ding
@not.dingherself.com
philosopher @barnard.edu working on conceptual, normative, and jurisprudential issues about gender and its embodiment; “has a very specific sense of humor” and an em dash problem; they/she/my love; not.dingherself.com
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@not.dingherself.com
· Oct 23
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.)
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okay so i've seen so many people posting about this i just had to make it a sticker
trans-party.myshopify.com/products/f-m...
trans-party.myshopify.com/products/f-m...
F/M Swap Kiss-Cut Sticker — Trans Pink & Blue Symbol Decal
The MTA is swapping the F and M lines, and they're not selling merch about it. They should be. So we make trans stickers in the colors of the flag. Also, you know, New York and stuff. Product features...
trans-party.myshopify.com
December 18, 2025 at 10:05 AM
okay so i've seen so many people posting about this i just had to make it a sticker
trans-party.myshopify.com/products/f-m...
trans-party.myshopify.com/products/f-m...
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building a strawman with my bare hands and proceeding to scream at it in horror
December 27, 2025 at 4:34 AM
building a strawman with my bare hands and proceeding to scream at it in horror
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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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Periodic reminder to send us your coolest papers to this Special Issue on feminist philosophy of mind that I'm co-editing at Hypatia! Deadline is now February 9.
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...
hypatiaphilosophy.org
December 18, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Periodic reminder to send us your coolest papers to this Special Issue on feminist philosophy of mind that I'm co-editing at Hypatia! Deadline is now February 9.
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Bioethics Folks: I edited this new collection with Larry Churchill and I am so excited for these chapters to be out in the world in January, and I am sorry it is so expensive.
If you have some professional development funds to use before the end of the year though, you can pre-order it now!
If you have some professional development funds to use before the end of the year though, you can pre-order it now!
December 17, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Bioethics Folks: I edited this new collection with Larry Churchill and I am so excited for these chapters to be out in the world in January, and I am sorry it is so expensive.
If you have some professional development funds to use before the end of the year though, you can pre-order it now!
If you have some professional development funds to use before the end of the year though, you can pre-order it now!
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We just put out an OPEN CALL FOR PITCHES & QUESTIONS for the @being.transinphilosophy.org zine! Submit by Dec 20!!
November 16, 2025 at 5:19 PM
We just put out an OPEN CALL FOR PITCHES & QUESTIONS for the @being.transinphilosophy.org zine! Submit by Dec 20!!
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There is no sight that more efficiently puts the lie to immigration “court” than the common sight of children “representing themselves.” Children too small to climb into the chair, children in pajamas who don’t know where they are, children not yet old enough to speak.
Three-year-old child forced to serve as her own attorney in Tucson immigration court
More than a dozen undocumented minors were forced to make their case in front of an immigration judge as the Trump administration ramps up removal proceedings.
coppercourier.com
December 6, 2025 at 5:18 PM
There is no sight that more efficiently puts the lie to immigration “court” than the common sight of children “representing themselves.” Children too small to climb into the chair, children in pajamas who don’t know where they are, children not yet old enough to speak.
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In August, we got a bit of extra money from a generous donor, and I used it to expand into coverage of trans life in American prisons.
This piece, by incarcerated journalist B Speaks, describes the chaos Georgia's forced detransition regime, currently halted by the courts, wreaked in one prison.
This piece, by incarcerated journalist B Speaks, describes the chaos Georgia's forced detransition regime, currently halted by the courts, wreaked in one prison.
EXCLUSIVE: Forced Detransitions ‘Nearly Toppled’ Medical Unit in Georgia Prison During Care Ban — Assigned
In the midst of a lawsuit, a Georgia prison resumes gender affirming care for trans inmates.
www.assignedmedia.org
December 7, 2025 at 6:42 PM
In August, we got a bit of extra money from a generous donor, and I used it to expand into coverage of trans life in American prisons.
This piece, by incarcerated journalist B Speaks, describes the chaos Georgia's forced detransition regime, currently halted by the courts, wreaked in one prison.
This piece, by incarcerated journalist B Speaks, describes the chaos Georgia's forced detransition regime, currently halted by the courts, wreaked in one prison.
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Oklahoma University has placed a grad student instructor on admin leave for failing a psychology paper on gender for citing *the Bible* as a source of empirical evidence.
In response, OU has placed on instructor on admin leave citing, get this, the FIRST AMENDMENT.
Universities are cooked.
In response, OU has placed on instructor on admin leave citing, get this, the FIRST AMENDMENT.
Universities are cooked.
December 1, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Oklahoma University has placed a grad student instructor on admin leave for failing a psychology paper on gender for citing *the Bible* as a source of empirical evidence.
In response, OU has placed on instructor on admin leave citing, get this, the FIRST AMENDMENT.
Universities are cooked.
In response, OU has placed on instructor on admin leave citing, get this, the FIRST AMENDMENT.
Universities are cooked.
We just put out an OPEN CALL FOR PITCHES & QUESTIONS for the @being.transinphilosophy.org zine! Submit by Dec 20!!
November 16, 2025 at 5:19 PM
We just put out an OPEN CALL FOR PITCHES & QUESTIONS for the @being.transinphilosophy.org zine! Submit by Dec 20!!
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Incredible headline for this chart
Trump is underwater on everything. And massively so on a lot things:
October 26, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Incredible headline for this chart
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We're watching resegregation happen in real time. This is modern post-reconstruction policy that will further entrench white supremacy.
An AP analysis finds drops in the number of Black freshmen at many elite colleges in the two years since the Supreme Court’s decision ending affirmative action.
apnews.com/article/affi...
apnews.com/article/affi...
October 26, 2025 at 3:33 PM
We're watching resegregation happen in real time. This is modern post-reconstruction policy that will further entrench white supremacy.
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
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.)
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+ a funny-yet-tender provocation to denaturalize the cis by @not.dingherself.com, a case for taking passing as a form of trans rebellion too by Scout Etterson 4/
October 23, 2025 at 6:48 PM
+ a funny-yet-tender provocation to denaturalize the cis by @not.dingherself.com, a case for taking passing as a form of trans rebellion too by Scout Etterson 4/
i so love my students here
October 7, 2025 at 5:36 PM
i so love my students here
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Super stoked to have a piece out in Jacobin! It's a personal essay about nostalgia for the Portuguese Carnation Revolution and a reclamation of the power of nostalgia for the left. 1/
The Left Can’t Abandon Nostalgia to the Right
The global right today excels at leveraging nostalgia for reactionary ends. Yet memories of periods of revolutionary hope and collective victories can provide the materials for a form of nostalgia tha...
jacobin.com
October 6, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Super stoked to have a piece out in Jacobin! It's a personal essay about nostalgia for the Portuguese Carnation Revolution and a reclamation of the power of nostalgia for the left. 1/
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Tl;dr: in the United States, with very limited exceptions, you cannot sue the federal government without its consent. It's a vestige of the divine right of kings. And it was adopted by the founders for multiple reasons, but one was so enslaved people couldn't sue the federal govt for their freedom.
October 4, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Tl;dr: in the United States, with very limited exceptions, you cannot sue the federal government without its consent. It's a vestige of the divine right of kings. And it was adopted by the founders for multiple reasons, but one was so enslaved people couldn't sue the federal govt for their freedom.
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For all of the people who want to know about suing the federal government:
Google "sovereign immunity." Then Google "qualified immunity." Then you'll understand why fixing so much of what we see requires defunding the police.
Google "sovereign immunity." Then Google "qualified immunity." Then you'll understand why fixing so much of what we see requires defunding the police.
October 4, 2025 at 9:33 PM
For all of the people who want to know about suing the federal government:
Google "sovereign immunity." Then Google "qualified immunity." Then you'll understand why fixing so much of what we see requires defunding the police.
Google "sovereign immunity." Then Google "qualified immunity." Then you'll understand why fixing so much of what we see requires defunding the police.
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New: landlords are demanding potential tenants hand over employer login credentials so a tool can verify their income. We were sent screenshot of the tool, Argyle, downloading much more data than necessary to approve the renter. "Opt-out means no housing" www.404media.co/landlords-de...
Landlords Demand Tenants’ Workplace Logins to Scrape Their Paystubs
Screenshots shared with 404 Media show tenant screening services ApproveShield and Argyle taking much more data than they need. “Opt-out means no housing.”
www.404media.co
September 29, 2025 at 2:59 PM
New: landlords are demanding potential tenants hand over employer login credentials so a tool can verify their income. We were sent screenshot of the tool, Argyle, downloading much more data than necessary to approve the renter. "Opt-out means no housing" www.404media.co/landlords-de...
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In which a top US Border Patrol official, incredibly, tells my tall and Anglo colleague @chipmitchell1.bsky.social that he's not the type they're looking for as they go about downtown Chicago arresting people based on "how they look"
chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
Feds in military gear flood downtown Chicago; top border official says arrests based on 'how they look'
The immigration agents were spotted making arrests in downtown Chicago and River North neighborhood early Sunday.
chicago.suntimes.com
September 28, 2025 at 11:49 PM
In which a top US Border Patrol official, incredibly, tells my tall and Anglo colleague @chipmitchell1.bsky.social that he's not the type they're looking for as they go about downtown Chicago arresting people based on "how they look"
chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
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Ideally, if all goes well, the blog post about your death can run without needing a note like this imo
September 28, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Ideally, if all goes well, the blog post about your death can run without needing a note like this imo
“If this person complained about the abusive conditions or even when people asked for personal protective gear or equipment when working with dangerous chemicals, the response was always, ‘If you wanna be a man, I'll treat you like a man’, or ‘aren't you strong enough? Aren't you a man.’”
September 28, 2025 at 3:11 AM
“If this person complained about the abusive conditions or even when people asked for personal protective gear or equipment when working with dangerous chemicals, the response was always, ‘If you wanna be a man, I'll treat you like a man’, or ‘aren't you strong enough? Aren't you a man.’”
The lesson is not that trans liberation is a matter of linguistic “inclusion,” as even trans philosophers now seem to think. It’s how little you need to have such that the word ‘daughter’ stands out as the greatest gift from cis parents.
Anyway, read @autoanon.bsky.social ’s riveting new novel!!
Anyway, read @autoanon.bsky.social ’s riveting new novel!!
My fav scene from Reverse Tomboy: Not its insightful analysis of (hetero)sexuality as inseparable from (normative) gender, or the retroactive meaning-making we do for early exp., or even the malleability of embodiment desires. Just a girl over the moon about the smallest thing—being called daughter.
September 27, 2025 at 7:20 PM
The lesson is not that trans liberation is a matter of linguistic “inclusion,” as even trans philosophers now seem to think. It’s how little you need to have such that the word ‘daughter’ stands out as the greatest gift from cis parents.
Anyway, read @autoanon.bsky.social ’s riveting new novel!!
Anyway, read @autoanon.bsky.social ’s riveting new novel!!