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Mary Edwards
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Philosophy Lecturer, Cardiff University | feminist philosophy, continental philosophy, psychoanalytic theory, philosophy of technology | she/her
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Another. Once upon a time there would have been consequences for a company that knowingly enabled this, including a consumer revolt.
ChatGPT encouraged college graduate to commit suicide, family claims in lawsuit against OpenAI | CNN
A 23-year-old man killed himself in Texas after ChatGPT ‘goaded’ him to commit suicide, his family says in a lawsuit.
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November 7, 2025 at 8:13 AM
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More feminist rage! A President, a head of state, a woman, cannot walk on the street without being sexuslly harassed! #killthepatriarchy
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Mexico president to seek charges after being groped on street
Claudia Sheinbaum says she is pressing charges because "a line must be drawn" against the harassment of Mexican women.
www.bbc.com
November 7, 2025 at 8:10 AM
“Women do not need full rights but rather the freeing privilege of serving men, their community, and their nation through dutiful reproduction” — Great analysis of some very troubling trends on the Right by @aselrod.bsky.social
Some on the far right want to repeal the 19th amendment. Many more share a coercive, patriarchal view of women.

I wrote about this and how the far right sees subjugating women as key to building the sort of electorate they need to win. @liberalcurrents.com

www.liberalcurrents.com/women-should...
Women Should Make Babies, Not Vote: Why Some on the Far Right Want to Repeal the 19th Amendment
The far right takes losses at the ballot box as evidence that women do not deserve their rights.
www.liberalcurrents.com
November 6, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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✨CFA✨

I’m hosting a workshop on Social AI at the Uni of Exeter, generously funded by the Society of Applied Philosophy (10&11 Feb). If you fancy joining us to present your work, please submit an abstract!

Confirmed speakers: Rob Clowes, Pii Telakivi, Joel Krueger, Tom Roberts, & me. #philsky
October 28, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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🎈Book launch!

The Penguin Book of Existentialist Philosophy
edited by Jonathan Webber

Wednesday 12 November 2025 : 18:00 - 19:30
Oat & Bean, 26 Park Place, Cardiff CF10 3BA

Everyone is welcome! No need to register. Just turn up!
October 26, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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1 October 1945:

The first issue of Les Temps Modernes is published –– a monthly cultural and political journal led by Sartre and Beauvoir, with a host of other major figures on the editorial board.

The journal is named after a Charlie Chaplin film. Pablo Picasso designed the cover.
October 1, 2025 at 6:26 AM
Here, I review the final instalment of the English translation of Simone de Beauvoir’s student diary as well as Margaret A. Simons’s treatment of the sexual assault it alludes to.
The latest issue of Sartre Studies International has been published! View the TOC and more for Volume 31, Issue 1 here: bit.ly/4pC8gX1

Featuring a Review Essay by @mary-l-edwards.bsky.social
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September 30, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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The latest issue of Sartre Studies International has been published! View the TOC and more for Volume 31, Issue 1 here: bit.ly/4pC8gX1

Featuring a Review Essay by @mary-l-edwards.bsky.social
@uksartresociety.bsky.social
September 24, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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Excited to share "Religious Freedom and Meaning Vertigo: A Social Imaginaries Analysis of ‘The Persecuted Faithful’ in The Australian’s Op-Eds" forthcoming in For, Against, Together: Antagonistic Political Emotions edited by the brilliant @lucyosler.bsky.social & Thomas Szanto
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Religious Freedom and Meaning Vertigo: A Social Imaginaries Analysis of ‘The Persecuted Faithful’ in The Australian’s Op-Eds
In Australia, divisive debate on the matter of religious freedom has come to the fore following the introduction of marriage equality in 2017 and increasing protections against trans and gender divers...
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August 28, 2025 at 6:13 AM
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Only 4️⃣ days left to submit to the 10th SWIP Ireland Conference on Ways of Knowing: Epistemologies & Pedagogies

📅 5–6 Dec 2025
📍Maynooth University

📝 Abstracts (max 300 words) due 1 Sept.
👉 www.swip-ireland.com/events

#CFP #Philosophy
Events — SWIP Ireland
www.swip-ireland.com
August 28, 2025 at 9:48 AM
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Don’t miss @philosofemme.bsky.social on Simone de Beauvoir and French Existentialism @ Blackwells Oxford 11am Saturday 3rd May - free event #philosophyinthebookshop www.eventbrite.com/e/philosophy...
PHILOSOPHY IN THE BOOKSHOP with Kate Kirkpatrick and Nigel Warburton
Our regular Philosophy in the Bookshop series this month features Kate Kirkpatrick on Simone De Beauvoir and French existentialism.
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April 25, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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“Phenomenologies of Mental Health, Well-Being, and Flourishing”
Call for abstracts and proposals - Interdisciplinary Conference September 19-20, 2025, Lehigh University, College of Health
www.britishphenomenology.org.uk/phenomenolog...
#Phenomenology
March 3, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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Given the current political environment, essays devoted to the theme of complicity and resistance are especially encouraged. 🔥
📝We invite abstracts on the works of Beauvoir to be presented at the International Sdb Society (SdBS) affiliate session of the 2025 meeting of the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (SPEP), which will be held online.
beauvoir.weebly.com/events-and-c...
SdBS at SPEP 2025 due May 1, 2025
Call for abstracts Beauvoir Society at SPEP October 17-18 and 24-25 Online We invite abstracts on the works of Simone de Beauvoir to be presented at the International Simone de Beauvoir Society...
beauvoir.weebly.com
March 3, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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Book launch!

Meaning: A Very Short Introduction
by Emma Borg and Sarah Fisher

Wednesday, 26 February 2025
18:00-19:00

Cathays, Cardiff

Full details ––
Book launch! Meaning: A Very Short Introduction
Join us to celebrate the publication of a new book co-authored by Cardiff University philosopher Dr Sarah Fisher.
www.cardiff.ac.uk
February 25, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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Lifeworlds in Crisis: Applying Phenomenology (Dublin, Ireland | 27 – 29 August 2025)
Call for abstracts – papers, panels, posters, books
Joint international conference: British Society for Phenomenology & University College Dublin
sites.google.com/view/licdubl...
#phenomenology
February 25, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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Do you have a stellar track record in #Ethics and #Philosophy of Technology (inc. AI)? Want to be my colleague at University College Dublin? Good news: we’re hiring! Full details below, with further information about the Ad Astra programme at www.ucd.ie/adastrafello.... #PhilJobs #PhilTech #AIEthics
UCD School of #Philosophy is looking to hire an Ad Astra Fellow in #Ethics and Philosophy of Technology, inc. ethics of AI (5-year fixed-term, leading to permanent subject to performance). For details, see my.corehr.com/pls/coreport.... Closing date: 21st Feb. #PhilSky #PhilTech #AIEthics #PhilJobs
January 24, 2025 at 5:02 PM
And it includes @nonamename.bsky.social’s brilliant paper on silencing conversational silences! 🙌
The new issue of Hypatia, 39.4 Fall 2024, has just been published, and it's a bumper issue: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
January 25, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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Opening next week: the first solo exhibition of paintings by Hélène de Beauvoir in London.

Her work was first exhibited in Paris in 1936 in the Galerie Jacques Bonjean—a gallery cofounded by Christian Dior in his first career as an art dealer.
artplugged.co.uk/helene-de-be...
Hélène de Beauvoir: The Woman Destroyed
Hélène de Beauvoir: The Woman Destroyed marks the artist’s first solo show in London, revealing decades of overlooked work and a legacy intertwined with feminism
artplugged.co.uk
January 17, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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Looking forward to our evening discussionof tradwives, Barbiecore, TikTok fandom, trans affect, and more at Tramshed tonight!

Tickets free and a few still available (eventbrite link below)💫

#cardiff
We are hosting an event at Tramshed in Cardiff on 12th December on “Re(Presentation): Selves, Communities, and Digital Transformations” - discussing trans communities, tradwives, and TikTok trends with the amazing @geneickers.bsky.social, Tracy Llanera, Louise Richardson-Self, and Meena Saverimuttu
December 12, 2024 at 11:20 AM
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TOMORROW!

Heads up; if you're attending online you need to register -- otherwise the Zoom link won't work.

www.eventbrite.com.au/e/online-dig...

@cardiffphilosophy.bsky.social @uconn.bsky.social @utas.edu.au
December 12, 2024 at 12:33 PM
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November 29, 2024 at 2:44 PM
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Resources for Bluesky philosophers

1. Some recommendations to get you started
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2. Philosophy and subject-specific feeds
bsky.app/profile/did:... (uses #philosophy, #PhilSky & other hashtags)

3. A list of philosophers on Bluesky (under construction)
bsky.app/profile/did:...
November 12, 2024 at 12:41 PM
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For years now we've seen increasing criminalisation of drill music & artists in the UK and the US. Tareeq Jalloh, Ethan Nowak & I are organising a hybrid, interdiciplinary event surrounding these issues, focussing on social justice, freeom and rap. Register here www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/folks-need...
November 14, 2024 at 7:45 AM