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Joshua Falek
@cathexsis.bsky.social
writing/thinking about transness, anti-Blackness and affect

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Thrilled to announce that after six long years, I successfully defended my dissertation today! Massive gratitude to my committee, my examiners, and the many friends, colleagues, mentors, and academic staff who supported me along the way.
July 28, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Three new Aporias essays are now out in the latest issue of Lateral! If you haven’t already read Emma Kauffman’s rigorous problematization of the anti-Zionist Jew. Check that out here: csalateral.org/section/apor...
Emma Kauffman, "The Spectre of Antisemitism" - Lateral
In this essay, I argue that the rhetoric behind “not in my name” actually mobilizes the same gesture as the popular Zionist move to innocence. While anti-Zionist Jews preface our solidarity with Pales...
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June 1, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Aporias, a special section of Lateral, is accepting rolling submissions. Aporias features short essays from emerging scholars about controversies or lacunae in cultural studies or related fields. Please see the CFP below. Feel free to DM or email to discuss ideas!
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Upcoming Issues & Calls for Papers - Lateral
Lateral is published semi-annually, fall and spring. General submissions are accepted on a rolling basis, and deadlines for special issues/sections are noted below. All submissions should follow the i...
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March 24, 2025 at 4:58 PM
If you're in Toronto, I will be presenting a paper at 4:30 PM on March 10th through the Theory Now! workshop at York. This paper, "Gender-Affirming Violence," diagnoses a prohibition in trans studies around thinking political violence. @jttremblay.bsky.social will be offering incisive commentary!
February 18, 2025 at 4:01 PM
waited two years for this freedom of information act request and 64 of the 71 pages are entirely redacted lmaooooooooo
February 10, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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In Representations' new issue on "Elementality," edited by Jim Porter and Mario Telò, I wrote about forever chemicals and the liberal melodrama of legal and symbolic containment they activate. Featuring Ibsen, Haynes, Nichols, Soderbergh, and a guest appearance by one Amy Jellicoe.
Enemies of the People
“It’s in the water!”The elemental exclamation identifies the aquatic and its associated processes (dissolution, saturation, flow) as the hitherto-undisclosed source of a clear and present danger. “It’...
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February 4, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Excited to announce that my article, “Figment made flesh: minstrelsy and nonbinary embodiment in Of Montreal's Georgie Fruit saga” is out today and open access in Feminist Theory journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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January 22, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Horrifying, but not surprising, to see such mistreatment of incarcerated trans people in the name of “health and safety concerns.” This exception has permitted the CSC to quietly rehabilitate their image as “trans friendly,” while increasing surveillance of trans prisoners
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
ANALYSIS | Quebec murder case sparks debate over where trans inmates should serve time | CBC News
Many, including Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre, argue trans inmates shouldn’t have any choice about where they serve time, while trans activists say the current rules don’t really offer much of ...
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January 21, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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Politico is reporting trans EOs will include trans people’s passports as well as ending a conversion therapy ban.
January 20, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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Out today: CAPACITIES TO: AFFECT UP AGAINST FASCISM, a collection of 40+ pieces that engage fascism through affect. Open access here: imbricate.press/book/capacit...
Capacities To: Affect Up Against Fascism
<p>Capacities To: Affect Up Against Fascism is a collection of more than forty essays, poems, and visual works that convey myriad approaches for understanding, surviving, and creating counter-movement...
imbricate.press
January 20, 2025 at 5:03 PM
teaching about homonormativity today, so students are watching this www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjiy...
Steve Grand - All-American Boy (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by Steve Grand
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January 14, 2025 at 7:45 PM
besides the fact that it looks like ‘NFT ape: the musical,’ I have no interest in seeing Better Man because I personally have never had the experience of not wanting a dj to “rock” me. In fact, too often, I have been saying, dj please “rock” harder!!
January 11, 2025 at 9:13 PM
it took years off my life writing the lecture on trans kids, detransitioners, and the myth of the trans feminine predator...I have watched so many horrible Fox News clips now.
December 3, 2024 at 4:27 PM
love her.
this was the first weird medieval guy to ever go viral 🥰🥰
November 21, 2024 at 4:17 PM
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I'm co-author of a chapter on ethics in trans health research in this new book, "A History of Transgender Medicine in the United States".

You can now order it for 50% off from the SUNY Press website with the code HOLIDAY24 (which makes the paperback $22.47, or £24.12 *with postage* to the UK).
A History of Transgender Medicine in the United States
Arriving at a critical moment in the struggle for transgender rights, A History of Transgender Medicine in the United States takes an empathic approach to an embattled subject. Sweeping in scope and d...
sunypress.edu
November 21, 2024 at 10:00 AM
Incredible time at ASA this year! Looking forward to seeing you all again soon!
November 18, 2024 at 3:49 AM