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christopher griffin
@chris-brighton.bsky.social
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early career researcher working in trans studies, decolonial studies, feminist epistemologies, radical politics, and neurodiversity studies. big fan of Wynter and Derrida. they/them.
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christopher griffin @chris-brighton.bsky.social · Aug 6
My new article addresses the claim that the rights of trans women 'clash' with the rights of cis women. I examine the coloniality of the concept of rights underpinning this idea, exploring the erotics of sacrificial feminism and zero-sum politics in general... 🧵 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Dispossessive rights: coloniality and trans-exclusion in zero-sum politics
The idea that rights are possessions that are given and lost is so ubiquitous within the dominant discourse that its metaphoricity is forgotten. This amnesia naturalises possessive individualism, a...
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chris-brighton.bsky.social
Call for panelists! Join me for a panel on ✨Trans Studies and Deconstruction✨ at the Derrida Today Conference (July 2026, Paris). More info in 🧵

#Derrida #TransStudies #AcademicSky #AcademicResearch #PhilSky #gendersky #signalboost #FeministSky #cfp #lit #socialtheory 🌈🎓 @derridatoday.bsky.social
Graphic calling for panelists for a Trans Studies panel at the 9th Derrida Today Conference, to be held at the École Normale Supérieure (Paris)​ on 13–17 July 2026. Includes a photo of Derrida wearing a pink and blue shirt-tie combo that uncannily foreshadows the colours of the Trans Pride flag.
November 12, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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hypatiabeauvoir.bsky.social
Looking forward to our coming conference this week on “Resistance, Refusal, Survival: Contesting Hostile Environments” and to having this great group of people at @unisg.ch!

Organized together with @christineabbt.bsky.social & @mcbstyler.bsky.social
November 11, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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genderhorizon.com
The New York City Trans Oral History Project has this wonderful two hour oral history with Miss Major. Take some time to listen to it; it's quite extraordinary. We have learned so much from Miss Major. nyctransoralhistory.org/interview/mi...
October 14, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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wgssouth.bsky.social
Check out our 2026 LGBTQ Caucus CFP: "Trans, Intersex, and Queer Freedom Dreams and Futurities"

If you have something to say, let us hear it! Join us at Wake Forest University this March!

Submissions Due Dec. 1st wgssouth.org/2026conference

#lgbtq #queerstudies #southernstudies #academicsky
Purple background with dual, flipped images (reminiscent of tarot cards) of a feminine face with long flowing hair that cascades around the figure's hands, which hold a planet.
November 7, 2025 at 4:17 PM
chris-brighton.bsky.social
It's finally time for the almost-infinitely-deferred gift of Given Time II to be given. Almost.

#Derrida #Heidegger #gift #AcademicSky #AcademicResearch #PhilSky 📚💙
November 6, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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jem.writes.fyi
"the sixties’ movements were really the first opening phase of the dynamic in which the series of “isms” (initiated by the black antiapartheid struggle for civil rights, women’s rights/feminism, indigenous & other of-color rights, gay & lesbian rights) erupted to challenge Man’s episteme, its truth"
Screenshot from Sylvia Wynter and Katherine McKittrick's chapter "Unparalleled catastrophe for our species? Or, to give humanness a different future: Conversations" (2015). Text: Now with respect to the challenges to the single biocentric model of liberal monohumanist Man, the sixties’ movements were really the first opening phase of the dynamic in which the series of “isms” (initiated by the black antiapartheid struggle for civil rights, women’s rights/feminism, indigenous and other of-color rights, gay and lesbian rights, and so forth) had erupted to challenge Man’s episteme, its truth, and therefore its biocentric descriptive statement. And momentarily, they were making these challenges all together. Ah, but when you separate them, you retreat into the bourgeois order of things. And that was the remimeticized Bovaryism trap into which we all fell.39 The sixties’ movements had begun that whole ripping apart of the emperor’s clothes—and remember, the sixties movements had been fueled by the earlier anticolonial movements all over the world, which had climaxed in Vietnam, Algeria, and elsewhere. All such humanly emancipatory struggles, all then so fiercely fought for! You bring them together, and the world system had begun to question itself!
November 6, 2025 at 4:24 AM
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derek.bike
good morning specifically to the FBI agent who introduced Mamdani’s dad to Marx
guy said, “Do you like Marx?” I said, “I haven’t met him.” Guy said, “No, no, he’s dead.” “Wow, what happened?” “No, no, he died long ago.” I thought the guy Marx had just died. So then, “Why are you asking me if he died long ago?” “No, he wrote a lot. He wrote that poor people should not be poor.” I said, “Sounds amazing.” I’m giving you a sense of how naïve I was. After they left, I went to the library to look for Marx. So that was my introduction to Karl Marx. BS: The FBI. MM: The FBI. Then, of course, I took a class on Marx. Couldn’t just get Marx out of the library. But,
November 5, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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reginakanyuwang.bsky.social
Call for inaugural issue of—Polyfora: A Journal of Speculative CoFutures—an interdisciplinary journal devoted to unearthing possible futures, accepting peer-reviewed articles, stories, artworks, and essays from many languages and perspectives:
journal.cofutures.org
November 5, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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sandeepbak.bsky.social
Hello dearies, I've made available online my syllabus for the course titled,

Bodies and Sexualities: Transnational/Queer Feminisms

It's a reading-heavy course (3hours each week, 8 weeks in all) for MA Year 2 students with a guest lecture. You can consult it here: doi.org/10.13140/RG....
November 4, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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leahtigers.bsky.social
several days ago i got my advance copy of Gendertrash, a compilation from @littlepuss.net of the legendary 90s trans zine, which releases today. only holding it did i really grasp the significance of the repub, amount of lost material recovered, and the honor of being asked to write the afterword. x
November 4, 2025 at 5:37 PM
chris-brighton.bsky.social
This conversation between Rosaura Martínez-Ruiz and @danielloick.bsky.social is really instructive in showing why abjection (and other European concepts of constitutive exclusion) must be carefully rethought for understanding structures of violence in the Global South.
#AcademicSky #polphil #polisci
November 4, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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drsamischalk.bsky.social
If you’ve been waiting to get the audio version of my book Black Disability Politics (narrated by @imanibarbarin.bsky.social), it’s currently deeply discounted on @libro.fm!

libro.fm/audiobooks/9...
Black Disability Politics Audiobook on Libro.fm
In Black Disability Politics Sami Schalk explores how issues of disability have been and continue to be central to Black activism from the 1970s to the present. Schalk shows how Black people have long...
libro.fm
November 4, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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criticaltimes1.bsky.social
"By paying closer attention to the hatred of surplus populations in contemporary global fascisms, we can see another dimension of authoritarian domination: not just objectification—disposing the other—but also abjection, disposing of the other."

An Exchange btwn Daniel Loick & Rosaura Martínez-Ruiz
November 3, 2025 at 3:26 PM
chris-brighton.bsky.social
Captivated by this 1988 edition of Ursula Le Guin's Always Coming Home. The artwork by Mike van Houten is beautiful, and the text features numerous illustrations, charts, maps, poems, and even music notation ⤵️

#BookSky #UrsulaLeGuin #speclit #ScienceFiction #FantasyBookSky #illustration 🪐📚 🏺
Photo of the cover of the 1988 edition of Ursula Le Guin's Always Coming Home. The artwork, a painting by Mike van Houten, shows a person standing outside a wood cabin and gazing upon a landscape of mountains and forests, with a small settlement nearby.
November 3, 2025 at 5:36 PM
chris-brighton.bsky.social
Looking forward to this! 🏳️‍⚧️📚

Thank you, @uminnpress.bsky.social, for publishing #TransPhilosophy ❤️‍🔥

🌈📚 🌈🎓 #AcademicSky #BookSky #PhilosophySky #TransStudies
A photograph of a book on an anime-print cushion. It's a copy of Beyond Personhood: An Essay in Trans Philosophy, by Talia Mae Bettcher, published by University of Minnesota Press in 2025. The book cover features large lettering in orange and white on a blue-purple background.
October 31, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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trans-lib-cam.bsky.social
TLC AND FRIENDS DISRUPT CAMBRIDGE BOAT RACE

Here's our statement:
Today we disrupted the University IVs Regatta races, preventing most of the boats from competing. By putting out an inflatable boat into the water for the duration of the racing afternoon, we left rowers unable to race.
October 28, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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darlingorlaith.bsky.social
Send in your abstracts for the Sadness + Gender conference we're holding in June 2026! We have some fantastic keynote speakers and specialist panels lined up and would love to see you all in Dublin! #cfp @ucdhumanities.bsky.social @ucddublin.bsky.social @molimuseum.bsky.social
October 1, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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

doi.org/10.5840%2Fpg...
"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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mybisa.bsky.social
🚨 Call for papers 🚨

Colonial, Postcolonial and Decolonial 12th annual workshop - a one-day in-person event focussing on the ethical commitments of academic research, scholarship and teaching 🎉

Send in your papers now 👉 https://ow.ly/nUy250XjIZw

niharika pandit Sarah Gharib Seif
Call for papers: Colonial, Postcolonial and Decolonial 12th annual workshop- Colonial, Postcolonial and Decolonial (CPD) | BISA
- Colonial, Postcolonial and Decolonial (CPD) Working Group
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October 29, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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wgss-umd.bsky.social
The Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies is hiring an Assistant/Associate Professor in Black Feminisms. Read more about the position and apply at https://go.umd.edu/WGSSBlackFeminisms🌈🎓 #AcademicSky #Blackademics #PhDSky
October 28, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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rebeccajanemorgan.bsky.social
My next book Deviants and Trailblazers: A History of Trans Activism in Britain is in the @plutopress.bsky.social Spring/Summer 2026 catalogue (for a May '26 release)!

This book is the first joined-up history of trans activism in the UK all the ways from the 40s to the present.
October 1, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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humanrightsvicky.bsky.social
Equality and Human Rights Commission FAIL

Its not just trans, its EHRC Incompetence... disabled people have been failed also. Close the EHRC now.

www.disabilitynewsservice.com/ehrc-struggl...
EHRC struggles to justify key omissions from equality and rights report
The human rights watchdog has struggled to explain why its major report on Britain’s “equality and human rights landscape” has ignored key breaches of disabled people’s rights by the UK government.…
www.disabilitynewsservice.com
October 23, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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geneickers.bsky.social
My paper “trans perspectives in philosophy of mind” is out now in APA Studies on Feminism and Philosophy!

#philsky #philosophy #transphilosophy

cdn.ymaws.com/www.apaonlin...
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October 23, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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floresophize.bsky.social
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/
www.apaonline.org
October 23, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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suchmayer.bsky.social
For me it's above sentence level as well: metaphors are the veins of a book, they need to connect and circulate cumulative, connected meanings, not just be rando. They're telling me something about how the narrator thinks & what the book's world map is.
October 22, 2025 at 1:48 PM