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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· 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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Turned off the Supreme Court arguments against transfemmes, trans women, and trans girls in sport and am instead explaining to the cat why SCOTUS needs to be abolished (and sending friends photos of said cat), we all cope in different ways
January 13, 2026 at 5:08 PM
Turned off the Supreme Court arguments against transfemmes, trans women, and trans girls in sport and am instead explaining to the cat why SCOTUS needs to be abolished (and sending friends photos of said cat), we all cope in different ways
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In 1985, a compilation of about 50 testimonies of (former and current) lesbian nuns was published. It has largely been forgotten, but in its day a shocking 150,000 copies were on the market, and it was published in 11 countries. Here is why you should read it now. 1/
January 13, 2026 at 11:06 AM
In 1985, a compilation of about 50 testimonies of (former and current) lesbian nuns was published. It has largely been forgotten, but in its day a shocking 150,000 copies were on the market, and it was published in 11 countries. Here is why you should read it now. 1/
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Ding is one of the most exciting new voices in philosophy of gender I’ve seen in a long time
Essay link in the original post 👇
Essay link in the original post 👇
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.)
January 10, 2026 at 6:11 PM
Ding is one of the most exciting new voices in philosophy of gender I’ve seen in a long time
Essay link in the original post 👇
Essay link in the original post 👇
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What a joke academic philosophy is that this is what they’re rallying around when it’s about persecuting trans folks. Academic philosophy is basically just teams sports. This shirt is as bad as the “Plato’s Search and Rescue Team,”
January 8, 2026 at 11:54 PM
What a joke academic philosophy is that this is what they’re rallying around when it’s about persecuting trans folks. Academic philosophy is basically just teams sports. This shirt is as bad as the “Plato’s Search and Rescue Team,”
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Eastern APA people: come hang!
2026 Eastern APA goers: We’re hosting a session on the status of trans people in the profession, and an alt-smoker Friday night at a local queer club. Hope to see you there 🫶🏼
January 7, 2026 at 7:50 PM
Eastern APA people: come hang!
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every year I read all the bios on this post and ball and buy way too many cookies 🥹🥹😫😫
1. Did you know that Girl Scouts has, for a long time, accepted trans girls and nonbinary scouts?
Trans kids are under attack. Every year, I make a thread of trans and nonbinary girl scouts you can get your cookies from.
Lets get our cookies from them this year in solidarity!
Trans kids are under attack. Every year, I make a thread of trans and nonbinary girl scouts you can get your cookies from.
Lets get our cookies from them this year in solidarity!
2026 Trans Girl Scouts To Order Cookies From!
This year, consider ordering your Girl Scout cookies from a trans girl scout to make their day!
www.erininthemorning.com
January 7, 2026 at 1:44 AM
every year I read all the bios on this post and ball and buy way too many cookies 🥹🥹😫😫
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Remember when cancel culture was gonna come for Aristotle?
From an email to one of our faculty members....
Not even Plato can escape censorship at Texas A&M!
Not even Plato can escape censorship at Texas A&M!
January 7, 2026 at 1:24 AM
Remember when cancel culture was gonna come for Aristotle?
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A devastating story about the life and death of Lia Smith, a transgender woman and college student targeted by conservatives online because she briefly participated on the school's diving team. Lia was found dead by suicide last fall at the age of 21.
(Unlocked article below)
(Unlocked article below)
At Middlebury, She Hoped to Start Fresh. In Trump’s America, It Seemed Impossible.
www.nytimes.com
January 5, 2026 at 8:40 PM
A devastating story about the life and death of Lia Smith, a transgender woman and college student targeted by conservatives online because she briefly participated on the school's diving team. Lia was found dead by suicide last fall at the age of 21.
(Unlocked article below)
(Unlocked article below)
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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...
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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/