Getting Off: On the Hope, Disgust, and Time of Robo-Erotics As robots evolve from functional machines to potential sexual companions, they embody both utopian hopes and dystopian fears. This article explores the ethical implications of sex robots, focusing on ...

Rachel McNealis uses a method of oscillation between hope and disgust in this feminist philosophical analysis of sex robots... with insights into objectification and the gendered phenomenology of sex & sexuality. 🤖👙🍆

She gave an interesting talk at our 2025 conference too

"Beyond the Coloniality of Gender: María Lugones, Sylvia Wynter, Decolonial Feminism, and Trans and Intersex Liberation," by Alex Adamson. Abstract: This article explores Sylvia Wynter’s analysis of gender as a category differentially applied across the global color line and María Lugones’ account of the coloniality of gender. While Wynter’s and Lugones’s work offer consequential insights for queer, trans, and intersex studies and activism, they have deliberately engaged these particular discourses and histories of struggle in limited ways. Wyn- ter analyzes the contradictions of Western feminists’ organizing against female genital cutting in Africa, but she does not link her conclusions to their ramifica- tions for activism against genital cutting on children deemed intersex. Lugones uses the existence of intersex people as a turning point in her critique of Aníbal Quijano when developing her concept of the coloniality of gender, but she does not go further to connect global intersex activism and decolonial feminist struggles. This article explores the work of Wynter and Lugones for their compatibility with trans and intersex studies and activism, and the places where their work can be furthered through insights from trans and intersex studies. It concludes that to move beyond the coloniality of gender requires trans and intersex liberation and that trans and intersex liberation must be understood in a broader decolonial feminist framework. Keywords: decolonial feminism, Sylvia Wynter, María Lugones, trans studies, intersex studies

This is a great article by Alex Adamson for Philosophy and Global Affairs that bridges trans studies, intersex studies, and decolonial feminism.

#AcademicSky #AcademicResearch #TransStudies #IntersexStudies #DecolonialStudies #PhilSky #GenderSky #Wynter #Lugones #TransSky

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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....

Chappell Roan holding Iris Marion Young's "On Female Body Experience: "Throwing Like a Girl" and Other Essays".

"I study feminist theories of embodiment" is OUT. "I'm a femininomenonologist ✨️💅" is IN.

https://thebuffalohive.com/event/buffalo-film-i-saw-the-tv-glow-screening-talkback-at-hallwalls/

Excited to participate in some trans thinking across Buffalo and Syracuse this week!

Tamara Fakhoury has been doing interesting work on resistance and oppression for a long time. This piece is available open access in Feminist Philosophy Quarterly ⬇️

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Over the next couple weeks we’re going to highlight a whole bunch of publications by our brilliant members to give you some good reading material. Stay tuned!

Screen shot of Beth Richie standing speaking at a podium, with a live transcript below that reads: about individual harm. Which I think we're better at than listening to stories of state violence. We have to understand that violence will only end when we understand a power analysis. That it's not about individual change, it's about structural change. Survivors have taught scholars and other activists that these lessons really come from everyday stories to which we, again, need to be held accountable. Black feminist scholars often call this standpoint theory, and that's how we move from practice to a theory of decolonized knowledge, transforming, and teaching for freedom. Abolition feminism builds on that

Feeling a renewed sense of focus after a moving keynote by Dr. Beth Richie on the commitments of abolition feminism, which starts from really seeing and *listening* to the profound harms people are experiencing in a prison nation.

Dr. Richie called on us all to do a "carceral audit" of our work

THE ALCHEMY LECTURE The City of Our Dreaming LALEH KHALILI V. MITCH MCEWEN GABRIELA LEANDRO PEREIRA LEANNE BETASAMOSAKE SIMPSON With an Introduction by CHRISTINA SHARPE The City of Our Dreaming The Alchemy Lecture LALEH KHALILI, V. MITCH MCEWEN, GABRIELA LEANDRO PEREIRA, AND LEANNE BETASAMOSAKE SIMPSON The third annual Alchemy Lecture brought together four "Alchemists"-thinkers and practitioners working across disciplines and geographies-to share a constellation of ideas for the future. Their urgent, poignant and inventive lectures comprise The City of Our Dreaming, which shares their ideas for cities and how to shape them according to community needs. Together, V. Mitch McEwen, Laleh Khalili, Gabriela Leandro Pereira, and Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg writer and musician Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, offer new models for crafting architectures of freedom in disparate imaginative spaces. From suggesting a city modeled on buoyancy that reconsiders displacement and a dream of radical kinship and bonds through reciprocal giving, to "projects paved by the audacity to inhabit" that are built from dreams-the site from which all Black emancipation begins-and the ways collectives form at the thresholds between things, The City of our Dreaming is a clarion calls for new conceptions of city life. The Alchemists imagine the architectures and infrastructures that make possible, inevitable and irresistible gestures of freedom, modes of sustenance, and the necessity and pleasure of breaking bread, together. dukeupress.edu/the-city-of-our-dreaming November 2025 | 182 pages 978-1-4780-3869-6 | $26.95 paperback $18.87 with discount Special offer: Use coupon code E26CITYD to save 30% when you order from dukeupress.edu. DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS

The US edition of The City of Our Dreaming is available for sale. Use the discount code in the image!

Andrea Warmack stands at a podium in front of a giant projection screen showing a group of Black women poets in 1973, and the title “A Radical Alteration of Assumptions” Caleb Ward, Andrea Dionne Warmack, Naomi Simmons-Thorne

Our conference on Feminist Accountability and Transformative Justice got underway last night with a panel on Black Feminist (self-)critique and relationality. So excited to hear so much great work over the next few days!

Exciting to see another FEAST philosopher putting out important work!

Ruby Hake

This week, Ruby Hake shares 'Autism and Gender', a forthcoming chapter for Contemporary Philosophy of Autism. Offering an in-depth discussion of essentialism and arguing that critical phenomenology is well placed to prevent this issue going forward.

#philsky #philpsy
imperfectcognitions....

"The main theme of 'Woman & Nature' is the violence that the male of our species has perpetrated on the natural world, & on women, & how it would benefit everyone, & the planet we inhabit, to rethink the more dangerous advances of modernity & technology." Published in 1978 & still worth reading.

Andrea is talking about Lorraine Hansberry and “home” tomorrow night in our opening panel, “A Basic and Radical Alteration of Assumptions (Black Feminism)”

‘These men think they’ve done nothing wrong’: the philosopher who tried to understand Gisèle Pelicot’s rapists When 50 men went on trial in France, accused of raping a woman who had been drugged by her husband, Manon Garcia was in the courtroom – and in the prosecutors’ closing arguments. How does she make sen...

Zoe Williams interviews feminist philosopher @manongarcia.bsky.social - the English translation of her book about the Pelicot trial was published last week

The early bird deadline for this is this coming Monday, but it is always free for undergrads. Send your students!

Come work at @dukegsfs.bsky.social: postdoc ad is live. academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30734

The early bird deadline for this is this coming Monday, but it is always free for undergrads. Send your students!

Year 5 of the Black Feminist Theory Summer Institute: Applications are open, more info on our website. Please spread the word.