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@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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· Mar 20
![Screenshot of the first page of my article, "Pregnant Persons as a Gender Category: A Trans Feminist Analysis of Pregnancy Discrimination," which just appeared in the Spring 2025 issues of Signs. The start of the introduction reads: "Since 1974, the United States Supreme Court has recognized a constitutionally significant distinction between discrimination against women and discrimination against pregnant persons—for all the wrong reasons, and reaching all the wrong results. Upholding the State of California’s refusal to cover uncomplicated pregnancies under its otherwise comprehensive workers’ short-term disability insurance program, the court held in Geduldig v. Aiello that differential treatment based on pregnancy is not in and of itself a form of sex discrimination within the meaning of American gender equality law. Writing for a 6–3 majority, Justice Potter Stewart explained that this is because pregnancy as a “physical condition” is itself neutral on sex and fails to carve the social world at the gender seam between women and men. “The lack of identity between the excluded disability [i.e., pregnancy] and gender as such under this insurance program becomes clear upon the most cursory analysis,” Justice Stewart claimed. “The program divides potential recipients into two groups—pregnant women and nonpregnant persons. While the first group is exclusively female, the second includes members of both sexes. . . .”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:qzyiorixn5gxwuwpcnzpnh5o/bafkreifk2rypcpmbos7wthj7esau52eqhkbtfvvibpe7dx5pc3hzshgm6a@jpeg)
Can we still make sense of reproductive rights & pregnancy discrimination as a gender equality issue if we need to (1) affirm that people of all genders may and do become pregnant and (2) not alienate the many cis and trans women who do not? I argue that yes ofc!! Come find out how (link below)! 1/6
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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.
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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...
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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/
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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.”
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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"
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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.
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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!!
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 7:16 PM
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.
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It took me less than 5 mins to write a comment about how integral international PhD students are to scientific production, and to the US' economic and cultural power.
Please consider also leaving a comment on the devastating rule change for international PhD students:
Please consider also leaving a comment on the devastating rule change for international PhD students:
Comment period ends on Monday for a proposed rule change that would terminate student visas after 4 years. It also puts limits on exchange visitors and reps of foreign media, and shortens the length of time at the end of the visa from 60 days to 30 days.
www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
Establishing a Fixed Time Period of Admission and an Extension of Stay Procedure for Nonimmigrant Academic Students, Exchange Visitors, and Representatives of Foreign Information Media
Unlike most nonimmigrant classifications, which are admitted for a fixed time period, aliens in the F (academic student), J (exchange visitor), and most I (representatives of foreign information media...
www.federalregister.gov
September 27, 2025 at 3:21 PM
It took me less than 5 mins to write a comment about how integral international PhD students are to scientific production, and to the US' economic and cultural power.
Please consider also leaving a comment on the devastating rule change for international PhD students:
Please consider also leaving a comment on the devastating rule change for international PhD students:
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I wrote about Trump's new executive orders targeting "antifa" and how they are paper tigers that rely on preemptive compliance in order to achieve their goals.
www.thedissident.news/trumps-paper...
www.thedissident.news/trumps-paper...
Trump's Paper Tiger Executive Actions Targeting Anti-fascism
Yesterday, Trump signed the National Security Presidential Memorandum 7 (NSPM-7). If you’ve read the text of it, you’re probably scared. That’s the point. The document is a masterclass in intimidation...
www.thedissident.news
September 26, 2025 at 7:37 PM
I wrote about Trump's new executive orders targeting "antifa" and how they are paper tigers that rely on preemptive compliance in order to achieve their goals.
www.thedissident.news/trumps-paper...
www.thedissident.news/trumps-paper...
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My new article, "Calling Trauma, Elite Capture, and Hermeneutical Injustice," is out in Phil Quarterly!
It's a deeply personal project, drawing on family history to examine how privileged groups use claims of trauma to control narratives and to suggest a new way to think of epistemic injustice. 🧵
It's a deeply personal project, drawing on family history to examine how privileged groups use claims of trauma to control narratives and to suggest a new way to think of epistemic injustice. 🧵
September 4, 2025 at 3:50 PM
My new article, "Calling Trauma, Elite Capture, and Hermeneutical Injustice," is out in Phil Quarterly!
It's a deeply personal project, drawing on family history to examine how privileged groups use claims of trauma to control narratives and to suggest a new way to think of epistemic injustice. 🧵
It's a deeply personal project, drawing on family history to examine how privileged groups use claims of trauma to control narratives and to suggest a new way to think of epistemic injustice. 🧵
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For those justifiably concerned/angry about this, there's a way to make your voices heard. Public notice and comment on this proposed rule goes through Sep 27
Go to this link and click "Submit a public comment" at the top: www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
Go to this link and click "Submit a public comment" at the top: www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
I know there's a lot happening today, but this is sneaking in under the radar. This proposed new rule would absolutely crush foreign PhD students, potentially making it impossible for them to enroll with any certainty of their ability to finish www.politico.com/news/2025/08...
August 28, 2025 at 1:34 PM
For those justifiably concerned/angry about this, there's a way to make your voices heard. Public notice and comment on this proposed rule goes through Sep 27
Go to this link and click "Submit a public comment" at the top: www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
Go to this link and click "Submit a public comment" at the top: www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
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The NIH has confirmed that it is complying with court orders and re-instating $500 million in frozen research grants to UCLA, Vice Chancellor for Research & Creative Activities Roger Wakimoto wrote today. He says workers “have shown great resilience in this challenging time.”
September 24, 2025 at 10:08 PM
The NIH has confirmed that it is complying with court orders and re-instating $500 million in frozen research grants to UCLA, Vice Chancellor for Research & Creative Activities Roger Wakimoto wrote today. He says workers “have shown great resilience in this challenging time.”
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"Refuse the question and in doing so refuse the assertion that precedes it."
"Refuse the question and in doing so refuse the assertion that precedes it."
(How) Should The Question “Are Trans People Delusional?” Be Addressed?
Many readers and listeners of BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY will recognize that the title of this post includes the question that trans philosopher Talia Bettcher posed in a YouTube video of the same nam…
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September 25, 2025 at 1:30 AM
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"Refuse the question and in doing so refuse the assertion that precedes it."
"Refuse the question and in doing so refuse the assertion that precedes it."
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Trump’s H-1B visa fee isn’t just about immigration, it’s about fealty
Trump’s H-1B visa fee isn’t just about immigration, it’s about fealty
Trump’s H-1B visa fee isn’t just about immigration, it’s about making tech companies bend the knee in exchange for a pass.
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September 21, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Trump’s H-1B visa fee isn’t just about immigration, it’s about fealty
looking at trans studies jobs: ahhhh what if i’m not a media studies kind of transsexual
September 21, 2025 at 1:15 AM
looking at trans studies jobs: ahhhh what if i’m not a media studies kind of transsexual
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for some reason analytic philosophers still think it's acceptable to opine about gender while ignoring the last 75 years of research in the philosophy of gender
This is virulently anti-trans: not simply arguing that there's a reasonably natural concept of transition-independent biological sex (fine) but also that there is no reasonably natural biological or social concept whose extensions is trans and cis women dailynous.com/2025/09/19/p...
Philosophers File Amicus Brief in Supreme Court Cases on Transgender Athletes - Daily Nous
A group of 24 philosophers has submitted an amicus curiae brief for two US Supreme Court cases concerning laws about the participation of transgender athletes in sports. The two cases are Bradley Litt...
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September 19, 2025 at 10:30 PM
for some reason analytic philosophers still think it's acceptable to opine about gender while ignoring the last 75 years of research in the philosophy of gender