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Feminist Ethics and Social Theory (FEAST) @feministphilosophy.bsky.social · 6d

The early bird deadline for this is this coming Monday, but it is always free for undergrads. Send your students!

Feminist Ethics and Social Theory (FEAST) @feministphilosophy.bsky.social · 12d

Please register for our hybrid conference Oct. 16–19 on "Feminist Accountability and Transformative Justice"!

Grad student & independent rates are very low if you register before Oct 6!

The great abolitionist thinker Beth E. Richie will be our keynote.

Info here: philevents.org/event/show/1...

Beth E. Richie and her book, Arrested Justice: Black Women, Violence, and America's Prison Nation

"Resistance of the Heart against Business as Usual" woodblock print from Bread & Puppet

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Jennifer C. Nash @jennifercnash.bsky.social · 6d

Come work at @dukegsfs.bsky.social: postdoc ad is live. academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30734

Duke University, Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies

Job #AJO30734, Duke Black Feminist Postdoc, Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, US

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Feminist Ethics and Social Theory (FEAST) @feministphilosophy.bsky.social · 6d

The early bird deadline for this is this coming Monday, but it is always free for undergrads. Send your students!

Feminist Ethics and Social Theory (FEAST) @feministphilosophy.bsky.social · 12d

Please register for our hybrid conference Oct. 16–19 on "Feminist Accountability and Transformative Justice"!

Grad student & independent rates are very low if you register before Oct 6!

The great abolitionist thinker Beth E. Richie will be our keynote.

Info here: philevents.org/event/show/1...

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Jennifer C. Nash @jennifercnash.bsky.social · 7d

Year 5 of the Black Feminist Theory Summer Institute: Applications are open, more info on our website. Please spread the word.

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Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 8d

Who's afraid of gender? Let's ask the pomade-wearing anchorman lecturing a bunch of generals on manliness.

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Elizabeth Lanphier @ethicselizabeth.bsky.social · 9d

The International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics Blog recently migrated and we're ready to get back to featuring essays by and scholar spotlights on feminist bioethics folks from around the world.

Get in touch with your posts or recommendations for posters!

www.fabnet.org/blog

Blog | Website

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Feminist Ethics and Social Theory (FEAST) @feministphilosophy.bsky.social · 9d

This is TODAY! And free! Should be a fascinating conversation between two excellent philosophers thinking deeply about this issue

The Philosopher @philosopher1923.bsky.social · 13d

Join us Mon. Sept. 29th - 2pm ET / 7pm UK

"On Sex Beyond 'Yes'"

Quill R Kukla in conversation with Manon Garcia on consent as an inadequate tool to help us negotiate the complexities of intimacy, and on reframing the communication we need.
#Philosophy
Register for free or by donation:

Select tickets – "On Sex Beyond Yes": Quill R Kukla in conversation with Manon Garcia – Zoom

"On Sex Beyond Yes": Quill R Kukla in conversation with Manon Garcia – Zoom, Mon 29 Sep 2025 - Every discussion of sexual ethics revolves around consent, but is this notion enough to help us understan...

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Feminist Ethics and Social Theory (FEAST) @feministphilosophy.bsky.social · 12d

Please register for our hybrid conference Oct. 16–19 on "Feminist Accountability and Transformative Justice"!

Grad student & independent rates are very low if you register before Oct 6!

The great abolitionist thinker Beth E. Richie will be our keynote.

Info here: philevents.org/event/show/1...

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Paulina Sliwa @pasliwa.bsky.social · 15d

New paper with @tom-mcclelland.bsky.social! What is it to see someone as an object – to perceptually objectify them? We argue that seeing is not just a metaphor. We see others afford doing things with and to.
doi.org/10.1111/ejop...

Seeing Others as Objects: Perceptual Objectification & Affordances

In discussions of objectification, the use of visual language is ubiquitous. It is striking that the literature often talks about treating and seeing someone as an object in the same breath. Yet acc...

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Feminist Ethics and Social Theory (FEAST) @feministphilosophy.bsky.social · 12d

Here is the live-updating draft program for FEAST's 2025 feminist philosophy and theory conference. It's pretty spectacular... we're proud.

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FEAST 2025 Program

Association for Feminist Ethics and Social Theory Conference Conference Program Feminist Accountability and Transformative Justice October 16 – 19, 2025 Sheraton Sand Key Resort Clearwater Beach...

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Feminist Ethics and Social Theory (FEAST) @feministphilosophy.bsky.social · 12d

Please register for our hybrid conference Oct. 16–19 on "Feminist Accountability and Transformative Justice"!

Grad student & independent rates are very low if you register before Oct 6!

The great abolitionist thinker Beth E. Richie will be our keynote.

Info here: philevents.org/event/show/1...

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Durba Mitra @durba.bsky.social · 12d

The cover for my book, The Future That Was, is now live! It features the MacArthur genius artist Shahzia Sikander's Infinite Woman (2021), where earth is surrounded by an infinite series of women marching around the globe who, from afar, become rays of the sun ☀️

press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

The Future That Was

How Third World women seized the means of knowledge production to fight against rising authoritarianism and imagine a future freer than our present

press.princeton.edu

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Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 16d

"Mitra’s case, which multiple faculty said they believed was among the most egregious tenure denials they had ever seen, has already added to growing concerns about the fairness & accuracy of Harvard’s tenure system." This is truly outrageous & hard not to see as politically motivated.

vijay iyer @vijayiyer.bsky.social · 16d

Everyone in academia should read this piece about our dear, brilliant colleague @durba.bsky.social

www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

A Surprise Tenure Denial in Harvard’s Gender Studies Program Leaves Some Faculty Shaken | News | The Harvard Crimson

Durba Mitra’s colleagues thought she was a near-perfect tenure candidate. When her bid was shot down in June, they were left questioning the process.

www.thecrimson.com

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Feminist Ethics and Social Theory (FEAST) @feministphilosophy.bsky.social · 15d

Check out this full-time teaching position in Feminist Disability Studies at Georgetown University. It's not tenure track, but it looks like it's renewable, and the teaching load is a manageable 3/3 with latitude to teach some awesome classes.

Apply by Oct. 27

apply.interfolio.com/174365

Assistant Teaching Professor in the Program in Disability Studies and Women and Gender Studies Program at Georgetown University

Georgetown University: Main Campus: College of Arts & Sciences: Disability Studies

Location
Main Campus

Open Date
Sep 17, 2025

Deadline
Aug 01, 2026 at 11:59 PM Eastern Time

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Feminist Ethics and Social Theory (FEAST) @feministphilosophy.bsky.social · 15d

Ah yes, let us base our laws in the one true and eternal currency of the land: genuine, pure femininity

Dr. Katja Thieme (she/they) @katjathieme.bsky.social · 16d

What it sounds like when philosophers who are also anti-trans activists submit an amicus brief to a US court where they argue for banning trans girls and women from women's sports.

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the option of interpreting the Idaho and West Virginia
statutes as motivated by the justified aim of excluding
all males from female sports, it is quite invidious to
interpret them as instead motivated by the unjustified
aim of excluding males who identify as female in par-
ticular.
Consider a simple analogy. Imagine that we are
back in Medieval Europe. Gold is the currency of the
land. Consequently, many merchants prefer to accept
gold and only gold as payment. However, a new move-
ment is afoot, whose members are known as the alche-
mists. The alchemists purport to have found a way of
turning iron pyrite (fool’s gold) into gold. Some people
are convinced by the claims of the alchemists, though
many others are not. This difference in attitudes
starts to lead to time-wasting interactions in which an
alchemist or fellow traveler tries to purchase a good
using iron pyrite from a merchant who, unmoved by
well-publicized insistence on the part of the alche-
mists that only irrational prejudice could lie behind
lingering doubts about the possibility of converting
iron pyrite into gold, continues to insist on only ac-
cepting gold as payment. One such merchant, whose
unofficial working policy has hitherto been to accept
only gold as payment, decides to make his policy offi-
cial by putting up a sign on his store saying, “Only
gold accepted (no iron pyrite!).”

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Feminist Ethics and Social Theory (FEAST) @feministphilosophy.bsky.social · 20d

Tenure track job posting in Philosophy at St. Mary's College, a small women's liberal arts college in Indiana:

Medical ethics / Feminist Philosophy / Phil of Gender
3/3 teaching load
Application deadline November 15!

philjobs.org/job/show/29706

Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Saint Mary's College - PhilJobs:JFP Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Saint Mary's College

An international database of jobs for philosophers

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Feminist Ethics and Social Theory (FEAST) @feministphilosophy.bsky.social · 20d

As far as we can tell, this also means they can generate fake articles under your name and then use them to promote their "Academia Letters" journal?

Victor Caston @vcaston.bsky.social · 20d

I had kept my academia.edu page active for convenience, but the new Terms of Use are rapacious — they can use all your content for AI. (See below)

Sorry! NO.

Please share and consider.

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Rachelle J. Chadwick @drrchadwick.bsky.social · 23d

New article, ‘Tense Concepts: Obstetric Violence, Structural Injustice and Moral Injury’ published online today in ‘Gender and Justice’ ➡️➡️

bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal...

bristoluniversitypressdigital.com

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Feminist Ethics and Social Theory (FEAST) @feministphilosophy.bsky.social · 29d

For those with an MA or an awesome MA student, please apply for this PhD position in the Critical Agency project at Free University Berlin. The project examines agency to express critique under oppressive conditions, informed by ethnography as well as philosophy.

www.fu-berlin.de/universitaet...

PG-DM_Praedoc_2026_E

www.fu-berlin.de

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Manon Garcia @manongarcia.bsky.social · Sep 8

Hi Bluesky,
The English translation of my book on the Pelicot trial is coming out in a month! You know (or maybe you don't) how it is: preorders are crucial for the life of a book, so don't hesitate to preorder right now.
a.co/d/a0qeZeh
I hope the fantastic blurbs will convince you if you're not:

Living With Men: Reflections on the Pelicot Trial

Living With Men: Reflections on the Pelicot Trial [Garcia, Manon, Kronic, Maya B.] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Living With Men: Reflections on the Pelicot Trial

www.amazon.com

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Feminist Ethics and Social Theory (FEAST) @feministphilosophy.bsky.social · Sep 7

Listen up! Submit your abstract for the 2026 Beauvoir Society conference on "Beauvoir & Reproduction: Politics, Labour, Biology, Lived Experience"🔥

Proposal abstracts are due **September 22, 2025**
Conference is May 2026 in Klagenfurt, Austria

Keynotes: Sylvie Chaperon & Stella Sandford

2026 Conference

Pour la version française , choisir le drapeau français en haut à gauche du site !

beauvoir.weebly.com

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Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · Sep 4

Thrilled to share that WGSS at SBU is hiring an Assistant Professor as part of the Native American & Indigenous Studies program. The appointment will be housed in WGSS, with courses & service expected to help grow the interdepartmental NAIS Initiative. More info👇
apply.interfolio.com/172726

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Caro Flores @floresophize.bsky.social · Sep 4

My new article, "Calling Trauma, Elite Capture, and Hermeneutical Injustice," is out in Phil Quarterly!

It's a deeply personal project, drawing on family history to examine how privileged groups use claims of trauma to control narratives and to suggest a new way to think of epistemic injustice. 🧵

Black and white photo of the Padrao dos Descobrimentos (sailboat-shaped stone monument in Lisbon) surrounded by containers.

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Caro Flores @floresophize.bsky.social · Sep 4

Article here: doi.org/10.1093/pq/p...

#PhilSky #AcademicChatter #colonialism

Calling trauma, elite capture, and hermeneutical injustice

Abstract. Not infrequently, members of privileged groups call trauma: by framing a complex situation around the trauma they claim to have endured. What, if

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Feminist Ethics and Social Theory (FEAST) @feministphilosophy.bsky.social · Sep 4

Anyone else out there itching to dig into Quill’s new book?

Sex Beyond Yes: Pleasure and Agency for Everyone

Pleasure and Agency for Everyone

bookshop.org

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