Quill Kukla 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

all the anti-mamdani hysteria seems to assume that we have had a long succession of Extremely Good Mayors in new york

Review | A philosopher explores the empowering side of dysphoria In “Dysphoria Mundi, Paul B. Preciado blends autobiography, academic theory and poetry to argue that we can be more sensitive to all that is out of joint in the world.

My review in the Washington Post of Paul Preciado's Dysphoria Mundi

www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/0...

Review | ‘Sex Beyond Yes’ asks us to think about more than consent Quill R Kukla argues that it’s time to talk about the pleasures and self-empowerment of sex and not just how to make it morally permissible

Sex Beyond "Yes" in the Washington Post!

www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/0...

Important news, Berlin (and nearby) people! Please join me and the amazing Juliana Gleeson, hosted by the inimitable Ben Mauk, for a free discussion and book signing of "Sex Beyond 'Yes'" at Shakespeare & Sons, evening of September 12! And please share!
www.shakespeareandsons.com/pages/sex-be...

Netherlands Friends!

Come hear me talk about Sex Beyond Yes with Mari Mikkola in Amsterdam on September 10 at ABC books!

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Collaboration, epistemic skill, and suspension - Philosophical Studies We cannot understand epistemic competence without embedding agents in the social world of epistemic collaboration. Being a competent epistemic agent essentially involves being competent at specific so...

Hi friends, new publication! We mostly all know by know that making judgments takes social skills. Here I show that NOT making judgments in epistemically appropriate ways also takes social skills! Not knowing stuff can be surprisingly hard, but often important!
Open access 🙂

Berlin Workshop on Speech and Harm

This is your LAST CHANCE to register (for FREE!) for the Berlin Workshop on Speech and Harm, which takes place this coming Sunday and Monday (July 13/14)! Only registered participants will be able to get into the building on Sunday, and we need to hand in a list of folks TOMORROW.

bwsah.org

The Third Annual Berlin Workshop on Speech and Harm is coming up fast, 13.7-14.7! Our webpage now has complete information. Make sure you REGISTER on our page, as only people registered will have access to the Sunday location. Also please share!

*REGISTER*REGISTER*REGISTER*REGISTER*

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I am very pleased with this little essay I wrote, "From Accommodation to Access: Decentering Ableism in the Classroom," in *Innovations in Teaching Philosophy*, now in press from Bloomsbury. I hope some of you find it useful in your teaching!

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Fans of @helendecruz.net should try to attend this very unusual and lovely online event to honor her life while she is still with us. It's unclear whether she will be able to join but this feels much more meaningful than a memorial to me

Thank you so much!

Abramson, Kate. On Gaslighting. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2024. Pp. 232. $24.95 (cloth). | Ethics: Vol 135, No 4

Here is my open access review in Ethics of Kate Abramson's fascinating and depressing book, On Gaslighting!

www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

The opposite of fascism is absolutely anarchy. I think the term "anarchy" is being used with zero understanding here. Also there is plenty of fascist theater. Incoherent quote.

The are line dancing in the middle of the protest while shouting Fuck ICE

Berlin Workshop on Speech and Harm

The 3rd Annual Berlin Workshop on Speech and Harm is coming July 13-14 to TU Berlin, with fantastic speakers, including Willow Starr, Carolina Flores, Dee Payton, Axel Gelfert and more! Details and the FREE registration link are at bwsah.org. Contact me (qrkukla@gmail.com) with any questions!

The launch for my book on scripts is happening in two weeks. I’m very happy and honored to have @doktorhu.bsky.social and @quillkukla.bsky.social give comments.
It’s hybrid.
Do come (academic or not)! :)

I am BEYOND DELIGHTED to share our absolutely off-the-hook interesting and fully open access special issue on "Situating Neurodiversity and Madness" in the Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal. Please read and share! And many thanks to guest co-editor Rua Mae Williams!
muse.jhu.edu/issue/53931

alex byrne, in a bold play, throwing his hat in the ring for the rectorate of the university of freiburg

Not former potus saying Harvard has set a precedent for other universities and I have to hold myself back from mentioning Wesleyan, Georgetown law, Rutgers faculty senate, etc. What we're not gonna do is erase the Jesuits! Sigh, let me reread Elite Capture.

The dire wolf thing is probably creepy and ominous but honestly I'm just happy that science is being used for purposes of fuzziness

I've now updated the link, and I am much happier. Thanks for the reminder!

Yes thank you for reminding me to change that. At first it was only for sale on Amazon but I don't like that link either. I will change it today.

Thank you!!

Just found out that there will be an audiobook version of my forthcoming book, Sex Beyond "Yes"! Here is a beautiful new promo for the book. And please consider preordering; preorders really affect how the book gets marketed and what exposure it gets!

EXISTENTIAL QUESTIONS During existential moments in human history, philosophy has served as a refuge, a place of retreat that connects reflection across centuries, whatever the conditions. To practice philosophy in moments...

I am going to give a talk in Kyiv! David Chalmers @davidchalmers.bsky.social is keynoting and the whole lineup is amazing. Very excited!

Massive encroachment by Jeff Bezos into The Washington Post’s opinion section today - makes clear dissenting views will not be published or tolerated there I still have not felt encroachment on my journalism on the news side of coverage, but if Bezos tries interfering with the news side I will be quitting immediately and letting you know

Brave to @jeffstein.bsky.social, WaPo's chief economics correspondent, for not wasting any time in stating what must be stated. Hopefully the first of many.

Jeff Bezos overhauls Washington Post opinion section, says it will focus on 'personal liberties and free markets' Opinion Editor David Shipley decided to "step away" after Bezos offered him to continue in his role but under this new editorial focus.

This is beyond terrifying. I mean everything is of course, but this is in a whole new way. We are going to be cut off from any other realities except their death cult and it is happening fast.

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Program for Day 1 of Queer AF conference @ UCSC, April 12-13. PDF version available at the bottom of this page: https://philevents.org/event/show/125782

Program for Day 2 of Queer AF conference @ UCSC, April 12-13. PDF version available at the bottom of this page: https://philevents.org/event/show/125782

Extremely stoked to be organizing this conference highlighting philosophy done from queer perspectives at UC Santa Cruz this April! Especially glad to still have this happen given, you know... everything. Registration here, with a remote option: forms.gle/bhPt4xQ2jR5q...

Seriously. What in the world is this post even talking about. The humanities absolutely won't shut up about AI for a moment. That's where all the action and all the money and all the jobs are.