emmie malone 🏳️⚧️
@emmiemalone.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Philosophy. Mostly working on genre, popular music, and fashion. Also interested in the global history of philosophy, trans philosophy, and applied ethics! https://sites.google.com/view/emmie-malone/
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An Introduction to Contemporary Aesthetics: Art, Community, and Experience
An Introduction to Contemporary Aesthetics: Art, Community, and Experience gives students and other readers a comprehensive sense of the dynamic issues and problems in aesthetics and philosophy of art...
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As of yesterday, @lizscar.bsky.social and I’s new book, An Introduction to Contemporary Aesthetics: Art, Community, and Experience is officially out! 🥳🥳🥳
You can order it here:
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You can order it here:
www.routledge.com/An-Introduct...
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some pictures from my trip to Paris for the Fashion, Meaning, and Language conference at the French Institute for Fashion! It was great getting to see friends, meet new people, learn, and enjoy the city!
November 23, 2025 at 9:11 AM
some pictures from my trip to Paris for the Fashion, Meaning, and Language conference at the French Institute for Fashion! It was great getting to see friends, meet new people, learn, and enjoy the city!
some pictures from my trip to Paris for the Fashion, Meaning, and Language conference at the French Institute for Fashion! It was great getting to see friends, meet new people, learn, and enjoy the city!
November 23, 2025 at 9:11 AM
some pictures from my trip to Paris for the Fashion, Meaning, and Language conference at the French Institute for Fashion! It was great getting to see friends, meet new people, learn, and enjoy the city!
This question is unironically what is secretly animating my work in both Victorian philosophy and metaphilosophy of fashion and I think I have an answer now!
Why is a philosopher writing the Health and Human Services report on gender transition care for minors
November 20, 2025 at 7:17 AM
This question is unironically what is secretly animating my work in both Victorian philosophy and metaphilosophy of fashion and I think I have an answer now!
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For a story I'm working on for next week, I'd love to chat with queer Texans who can't go home for the holidays. Where do you go? What do you do? Where do you find community? DM me here, or on signal at Kissphoria.57
November 19, 2025 at 4:10 PM
For a story I'm working on for next week, I'd love to chat with queer Texans who can't go home for the holidays. Where do you go? What do you do? Where do you find community? DM me here, or on signal at Kissphoria.57
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periodic reminder of the existence of Atkinson Hyperlegible, a free font available from the Braille Institute designed to improve readability for people with low vision
I use it in talks because it's pretty and also because, as an audience member, I am perpetually squinting at people's slides
I use it in talks because it's pretty and also because, as an audience member, I am perpetually squinting at people's slides
Atkinson Hyperlegible Font - Braille Institute
Read easier with Atkinson Hyperlegible Font, crafted for low-vision readers. Download for free and enjoy clear letters and numbers on your computer!
www.brailleinstitute.org
November 17, 2025 at 4:19 AM
periodic reminder of the existence of Atkinson Hyperlegible, a free font available from the Braille Institute designed to improve readability for people with low vision
I use it in talks because it's pretty and also because, as an audience member, I am perpetually squinting at people's slides
I use it in talks because it's pretty and also because, as an audience member, I am perpetually squinting at people's slides
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CALL FOR PITCHES! Our Spring 2026 edition “the #1 issue: the job market” needs you. See the full CFP on our website. The theme is the job market and the content is however you all need and want to engage with that 💥
November 16, 2025 at 5:04 PM
CALL FOR PITCHES! Our Spring 2026 edition “the #1 issue: the job market” needs you. See the full CFP on our website. The theme is the job market and the content is however you all need and want to engage with that 💥
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The people who think I'm a pervert for using the women's bathroom have resorted to "it's actual ephibilhia"
Megyn Kelly: "I know somebody very close to this case…Jeffrey Epstein, in this person's view, was not a pedophile…He was into the barely legal type, like he liked 15 year old girls…He wasn't into like 8 year olds…There's a difference between a 15 year old and a 5 year old."
November 13, 2025 at 7:19 PM
The people who think I'm a pervert for using the women's bathroom have resorted to "it's actual ephibilhia"
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Thinking about how one of the first Epstein victims was trans and got relentlessly mocked in the media when she spoke up www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/07/when...
When a trans woman first accused Jeffrey Epstein of rape, the media mocked her - LGBTQ Nation
The New York Post called her a "man" and a "gender-bend shocker."
www.lgbtqnation.com
November 13, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Thinking about how one of the first Epstein victims was trans and got relentlessly mocked in the media when she spoke up www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/07/when...
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The latest Bulletin of Applied Transgender Studies is out, and it's a doozy: a special issue on "Dynamics of Transphobic Content and Disinformation".
With topics including Youtube, Mumsnet, LGB Alliance, Chinese TERFs, and transvestigators, this is an vital read! bulletin.appliedtransstudies.org
With topics including Youtube, Mumsnet, LGB Alliance, Chinese TERFs, and transvestigators, this is an vital read! bulletin.appliedtransstudies.org
November 13, 2025 at 11:42 AM
The latest Bulletin of Applied Transgender Studies is out, and it's a doozy: a special issue on "Dynamics of Transphobic Content and Disinformation".
With topics including Youtube, Mumsnet, LGB Alliance, Chinese TERFs, and transvestigators, this is an vital read! bulletin.appliedtransstudies.org
With topics including Youtube, Mumsnet, LGB Alliance, Chinese TERFs, and transvestigators, this is an vital read! bulletin.appliedtransstudies.org
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An analysis of news pieces about Trump’s anti-trans decrees found that “70 percent did not include a quote from a single trans person. Instead, journalists turned to cisgender sources — mostly government officials — to speak about trans people, their lives, and how they would be affected.”
NEW: Firings of LGBTQ staff at NBC and Condé Nast have worsened an already dire picture for legacy news media when it comes to covering the trans community.
From @billiejsweeney.bsky.social, a close look at our increasingly degraded media environment.
www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
From @billiejsweeney.bsky.social, a close look at our increasingly degraded media environment.
www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
Corporate Media’s Queer Purge — Assigned
It’s no coincidence that historic assaults on trans and queer people’s rights have been accompanied by the mainstream media’s widespread dismissal of LGBTQ+ journalists and the elimination of beats de...
www.assignedmedia.org
November 11, 2025 at 10:00 PM
An analysis of news pieces about Trump’s anti-trans decrees found that “70 percent did not include a quote from a single trans person. Instead, journalists turned to cisgender sources — mostly government officials — to speak about trans people, their lives, and how they would be affected.”
One of my girlfriends is a funeral director. They have an ethics course about how frequently surviving family instruct staff to try to detransition the body and bury them under their deadname. I’m sure her mom means well but trans people are very familiar with the failures of this generalization.
Do you not think it's bizarre to have strangers on the internet decide they know better than Brianna's own loved ones on what is or isn't insulting to her memory?
I've got no time for Rosie Duffield, but she turned up at a drop-in event in Parliament and that's been the limit of her involvement.
I've got no time for Rosie Duffield, but she turned up at a drop-in event in Parliament and that's been the limit of her involvement.
November 12, 2025 at 2:08 AM
One of my girlfriends is a funeral director. They have an ethics course about how frequently surviving family instruct staff to try to detransition the body and bury them under their deadname. I’m sure her mom means well but trans people are very familiar with the failures of this generalization.
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1. Last week, we reported on WSU certifying an anti-trans SPLC-designated hate group to teach medicine.
Now, S. Baum has uncovered that the Michigan State Medical Society has certified anti-trans hate group Genspect to teach medical workers.
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Now, S. Baum has uncovered that the Michigan State Medical Society has certified anti-trans hate group Genspect to teach medical workers.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
Michigan State Medical Society Greenlights Anti-Trans Hate Group Genspect to Teach Trans Medicine
Anti-trans rhetoric—sponsored by Moms for Liberty, and brought to you by Genspect—could be coming to a clinician near you via CME.
www.erininthemorning.com
November 10, 2025 at 10:52 PM
1. Last week, we reported on WSU certifying an anti-trans SPLC-designated hate group to teach medicine.
Now, S. Baum has uncovered that the Michigan State Medical Society has certified anti-trans hate group Genspect to teach medical workers.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
Now, S. Baum has uncovered that the Michigan State Medical Society has certified anti-trans hate group Genspect to teach medical workers.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
reminded of something I wrote two years ago
November 10, 2025 at 4:31 PM
reminded of something I wrote two years ago
love that like 70% of the answer is just to rightfully treat aesthetics as core lol
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November 10, 2025 at 3:57 PM
love that like 70% of the answer is just to rightfully treat aesthetics as core lol
This reasoning is so disingenuous. There are two very clearly indicated ‘historical facts’ on the passport, “place of birth” and “date of birth”. The passport says “sex” not “sex at birth”, so it seems pretty clear that it is not intended to be a historical fact.
6. In this new shadow docket ruling, the conservative court has determined with virtually no analysis that the policy did not stem from animus towards transgender people and was not arbitrary and capricious in violation of the APA.
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birth. The United States District Court for the District of
Massachusetts preliminarily enjoined the Government
from enforcing the policy, and the First Circuit declined to
stay the injunction pending appeal. The Government then
filed this stay application. Applying our familiar stay factors
at this preliminary stage, we grant the application.
Displaying passport holders’ sex at birth no more offends
equal protection principles than displaying their country of
birth—in both cases, the Government is merely attestintgo
a historical fact without subjecting anyone to differential
treatment. And on this record, respondents have failed to
establish that the Government's choice to display biological
sex “lack[s] any purpose other than a bare ... desire to
harm a politically unpopular group.” Trump v. Hawaii, 585
U.S. 667, 705 (2018) (internal quotation marks omitted)
Nor are respondents likely to prevail in arguing that the
State Department acted arbitrarily and capriciously by declining
to depart from Presidential rules that Congress expressly
required it to follow. See 22 U.S. C. §211a.
For these reasons, the Government is likely to succeed on
the merits. And the District Court's grant of class-wide relief
enjoins enforcement of an Executive Branch policy with
foreign affairs implications concerning a Government document.
In light of the foregoing, the Government will
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ON APPLICATION FOR STAY
[November 6, 2025]
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November 6, 2025 at 10:43 PM
This reasoning is so disingenuous. There are two very clearly indicated ‘historical facts’ on the passport, “place of birth” and “date of birth”. The passport says “sex” not “sex at birth”, so it seems pretty clear that it is not intended to be a historical fact.
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I'm still not quite happy with this, and I'm still messing with the readings. But this is where I am landing for a philosophy of music course. Please offer feedback, suggestions, criticisms, etc. This is my first time teaching this, and pulling together a good narrative has been tough
November 3, 2025 at 5:14 PM
I'm still not quite happy with this, and I'm still messing with the readings. But this is where I am landing for a philosophy of music course. Please offer feedback, suggestions, criticisms, etc. This is my first time teaching this, and pulling together a good narrative has been tough
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whatever you think of Spanberger, the fact that her opponent ran a campaign based almost entirely on transphobia and is on track to eat shit in the biggest blowout the state has seen since 2009 is unambiguously a huge win
Earle-Sears ran what felt like 12 billion ads about how much she hated trans kids and I didn’t hear a single pundit say she should stick to real issues that affect real people.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrat Abigail Spanberger wins Virginia governor’s race.
November 5, 2025 at 1:27 AM
whatever you think of Spanberger, the fact that her opponent ran a campaign based almost entirely on transphobia and is on track to eat shit in the biggest blowout the state has seen since 2009 is unambiguously a huge win
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From Evan: it's a huge night of hope for the trans community. The Republicans went all in on anti-trans ads in multiple races and so far there's no sign it got them anything.
Perhaps the page can be turned on blaming us for Harris' loss last year.
Perhaps the page can be turned on blaming us for Harris' loss last year.
November 5, 2025 at 1:51 AM
From Evan: it's a huge night of hope for the trans community. The Republicans went all in on anti-trans ads in multiple races and so far there's no sign it got them anything.
Perhaps the page can be turned on blaming us for Harris' loss last year.
Perhaps the page can be turned on blaming us for Harris' loss last year.
a hot take about philosophy conferences: ABOLISH TALKS
We do everything the same, submit, get accepted, get assigned a commentator, get that feedback ahead of time, make the program, give it to the university, but then, when you get there, there are no talks and everyone just hangs out at the bar.
We do everything the same, submit, get accepted, get assigned a commentator, get that feedback ahead of time, make the program, give it to the university, but then, when you get there, there are no talks and everyone just hangs out at the bar.
November 1, 2025 at 9:00 PM
a hot take about philosophy conferences: ABOLISH TALKS
We do everything the same, submit, get accepted, get assigned a commentator, get that feedback ahead of time, make the program, give it to the university, but then, when you get there, there are no talks and everyone just hangs out at the bar.
We do everything the same, submit, get accepted, get assigned a commentator, get that feedback ahead of time, make the program, give it to the university, but then, when you get there, there are no talks and everyone just hangs out at the bar.
a Halloween-adjacent professional heuristic I live by & give as (probably bad) advice to grad students:
dress in a costume themed to your talk every time you present at a conference. If what you are talking about is too abstract to be made into a costume then that topic is too abstract to work on.
dress in a costume themed to your talk every time you present at a conference. If what you are talking about is too abstract to be made into a costume then that topic is too abstract to work on.
November 1, 2025 at 8:51 PM
a Halloween-adjacent professional heuristic I live by & give as (probably bad) advice to grad students:
dress in a costume themed to your talk every time you present at a conference. If what you are talking about is too abstract to be made into a costume then that topic is too abstract to work on.
dress in a costume themed to your talk every time you present at a conference. If what you are talking about is too abstract to be made into a costume then that topic is too abstract to work on.
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got to fulfill a lifelong dream of dressing as velma and getting to talk philosophy of scooby doo for halloween! 🎃 🎃
November 1, 2025 at 8:04 AM
got to fulfill a lifelong dream of dressing as velma and getting to talk philosophy of scooby doo for halloween! 🎃 🎃
got to fulfill a lifelong dream of dressing as velma and getting to talk philosophy of scooby doo for halloween! 🎃 🎃
November 1, 2025 at 8:04 AM
got to fulfill a lifelong dream of dressing as velma and getting to talk philosophy of scooby doo for halloween! 🎃 🎃
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for halloween, i wrote about how dressing up as madonna for halloween made me realize that i could actually just transition, open to see my bad madonna costume open.substack.com/pub/myownsum...
Halloween is a transgender holiday!
The experience of discovering yourself in a disguise.
open.substack.com
October 31, 2025 at 1:09 PM
for halloween, i wrote about how dressing up as madonna for halloween made me realize that i could actually just transition, open to see my bad madonna costume open.substack.com/pub/myownsum...
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NEW: ICE is planning to build a shadow deportation network in Texas. A proposal outlines a 24/7 transport operation run by armed contractors—turning Texas into the logistical backbone of an industrialized deportation machine.
My latest @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/ice-is...
My latest @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/ice-is...
October 30, 2025 at 4:52 PM
NEW: ICE is planning to build a shadow deportation network in Texas. A proposal outlines a 24/7 transport operation run by armed contractors—turning Texas into the logistical backbone of an industrialized deportation machine.
My latest @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/ice-is...
My latest @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/ice-is...
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If you're worried about Trump trying to ban trans healthcare for youth across the country, I highly encourage you to revisit this piece.
AIDS activism, which saved millions of lives, has shown us that queer people can win our healthcare if we fight for it, even when the government wants us dead.
AIDS activism, which saved millions of lives, has shown us that queer people can win our healthcare if we fight for it, even when the government wants us dead.
Dr Anthony Fauci responded to the protests with concessions to the loved ones of the thousands of queer people dying from AIDS.
And today, many AIDS activists are calling for trans people to learn from their movement to protect their own healthcare, as @madycast.com wrote earlier this year.
And today, many AIDS activists are calling for trans people to learn from their movement to protect their own healthcare, as @madycast.com wrote earlier this year.
Reagan-Era AIDS Activists Call for New ACT UP-Style Movement for Trans Liberation
In an exclusive interview, two prominent members of ACT UP, which has been credited with saving millions of lives, hope to inspire younger LGBTQ activists to embark on a bold trans liberation movement
transnews.network
October 30, 2025 at 6:04 PM
If you're worried about Trump trying to ban trans healthcare for youth across the country, I highly encourage you to revisit this piece.
AIDS activism, which saved millions of lives, has shown us that queer people can win our healthcare if we fight for it, even when the government wants us dead.
AIDS activism, which saved millions of lives, has shown us that queer people can win our healthcare if we fight for it, even when the government wants us dead.