Bella-Rose💙🌹
@bella-rose.bsky.social
Philosophy PhD candidate | she/her/hers
1. In the most extreme bathroom ban moving in the nation, Idaho's House has passed a bathroom ban with a potential 5 year prison sentence for 2nd offense-using the bathroom. It even counts "offenses" of using the bathroom in other states. It now moves to the Senate.
Idaho House Passes Trans Bathroom Ban With 5 Year Prison Sentence
The bill is one of the harshest bills criminalizing trans people in the nation, and it will now move to the Senate.
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My publication “The Epistemology of Microaggression” is now out in Feminist Philosophy Quarterly. In it I argue for a structural account of the epistemic harm of microaggressions.You can read it here: philpapers.org/rec/KELTEO-35
Bella-Rose Kelly, The Epistemology of Microaggression: Conceptualizing the Epistemic Harm of Microaggression - PhilPapers
In recent literature on microaggression, various authors argue that the primary harm of microaggression is epistemic: it diminishes the victim’s capacity to make a knowledge claim because she is uncer...
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I wrote a really short piece for Hypatia about being an abolitionist and a survivor and why philosophers are such jerks (Literally I started writing this after giving a talk about the book I wrote with Barrett Emerick since Q&A made me feel like utter shit) doi.org/10.1017/hyp....
But What about the Really Bad People? Anti-Carceral Feminism and Surviving Violence | Hypatia | Cambridge Core
But What about the Really Bad People? Anti-Carceral Feminism and Surviving Violence
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proposal successfully defended, I’m a PhD candidate now
imagining time traveling to the early 00s and trying to explain to my precocious teen debater friends that the criticisms of the Nanny State that they engaged with so earnestly would culminate in armed officers making sure grown adults were using the right bathroom
Gravel Influencer@gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · last yr.I really don't have any words about this story. It's just so deeply upsetting. Fuck the women who decided to police the bathroom and fuck the guard for doing this.
I have done the same. cis people in the UK, please support your trans buddies by putting pressure on your politicians and lawmakers. they need to know that we want answers on how trans people's rights will be safeguarded.
Dan Entwistle@garciansmith.bsky.social · last yr.Following yesterday's Supreme Court ruling, I wrote to my MP. I'm not the best at conveying the nuances, as a cis man, but I needed to get my views to her as soon as possible. Trans rights are human rights 🏳️⚧️
my first publication “Concealing Gender Non-Conformity: A Trans Phenomenology of Disability” is now forthcoming in the Journal of Philosophy of Disability. In it I explain how cissexist perception shapes and harms the lives of disabled trans people. You can read it here: philarchive.org/rec/KELCGN
Bella-Rose Kelly, Concealing Gender Non-Conformity: A Trans Phenomenology of Disability - PhilArchive
Cissexist perception involves a prejudicial judgment and an unmediated affective response, such as that of disgust, directed at the gendered aspects of another person. In this paper, I advance a view ...
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going to be more active here now. cool news: I move to DC (Logan circle specifically) for grad school in a week. Any plant shop and coffee shop recommendations are welcome
a statement by philosophy faculty and graduate students on the attack at University of Waterloo https://medium.com/@robin.dembroff/a-statement-by-philosophy-faculty-and-graduate-students-on-the-attack-at-university-of-waterloo-4293d901196f
A Statement by Philosophy Faculty and Graduate Students on the Attack at University of Waterloo
To sign onto the below statement, please fill out this form.
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