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FEAST is a home and community for feminist philosophy and feminist social theory since 2001. Intersectional, decolonial, interdisciplinary. posts by @calebw.bsky.social
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Philosophers told me that I had to do the work of reconstructing this person’s arguments and defending the morality of my life to this person because she’s a serious feminist scholar
jessothomson.co.uk Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 3d
Kathleen Stock has written an article against "abortion permissiveness". She claims abortion requires "justification" saying the state should limit "unacceptable decision-making" by women about their own bodies.

This is who anti-trans activists proclaim as the feminist thought leaders of our time.
What progressives won’t say about abortion The sanitised narrative ignores ethical truths
November 21, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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saranahmed.bsky.social
No! The Art and Activism of Complaining is being published by Feminist Press on April 7, 2026! We fill those speech bubbles: pop, snap, sizzle, shriek, scream, clatter, splatter! feministpress.org/collections/...
No!
An assembly of refusals portraying the radical power of “no” by the renowned scholar and author of The Feminist Killjoy Handbook, Sara Ahmed.To be heard as complaining is not to be heard, writes Sara ...
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November 21, 2025 at 9:25 AM
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jamiejhagen.bsky.social
I love this thread - including photos of lesbians organizing at Beijing in 1995!

In my book I look at this lesbian advocacy as it relates to the movement for women's peacebuilding globally.

Check it out here, and message me if you have any trouble accessing it. academic.oup.com/book/61612/c...
November 19, 2025 at 8:01 AM
feministphilosophy.bsky.social
New article in Hypatia about how social power is conferred by citing, and what to do with creepy ethicists accused of professional sexual misconduct. 👀

The authors propose citing them, but including a note about the allegations. Bibliography as whisper network 💀

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Ethicists Failing Ethics: Citation Practice for Sexual Misconduct | Hypatia | Cambridge Core
Ethicists Failing Ethics: Citation Practice for Sexual Misconduct
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November 18, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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nightmarefixer.bsky.social
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Alice Wong's Teen Vogue articles were archived before their removal, for anyone looking.
Disability Visibility - Latest
Get the latest on Disability Visibility from Teen Vogue. Find articles, slideshows and more.
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November 15, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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calebw.bsky.social
New article from Ana Maria Miranda Mora looks interesting for ppl interested in love and freedom (and Hegel)
Love and Law: The Paradox of Marriage | Hegel Bulletin | Cambridge Core
Love and Law: The Paradox of Marriage
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November 14, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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terezahendl.bsky.social
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
associationruta.bsky.social The RUTA Association @associationruta.bsky.social · Oct 10
Our 2026 RUTA conference will be exploring the role of embodied knowledges and knowledges rooted in the places we conduct research about. We will discuss how the making of knowledge, art and cultural heritage changes when it is grounded in places and communities and which possibilities this opens
November 10, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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amymarvin.bsky.social
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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terezahendl.bsky.social
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...
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...
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November 3, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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aidanmcglynn.bsky.social
New Cambridge Element on Harriet Jacobs, author of 'Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl' - free to download for the next two weeks
Harriet Jacobs
Cambridge Core - History of Philosophy - Harriet Jacobs
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November 3, 2025 at 3:44 PM
feministphilosophy.bsky.social
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.
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...
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November 3, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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Clarifying and historicizing "homonationalism" among other terms within the liberal -> fascist metamorphosis
wasafirimag.bsky.social Wasafiri Magazine @wasafirimag.bsky.social · 26d
‘What becomes of gender and sexuality amidst the collapse of the liberal world order?’

In this essay, Dr Abeera Khan from SOAS’s Department of Gender Studies examines our current moment as one after homonationalism, where ‘the sparse and vanishing wages of inclusion lie exposed.’

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Cream background. Headline is in orange at bottom. It reads: Liberalism as Fascism’s Prefiguration by Abeera Khan. Above is a photograph. It shows the back of a crowd as they move down a street lined with tall buildings. Some wave rainbow flags.
October 31, 2025 at 9:46 AM
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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
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 ...
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October 31, 2025 at 9:35 AM
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chris-brighton.bsky.social
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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"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
October 29, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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chris-brighton.bsky.social
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....
October 14, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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feminiserrm.bsky.social
"I study feminist theories of embodiment" is OUT. "I'm a femininomenonologist ✨️💅" is IN.
Chappell Roan holding Iris Marion Young's "On Female Body Experience: "Throwing Like a Girl" and Other Essays".
August 12, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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amymarvin.bsky.social
Excited to participate in some trans thinking across Buffalo and Syracuse this week!
https://thebuffalohive.com/event/buffalo-film-i-saw-the-tv-glow-screening-talkback-at-hallwalls/
October 26, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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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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Violent Resistance as Radical Choice | Feminist Philosophy Quarterly
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October 25, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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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!
October 25, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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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
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
October 17, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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The US edition of The City of Our Dreaming is available for sale. Use the discount code in the image!
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
October 17, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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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!
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
October 17, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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Exciting to see another FEAST philosopher putting out important work!
October 16, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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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....
Ruby Hake
October 16, 2025 at 7:00 AM
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"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.
clancyny.bsky.social Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · Oct 16
NYT: Susan Griffin, a Leading Voice of Ecofeminism, Is Dead at 82

By Penelope Green

With books like “Woman and Nature,” she pioneered a unique form of creative nonfiction, linking violence against women to the ravaging of the environment. (Gift link!)
Susan Griffin, a Leading Voice of Ecofeminism, Is Dead at 82
www.nytimes.com
October 16, 2025 at 2:16 AM