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Erin Beeghly
@beegs1.bsky.social
Philosopher at the University of Utah, feminist, author of What’s Wrong With Stereotyping?
Why you should read a forgotten 80s bestseller about lesbian nuns - the reason is much more wholesome than you think. (Also truly living my best Catholic school girl life - I love @autostraddle.bsky.social and it's thrilling to get to write heretically for them!)
What We Can Learn From Lesbian Nuns
A forgotten 1980s bestseller on lesbian nuns is the antidote to dating app burnout and the "cool queer" rat race.
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Beautiful new essay by Joshua Rivkin on mourning, his mother’s death, and the things we leave behind in The Georgia Review. www.thegeorgiareview.com/posts/ritual/
Ritual - The Georgia Review
1. On the second anniversary of my mother’s death, my aunt took the train down from New York to Baltimore to leave a stone on the grave. When she got there, she found dozens of rocks and shells amasse...
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Want to read some rad queer philosophy, in the form of short snazzy personal essays? Check out the most recent issue of the APA Studies in LGBTQ+ Philosophy, cheekily titled "Make philosophy queer again!" which I've edited! 1/
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My colleague has a new Substack and the first post is fierce - rest in power Ozzy!
Steve Downes@stevemdownes.bsky.social · last yr.I started a Substack: open.substack.com/pub/stevemdo...
How DARE I have advocated for bodily autonomy! Don’t you know you have to give up bodily autonomy in order to get rights????
One bright spot for trans people in Montana: Today's SCOTUS decision does not touch Montana. That's because Montana overturned its gender affirming care ban through the state Supreme Court. States are allowed to have protections that go beyond the US constitution, and thus that ruling is unaffected.
The ruling in U.S. v. Skrmetti bans health care decisions made by patient & families in consultation with their doctors. Once again, politicians & judges are inserting themselves in exam rooms. This ruling undermines doctors in delivering care to some of the most vulnerable patients in our country.
Breaking: The Trevor Project received a stop-work order last night on its contract with the national 988 suicide prevention hotline. The Trump administration is eliminating the option for LGBTQ callers to the hotline to press 3 and connect with someone who specializes in LGBTQ mental health.
New, gorgeous zine out today! Being trans in philosophy. Read & share.
Being Trans in Philosophy@being.transinphilosophy.org · last yr.Issue #0 of Being Trans in Philosophy zine is out now! “We Are Not Trans in a Theoretical Way”. Download & print ur own 🖨️. being.transinphilosophy.org #beingtransinphilosophy #trans #philosophy #gender #feminism #zine #diy
Call-for-papers: Hypatia Special Issue on Feminist Philosophy of Mind Guest Editors: Gloria Andrada and Carolina Flores Deadline for submissions: 15th January 2026 Details and links to submit on the website:
Call-for-papers: Hypatia Special Issue on Feminist Philosophy of Mind - hypatia
Guest Editors: Gloria Andrada and Carolina Flores This special issue focuses on feminist philosophy of mind and cognitive science. It will offer novel perspectives on long-standing questions such as t...
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1. An international humanitarian organization, Human Rights Watch, has issued a scathing report on transgender healthcare bans in the United States. They detail loss of care, people forced to move, and more. The latest from S. Baum. Subscribe to support our journalism.
Human Rights Watch Issues Scathing Report on Anti-Trans Healthcare Bans in the US
A first-of-its-kind Human Rights Watch report documented the impacts of trans youth care bans in-depth.
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Important work by Ben Eidelson & Deborah Hellman
Ben Eidelson@beidelson.bsky.social · last yr.Some takeaways from our new article on Title VI and antisemitism/antizionism (cc @hellmandeborah.bsky.social) in this @chronicle.com Q&A with @shenandoahkate.bsky.social. Full paper: ssrn.com/abstract=527...
For my @msnbc.com column this week, I wrote about exactly what the Republican anti-trans budget bill would do to trans people on Medicaid. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
Opinion | Trump's message to trans people is clear: Detransition, or potentially die
My question to everyone reading this is: When is enough enough?
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Are you a genderfucker? Are you a fucker? Do you like fucking? If so, woah, do I have the article for you! Link: lawjournal.mcgill.ca/article/gend...
Today is the U.S. pub date for What’s Wrong with Stereotyping? and I’m celebrating by dropping a new essay on queering ethics that I wrote for the upcoming edition of APA Studies in LGBTQ Philosophy. It's my first personal essay -- an experiment for me!
Erin Beeghly, Queering Ethics: Cultivating Queer Sensibility - PhilPapers
This essay explores what it means to “queer” ethics. Writing from a perspective that is both personal and philosophical, I argue that we cannot queer ethics simply by expanding the range ...
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Republicans in Utah commissioned an investigation into gender-affirming care for trans youth after banning it in 2023. They're now rejecting the findings of that investigation which showed access to care reduced suicides and improved "positive mental health and psychosocial functioning outcomes."
Utah lawmakers’ own study found gender-affirming care benefits trans youth. Will they lift the treatment ban?
The Utah Legislature's own newly-released study found that gender-affirming care benefits trans youth. Now, will lawmakers lift the treatment ban?
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“When [my tween] socially transitioned in the second grade, years ago now, other kids in the class didn’t blink an eye. Zero bullying. Now bullies run the show—in dominant online spaces in our discipline, in our state legislature, in the U.S. government.” @beegs1.bsky.social #beingtransinphilosophy
Trans people and our loved ones are not okay -- in, with, and because of academic philosophy. #beingtransinphilosophy tells these stories firsthand.
“Analytically sharp, morally sensitive, and eminently readable, What’s Wrong With Stereotyping? is a work or verve and precision.” Kate Manne, author of Down Girl & Unshrinking 💚 My baby is here!!!
Extremely stoked to be organizing this conference highlighting philosophy done from queer perspectives at UC Santa Cruz this April! Especially glad to still have this happen given, you know... everything. Registration here, with a remote option: forms.gle/bhPt4xQ2jR5q...
Sharing an essay that was accepted for pub in 2022. Often sexism is framed as targeting women. I argue that this conception of sexism is factually incorrect and politically dangerous. The essay offers meditation on the history of feminism — and why true feminists must fight anti-trans oppression.
Erin Beeghly, Sexism - PhilPapers
This essay offers an in-depth view of sexism as a psychological, social, and political phenomenon and, in the process, highlights the resiliency of feminism as a social movement. Section 1 focuses ...
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