emmie malone 🏳️⚧️
@emmiemalone.bsky.social
assistant professor of philosophy. mostly working on genre, popular music, and fashion. also interested in the global history of philosophy, trans philosophy, and applied ethics! https://sites.google.com/view/emmie-malone/
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An Introduction to Contemporary Aesthetics: Art, Community, and Experience
An Introduction to Contemporary Aesthetics: Art, Community, and Experience gives students and other readers a comprehensive sense of the dynamic issues and problems in aesthetics and philosophy of art...
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As of yesterday, @lizscar.bsky.social and I’s new book, An Introduction to Contemporary Aesthetics: Art, Community, and Experience is officially out! 🥳🥳🥳
You can order it here:
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You can order it here:
www.routledge.com/An-Introduct...
So, the APA issued an open letter about the state of trans rights and the profession. I guess my feeling is that it is ten times too little and ten years too late.
maybe we can say that its a sign of positive movement for the field but that's just to say that the bar is in hell. shorturl.at/o6Ukj
maybe we can say that its a sign of positive movement for the field but that's just to say that the bar is in hell. shorturl.at/o6Ukj
shorturl.at
January 9, 2026 at 5:05 AM
So, the APA issued an open letter about the state of trans rights and the profession. I guess my feeling is that it is ten times too little and ten years too late.
maybe we can say that its a sign of positive movement for the field but that's just to say that the bar is in hell. shorturl.at/o6Ukj
maybe we can say that its a sign of positive movement for the field but that's just to say that the bar is in hell. shorturl.at/o6Ukj
if a&m doesn’t like Plato for being gender ideology, they’re going to really hate queer icon Aristippus of Cyrene
January 7, 2026 at 4:20 PM
if a&m doesn’t like Plato for being gender ideology, they’re going to really hate queer icon Aristippus of Cyrene
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This has been rattling around in my head since the summer and keeps getting more and more solidified throughout the year. Finally got it all written down for reference later.
www.peter-keep.com/2026-01-07-O...
www.peter-keep.com/2026-01-07-O...
OER as Resistance
This summer, I presented at an Open Educational Resources conference in my state about a project I’ve been working on: an open source, open copyright textbook for the typical single variable calculus ...
www.peter-keep.com
January 7, 2026 at 3:48 PM
This has been rattling around in my head since the summer and keeps getting more and more solidified throughout the year. Finally got it all written down for reference later.
www.peter-keep.com/2026-01-07-O...
www.peter-keep.com/2026-01-07-O...
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1. Did you know that Girl Scouts has, for a long time, accepted trans girls and nonbinary scouts?
Trans kids are under attack. Every year, I make a thread of trans and nonbinary girl scouts you can get your cookies from.
Lets get our cookies from them this year in solidarity!
Trans kids are under attack. Every year, I make a thread of trans and nonbinary girl scouts you can get your cookies from.
Lets get our cookies from them this year in solidarity!
2026 Trans Girl Scouts To Order Cookies From!
This year, consider ordering your Girl Scout cookies from a trans girl scout to make their day!
www.erininthemorning.com
January 6, 2026 at 4:16 PM
1. Did you know that Girl Scouts has, for a long time, accepted trans girls and nonbinary scouts?
Trans kids are under attack. Every year, I make a thread of trans and nonbinary girl scouts you can get your cookies from.
Lets get our cookies from them this year in solidarity!
Trans kids are under attack. Every year, I make a thread of trans and nonbinary girl scouts you can get your cookies from.
Lets get our cookies from them this year in solidarity!
every year I read all the bios on this post and ball and buy way too many cookies 🥹🥹😫😫
1. Did you know that Girl Scouts has, for a long time, accepted trans girls and nonbinary scouts?
Trans kids are under attack. Every year, I make a thread of trans and nonbinary girl scouts you can get your cookies from.
Lets get our cookies from them this year in solidarity!
Trans kids are under attack. Every year, I make a thread of trans and nonbinary girl scouts you can get your cookies from.
Lets get our cookies from them this year in solidarity!
2026 Trans Girl Scouts To Order Cookies From!
This year, consider ordering your Girl Scout cookies from a trans girl scout to make their day!
www.erininthemorning.com
January 7, 2026 at 1:44 AM
every year I read all the bios on this post and ball and buy way too many cookies 🥹🥹😫😫
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We have published the following update to our article following an email response from the New York Times.
Trans News Network has a policy against platforming bigotry. As such, we have declined to publish the Times' statement which included blatant transphobia.
Trans News Network has a policy against platforming bigotry. As such, we have declined to publish the Times' statement which included blatant transphobia.
January 5, 2026 at 2:05 AM
We have published the following update to our article following an email response from the New York Times.
Trans News Network has a policy against platforming bigotry. As such, we have declined to publish the Times' statement which included blatant transphobia.
Trans News Network has a policy against platforming bigotry. As such, we have declined to publish the Times' statement which included blatant transphobia.
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Don't forget to cast your vote in the 2025 ASA Trustee Elections before midnight (Eastern) December 31, 2025!
You must be a current member of the ASA and log in to vote.
For details about the slate of six nominees and voting instructions, please see: aesthetics-online.org/news/715552/...
You must be a current member of the ASA and log in to vote.
For details about the slate of six nominees and voting instructions, please see: aesthetics-online.org/news/715552/...
Voting is Now Open for 2025 Trustee Elections (December 1-31) - American Society For Aesthetics
aesthetics-online.org
December 29, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Don't forget to cast your vote in the 2025 ASA Trustee Elections before midnight (Eastern) December 31, 2025!
You must be a current member of the ASA and log in to vote.
For details about the slate of six nominees and voting instructions, please see: aesthetics-online.org/news/715552/...
You must be a current member of the ASA and log in to vote.
For details about the slate of six nominees and voting instructions, please see: aesthetics-online.org/news/715552/...
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Check out my paper on the ontology of music genres with @emmiemalone.bsky.social and @news4wombats.bsky.social!!!
Latest paper on the ontology of genre, coauthored with @politephilosopher.bsky.social and @news4wombats.bsky.social, is now up at the British Journal of Aesthetics! In it, we get into the weeds of Christmas and World music, alien jazz, and Gorgoroth! academic.oup.com/bjaesthetics...
Music Genres as Historical Individuals
Abstract. Musicians, listeners, and record labels sort music into genres such as jazz, punk, heavy metal, and so on. Metaphysically, what kind of thing is
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December 26, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Check out my paper on the ontology of music genres with @emmiemalone.bsky.social and @news4wombats.bsky.social!!!
Latest paper on the ontology of genre, coauthored with @politephilosopher.bsky.social and @news4wombats.bsky.social, is now up at the British Journal of Aesthetics! In it, we get into the weeds of Christmas and World music, alien jazz, and Gorgoroth! academic.oup.com/bjaesthetics...
Music Genres as Historical Individuals
Abstract. Musicians, listeners, and record labels sort music into genres such as jazz, punk, heavy metal, and so on. Metaphysically, what kind of thing is
academic.oup.com
December 26, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Latest paper on the ontology of genre, coauthored with @politephilosopher.bsky.social and @news4wombats.bsky.social, is now up at the British Journal of Aesthetics! In it, we get into the weeds of Christmas and World music, alien jazz, and Gorgoroth! academic.oup.com/bjaesthetics...
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This was entirely about purging a trans instructor from the school and they succeeded. It was aided by a lot of dumb liberals taking it at face value arguing the minutia of grading rubrics while ignoring the obvious bad faith efforts behind this.
A graduate teaching assistant who gave a University of Oklahoma student a failing grade on a psychology essay will no longer be teaching at the university
Graduate instructor who gave failing grade to Samantha Fulnecky no longer teaching at OU
A graduate teaching assistant who gave a University of Oklahoma student a failing grade on a psychology essay will no longer be teaching at the university.
www.koco.com
December 23, 2025 at 2:14 AM
This was entirely about purging a trans instructor from the school and they succeeded. It was aided by a lot of dumb liberals taking it at face value arguing the minutia of grading rubrics while ignoring the obvious bad faith efforts behind this.
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lol they really love this framing that one reason it's bad to be doing all this frivolous trans exterminationism is that the timing is inconvenient for real americans
December 21, 2025 at 10:15 PM
lol they really love this framing that one reason it's bad to be doing all this frivolous trans exterminationism is that the timing is inconvenient for real americans
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"Has feminism failed women brought to you by bank of america" is my MKULTRA sleeper agent activation phrase
December 19, 2025 at 3:30 PM
"Has feminism failed women brought to you by bank of america" is my MKULTRA sleeper agent activation phrase
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i'm a coastal elite (gulf coast)
December 18, 2025 at 10:03 PM
i'm a coastal elite (gulf coast)
if this were true we wouldn’t be talking about it right now
"Men are men. Men can never become women. Women are women. Women can never become men."
December 18, 2025 at 8:02 PM
if this were true we wouldn’t be talking about it right now
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Just now, a national trans healthcare felony ban for youth has passed the US House, with 10 year prison terms.
3 Dems crossed party lines to vote to jail providers.
4 GOP crossed party lines to vote against.
It is not expected to pass the Senate, where Dems hold filibuster power.
Story to come.
3 Dems crossed party lines to vote to jail providers.
4 GOP crossed party lines to vote against.
It is not expected to pass the Senate, where Dems hold filibuster power.
Story to come.
December 17, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Just now, a national trans healthcare felony ban for youth has passed the US House, with 10 year prison terms.
3 Dems crossed party lines to vote to jail providers.
4 GOP crossed party lines to vote against.
It is not expected to pass the Senate, where Dems hold filibuster power.
Story to come.
3 Dems crossed party lines to vote to jail providers.
4 GOP crossed party lines to vote against.
It is not expected to pass the Senate, where Dems hold filibuster power.
Story to come.
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"I should be safe to assume that 'Pretty Paper' enjoys a similar prominence among holiday albums. Maybe it does, if you’re a diehard Willie fan and/or a Texan of a certain age. But I think a lot of other folks aren’t hip to 'Pretty Paper,' or haven’t given it the consideration it deserves."
Willie Nelson's Christmas Classic
Why you should be listening to 'Pretty Paper' this season
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December 16, 2025 at 8:45 PM
"I should be safe to assume that 'Pretty Paper' enjoys a similar prominence among holiday albums. Maybe it does, if you’re a diehard Willie fan and/or a Texan of a certain age. But I think a lot of other folks aren’t hip to 'Pretty Paper,' or haven’t given it the consideration it deserves."
very lucky to get to present some work on philosophy of fashion today at Stanford as part of a mini workshop on socially-oriented philosophy organized by @ethannowak.bsky.social. really thankful for super helpful feedback and for getting to learn about the really cool work that others are doing!
December 16, 2025 at 3:37 AM
very lucky to get to present some work on philosophy of fashion today at Stanford as part of a mini workshop on socially-oriented philosophy organized by @ethannowak.bsky.social. really thankful for super helpful feedback and for getting to learn about the really cool work that others are doing!
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"Queer Ear still centers masculine representations that presume an inherently cis and male subject...in many ways enforcing a false equivalence between what is masculine and what is wrong with what we might construe as the non-queer music theory: cis music theory."
Queer Ear: Remaking Music Theory
History shows us how life could be otherwise, but if we don’t see ourselves in history, how can we build a future? José Esteban Muñoz finds his answer in t
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December 15, 2025 at 5:55 PM
"Queer Ear still centers masculine representations that presume an inherently cis and male subject...in many ways enforcing a false equivalence between what is masculine and what is wrong with what we might construe as the non-queer music theory: cis music theory."
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Another life goal achieved: getting the word “party-pooping” published in a 150-year-old philosophy journal. "Can't Kill the Vibe: Against Hope in Aesthetic Discourse" is now published online. doi.org/10.1093/mind...
Can't Kill the Vibe: Against Hope in Aesthetic Discourse
Abstract. In a recent paper, Nat Hansen and Zed Adams argue for an aesthetic discourse-governing principle they call Hope of Convergence. Inspired by the w
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December 15, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Another life goal achieved: getting the word “party-pooping” published in a 150-year-old philosophy journal. "Can't Kill the Vibe: Against Hope in Aesthetic Discourse" is now published online. doi.org/10.1093/mind...
I really don’t like this at all. Newsom using her as a political football to draw her piece of shit dad into saying some bullshit that she’ll have to read while still not even being great on trans issues and largely disliked by the trans community. it’s gross
Musk revives ‘woke mind virus’ claim in clash with Newsom’s team over his estranged trans daughter
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#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA
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#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA
Elon Musk revives tired ‘woke mind virus’ claim in clash with Gavin Newsom's team
During a recent clash with Gavin Newsom, Elon Musk decided to repeat his tired claim that something called the "woke mind virus" is responsible for his estranged daughter Vivian Jenna Wilson's trans identity.
www.thepinknews.com
December 14, 2025 at 4:15 AM
I really don’t like this at all. Newsom using her as a political football to draw her piece of shit dad into saying some bullshit that she’ll have to read while still not even being great on trans issues and largely disliked by the trans community. it’s gross
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Bovino, the man overseeing mass deportations, publicly declared that we must all have our papers on us, at all times, or we could be stopped, harassed, kidnapped, and detained, as they did with the man in this case, who is a US citizen.
December 13, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Bovino, the man overseeing mass deportations, publicly declared that we must all have our papers on us, at all times, or we could be stopped, harassed, kidnapped, and detained, as they did with the man in this case, who is a US citizen.
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Robin Ince reveals to last night’s audience at a recording of Infinite Monkey Cage that the BBC has forced him to resign over his support of trans people
December 13, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Robin Ince reveals to last night’s audience at a recording of Infinite Monkey Cage that the BBC has forced him to resign over his support of trans people
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🚨 US House of Representatives are voting on two anti-trans bills next week in an attempt to severely restrict gender affirming care for youth.
HR3492 would criminalize parents and providers charging them with felonies if they even attempt to access care.
Join us next week and fight back! Link ⬇️
HR3492 would criminalize parents and providers charging them with felonies if they even attempt to access care.
Join us next week and fight back! Link ⬇️
December 12, 2025 at 11:02 PM
🚨 US House of Representatives are voting on two anti-trans bills next week in an attempt to severely restrict gender affirming care for youth.
HR3492 would criminalize parents and providers charging them with felonies if they even attempt to access care.
Join us next week and fight back! Link ⬇️
HR3492 would criminalize parents and providers charging them with felonies if they even attempt to access care.
Join us next week and fight back! Link ⬇️
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Looking for an intro-friendly text on the impact of tech and AI on aesthetic life?
Check out this chapter I wrote, just published in the new Routledge Introduction to Contemp Aesthetics by @emmiemalone.bsky.social and @lizscar.bsky.social
philarchive.org/rec/CROALI
#philtech #techethics
Check out this chapter I wrote, just published in the new Routledge Introduction to Contemp Aesthetics by @emmiemalone.bsky.social and @lizscar.bsky.social
philarchive.org/rec/CROALI
#philtech #techethics
Anthony Cross, Aesthetic Life in the Digital Age: How Emerging Technologies Affect Creativity, Consumption, and Community - PhilArchive
What does aesthetic life look like in the digital age? This chapter explores the impact that AI, algorithms, social networking, and other technological innovations have had on the ways that we ...
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December 12, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Looking for an intro-friendly text on the impact of tech and AI on aesthetic life?
Check out this chapter I wrote, just published in the new Routledge Introduction to Contemp Aesthetics by @emmiemalone.bsky.social and @lizscar.bsky.social
philarchive.org/rec/CROALI
#philtech #techethics
Check out this chapter I wrote, just published in the new Routledge Introduction to Contemp Aesthetics by @emmiemalone.bsky.social and @lizscar.bsky.social
philarchive.org/rec/CROALI
#philtech #techethics
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Had a nice time chatting with @shaneisland.bsky.social about “aesthetic” and internet aesthetics for this wonderful piece in @washingtonpost.com
December 12, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Had a nice time chatting with @shaneisland.bsky.social about “aesthetic” and internet aesthetics for this wonderful piece in @washingtonpost.com