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Quill Kukla 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @quillkukla.bsky.social · Aug 22

My review in the Washington Post of Paul Preciado's Dysphoria Mundi

www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/0...

Review | A philosopher explores the empowering side of dysphoria

In “Dysphoria Mundi, Paul B. Preciado blends autobiography, academic theory and poetry to argue that we can be more sensitive to all that is out of joint in the world.

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Quill Kukla 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @quillkukla.bsky.social · Aug 17

Sex Beyond "Yes" in the Washington Post!

www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/0...

Review | ‘Sex Beyond Yes’ asks us to think about more than consent

Quill R Kukla argues that it’s time to talk about the pleasures and self-empowerment of sex and not just how to make it morally permissible

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Quill Kukla 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @quillkukla.bsky.social · Aug 16

Important news, Berlin (and nearby) people! Please join me and the amazing Juliana Gleeson, hosted by the inimitable Ben Mauk, for a free discussion and book signing of "Sex Beyond 'Yes'" at Shakespeare & Sons, evening of September 12! And please share!
www.shakespeareandsons.com/pages/sex-be...

'Sex Beyond Yes': Quill R. Kukla in conversation with Juliana Gleeson

Philosopher Quill R Kukla questions traditional notions of consent in this honest, humanistic reimagining of what it means to have pleasurable, ethical, and respectful sex. Every discussion of sexual ...

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Quill Kukla 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @quillkukla.bsky.social · Jul 28

Netherlands Friends!

Come hear me talk about Sex Beyond Yes with Mari Mikkola in Amsterdam on September 10 at ABC books!

www.eventbrite.com/e/an-afterno...

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Quill Kukla 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @quillkukla.bsky.social · Jul 13

Hi friends, new publication! We mostly all know by know that making judgments takes social skills. Here I show that NOT making judgments in epistemically appropriate ways also takes social skills! Not knowing stuff can be surprisingly hard, but often important!
Open access 🙂

Collaboration, epistemic skill, and suspension - Philosophical Studies

We cannot understand epistemic competence without embedding agents in the social world of epistemic collaboration. Being a competent epistemic agent essentially involves being competent at specific so...

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Quill Kukla 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @quillkukla.bsky.social · Jul 7

This is your LAST CHANCE to register (for FREE!) for the Berlin Workshop on Speech and Harm, which takes place this coming Sunday and Monday (July 13/14)! Only registered participants will be able to get into the building on Sunday, and we need to hand in a list of folks TOMORROW.

bwsah.org

Berlin Workshop on Speech and Harm

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Quill Kukla 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @quillkukla.bsky.social · Jul 1

The Third Annual Berlin Workshop on Speech and Harm is coming up fast, 13.7-14.7! Our webpage now has complete information. Make sure you REGISTER on our page, as only people registered will have access to the Sunday location. Also please share!

*REGISTER*REGISTER*REGISTER*REGISTER*

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Quill Kukla 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @quillkukla.bsky.social · Jun 25

I am very pleased with this little essay I wrote, "From Accommodation to Access: Decentering Ableism in the Classroom," in *Innovations in Teaching Philosophy*, now in press from Bloomsbury. I hope some of you find it useful in your teaching!

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ableism access classroom published.pdf

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Quill Kukla 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @quillkukla.bsky.social · Jun 17

Fans of @helendecruz.net should try to attend this very unusual and lovely online event to honor her life while she is still with us. It's unclear whether she will be able to join but this feels much more meaningful than a memorial to me

Redirecting...

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Quill Kukla 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @quillkukla.bsky.social · Jun 16

Thank you so much!

Quill Kukla 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @quillkukla.bsky.social · Jun 16

Here is my open access review in Ethics of Kate Abramson's fascinating and depressing book, On Gaslighting!

www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Abramson, Kate. On Gaslighting. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2024. Pp. 232. $24.95 (cloth). | Ethics: Vol 135, No 4

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Quill Kukla 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @quillkukla.bsky.social · Jun 9

The opposite of fascism is absolutely anarchy. I think the term "anarchy" is being used with zero understanding here. Also there is plenty of fascist theater. Incoherent quote.

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Tina-Desiree Berg @tinadesireeberg.com · Jun 8

The are line dancing in the middle of the protest while shouting Fuck ICE

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Quill Kukla 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @quillkukla.bsky.social · May 17

The 3rd Annual Berlin Workshop on Speech and Harm is coming July 13-14 to TU Berlin, with fantastic speakers, including Willow Starr, Carolina Flores, Dee Payton, Axel Gelfert and more! Details and the FREE registration link are at bwsah.org. Contact me ([email protected]) with any questions!

Berlin Workshop on Speech and Harm

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Gen Eickers @geneickers.bsky.social · May 12

The launch for my book on scripts is happening in two weeks. I’m very happy and honored to have @doktorhu.bsky.social and @quillkukla.bsky.social give comments.
It’s hybrid.
Do come (academic or not)! :)

Book Launch: Gen Eickers - Scripts and Social Cognition: How We Interact with Others, Routledge 2025.
May 26, 2025 @ TU Berlin, Room H2051 & on Zoom.
Commentators: Quill Kukla & Rebekka Hufendiek
Zoom link registration: gen.eickers@uni-osnabrueck.de

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Quill Kukla 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @quillkukla.bsky.social · May 6

I am BEYOND DELIGHTED to share our absolutely off-the-hook interesting and fully open access special issue on "Situating Neurodiversity and Madness" in the Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal. Please read and share! And many thanks to guest co-editor Rua Mae Williams!
muse.jhu.edu/issue/53931

Project MUSE - Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal-Volume 34, Numbers 2/3, June/September 2024

muse.jhu.edu

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emmie malone 🏳️‍⚧️ @emmiemalone.bsky.social · May 2

alex byrne, in a bold play, throwing his hat in the ring for the rectorate of the university of freiburg

Florence Ashley @floralashes.bsky.social · May 1

If you open the anti-trans HHS report’s appendix in NotePad, you’ll see that it was compiled by Alex Byrne.

The appendix is a rigorous, scientific overview of systematic reviews.

Alex Byrne is an MIT philosophy professor with no apparent background in science, let alone expertise in it.

Screenshot of XML information open in notepad, showing “Alex Byrne” under the creator tag..

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · Apr 15

Not former potus saying Harvard has set a precedent for other universities and I have to hold myself back from mentioning Wesleyan, Georgetown law, Rutgers faculty senate, etc. What we're not gonna do is erase the Jesuits! Sigh, let me reread Elite Capture.

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Quill Kukla 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @quillkukla.bsky.social · Apr 8

The dire wolf thing is probably creepy and ominous but honestly I'm just happy that science is being used for purposes of fuzziness

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Quill Kukla 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @quillkukla.bsky.social · Apr 3

I've now updated the link, and I am much happier. Thanks for the reminder!

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Quill Kukla 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @quillkukla.bsky.social · Apr 3

Yes thank you for reminding me to change that. At first it was only for sale on Amazon but I don't like that link either. I will change it today.

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Quill Kukla 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @quillkukla.bsky.social · Apr 2

Thank you!!

Quill Kukla 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @quillkukla.bsky.social · Apr 2

Just found out that there will be an audiobook version of my forthcoming book, Sex Beyond "Yes"! Here is a beautiful new promo for the book. And please consider preordering; preorders really affect how the book gets marketed and what exposure it gets!

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Quill Kukla 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @quillkukla.bsky.social · Mar 20

I am going to give a talk in Kyiv! David Chalmers @davidchalmers.bsky.social is keynoting and the whole lineup is amazing. Very excited!

EXISTENTIAL QUESTIONS

During existential moments in human history, philosophy has served as a refuge, a place of retreat that connects reflection across centuries, whatever the conditions. To practice philosophy in moments...

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