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christopher griffin

@chris-brighton.bsky.social

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early career researcher working in trans studies, decolonial studies, feminist epistemologies, radical politics, and neurodiversity studies. big fan of Wynter and Derrida. they/them.

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christopher griffin @chris-brighton.bsky.social · Aug 6

My new article addresses the claim that the rights of trans women 'clash' with the rights of cis women. I examine the coloniality of the concept of rights underpinning this idea, exploring the erotics of sacrificial feminism and zero-sum politics in general... 🧵 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Dispossessive rights: coloniality and trans-exclusion in zero-sum politics

The idea that rights are possessions that are given and lost is so ubiquitous within the dominant discourse that its metaphoricity is forgotten. This amnesia naturalises possessive individualism, a...

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christopher griffin @chris-brighton.bsky.social · 17h

The conference will be held at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris, on 13–17 July 2026. Confirmed keynotes: @elissa-marder.bsky.social, Isabelle Alfandary, Marc Crépon, David Farrell Krell. More information is available here: derridatoday.com.au/conference/

Conference – Derrida Today

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christopher griffin @chris-brighton.bsky.social · 17h

Panelists are invited to explore any aspect of the relationship between Trans Studies and deconstruction/Derrida Studies. Please send me an abstract of 350 words max by Friday 14 November, or email me before then to discuss. Suggested themes and topics in this image:

This panel will explore the relationship between Trans Studies (broadly defined) and deconstruction/Derrida Studies. The aim is to allow scholars of any discipline to assess the salience of Derrida’s work for Trans Studies today; investigate the influence of Derrida in Trans Studies (and related fields) past and present; offer trans responses to Derridean deconstructions of sex-gender; share “transdeconstructive” readings and interpretations; and so on.

Possible topics might include (but are by no means limited to):

Trans embodiment: technicity, plasticity, drugs, etc.
Trans-of-colour deconstructions of race and gender
Hospitality, hostility, and the territorialisation of “woman”
Deconstruction and poststructuralism in transfeminist theory
Transing the boundary of the human: animals, beasts, monsters, etc.
Decolonial and postcolonial deconstructions of sex-gender
Drag and genderqueerness in Glas/Clang and beyond
Transnational approaches to borders, sovereignty, etc.
Phallogocentrism and cisnormativity in psychoanalysis
Derrida’s gendered figures (hymen, khōra, etc.)
Geschlecht: sexual difference(s) in Derrida’s reading of Heidegger
The autoimmunity of anti-trans movements

Please send an abstract of no more than 350 words to me, Christopher Griffin (chrisgriffinbrighton@gmail.com), by Friday 14 November. If you have any questions, or wish to discuss ideas in advance, please email me.

christopher griffin @chris-brighton.bsky.social · 17h

📢Call for panelists!📢 I'm organising a Trans Studies panel for the @derridatoday.bsky.social Conference in Paris next year. Details in this thread 🧵 Please disseminate to colleagues, students, or frenemies who might be interested!

Graphic calling for panelists for a Trans Studies panel at the 9th Derrida Today Conference, to be held at the École Normale Supérieure (Paris) on 13–17 July 2026. Includes a photo of Derrida wearing a pink and blue shirt-tie combo that uncannily foreshadows the colours of the Trans Pride flag.

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The Pembroke Center at Brown University @pembrokecenter.bsky.social · 6d

Tickets available now!
The Pembroke Center Publics Lecture
and the Shauna M. Stark ’76, P’10 Out of the Archive event
Variations of Legal Violence: A talk by Judith Butler

Wednesday, November 5, 2025
4:00 p.m.
Free and open to the public. Registration is required: butleratpembroke.eventbrite.com

Pembroke Center Publics Lecture Series. Variations of Legal Violence. Judith Butler. Distinguished Professor in the Graduate School. University of CA, Berkeley. Wednesday, Nov. 5, 2025. Free admission. Registration required.

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Dr SM Rodriguez (they/them) @smrodriguez.bsky.social · 2d

What if queer justice isn’t about inclusion, but about fighting disposability and* dreaming otherwise?
This piece joins African feminism, Black trans studies & diasporic queer theory to resist Africana epistemicide & the GRIM imaginary of human rights. Now out <3
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Respatialising the global imaginary of gay rights: resisting Africana epistemicide and forging Solidaristic Imaginaries

This article critiques the global imaginary of LGBTQ rights, arguing that dominant metrics of state-based human rights frameworks, what I term the Gay Rights International Movement (GRIM), reproduc...

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Nandita Sharma @nsharma101.bsky.social · 2d

If only we had defeated not only the Nazis but also nationalism...

I write about this in my article, "Postcolonial as the governmentality of immigration controls."

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Durba Mitra @durba.bsky.social · 5d

Via @jennifercnash.bsky.social
19th (!) annual Duke Feminist Theory Workshop

Registration is free.
The line-up is amazing:
Anne Cheng, Jane Ward, Erica Edwards, Sarah Haley, Hortense Spillers, Sharon Holland.
Sign up! See you in Durham in March.

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Derrida Today @derridatoday.bsky.social · 5d

In case you missed it, the call for papers is now open for the 9th Derrida Today Conference in Paris, France - from July 13-17, 2026.
Details can be found on the website here: derridatoday.com.au/conference/
All enquiries: [email protected]

Conference – Derrida Today

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Sandeep Bakshi @sandeepbak.bsky.social · 5d

20th Nov 2025 at 2.00 pm (Paris time), I'll be giving a talk on queer & decolonial thinking & how it is evolving in our times. It's co-badged by Université Paris Cité & CLAGS, CUNY. Everyone is welcome.
Image courtesy: Mario Patiño
Hybrid event. Registration required: u-paris.fr/universite-o...

Flyer of Decolonial Queer Thinking. Image by Mario Patiño, artist. Image of a person of colour with a white veil and naked torso with a flower in their mouth.

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Gerald Roche @geraldroche.bsky.social · 7d

My article exploring the connections between language revitalization backlash and genocide is now out. Complimentary copies are available using the link below, or feel free to message me for a copy if the link doesn't work for you.

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Black text on a white background, showing the title and abstract of an academic article. The title is ‘Conquered Primitives Have No Written Language’: Language Revitalization, Reactionary Settler Colonialism, and Perpetual Genocide. For the abstract, please visit https://doi.org/10.3138/GSI-2024-0011.

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Scary Corpse @damselindystopia.bsky.social · 12d

This is for some friends of mine going through a really rough time after getting harassed out of their home by transphobic neighbours. If you can't afford to chip in a share would be hugely appreciated.

www.gofundme.com/f/help-a-rom...

Donate to Help a Roma trans woman and her partner heal, organized by Rebecca Merched

A few weeks back we had to flee a lynch mob in our old place and get some… Rebecca Merched needs your support for Help a Roma trans woman and her partner heal

www.gofundme.com

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Avery Everhart @averyeverhart.bsky.social · 14d

Extremely proud of the title “How to lose a culture war” & of the connections we make to FOSTA/SESTA & fears of reproductive futures reimagined.

Short, free to read and hopefully provocative.

My latest with @tsdav.bsky.social in @dialoguesdigsoc.bsky.social

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Feminist Legal Studies @flsjournal.bsky.social · 17d

📣🏳️‍⚧️ Call for Papers

We are inviting papers for our special issue, “Feminist Responses to the Regression of Trans Rights: Strategies, Alliances, Hope.” The issue will be dedicated to trans-inclusive feminist legal analysis that addresses attacks on trans rights & lives.

Details below. Please share.

Call for Papers: Special Issue of Feminist Legal Studies

Feminist Responses to the Regression of Trans Rights: Strategies, Alliances, Hope

Amidst continuing backlash against trans rights, recognition and inclusion, two recent decisions from the UK have substantially impacted not only trans people’s legal status but also legal and social narratives of sex, gender and identity. The narrative that trans inclusion has a chilling effect on the rights of others, particularly women, has been adopted uncritically by both the UK Supreme Court in For Women Scotland and the Office for Students in its finding that the University of Sussex’s trans-inclusion policy had a chilling effect on free speech. These cases highlight a backlash that has been ongoing for some time, and sparks debates and fear of what may lie in the near future for trans people and kin, as well as other gender-variant persons, not only in the UK, but across jurisdictions and in a global perspective. The discourse of the ‘gender critical’ movement is splintering both the feminist and LGBT+ movements globally, with some aligning politically with the Far- and Christian Right against trans rights, adopting their terminology of ‘gender ideology’ and potentially posing a wider threat to sexual and reproductive rights.

While this a difficult situation for trans people, kin and allies, this special issue seeks to emphasise that legal battles – including battles (temporarily) lost – are also an opportunity to seek to reinforce old alliances and to form new ones, to find new legal frontiers and imaginaries, to reinforce the theoretical and methodological underpinnings of legal arguments as well as intergenerational memory of what feminist legal work is, has been and should be about. How, we ask, do these decisions (and those like them globally) reflect and reproduce structures of coloniality, heteronormativity and cisnormativity? What do these decisions add to critiques of legal feminism? What would be construct…

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Derrida Today @derridatoday.bsky.social · 18d

The call for papers is now open for the 9th Derrida Today Conference in Paris, France - from July 13-17, 2026.

Details can be found on the website here: derridatoday.com.au/conference/

All enquiries: [email protected]

Conference – Derrida Today

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Viktoria Huegel @viktoriahue.bsky.social · 18d

Talking about property and its afterlives. What a wonderful and inspiring workshop @brightonuni.bsky.social with @ksuenamu.bsky.social @danielloick.bsky.social and many more

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Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social · 22d

Action against the slave trade from 1807 enabled British colonisation, but Jane Lydon shows here how achieving the abolition of slavery in 1833 and expanding territory through conquest were also interrelated, not separate, processes. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

‘Forced Free Labour’: Connecting the Abolition of Slavery and Settler Colonisation in the Thought of Henry George Grey

This article investigates the connections between emancipation in Britain’s slave colonies and settler colonisation through the policies of Henry George Grey, 3rd Earl Grey (styled Viscount Howick ...

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christopher griffin @chris-brighton.bsky.social · 21d

CFP: After the Death of the Human: Michel Foucault’s 100th Anniversary International Conference, University of Lisbon, 18-19 June 2026. Deadline for abstracts: 30th Sept! progressivegeographies.com/2025/07/09/c...

CFP: After the Death of the Human: Michel Foucault’s 100th Anniversary International Conference, University of Lisbon, 18-19 June 2026

CFP: After the Death of the Human: Michel Foucault’s 100th Anniversary International Conference, University of Lisbon, 18-19 June 2026 CALL FOR PAPERS Foucault-Conference-2026-CFUL-NEWDownloa…

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Wellbeing State @wellbeingstate.bsky.social · 27d

Please join us for the workshop on property and its afterlives @brightonuni.bsky.social next week (Sept 19-20) with @ksuenamu.bsky.social @danielloick.bsky.social @talboto.bsky.social @viktoriahue.bsky.social and others

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christopher griffin @chris-brighton.bsky.social · 27d

Great presentation, Giulia! Thanks for sharing your work

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Evan Hayles Gledhill @gothicbodies.bsky.social · 28d

This looks freaking great. I wish I had seen it a bit earlier - study trip with mum students on Friday.

christopher griffin @chris-brighton.bsky.social · Sep 7

Join us next week for a free online two-day conference on global 'anti-gender' politics, hosted by the University of Brighton, featuring keynote @reproutopia.bsky.social! ❤️‍🔥 Starts at 09:30 GMT on Thursday 11 September. Further info ⤵️

Page 1 of the schedule for an online conference called Global 'Anti-Gender' Politics: Nationalist, Populist and Feminist Convergences. Starts on Thursday 11 September, 2025.

Page 2 of the schedule. The conference continues on Friday 12 September, 2025.

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Tom Pryce @tompryce.bsky.social · 28d

Zoom link and full abstracts are now available here 😊 blogs.brighton.ac.uk/cappe/2025/0...

Global ‘anti-gender’ politics - CAPPE - 19th annual conference | CAPPE

11-12 September 2025 Global ‘Anti-Gender’ Politics: Nationalist, Populist and Feminist Convergences   This conference is online only. You ...

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christopher griffin @chris-brighton.bsky.social · 29d

They only succeeded in making it look even more sinister and disturbing

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Extending New Naratives @ennhistphil.bsky.social · 29d

📢 Job alert: The University of Queensland (Australia) is hiring in Feminist Philosophy (Continental focus).

Scholars in the history of feminist philosophy are also encouraged to apply!

Details here: www.seek.com.au/job/87037466

#philSky

Lecturer in Feminist Philosophy (Continental Philosophy) Job in St Lucia, Brisbane QLD - SEEK

Contribute to our programs in Feminist Philosophy, Continental Philosophy and Gender Studies.

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Tom Pryce @tompryce.bsky.social · Sep 8

You can join the discussion later this week, on the rise of "Global ‘Anti-Gender’ Politics: Nationalist, Populist and Feminist Convergences". This 2-day conference is free, online, and features 5 panels + a keynote by @reproutopia.bsky.social. Hope to see you there! #AcademicSky #PhilSky

christopher griffin @chris-brighton.bsky.social · Sep 7

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Sarah Hunt / Tłaliłila’ogwa @coastaljustice.bsky.social · Sep 9

Join us at UVic First Peoples House on Sept 25 & 26 for "Jurisdiction Back: Restoring Indigenous Governance through an Ethic of Care". Such an incredible gathering of Indigenous law & governance practitioners, scholars, artists, visionaries. Free registration forms.gle/i1WaihgZ6aMn...

Black and white poster with purple muskox circle design in the center, with Jurisdiction Back written in bold white letters. Event time, location and speaker list included.

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