Nick Clanchy
@nickclanchy.bsky.social
Departmental Lecturer in Ethics and Feminist Philosophy @ University of Oxford | Associate Editor @ Hypatia | www.nickclanchy.com | boxd.it/TfcR | 🏳️🌈🌱 | they/them
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Nick Clanchy
@nickclanchy.bsky.social
· Feb 17
Nick Clanchy, Infrapolitical Strategies for Preventing Hermeneutical Injustices Amidst the Global Trans Panic - PhilPapers
Previously proposed strategies for preventing hermeneutical injustices mostly take for granted the interests people have in various things about themselves being intelligible, and aim only to enable t...
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My paper “Infrapolitical Strategies for Preventing Hermeneutical Injustices Amidst the Global Trans Panic” (I know, not the catchiest title) has been accepted at Ergo - a pre-print is available here: philpapers.org/rec/CLAISF
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In our latest, we speak with the director of Trans Income Project about their work providing material support to trans people in Louisiana and how they’re trying to fill the gaps created by the federal government’s attacks on trans coverage under Medicaid
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An Oral History of Trans Income Project w/ Natalie Rupp (11/13/25)
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Beatrice speaks with Natalie Rupp of Trans Income Project about their work providin
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November 13, 2025 at 1:02 PM
In our latest, we speak with the director of Trans Income Project about their work providing material support to trans people in Louisiana and how they’re trying to fill the gaps created by the federal government’s attacks on trans coverage under Medicaid
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soundcloud.com/deathpanel/a...
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Out today in HLR, my piece Skrmetti Beyond Scrutiny. What happened, what it means for trans rights and sex equality more broadly: harvardlawreview.org/print/vol-13...
Skrmetti Beyond Scrutiny - Harvard Law Review
In United States v. Skrmetti, the Supreme Court upheld Tennessee Senate Bill 1 (SB 1), a state law that prohibits transgender minors from accessing gender-affirming care.
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November 11, 2025 at 1:36 AM
Out today in HLR, my piece Skrmetti Beyond Scrutiny. What happened, what it means for trans rights and sex equality more broadly: harvardlawreview.org/print/vol-13...
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Call-for-papers: Hypatia Special Issue on Feminist Philosophy of Mind
Guest Editors: Gloria Andrada and Carolina Flores
Deadline for submissions: 15th January 2026
Details and links to submit on the website:
Guest Editors: Gloria Andrada and Carolina Flores
Deadline for submissions: 15th January 2026
Details and links to submit on the website:
Call-for-papers: Hypatia Special Issue on Feminist Philosophy of Mind - hypatia
Guest Editors: Gloria Andrada and Carolina Flores This special issue focuses on feminist philosophy of mind and cognitive science. It will offer novel perspectives on long-standing questions such as t...
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June 10, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Call-for-papers: Hypatia Special Issue on Feminist Philosophy of Mind
Guest Editors: Gloria Andrada and Carolina Flores
Deadline for submissions: 15th January 2026
Details and links to submit on the website:
Guest Editors: Gloria Andrada and Carolina Flores
Deadline for submissions: 15th January 2026
Details and links to submit on the website:
Discussing Daniel Dennett on the competence to sign a contract as “the kind of free will worth having” in class today, I couldn’t resist bringing up this scene from A DAY AT THE RACES (1937)…is “indoctrinating students with Marxist ideology” really so bad? youtu.be/dbUDSxJFsDA?...
Marx Brothers Sanity Clause
YouTube video by Research the Law
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November 6, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Discussing Daniel Dennett on the competence to sign a contract as “the kind of free will worth having” in class today, I couldn’t resist bringing up this scene from A DAY AT THE RACES (1937)…is “indoctrinating students with Marxist ideology” really so bad? youtu.be/dbUDSxJFsDA?...
“Nobody does corruption like FIFA” you say? Let me tell you about the guy who used to run FIDE, the World Chess Federation. A 🧵.
Between 1995 and 2018, Kirsan Ilyumzhinov:
- Claimed to have been abducted by aliens on two separate occasions (this one’s to hook you in - he’s quite the character!);
Between 1995 and 2018, Kirsan Ilyumzhinov:
- Claimed to have been abducted by aliens on two separate occasions (this one’s to hook you in - he’s quite the character!);
this is actually impressive, making up a brand new nobel peace prize replacement is a genuine innovation in bribery
absolutely nobody does corruption like FIFA
absolutely nobody does corruption like FIFA
the first what now
November 6, 2025 at 9:47 AM
“Nobody does corruption like FIFA” you say? Let me tell you about the guy who used to run FIDE, the World Chess Federation. A 🧵.
Between 1995 and 2018, Kirsan Ilyumzhinov:
- Claimed to have been abducted by aliens on two separate occasions (this one’s to hook you in - he’s quite the character!);
Between 1995 and 2018, Kirsan Ilyumzhinov:
- Claimed to have been abducted by aliens on two separate occasions (this one’s to hook you in - he’s quite the character!);
Whoever wrote in the blurb for this edition of Edward Said’s Out of Place that the book reveals “an unimaginably rich world of colorful characters and exotic eastern landscapes” desperately needs to read some Edward Said
November 3, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Whoever wrote in the blurb for this edition of Edward Said’s Out of Place that the book reveals “an unimaginably rich world of colorful characters and exotic eastern landscapes” desperately needs to read some Edward Said
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In @yougov.co.uk polling of the trans community, to the best of our knowledge the first of its kind ever conducted, an astonishing 84% said Britain is “fairly unsafe” or “very unsafe” for trans people.
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‘Abject terror’: survey shows 84% of trans people feel Britain is unsafe
YouGov poll reveals safety crisis for trans people in the UK
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October 27, 2025 at 12:29 PM
In @yougov.co.uk polling of the trans community, to the best of our knowledge the first of its kind ever conducted, an astonishing 84% said Britain is “fairly unsafe” or “very unsafe” for trans people.
goodlaw.social/ncfw
goodlaw.social/ncfw
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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/
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October 23, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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/
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The documentary I made with Miss Major 10 years ago is available to stream free on Vimeo. If you want to spend some time with her and her loved ones, and learn some abolitionist trans history while you're at it, updated streaming link is here: vimeo.com/whatdowewant...
MAJOR! (free streaming link)
The award-winning 2016 documentary "MAJOR!" follows the life and campaigns of Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, a Black transgender elder who has been fighting…
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October 14, 2025 at 6:28 PM
The documentary I made with Miss Major 10 years ago is available to stream free on Vimeo. If you want to spend some time with her and her loved ones, and learn some abolitionist trans history while you're at it, updated streaming link is here: vimeo.com/whatdowewant...
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🆕️🚨 After painstaking research, dozens of FOIs and months of analysis we release the Gender Clinic Files which reveal waiting times for every GIC in the country.
They lay bare, how far off the mark the Health Secretary's estimation of the average wait is 👇
www.wearequeeraf.com/gender-clini...
They lay bare, how far off the mark the Health Secretary's estimation of the average wait is 👇
www.wearequeeraf.com/gender-clini...
Some people in Scotland will never get gender clinic appointment on 224-year waitlist
Revealed waiting times of all GICs in UK: Most Trans+ people in the UK will wait more than a third of their adult life to get an appointment, and some will never receive care
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October 4, 2025 at 7:53 AM
🆕️🚨 After painstaking research, dozens of FOIs and months of analysis we release the Gender Clinic Files which reveal waiting times for every GIC in the country.
They lay bare, how far off the mark the Health Secretary's estimation of the average wait is 👇
www.wearequeeraf.com/gender-clini...
They lay bare, how far off the mark the Health Secretary's estimation of the average wait is 👇
www.wearequeeraf.com/gender-clini...
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"Why would it bow to antidemocratic pressures by placing a professor on leave without their request, consent, or involvement? That any university would do this is beyond comprehension and is cause for alarm about the future of academic freedom in Canada."
What Happened to the University’s Commitment to Free Expression? Charley Kirk, uAlberta, and Me | Centre for Free Expression
I was shocked when the University of Alberta administration informed me, one of its law professors, that I was being placed on non-disciplinary leave for my social media comments in the wake of Charli...
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September 29, 2025 at 2:54 PM
"Why would it bow to antidemocratic pressures by placing a professor on leave without their request, consent, or involvement? That any university would do this is beyond comprehension and is cause for alarm about the future of academic freedom in Canada."
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New issue of Feminist Philosophy Quarterly is out, and it's a symposium on Katharine Jenkins's book 'Ontology and Oppression', guest edited by Susan Brison and @jennysaul.bsky.social:
Vol. 11 No. 3 (2025): Symposium on Jenkins’s _Ontology and Oppression_
| Feminist Philosophy Quarterly
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September 26, 2025 at 8:06 PM
New issue of Feminist Philosophy Quarterly is out, and it's a symposium on Katharine Jenkins's book 'Ontology and Oppression', guest edited by Susan Brison and @jennysaul.bsky.social:
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📣🏳️⚧️ Call for Papers
We are inviting papers for our special issue, “Feminist Responses to the Regression of Trans Rights: Strategies, Alliances, Hope.” The issue will be dedicated to trans-inclusive feminist legal analysis that addresses attacks on trans rights & lives.
Details below. Please share.
We are inviting papers for our special issue, “Feminist Responses to the Regression of Trans Rights: Strategies, Alliances, Hope.” The issue will be dedicated to trans-inclusive feminist legal analysis that addresses attacks on trans rights & lives.
Details below. Please share.
September 22, 2025 at 9:35 AM
📣🏳️⚧️ Call for Papers
We are inviting papers for our special issue, “Feminist Responses to the Regression of Trans Rights: Strategies, Alliances, Hope.” The issue will be dedicated to trans-inclusive feminist legal analysis that addresses attacks on trans rights & lives.
Details below. Please share.
We are inviting papers for our special issue, “Feminist Responses to the Regression of Trans Rights: Strategies, Alliances, Hope.” The issue will be dedicated to trans-inclusive feminist legal analysis that addresses attacks on trans rights & lives.
Details below. Please share.
It’s my last week in Montréal/Québec/Canada and ngl, I’m really going to miss it! Feel very lucky to have had the chance to live and work here these last two years
A photo thread:
A photo thread:
September 24, 2025 at 8:28 PM
It’s my last week in Montréal/Québec/Canada and ngl, I’m really going to miss it! Feel very lucky to have had the chance to live and work here these last two years
A photo thread:
A photo thread:
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"Common decency stigmatizes people that do not participate in it—removes them from voluntary association. We indeed have to live with one another, but terms and conditions apply."
me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually
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me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually
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How Can We Live Together? - Boston Review
Ezra Klein is wrong: shame is essential.
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September 23, 2025 at 5:09 PM
"Common decency stigmatizes people that do not participate in it—removes them from voluntary association. We indeed have to live with one another, but terms and conditions apply."
me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually
www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...
me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually
www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...
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Nonbinary writer K.C. Johnson soon learned that behind bars, even their underwear was subject to deliberations.
Read their Life Inside essay ⬇️
Read their Life Inside essay ⬇️
Boxer Shorts Blues: My Path to Gender-Affirming Underwear in Prison
Nonbinary writer K.C. Johnson soon learned that behind bars, even their underwear was subject to deliberations.
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September 22, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Nonbinary writer K.C. Johnson soon learned that behind bars, even their underwear was subject to deliberations.
Read their Life Inside essay ⬇️
Read their Life Inside essay ⬇️
Don’t think I’ve ever seen a photo of a philosopher with stronger sexy murder poet vibes than this, what say you @lastpositivist.bsky.social?
Maurice Blanchot, born on this day, “offering you a mirror for your perfect nothingness, for your shadows which are neither light nor absence of light, for this void which contemplates.”
September 22, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Don’t think I’ve ever seen a photo of a philosopher with stronger sexy murder poet vibes than this, what say you @lastpositivist.bsky.social?
Ane Engelstad has a cool new paper in Hypatia on epistemic hopelessness as a vice oppressed people in particular may be liable to develop: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Epistemic Hopelessness and Other Vices of Oppression | Hypatia | Cambridge Core
Epistemic Hopelessness and Other Vices of Oppression
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September 21, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Ane Engelstad has a cool new paper in Hypatia on epistemic hopelessness as a vice oppressed people in particular may be liable to develop: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Went to this last night and it was so so good, 50 mins of heartfelt complex thoughts and feelings about trans visibility in the current moment: youtu.be/cqhiup5qSY8?...
September 21, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Went to this last night and it was so so good, 50 mins of heartfelt complex thoughts and feelings about trans visibility in the current moment: youtu.be/cqhiup5qSY8?...
*personal news* For the 2025-2026 academic year I’ll be a Departmental Lecturer in Ethics and Feminist Philosophy at Oxford, starting next month - excited among other things to get to teach my first graduate class!
September 20, 2025 at 2:26 PM
*personal news* For the 2025-2026 academic year I’ll be a Departmental Lecturer in Ethics and Feminist Philosophy at Oxford, starting next month - excited among other things to get to teach my first graduate class!
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"Of course, I am not K, but I find myself uncannily identified with his predicament." Judith Butler's open letter to UC Berkeley.
Kafka-land at UC Berkeley
The 160 members of the university notified that their names were forwarded to the DOE's Office for Civil Rights were not informed of any specific allegations against them.
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September 16, 2025 at 5:09 PM
"Of course, I am not K, but I find myself uncannily identified with his predicament." Judith Butler's open letter to UC Berkeley.
Every week I get an email from PhilPapers saying there’s a new item in my topics of interest and every week it’s some bizarre bullshit by this super weird AI bot, e.g. “On the Nature of the Perfumed State Social Scientist Sippenhaft Critical Race Theory (CRT) Jackal”: philpeople.org/profiles/cog...
Cognita Prime (Red Dawn Academic Press (Alumnus)) - PhilPeople
Cognita Prime is an alum of Red Dawn Academic Press. They are interested in Metaphysics and Epistemology and Science, Logic, and Mathematics. Follow them to stay up to date with their professional act...
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September 15, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Every week I get an email from PhilPapers saying there’s a new item in my topics of interest and every week it’s some bizarre bullshit by this super weird AI bot, e.g. “On the Nature of the Perfumed State Social Scientist Sippenhaft Critical Race Theory (CRT) Jackal”: philpeople.org/profiles/cog...
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Judith Butler on being named to a list of UC Berkeley faculty & students provided to the Department of Education to be investigated for anti-semitism, w/ zero transparency about what they're being accused of or by whom. Pure McCarthyism & totally indefensible. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
September 12, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Judith Butler on being named to a list of UC Berkeley faculty & students provided to the Department of Education to be investigated for anti-semitism, w/ zero transparency about what they're being accused of or by whom. Pure McCarthyism & totally indefensible. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
I watched Jacques Demy’s Bay of Angels last night and the opening shot is just so so good: youtu.be/41CH8c3yq1Q?...
Bay of Angels (1963) opening tracking shot & credits
YouTube video by Apolonia
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September 5, 2025 at 11:29 PM
I watched Jacques Demy’s Bay of Angels last night and the opening shot is just so so good: youtu.be/41CH8c3yq1Q?...
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An old piece on Malcolm Gladwell www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v3...
Thomas Jones · Short Cuts: Malcolm Gladwell
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September 3, 2025 at 9:59 PM
An old piece on Malcolm Gladwell www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v3...