Caleb Ward
@calebw.bsky.social
Social and political philosophy, feminism, social change
The Unflinching Philosophy of Audre Lorde, forthcoming 2026
Postdoc at Uni Hamburg
Photo by Frank Ward, 1999
https://www.calebward.xyz/
The Unflinching Philosophy of Audre Lorde, forthcoming 2026
Postdoc at Uni Hamburg
Photo by Frank Ward, 1999
https://www.calebward.xyz/
even my parents are unsubscribing! My mom has read the NYT since like 1962. The paper's completely lost the thread
January 20, 2026 at 8:18 PM
even my parents are unsubscribing! My mom has read the NYT since like 1962. The paper's completely lost the thread
Anyway, if you want to help ppl keep their neighbors afloat and get legal representation for ppl in immigrant court, here's a link I can vouch 1000% for. It was set up by the partner of my friend.
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January 20, 2026 at 8:16 PM
Anyway, if you want to help ppl keep their neighbors afloat and get legal representation for ppl in immigrant court, here's a link I can vouch 1000% for. It was set up by the partner of my friend.
www.gofundme.com/f/south-minn...
www.gofundme.com/f/south-minn...
She says the Latin supermarkets are full of white ppl taking pictures of products with their phones and waiting for texts cuz they’re shopping for neighbors.
January 20, 2026 at 6:15 PM
She says the Latin supermarkets are full of white ppl taking pictures of products with their phones and waiting for texts cuz they’re shopping for neighbors.
I recall the coverage of how bot farms work on Twitter, where they establish a few thousand accounts and then activate them all to like and comment on each others' posts to drum up a sense of validity of whatever scam is being sold. Maybe it's a sleeper cell
January 20, 2026 at 3:29 PM
I recall the coverage of how bot farms work on Twitter, where they establish a few thousand accounts and then activate them all to like and comment on each others' posts to drum up a sense of validity of whatever scam is being sold. Maybe it's a sleeper cell
Fraser responds again: newleftreview.org/issues/i223/...
She fleshes this out more in "Social justice in the age of identity politics: redistribution, recognition, participation"
She fleshes this out more in "Social justice in the age of identity politics: redistribution, recognition, participation"
Nancy Fraser, A Rejoinder to Iris Young, NLR I/223, May–June 1997
Iris Young and I seem to inhabit different worlds. In her world, there are no divisions between the social Left and the cultural Left. Proponents of cultural politics work cooperatively with proponent...
newleftreview.org
January 20, 2026 at 3:27 PM
Fraser responds again: newleftreview.org/issues/i223/...
She fleshes this out more in "Social justice in the age of identity politics: redistribution, recognition, participation"
She fleshes this out more in "Social justice in the age of identity politics: redistribution, recognition, participation"
Young responds: newleftreview.org/issues/i222/...
Iris Marion Young, Unruly Categories: A Critique of Nancy Fraser’s Dual Systems Theory, NLR I/222, March–April 1997
Have theorists of justice forgotten about political economy? Have we traced the most important injustices to cultural roots? Is it time for critical social theory to reassert a basic distinction betwe...
newleftreview.org
January 20, 2026 at 3:27 PM
Young responds: newleftreview.org/issues/i222/...
There are many articles back and forth. One reason it's interesting is because they're sort of talking past each other.
Fraser's first is the link blurbed below, which she develops more in a couple pieces in the period.
Fraser's first is the link blurbed below, which she develops more in a couple pieces in the period.
Recognition or Redistribution? A Critical Reading of Iris Young's Justice and the Politics of Difference*
Click on the article title to read more.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
January 20, 2026 at 3:27 PM
There are many articles back and forth. One reason it's interesting is because they're sort of talking past each other.
Fraser's first is the link blurbed below, which she develops more in a couple pieces in the period.
Fraser's first is the link blurbed below, which she develops more in a couple pieces in the period.
I think Fraser is right to criticize Young's schema of the "five faces" of oppression as undertheorized and ad hoc, and it's funny that she responds to accusations of dualism by quipping that Young seems to be a "brazen pentagonist, an ominously militarist stance"
January 20, 2026 at 2:44 PM
I think Fraser is right to criticize Young's schema of the "five faces" of oppression as undertheorized and ad hoc, and it's funny that she responds to accusations of dualism by quipping that Young seems to be a "brazen pentagonist, an ominously militarist stance"
Basically, everything in Back to the Future II has happened except flying cars
January 20, 2026 at 12:01 PM
Basically, everything in Back to the Future II has happened except flying cars
Yeah, I’ve done that and they’ve been apologetic while making clear that they aren’t willing to take much action. I’m just whining here
January 20, 2026 at 9:53 AM
Yeah, I’ve done that and they’ve been apologetic while making clear that they aren’t willing to take much action. I’m just whining here
So exciting! two of my absolute favorite political theorists!!
January 19, 2026 at 8:01 PM
So exciting! two of my absolute favorite political theorists!!
I assumed but also, sarcasm font doesn’t render on all browsers
January 19, 2026 at 7:40 PM
I assumed but also, sarcasm font doesn’t render on all browsers
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I’m off topic but my guy quotes Lorde’s description of a racist woman on the bus smelling like cleaning supplies as evidence that Lorde was disgusted by the working class. But with zero awareness that Lorde‘s mother herself worked as a hotel cleaner. Just making up Lorde as someone to get mad at.
I’m off topic but my guy quotes Lorde’s description of a racist woman on the bus smelling like cleaning supplies as evidence that Lorde was disgusted by the working class. But with zero awareness that Lorde‘s mother herself worked as a hotel cleaner. Just making up Lorde as someone to get mad at.
January 19, 2026 at 5:27 PM
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I’m off topic but my guy quotes Lorde’s description of a racist woman on the bus smelling like cleaning supplies as evidence that Lorde was disgusted by the working class. But with zero awareness that Lorde‘s mother herself worked as a hotel cleaner. Just making up Lorde as someone to get mad at.
I’m off topic but my guy quotes Lorde’s description of a racist woman on the bus smelling like cleaning supplies as evidence that Lorde was disgusted by the working class. But with zero awareness that Lorde‘s mother herself worked as a hotel cleaner. Just making up Lorde as someone to get mad at.
There’s a poetry guy at Kent who may or may not have a similar background, who has a whole chapter in his book shitting on Audre Lorde for supposedly not being working class or “political” enough. It’s insufferable and shit scholarship but pushes my buttons
January 19, 2026 at 5:16 PM
There’s a poetry guy at Kent who may or may not have a similar background, who has a whole chapter in his book shitting on Audre Lorde for supposedly not being working class or “political” enough. It’s insufferable and shit scholarship but pushes my buttons
Wow, this looks fascinating!
January 19, 2026 at 11:27 AM
Wow, this looks fascinating!
Oh yeah, no doubt he says these things, but it just felt on the nose on a fake way. But everyone seems to be covering it, so I guess it is real 🤷♂️
January 19, 2026 at 10:30 AM
Oh yeah, no doubt he says these things, but it just felt on the nose on a fake way. But everyone seems to be covering it, so I guess it is real 🤷♂️
this can't possibly be real
January 19, 2026 at 9:55 AM
this can't possibly be real
I think all people cosplaying as fascists are fascists tho
January 18, 2026 at 9:15 PM
I think all people cosplaying as fascists are fascists tho
Except I’d argue that the two are indistinguishable. The cosplaying is an integral part of the practice
January 18, 2026 at 4:09 PM
Except I’d argue that the two are indistinguishable. The cosplaying is an integral part of the practice
Yep, you’re playin my tune
January 18, 2026 at 3:10 PM
Yep, you’re playin my tune