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philosopher @barnard.edu working on conceptual, normative, and jurisprudential issues about gender and its embodiment; “has a very specific sense of humor” and an em dash problem; they/she/my love; not.dingherself.com
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ding @not.dingherself.com · Mar 20
Can we still make sense of reproductive rights & pregnancy discrimination as a gender equality issue if we need to (1) affirm that people of all genders may and do become pregnant and (2) not alienate the many cis and trans women who do not? I argue that yes ofc!! Come find out how (link below)! 1/6
Screenshot of the first page of my article, "Pregnant Persons as a Gender Category: A Trans Feminist Analysis of Pregnancy Discrimination," which just appeared in the Spring 2025 issues of Signs. The start of the introduction reads: "Since 1974, the United States Supreme Court has recognized a constitutionally significant distinction between discrimination against women and discrimination against pregnant persons—for all the wrong reasons, and reaching all the wrong results. Upholding the State of California’s refusal to cover uncomplicated pregnancies under its otherwise comprehensive workers’ short-term disability insurance program, the court held in Geduldig v. Aiello that differential treatment based on pregnancy is not in and of itself a form of sex discrimination within the meaning of American gender equality law. Writing for a 6–3 majority, Justice Potter Stewart explained that this is because pregnancy as a “physical condition” is itself neutral on sex and fails to carve the social world at the gender seam between women and men. “The lack of identity between the excluded disability [i.e., pregnancy] and gender as such under this insurance program becomes clear upon the most cursory analysis,” Justice Stewart claimed. “The program divides potential recipients into two groups—pregnant women and nonpregnant persons. While the first group is exclusively female, the second includes members of both sexes. . . .”
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ding @not.dingherself.com · 1d
i so love my students here
A page from a satirical newspaper edited by Barnard/Columbia students. The headlines read: “Barnard College to Sell ‘Entry Swipes’ Packages to Enter Campus” and “Columbia to House Overenrolled Freshmen in Tents on Butler Lawns”
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Caro Flores @floresophize.bsky.social · 2d
Super stoked to have a piece out in Jacobin! It's a personal essay about nostalgia for the Portuguese Carnation Revolution and a reclamation of the power of nostalgia for the left. 1/
The Left Can’t Abandon Nostalgia to the Right
The global right today excels at leveraging nostalgia for reactionary ends. Yet memories of periods of revolutionary hope and collective victories can provide the materials for a form of nostalgia tha...
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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 4d
Tl;dr: in the United States, with very limited exceptions, you cannot sue the federal government without its consent. It's a vestige of the divine right of kings. And it was adopted by the founders for multiple reasons, but one was so enslaved people couldn't sue the federal govt for their freedom.
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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 4d
For all of the people who want to know about suing the federal government:

Google "sovereign immunity." Then Google "qualified immunity." Then you'll understand why fixing so much of what we see requires defunding the police.
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404 Media @404media.co · 9d
New: landlords are demanding potential tenants hand over employer login credentials so a tool can verify their income. We were sent screenshot of the tool, Argyle, downloading much more data than necessary to approve the renter. "Opt-out means no housing" www.404media.co/landlords-de...
Landlords Demand Tenants’ Workplace Logins to Scrape Their Paystubs
Screenshots shared with 404 Media show tenant screening services ApproveShield and Argyle taking much more data than they need. “Opt-out means no housing.”
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Dan Mihalopoulos @dmihalopoulos.bsky.social · 9d
In which a top US Border Patrol official, incredibly, tells my tall and Anglo colleague @chipmitchell1.bsky.social that he's not the type they're looking for as they go about downtown Chicago arresting people based on "how they look"

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Feds in military gear flood downtown Chicago; top border official says arrests based on 'how they look'
The immigration agents were spotted making arrests in downtown Chicago and River North neighborhood early Sunday.
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noam chompers @noamchompers.bsky.social · 10d
Ideally, if all goes well, the blog post about your death can run without needing a note like this imo
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Mister.Nobody @ytregaws.bsky.social · 10d
LOL

"I spoke to the governor, she was very nice. But I said, 'Well wait a minute, am I watching things on television that are different from what's happening? My people tell me different.' They are literally attacking and there are fires all over the place...

www.kgw.com/article/news...
Trump seems to back off Portland military plan: 'Am I watching things on television that are different from what's happening?'
President Trump had said he will send troops to Portland to protect U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facilities, which he said were "under attack."
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ding @not.dingherself.com · 10d
“If this person complained about the abusive conditions or even when people asked for personal protective gear or equipment when working with dangerous chemicals, the response was always, ‘If you wanna be a man, I'll treat you like a man’, or ‘aren't you strong enough? Aren't you a man.’”
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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 10d
Abolish ICE. Now.

www.newsweek.com/ice-detentio...
ICE Warden Put Transgender Detainees into Forced Labor Program: Complaint
A federal complaint accuses the warden of creating an ad hoc work program used to demean trans detainees.
www.newsweek.com
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ding @not.dingherself.com · 11d
The lesson is not that trans liberation is a matter of linguistic “inclusion,” as even trans philosophers now seem to think. It’s how little you need to have such that the word ‘daughter’ stands out as the greatest gift from cis parents.

Anyway, read @autoanon.bsky.social ’s riveting new novel!!
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ding @not.dingherself.com · 11d
My fav scene from Reverse Tomboy: Not its insightful analysis of (hetero)sexuality as inseparable from (normative) gender, or the retroactive meaning-making we do for early exp., or even the malleability of embodiment desires. Just a girl over the moon about the smallest thing—being called daughter.
Photo of a page from Reverse Tomboy: “I just don’t see why a trans woman has to be more feminine than the average woman. It would be a little insulting to cis women wouldn’t it, if all trans women went around done up like Don Draper’s wives.” “Yes, I suppose so.” “But you are being careful, right? No more walking at night in empty parks?” her father chimed in. “Yes Dad, I promise I’m well aware I’m a trans woman.” Naomi said happily enough. “I think any father would worry about his daughter.” Joy flooded through Naomi, as it did each of the three times she has heard her father refer to her as his daughter. She could think of nothing better from him. Suddenly, the dress felt a little more comfortable. “Thank you.” It was a simple thing to say, but so is ‘daughter’. Besides, Naomi was grinning.
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ding @not.dingherself.com · 11d
My fav scene from Reverse Tomboy: Not its insightful analysis of (hetero)sexuality as inseparable from (normative) gender, or the retroactive meaning-making we do for early exp., or even the malleability of embodiment desires. Just a girl over the moon about the smallest thing—being called daughter.
Photo of a page from Reverse Tomboy: “I just don’t see why a trans woman has to be more feminine than the average woman. It would be a little insulting to cis women wouldn’t it, if all trans women went around done up like Don Draper’s wives.” “Yes, I suppose so.” “But you are being careful, right? No more walking at night in empty parks?” her father chimed in. “Yes Dad, I promise I’m well aware I’m a trans woman.” Naomi said happily enough. “I think any father would worry about his daughter.” Joy flooded through Naomi, as it did each of the three times she has heard her father refer to her as his daughter. She could think of nothing better from him. Suddenly, the dress felt a little more comfortable. “Thank you.” It was a simple thing to say, but so is ‘daughter’. Besides, Naomi was grinning.
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Amelia Malpas @malpas.bsky.social · 11d
It took me less than 5 mins to write a comment about how integral international PhD students are to scientific production, and to the US' economic and cultural power.

Please consider also leaving a comment on the devastating rule change for international PhD students:
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Dr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️ @napaaqtuk.bsky.social · 11d
Comment period ends on Monday for a proposed rule change that would terminate student visas after 4 years. It also puts limits on exchange visitors and reps of foreign media, and shortens the length of time at the end of the visa from 60 days to 30 days.

www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
Establishing a Fixed Time Period of Admission and an Extension of Stay Procedure for Nonimmigrant Academic Students, Exchange Visitors, and Representatives of Foreign Information Media
Unlike most nonimmigrant classifications, which are admitted for a fixed time period, aliens in the F (academic student), J (exchange visitor), and most I (representatives of foreign information media...
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 12d
I wrote about Trump's new executive orders targeting "antifa" and how they are paper tigers that rely on preemptive compliance in order to achieve their goals.

www.thedissident.news/trumps-paper...
Trump's Paper Tiger Executive Actions Targeting Anti-fascism
Yesterday, Trump signed the National Security Presidential Memorandum 7 (NSPM-7). If you’ve read the text of it, you’re probably scared. That’s the point. The document is a masterclass in intimidation...
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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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Oren Samet @osamet.bsky.social · Aug 28
For those justifiably concerned/angry about this, there's a way to make your voices heard. Public notice and comment on this proposed rule goes through Sep 27

Go to this link and click "Submit a public comment" at the top: www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
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Oren Samet @osamet.bsky.social · Aug 28
I know there's a lot happening today, but this is sneaking in under the radar. This proposed new rule would absolutely crush foreign PhD students, potentially making it impossible for them to enroll with any certainty of their ability to finish www.politico.com/news/2025/08...
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Jaweed Kaleem @jaweedkaleem.bsky.social · 13d
The NIH has confirmed that it is complying with court orders and re-instating $500 million in frozen research grants to UCLA, Vice Chancellor for Research & Creative Activities Roger Wakimoto wrote today. He says workers “have shown great resilience in this challenging time.”
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Shelley Lynn Tremain she/her/they @shelleytremain.bsky.social · 13d
biopoliticalphilosophy.com/2025/09/24/h...

"Refuse the question and in doing so refuse the assertion that precedes it."
(How) Should The Question “Are Trans People Delusional?” Be Addressed?
Many readers and listeners of BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY will recognize that the title of this post includes the question that trans philosopher Talia Bettcher posed in a YouTube video of the same nam…
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The Verge @theverge.com · 17d
Trump’s H-1B visa fee isn’t just about immigration, it’s about fealty
Trump’s H-1B visa fee isn’t just about immigration, it’s about fealty
Trump’s H-1B visa fee isn’t just about immigration, it’s about making tech companies bend the knee in exchange for a pass.
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David Cole @davidcole-gtown.bsky.social · 17d
On the cold-blooded execution of alleged drug smugglers.

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Getting Away with Murder | David Cole
During his first presidential campaign Donald Trump famously claimed that he could “stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody” and not lose
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ding @not.dingherself.com · 17d
looking at trans studies jobs: ahhhh what if i’m not a media studies kind of transsexual
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wiley sharp @wiley.pink · 18d
for some reason analytic philosophers still think it's acceptable to opine about gender while ignoring the last 75 years of research in the philosophy of gender
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Peli Grietzer @peligrietzer.bsky.social · 19d
This is virulently anti-trans: not simply arguing that there's a reasonably natural concept of transition-independent biological sex (fine) but also that there is no reasonably natural biological or social concept whose extensions is trans and cis women dailynous.com/2025/09/19/p...
Philosophers File Amicus Brief in Supreme Court Cases on Transgender Athletes - Daily Nous
A group of 24 philosophers has submitted an amicus curiae brief for two US Supreme Court cases concerning laws about the participation of transgender athletes in sports. The two cases are Bradley Litt...
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 21d
according to an immigration attorney representing several arrested workers, ICE agents chose to arrest the Korean workers to fulfill the quota of 3,000 daily immigrant arrests set by Stephen Miller www.forbes.com/sites/stuart...
Stephen Miller’s Quota Likely Drove Korean Arrests In Immigration Raid
When ICE agents arrested over 300 Korean workers at a Georgia battery plant, a daily immigrant arrest quota was likely on their minds.
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Margot Weiss @margotweiss.bsky.social · Aug 28
Deadline extended to Sept 15!

And there are now possibilities for 100% virtual panels!

SEE YOU THERE ALL
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Margot Weiss @margotweiss.bsky.social · Jul 21
...got something to say about queer and class?

please consider submitting a proposal for the April '26 CLAGS conference "Queer-Class Relations" – broadly framed. This is part of our 40th anniversary celebration year~!

Proposals due Sept 1!

Conf. website: queerclassrelations.commons.gc.cuny.edu
Call for Proposals – Queer-Class Relations Conference
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Nate O @nateo.bsky.social · 24d
Okay, I’ve had enough. I sat on this all day, but I was there yesterday with approximately 500 other people. The fash attacked us, not the police. The single video shows the end of the fash flanking us by breaking through Northumberland and taking Trafalgar Square
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Chaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · 24d
Want to be clear that the predictable violence against the police wasn't the only problem with yesterday's march

It's that 100,000 angry racists gathered in London for the biggest racist march in 50 years, and anyone not white had to steer clear

The govt can't see that because they are inadequate.
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 25d
I am having a hard time reconciling "Charlie Kirk was a fierce advocate of open dialogue and free expression" with "we must identify and persecute everyone who is insufficiently mournful"
After Charlie Kirk's death, teachers and professors nationwide fired or disciplined over social media posts
At least a dozen faculty and staff have faced fallout over insensitive comments online.
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