Amy Marvin
amymarvin.bsky.social
Amy Marvin
@amymarvin.bsky.social
fascinating philosopher & lgbtq studies prof / writing a book on ruinous obsessions with trans people (under contract w/ Oxford University Press)

essays: https://philpeople.org/profiles/amy-marvin/
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New essay: "Atmospheres of Conversion" - We argue that trans films (The People's Joker & I Saw the TV Glow) frame anti-trans conversion as central to cis society and that creating trans art spaces is one way to fight back! Written with @echosequence.space Preprint here: philpapers.org/rec/MARAOC-16
Meeting with a publisher tomorrow at NWSA to discuss Book Two 😈
November 14, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Wow an Elixr at Philly airport, this really is the future
November 14, 2025 at 1:15 PM
I’ll be at NWSA Friday evening, Saturday, and Sunday! Presenting on the Examining Anti-Trans Social Movements panel at 1pm this Saturday.
November 13, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Okay who was the person with the line “Gender Studies is about trans men explaining trans women to cis women,” I want to properly cite this quip.
November 13, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Morning view from my office. Guess this is my new “sunny weather”
November 11, 2025 at 1:22 PM
What if Cuomo tries to primary Schumer
November 10, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Not sure if it’s a good idea to go to NWSA this week and risk not having a flight back
November 9, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Excited that Google AI has decided to memorialize my status as a quiz show host
November 8, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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three years since I released this piece after Fernand Deligny. I was commissioned by Poetry Project to compose two tracks on the theme of Utopian R&D, to be played during poetic free writing sessions. it felt appropriate to the invoke the Arachnean.

isobelbess.bandcamp.com/album/wander...
Wander Lines, by (is)
2 track album
isobelbess.bandcamp.com
November 7, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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Want to read some rad queer philosophy, in the form of short snazzy personal essays? Check out the most recent issue of the APA Studies in LGBTQ+ Philosophy, cheekily titled "Make philosophy queer again!" which I've edited! 1/
www.apaonline.org
October 23, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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So thrilled & grateful to be part of this! My essay, “The Cisgender Tipping Point,” subjects being cisgender to the kind of scrutiny often confronted by trans people. What do we know gender to be if we treat trans ways of doing gender as paradigmatic? (Spoiler: The answer is not gender identity.)
October 23, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Resharing my essay on philosophy & Gendertrash from Hell in light of the reissue! blog.apaonline.org/2024/10/16/p...
November 6, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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might be working on a book with @amymarvin.bsky.social about trans cinema as it relates to the production of trans space, which expands on this essay to talk about other films and other ideas

philarchive.org/rec/MARAOC-16
Amy Marvin & Isobel Bess, Atmospheres of Conversion: Trans Cinema, Tactics, and t4t Sociality (Author Preprint) - PhilArchive
This essay draws from recent trans films to map a social atmosphere of anti-trans conversion beyond the discrete set of social, medical, and psychiatric practices normally discussed in this context. T...
philarchive.org
November 6, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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transgender for everypony
November 5, 2025 at 5:18 PM
This would be a great day for someone who happens to be wrapping up a book about transphobic obsession as a kind of self-harm
November 5, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Pretty sure I saw this sign at Ollie’s
New sign outside the Oval Office..
November 5, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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My critical analysis of the anti-trans astroturf group, the LGB Alliance, has just been published in the special edition of the Bulletin of Applied Transgender Studies. I recommend the whole special edition - it's open access, no pay wall.
bulletin.appliedtransstudies.org/article/4/1-...
Astro-TERFs - Bulletin of Applied Transgender Studies
In the backlash against trans rights in the UK since the late 2010s, the LGB Alliance has been implicated as a leading exponent of the new moral panic, typified by its newspaper campaign against GRA r...
bulletin.appliedtransstudies.org
November 4, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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Today is the LAUNCH DAY for
‼️GENDERTRASH FROM HELL ‼️
The zine that redefined transsexual culture forever

THAT'S RIGHT: GENDERTRASH IS NOW LEGALLY AVAILABLE WITHOUT AGE RESTRICTIONS

Get it from our website, or from all good bookstores. You can even ask your library to order it!

💥📕💏🫦💥
Gendertrash From Hell - ALL-NEW — LittlePuss Press
Long-lost and all-new zines revealing the secret history of contemporary transgender culture
www.littlepuss.net
November 4, 2025 at 4:24 PM
I’ll forgive Brianna Wu if she manages to finally shut up
November 1, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Finally made it to Act 3 in Silksong
November 1, 2025 at 2:55 PM
They’ll absolutely move towards doing this with adult care if it’s allowed to happen
npr.org NPR @npr.org · 15d
The White House plans to bar hospitals that treat transgender children and youth from getting any Medicare and Medicaid payments. The move would affect trans youth who have private insurance, too. n.pr/4qFa1mY
Trump pushes an end to medical care for transgender youth nationally
The White House plans to bar hospitals that treat transgender children and youth from getting any Medicare and Medicaid payments. The move would affect trans youth who have private insurance, too.
n.pr
October 30, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Excited that the local library had this one on display for Halloween while I’m in the middle of planning for a Queer & Trans Fiction class
October 30, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Brought to life from the brink of total exhaustion this morning by the radio playing Scatman
October 30, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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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

doi.org/10.5840%2Fpg...
October 29, 2025 at 10:28 PM
People just don’t know what a joke is anymore, especially Little Giuseppe of Verona, who has deluded himself into thinking my routine about the short barber of Verona has anything to do with him.
October 29, 2025 at 6:03 PM