Kate Kirkpatrick
@philosofemme.bsky.social
Philosopher, Oxford | Post-Kantian European Philosophy, Feminism, and Religion | katekirkpatrick.co.uk
Also enjoy photography 📸
Also enjoy photography 📸
After the rain
November 23, 2025 at 11:38 AM
After the rain
This week I hosted some wonderful scholars for an interdisciplinary workshop on r*pe in law and culture. Thanks to @manongarcia.bsky.social @veragraf.bsky.social @claremcglynn.bsky.social and all the participants for making it such an enriching and encouraging exchange.
November 22, 2025 at 5:42 PM
This week I hosted some wonderful scholars for an interdisciplinary workshop on r*pe in law and culture. Thanks to @manongarcia.bsky.social @veragraf.bsky.social @claremcglynn.bsky.social and all the participants for making it such an enriching and encouraging exchange.
Last leaves in first light
November 17, 2025 at 8:24 AM
Last leaves in first light
“When faced with greed, envy, calumny, perfidy, or lies, people […] say indulgently, ‘That's human!’ With an excuse like that, they clearly show that they are renouncing any expectations of generosity or greatness from man.”
—Simone de Beauvoir
In this new 🐧 📕 ed. @jonathanwebber.bsky.social 👏 👇
—Simone de Beauvoir
In this new 🐧 📕 ed. @jonathanwebber.bsky.social 👏 👇
November 15, 2025 at 4:15 PM
“When faced with greed, envy, calumny, perfidy, or lies, people […] say indulgently, ‘That's human!’ With an excuse like that, they clearly show that they are renouncing any expectations of generosity or greatness from man.”
—Simone de Beauvoir
In this new 🐧 📕 ed. @jonathanwebber.bsky.social 👏 👇
—Simone de Beauvoir
In this new 🐧 📕 ed. @jonathanwebber.bsky.social 👏 👇
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Buckle up - because this now amounts to a direct and deliberate attack on our country and its cultural sovereignty. Which side our politicians take - Trump's or the BBC's - over the coming days and weeks will speak volumes about their patriotism.
Trump says he will sue BBC for at least $1bn over Panorama edit
The US president confirmed he intends to sue the broadcaster for at least $1bn over the Panorama edit of a 2021 speech.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 15, 2025 at 7:10 AM
Buckle up - because this now amounts to a direct and deliberate attack on our country and its cultural sovereignty. Which side our politicians take - Trump's or the BBC's - over the coming days and weeks will speak volumes about their patriotism.
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Disturbing analysis from SkyNews on how X is strongly biased in favour of rightwing content, and also in favour of posts with extremist statements. Musk bought X to have political influence - the obvious explanation, but now we get some of the data to support it.
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
The X Effect: How Elon Musk is boosting the British right
For nine months, Sky News' Data and Forensics team has been investigating whether X's algorithm amplifies right-wing and extreme content. It does.
news.sky.com
November 13, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Disturbing analysis from SkyNews on how X is strongly biased in favour of rightwing content, and also in favour of posts with extremist statements. Musk bought X to have political influence - the obvious explanation, but now we get some of the data to support it.
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
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Just one of those emails would bring down any politician in any democratic country.
November 13, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Just one of those emails would bring down any politician in any democratic country.
“The real conspiracy theory around Trump and Epstein is that multiple apparently unconnected women lied, and continue to lie, about Trump’s behavior. This with nothing to gain, and much to lose, by speaking out about his misdeeds.”
I love seeing a shred of accountability for Trump as much as anyone, but it's pretty striking that most people are prepared to believe a man who's a convicted serial rapist-sex trafficker and NOT ALL THESE WOMEN katemanne.substack.com/p/the-actual...
The Actual Conspiracy Theory Surrounding Trump and Epstein
It’s not what you think it is.
katemanne.substack.com
November 13, 2025 at 7:52 AM
“The real conspiracy theory around Trump and Epstein is that multiple apparently unconnected women lied, and continue to lie, about Trump’s behavior. This with nothing to gain, and much to lose, by speaking out about his misdeeds.”
Luminous limestone
November 8, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Luminous limestone
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Upcoming Philosophy in the Bookshop dates with @philosophybites.bsky.social (and guest chaired by Mette Hoeg and @philosofemme.bsky.social )
Featuring @davidbatherwoods.bsky.social Clare Carlisle @manongarcia.bsky.social and @anthonygottlieb.bsky.social
Book now @blackwells.bsky.social
Featuring @davidbatherwoods.bsky.social Clare Carlisle @manongarcia.bsky.social and @anthonygottlieb.bsky.social
Book now @blackwells.bsky.social
November 5, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Upcoming Philosophy in the Bookshop dates with @philosophybites.bsky.social (and guest chaired by Mette Hoeg and @philosofemme.bsky.social )
Featuring @davidbatherwoods.bsky.social Clare Carlisle @manongarcia.bsky.social and @anthonygottlieb.bsky.social
Book now @blackwells.bsky.social
Featuring @davidbatherwoods.bsky.social Clare Carlisle @manongarcia.bsky.social and @anthonygottlieb.bsky.social
Book now @blackwells.bsky.social
Out this month (for those of you interested in Kierkegaard and French philosophy)
TOC below 👇
TOC below 👇
November 5, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Out this month (for those of you interested in Kierkegaard and French philosophy)
TOC below 👇
TOC below 👇
“France joins a number of countries that had updated their rape laws in light of the #MeToo movement in 2016, according to a 2024 study of rape laws in Europe. Since 2016, at least a dozen OECD member countries […] adopted consent-based rape laws.”
time.com/7330026/gise...
time.com/7330026/gise...
France Just Updated Its Rape Law to Center Consent
France is the latest country to change its criminal code to a consent-based definition of rape, but other developed countries still haven’t.
time.com
October 31, 2025 at 7:32 PM
“France joins a number of countries that had updated their rape laws in light of the #MeToo movement in 2016, according to a 2024 study of rape laws in Europe. Since 2016, at least a dozen OECD member countries […] adopted consent-based rape laws.”
time.com/7330026/gise...
time.com/7330026/gise...
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Good morning, America, from Europe. There have been some rough mornings for a European to wake up to news from across the Atlantic. But today, the message you’ve sent – the crowds, the energy, the hope – feels deeply uplifting and hopeful #NoKings
Good evening. We estimate that between 4.2 and 7.6 million people turned out for the No Kings Day demonstrations held around the country on Saturday. This makes Oct 18 very likely the biggest single-day U.S. protest event since 1970. www.gelliottmorris.com/p/second-no-...
Second "No Kings Day" protests likely the largest single-day political demonstration since 1970, with 4.2-7.6 million participants
Here are the initial results from our crowdsourced crowd-counting estimates
www.gelliottmorris.com
October 19, 2025 at 5:15 AM
Good morning, America, from Europe. There have been some rough mornings for a European to wake up to news from across the Atlantic. But today, the message you’ve sent – the crowds, the energy, the hope – feels deeply uplifting and hopeful #NoKings
October 19, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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This video is as described and so disgusting that obviously you shouldn’t watch it, but you should know that he really did post it
"Mr. President sir the idea is you're constantly flying around in a big jet filled with your own shit in it. Like human shit. Anyways you're wearing a little crown in your little shitmobile and you're dumping the shit out. I think people will like it."
and another thing: he’s not mad. please don’t put it in the newspaper that he got mad.
October 19, 2025 at 7:28 AM
This video is as described and so disgusting that obviously you shouldn’t watch it, but you should know that he really did post it
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I wrote something about analytic Philospphy, and Christoph Schuringa’s book for the Ideas Letter @stefanschubert.bsky.social @lbenardo.bsky.social www.theideasletter.org/essay/bloodl...
“Bloodless Pedantry” - The Ideas Letter
The academic study of philosophy tends to inspire contempt, from within and from without. Stephen Hawking’s pompous pronouncement in 2010 that “philosophy is dead” is just one version of a…
www.theideasletter.org
October 17, 2025 at 7:00 AM
I wrote something about analytic Philospphy, and Christoph Schuringa’s book for the Ideas Letter @stefanschubert.bsky.social @lbenardo.bsky.social www.theideasletter.org/essay/bloodl...
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Zoe Williams interviews feminist philosopher @manongarcia.bsky.social - the English translation of her book about the Pelicot trial was published last week
‘These men think they’ve done nothing wrong’: the philosopher who tried to understand Gisèle Pelicot’s rapists
When 50 men went on trial in France, accused of raping a woman who had been drugged by her husband, Manon Garcia was in the courtroom – and in the prosecutors’ closing arguments. How does she make sen...
www.theguardian.com
October 13, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Zoe Williams interviews feminist philosopher @manongarcia.bsky.social - the English translation of her book about the Pelicot trial was published last week
Magdalen Tower from the Thames Path
October 12, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Magdalen Tower from the Thames Path
Morning light on the first day of term @regentsox.bsky.social
October 6, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Morning light on the first day of term @regentsox.bsky.social
JOB: Associate Professor or Professor in the Faculty of Philosophy, in association with a Tutorial Fellowship at Merton College. AoS Ethics and/or Political Philosophy, with at least an AoC in Feminist Philosophy.
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Associate Professorship or Professorship of Philosophy - Philosophy APTFC at University of Oxford
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October 3, 2025 at 1:14 PM
JOB: Associate Professor or Professor in the Faculty of Philosophy, in association with a Tutorial Fellowship at Merton College. AoS Ethics and/or Political Philosophy, with at least an AoC in Feminist Philosophy.
#PhilJobs
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#PhilJobs
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A memorial for my sister Helen De Cruz will take place on 19 October, both online (hosted by Blake Hereth) and in Brussels (Royal Library of Belgium). tally.so/r/3yLRJd
Celebration of the life of Helen De Cruz - 19 October 2025
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October 1, 2025 at 7:17 AM
A memorial for my sister Helen De Cruz will take place on 19 October, both online (hosted by Blake Hereth) and in Brussels (Royal Library of Belgium). tally.so/r/3yLRJd
Hard copy of this arrived!
⬇️ Including a new paper by me on Beauvoir and love, available open access, ICYMI. ⬇️
⬇️ Including a new paper by me on Beauvoir and love, available open access, ICYMI. ⬇️
September 30, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Hard copy of this arrived!
⬇️ Including a new paper by me on Beauvoir and love, available open access, ICYMI. ⬇️
⬇️ Including a new paper by me on Beauvoir and love, available open access, ICYMI. ⬇️
Oxford was full of people graduating today, which reminded me that it has been 15 years since I started my postgraduate studies—and became a mother.
(Photo posted with permission from this now-not-so-small-one.)
(Photo posted with permission from this now-not-so-small-one.)
September 27, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Oxford was full of people graduating today, which reminded me that it has been 15 years since I started my postgraduate studies—and became a mother.
(Photo posted with permission from this now-not-so-small-one.)
(Photo posted with permission from this now-not-so-small-one.)