Nikki is an infernal shame

Okay, hear me out. Lord of the Rings remake but it's these two taking the One Ring to Mordor:

She's just like me fr fr

A simple wooden bed enclosed by a kind of museum case. You can see it in the Wittgenstein Museum in Trattenbach.

Wittgenstein's bed jumpscare

A sign at an Austrian train station announcing the destination "Payerbach"

I barely knowerbach

Talk is silver, silence is gold (we met irl in Vancouver but I won't say that out loud so as to strengthen my case)

I'd hoped that chapter would be sufficient evidence, but alas...

Still waiting for a retraction...

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

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More like high shmagency males amirite

Can i offer cemetery walk?

Do better, gang!

I have been observing this for a long time and I'm frankly shocked at how many academics keep misspelling your name!!

Y'all hear what the R in Joseph R. Biden stands for??

:(((((

I invite you to elaborate!

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black text in typewriter font on white background, as a sneak peek of the Being Trans in Philosophy zine, forthcoming in June 2025: Talia Mae Bettcher talks about the WTF of existence—where up becomes down and down becomes up. I can't begin to say how much this captures my experience as a parent of a trans kid right now. My tween is kind, funny, talented, ambitious. He is a shining light that cheers me up every single day. I don't know how anyone could find fault with him, could look into his eyes and see him as anything but authentic, as deserving of love and respect for who he really is.

text continues: When he socially transitioned in the second grade, years ago now, other kids in the class didn't blink an eye. Zero bullying. Now bullies run the show—in dominant online spaces in our discipline, in our state legislature, in the U.S. government. State law bars kids like him from playing sports. It is illegal for him to use the bathroom associated with his gender identity at school. Just last month, my kid lost access to gender-affirming healthcare at our local hospital.

text continues: Still, my child is thriving. Our community is there for us. Each morning that we wake up, go about our day, feels like an act of resistance. Increasingly I find myself staring out the window of my office in the philosophy department, gorgeous mountains rising in the background, crying. It's a lot: sitting with the cruelty, the uncertainty of how far persecution will go, what to do.

“When [my tween] socially transitioned in the second grade, years ago now, other kids in the class didn’t blink an eye. Zero bullying. Now bullies run the show—in dominant online spaces in our discipline, in our state legislature, in the U.S. government.” @beegs1.bsky.social #beingtransinphilosophy

I'm very excited that this edited volume I co-edited with Patrick Connolly and Sandy Goldberg has FINALLY come out!

The book is ridiculously expensive unfortunately, but it IS available through many university libraries via OUP online.

global.oup.com/academic/pro...

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Starting to read trans/rad/femme (by @taliabhatt.itch.io) with @illocutie.bsky.social. I'm quite sympathetic to the underlying goal, as is evident in my own work, but the preface of finding pre-transition comfort in radical feminism is deeply relatable.

[yelling over club music] I said grief is a rain that falls on everything

Now I need to see that scene from Downfall (2004) captioned such that Hitler's getting mad at the French diss plane

Aaah! My meds haven't kicked in yet and I was talking past you, sorry! [REDACTED PASSAGE WHERE I IMMEDIATELY PUT MY FOOT DOWN AGAIN IN TOO FEW CHARACTERS TO BE HELPFUL]

I'm probably like 8% too jaded, true, but you're telling me it isn't obvious to a lay speaker that addressing 2 groups of people implies that they're different groups?! (I'd wager the more useful thing to do would be to convince folks to use gender-neutral forms of address in the first place.)

I'd be thrilled to think about this together but I'm not sure what philosophy or linguistics could possibly add to something that's this plain to see.

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Wow she's a beaut!