This article by @smellosopher.bsky.social on Mary Hesse, of whom I was/am scandalously ignorant is a brilliant introduction to a brilliant and important thinker about how science works.

Alejandra Caraballo@esqueer.net · 2w ago

Alex Byrne is indeed a transphobic, smug, dickhead. www.chronicle.com/article/alex...

1. Texas AG Ken Paxton and Gov. Greg Abbott violated numerous laws to ban trans people from updating their gender markers. An investigation from Transitics has found that Texas has illegally enforced its ban on gender marker changes for the past two years. Paxton and Abbott likely knew all along.

Texas AG Ken Paxton and Gov. Greg Abbott Violated Numerous Laws to Ban Trans People From Updating Their Gender Markers, Records Show

Texas has been illegally enforcing its ban on gender marker changes for the past two years. AG Ken Paxton and Gov. Greg Abbott, who led its abrupt implementation, have likely known all along.

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The story of a trans girl who tried to fight Idaho's anti-trans laws, and died to suicide earlier this year, is only now coming to light. Our hearts are broken, but we need to tell these stories and mourn our dead, because the media is barely bothering to look for the victims of trans genocide.

Idaho didn’t want May Pollard to live. Now she’s dead by her own hand. - Assigned Media

A trans teen tried to fight Idaho's bathroom ban in court, but hate prevailed.

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New open-access book, by Alison Stone: Julia Wedgwood and the Law of Imperfect Antithesis 📖 Read it here: www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.116... #Philosophy #VictorianStudies #HistoryOfPhilosophy #PhilSky #WomenInPhilosophy #OpenAccess

The Philosophy of Julia Wedgwood: Imperfect Antithesis

Combining philosophical analysis with innovative digital methods for recovering lost texts, this study restores Wedgwood as a major nineteenth-century philosopher and offers a compelling new lens on m...

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We're re-launching the podcast! Queer Country Forever features queer country, roots, and folk artists from the past, present, and future -- with your host, Rachel Cholst! Search Rainbow Rodeo in your favorite podcatcher today!

This is huge! The Trump administration is abandoning its plan to withhold Medicaid funding from hospitals that provide gender affirming care to trans youth under 19. www.npr.org/2026/07/13/n...

Trump's HHS abandons threat to withhold Medicare and Medicaid funding over trans care

NPR has learned that the Department of Health and Human Services will not be finalizing its most aggressive attempt to end gender-affirming care for youth nationally.

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1. The newest anti-trans risk assessment map is here for transgender people. The situation continues to deteriorate for trans people in the United States. Idaho becomes the fourth "Do Not Travel" state, with up to 5 year prison sentences for bathroom usage. Subscribe to support our journalism.

Anti-Trans National Legal Risk Assessment Map: July 2026

Idaho becomes the latest "Do Not Travel" state for transgender people, raising the number of states transgender people should not travel through to 4.

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New episode: Jay Miller and I discuss irony. Hegel vs. the Romantics, meme culture, protest, camp, and the difference between “thin” irony and irony that actually means something. When is irony insightful, and when is it just empty posturing? Check it out!!!

Ep. 85: Hegel on Hipsters: Irony & the Value of Earnestness | A Discussion with Jay Miller

YouTube video by Philosophers Discussing Art

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Imagine if every time a state banned abortion, all the mainstream political thinkpieces and spins on the issue centered around "Here's how the abortion ban will harm cis men!" that's basically what the media environment is like for trans people right now. cis people are the oppressors!

Stella Sacco@antlervel.vet · last mo.

Makes me feel insane how many people are like “here’s how this will affect cis people” as if the suffering of trans women, the actual target of this hate campaign and legislative oppression, is just an afterthought

Love it when the President of the United States says he wants to eliminate you and your entire community.

Alejandra Caraballo@esqueer.net · last mo.

The White House is openly saying they want to eliminate a minority group and people still want to say this is about sports.

1. She changed her ID to comply with Kansas’ new anti-trans law. Now, the state wants to put her in jail for having an inaccurate license. Kris Ripper is being charged with driving with an invalid license—a class B misdemeanor—after a cop refused to believe the ID the state forced on her was valid.

She Changed Her ID to Comply with Kansas’ New Anti-Trans Law. Now, the State is Trying to Put Her in Jail for Having an 'Inaccurate' License.

A Kansas trans woman is being charged with driving with an invalid license after a police officer refused to believe the license the state is forcing her to carry was valid. She won’t be the last.

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The Trump administration is withdrawing all HIV aid from South Africa, which has the highest HIV rate in the world, because they won't end reparation programs for victims of apartheid and their descendants

U.S. Plans to End AIDS Funding for South Africa

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Index and proofs for the vibes book are back to the production coordinator. I"M DONE with that book, coming to you this November (with lovely endorsements from @amoorelouise.bsky.social and Mary Beth Mader!) www.dukeupress.edu/good-vibes-o...

Good Vibes Only: Phenomenology and the Biopolitics of Algorithmic Legitimation

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really fun to be writing a book where i get to cite Aristotle, Sartre, Merleau- Ponty, and Dennis Rodman’s 1996 book Bad As I Wanna Be

🤬 You do not "fill the gap" in archives. You ask *why* the gap is there in the first place. That is where the real information resides. Also: LLMs train on digitized materials. Do you have any idea how little has been digitized? LLMs train on a *sliver* of the human past and human knowledge.

Peter Whitewood@pwhitewood.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Rebranding a hallucination as a ‘critical confabulation’ that can fill archival gaps is a big no from me.

You can pre-order the expanded second edition of Resilience & Melancholy for HALF OFF at the University of Michigan Press website using the code SPRING26 press.umich.edu/Books/R/Resi...

Resilience & Melancholy

Following the first edition’s breakthrough study of popular feminism in 2010s popular music, this new edition of Resilience & Melancholy expands its original analysis into the 2020s. Robin James reads...

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as of today i have written 30,000 towards my book on the philosophy of fashion! i’m making a lot of progress this week and getting more and more excited about it. i really think it’s the best work i’ve done.

I get the impression that some people aren't clear what this means. This is the UK state deciding to intervene directly in the healthcare of individual children, depriving them of medicine that their doctors have prescribed for their personal health & wellbeing, in defiance of global best practice.

Cal Horton (they/them)@fiercemum.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Update: Young people & families today received shocking & transphobic letters from NHS. These letters tell people that endocrine care (blockers / HRT) is being fully withdrawn in 7 weeks time (July 31st). Forced medical detransition. This country is a danger to trans children & young people.

Update: Young people & families today received shocking & transphobic letters from NHS. These letters tell people that endocrine care (blockers / HRT) is being fully withdrawn in 7 weeks time (July 31st). Forced medical detransition. This country is a danger to trans children & young people.

Cal Horton (they/them)@fiercemum.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Trans adolescents accessing the only NHS route to healthcare (WellBN) have been through a stressful year long transphobic investigation. For a year they have sat under the threat of forced medical detransition. With significant negative impacts. 1/2

THERE IS AN ACTIVE POGROM IN NORTHERN IRELAND. FASCISTS IN SKULL MASKS ARE GOING DOOR TO DOOR PULLING MIGRANTS OUT OF THEIR HOMES AND SETTING THEM ON FIRE.

Call for Papers: Philosophy of Music Conference 📅 April 28–30, 2027 | Poznań (Poland) The ENPM welcomes submissions on any topic in the #philosophy of #music, particularly those focused on the relationships between Centre and Periphery. 📮 Deadline: 1 October 2026 enpmusic.org/2026/05/28/c...

CfP: Centre and Periphery in the Philosophy of Music (3rd ENPM Conference)

The European Network for the Philosophy of Music (ENPM) invites submissions of paper abstracts for its third conference, which will be hosted by the Faculty of Art Studies and the Institute of Musi…

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On Tuesday, queer Houstonians mourned Persia Conway, a trans woman found dead last week. After grief, there was rage. Rage at Houston PD. Rage at rumors that Persia was someone she wasn't. But most of all, rage over another trans woman of color taken too soon: www.chron.com/culture/arti...

Family, LGBT community demands justice in Houston trans woman's death

"No transgender person should have to wonder whether their life will be treated as less important because of who they are."

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my paper, “Practicing Screaming: Aesthetic Explanations, Aesthetic Value, and the Screamed Vocals Problem” has now been published online! it’s in Contemporary Aesthetics (an open access journal), so it’s free to read! Here’s the link: contempaesthetics.org/2026/05/29/p...

apparently victorian positivists tried to make a religion out of being a wife guy?

This is Ken Paxton's mugshot. He was indicted on 3 felony counts for investment fraud. He was reported to the FBI by his own staff for bribery. He was impeached by his own party for corruption. Now he’s the Republican nominee for US Senate in Texas. Together we will stop him.

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Blog: Trail of Crumbs

“Yes, a time of perfection must come, when each being will be harmonious with itself and with the others, when they flow into each other and become one in a great unison, when every melody th…

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Reading the language of legislation to open a Smithsonian Women's History museum, which most House Dems have co-sponsored. "PROHIBITION.—The Museum may not identify, present, describe, or otherwise depict any biological male as a female.” www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...

Here come's this year's summer banger. 🎵 academic.oup.com/bjaesthetics...

What's gutting about this is that Juniper seems to have had a family who supported and loved her, she was in a community that has been explicitly welcoming to trans people, and a man still murdered her. She was living the life so many trans people can only dream of, and it simply didn't matter.

Parker Molloy@parkermolloy.com · 3mo ago

Absolutely devastating read. www.them.us/story/slain-...