kai clement-milanovich
@kialectics.bsky.social
philosophy & social work grad student @ uw seattle | they/them 🏳️⚧️ | feminist epistemology, applied ethics and philosophy of (social) science phil.washington.edu/people/kai-milanovich
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Kai Milanovich, On Power and Measurement Systems: Feminist Standpoint Empiricism and the Sexual Experiences Survey - PhilPapers
This article examines the development of Mary Koss’s influential Sexual Experiences Survey and defends her then-controversial interpretive choice to endorse a broad-scope definition of rape. Koss’s ch...
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also: i was, on the basis of this paper, awarded the Nancy Hartsock Endowed Graduate Student Award, which recognizes creative achievements of an emerging scholar doing work in feminist theory.
Aidan McGlynn@aidanmcglynn.bsky.social · last yr.New paper up from Kai Milanovich - 'Distinguishing Situated Knowledge and Standpoint Theory: Defending the Achievement Thesis'
hi everybody! if you're an academic philosopher and would prefer your colleagues didn't produce propaganda which furthers the trump administration's attempt to eradicate transgender people from public life, consider reading/signing this open letter about it! dearprofessorbyrne.wordpress.com
Dear Professor Byrne
dearprofessorbyrne.wordpress.com
The revolution is full of 60-year-old women who love their trans kids.
1/5 I am pleased to announce a new paper, based on a talk I gave last year at the annual meeting of the Human Biology Association. This link is open 4 a free read for a while but eventually it will get pay-walled because I can't afford open access. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Rethinking Gender/Sex Identity
Until quite recently, investigations of gender/sex development operated from a baseline assumption that gender/sex is dichotomous or binary. Most such studies constructed gender/sex outside of or adj....
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The next administrator who sends me a “be patient—this is business as usual” email gets this piece in reply. Worth a read.
Garrett M. Graff@vermontgmg.bsky.social · 2y agoHaving watched with growing alarm the developments of the last 24 and 36 hours in Washington, I thought I’d take a stab at how the US media would cover this story if it was happening in a foreign country. Here’s that story that should be written this weekend: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/musk-s-jun...
I was walking down Canal Street and bought this. It’s crazy how quickly they can get merch made these days.
fortunately this year's #SSWR25 is taking place just a few miles from home. looking forward to meeting the wonderful social work researchers :)
i think i stumbled upon a fake (or AI generated?) book that uses the name of a Yale historian.
what Brett means is that there are no good philosophers. it’s just the contemporary form of Plato’s no knowledge argument
Brett Karlan@oldjerryfodor.bsky.social · 2y agoExplaining to my students that Malcolm Gladwell was basically right: you need to read 10,000 SEP articles before you become a good philosopher
Alison has written such a diverse body of work and i have found it all insightful! her work on standpoint theory got me interested in the project i’m working on in my phd, and she is also fostering my appreciation of phil sci. i’m so glad she’s getting more recognition!
Anna Alexandrova@annaalexandrova.bsky.social · 2y agoWarm congratulations to Alison Wylie and good pick, Rotterdam! I learned of Alison’s work in the early 2000s when what she did, philosophy of archaeology plus feminist theory, seemed totally out of the norm in our discipline. But she did what she believed in and now it’s (almost) mainstream. Bravo!
when i did DSP work in Kansas City the pay was abysmal. i cannot imagine that personal budget in NYC
Yana van der Meulen Rodgers@yanarodgers.bsky.social · 2y agoOur new study in Disability and Health Journal shows that Direct Support Professionals have very high rates of food and housing insecurity. Their pay is effectively set by Medicaid reimbursement rates, implying that gov'ts have institutionalized economic insecurity among DSPs and their households.
kinda wild, as a grad student in philosophy, to just keep learning about more of the disciplines closet skeletons
@lastpositivist.bsky.social · 2y agoCompletely agree with @helendecruz.net. We're all of us replaceable. She's responding to McGinn's blog bemoaning being cancelled. Even if we weren't all replaceable I'd still think he was. (He also fails to acknowledge the hand he played in his own downfall.) helendecruz.substack.com/p/against-tw...
Sex! Based! Rights! Aren't! A! Thing! - sincerely, a human rights expert
minimalist hell (listening exclusively to 'variations on a theme' while grading student papers all on the same prompts)
I know the school officials here failed miserably, but I also want to note just how unprepared schools are for this. Realistically, the legal landscape here is not clear cut, and enforcement (at all levels) is abysmal. We're failing young victims in all sorts of ways.
Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 2y ago“In November, students walked out to protest what they viewed as the school’s failure to investigate the scope and scale of the AI-generated media.” Several parents are suing the school, “alleging that it failed to act when it was required to and that it failed to adequately protect its students.”
All of these “gender tests” are state-sanctioned sexual assault. It is so inherently violating to have your body sized up so that someone can determine whether to violate your rights.
Keri Blakinger@keribla.bsky.social · 2y agoTrans women in Florida prisons now have to get breast exams to figure out whether their breasts are big enough that prison officials think they should get to keep their bras. Wild reporting from @journo-beth.bsky.social : www.themarshallproject.org/2024/12/10/n...
I just published this paper that argues that, in the US, criminal law cannot carry feminist messages. This is a reason against using criminal law responses to combat gender-based violence. Please check it out! philpapers.org/rec/WIRMMH
Amelia M. Wirts, Mixed Messages: How Criminal Law Fails to Express Feminist Values - PhilPapers
Criminal law practices in the US, including policing and incarceration, have drawn heavy criticism for their disproportionate impact on black people, particularly black men. At the same time, some fem...
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yeah but like. that's just subjective man
@lastpositivist.bsky.social · 2y agoA good rule of thumb is that when philosophers refer to something as objective it is something fake that doesn't exist, when they refer to something as subjective it is something we definitely know exists, and that they always mean it to be worse and more problematic to appeal to the latter.
Embarrassing! Just found someone appealing to an inductive argument as if it shows anything. Do they even teach Hume in schools nowadays!? Wtf is going on in chemistry grad school.
“A cisgender boy who wants testosterone to kick off the development of male sex characteristics can still get it. A transgender boy who wants testosterone for the exact same reason cannot.”
Mark Joseph Stern@mjsdc.bsky.social · 2y agoThe Supreme Court appears set to Dobbs-ify the law of sex equality, gutting a half-century of equal protection principles and replacing them highly selective “neutrality” toward discrimination. With @dahlialithwick.bsky.social: slate.com/news-and-pol...
Barrett and other conservatives don't seem to see how state-sanctioned discrimination against trans people basically always takes the form of sex discrimination—imposing unique restrictions on people's rights based on their sex assigned at birth. Frustrating that the argument isn't breaking through.
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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Me and my friends would've thrown hands with Moore if we saw his proof of an external world I can tell you that much
Post an Onion headline that lives in your head rent-free www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpzV...
Trump Voter Feels Betrayed By President After Reading 800 Pages Of Queer Feminist Theory
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Dr Ben Wolfe@benwolfevision.bsky.social · 2y agoPost an Onion headline that lives in your head rent-free
