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Dr Louise Richardson-Self

@lvself.bsky.social

Feminist philosopher, University of Tasmania 🏳️‍🌈 🩷💜💙 (she/her) #philsky https://sites.google.com/site/louiserichardsonself/

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Dr Louise Richardson-Self@lvself.bsky.social · last mo.

"This matters because lived experience is not simply a personal story. It is knowledge developed through ongoing learning that emerges from engagement with systems, institutions and the realities of everyday life." theconversation.com/lived-experi...

Lived experience is often dismissed – but we should recognise it as a form of expertise

People living with disabilities or through poverty and racism develop deep practical knowledge of how institutions function. They should be seen as experts.

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Alejandra Caraballo@esqueer.net · last mo.

Just absolutely insane to me how many milions were spent and the massive political and legal effort exhausted just so a state can ban a single trans girl from playing sports with her friends in school.

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Dr Louise Richardson-Self@lvself.bsky.social · last mo.

Off the back of the Women's Liberation at 60 conference earlier this month, I'm further developing my paper on Andrea Dworkin's conception of 'sexual intelligence' — & I'm really excited to be presenting it at the AAP in a couple of weeks!! Her reputation as a hetero-sex hater is way too reductive!

The Journal of Philosophy of Disability@jphildis.bsky.social · 2mo ago

#NewArticle #OpenAccess "Centering Gender Euphoria" by @quillkukla.bsky.social is available now! Read the full article here: doi.org/10.5840/jpd2... #PhilSky #Philosophy #genderstudies #transstudies

Centering Gender Euphoria - published on May 23, 2026

The concept of gender dysphoria, typically understood as a pathological experienced mismatch between one’s “inner gender identity” and one’s body, has been central to defining and “diagnosing” transness. Gender euphoria, which I define as joy, excitement, or pleasure in one’s gendered embodiment (including the social reception and emplacement of one’s gendered body), is an important notion in trans communities, but it has received little attention from academics, health care systems, or mainstream culture. Beginning from the reality and central importance of euphoria allows us to better understand everyone’s gendered experience and embodiment, and to avoid the substantial conceptual and ethical harms inflicted by a mental health model of trans identity that centers dysphoria. Organizing our understanding of trans identity, desires, and experiences around trans joy is conceptually clarifying; helps ground better medical and legal policy; and is more accurate than when we organize it around trans tragedy and pathology, even while we retain our realism about the fact that trans tragedy and dysphoric suffering are real and important.

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Feminist Legal Studies@flsjournal.bsky.social · 11mo ago

📣🏳️‍⚧️ Call for Papers We are inviting papers for our special issue, “Feminist Responses to the Regression of Trans Rights: Strategies, Alliances, Hope.” The issue will be dedicated to trans-inclusive feminist legal analysis that addresses attacks on trans rights & lives. Details below. Please share.

Call for Papers: Special Issue of Feminist Legal Studies Feminist Responses to the Regression of Trans Rights: Strategies, Alliances, Hope Amidst continuing backlash against trans rights, recognition and inclusion, two recent decisions from the UK have substantially impacted not only trans people’s legal status but also legal and social narratives of sex, gender and identity. The narrative that trans inclusion has a chilling effect on the rights of others, particularly women, has been adopted uncritically by both the UK Supreme Court in For Women Scotland and the Office for Students in its finding that the University of Sussex’s trans-inclusion policy had a chilling effect on free speech. These cases highlight a backlash that has been ongoing for some time, and sparks debates and fear of what may lie in the near future for trans people and kin, as well as other gender-variant persons, not only in the UK, but across jurisdictions and in a global perspective. The discourse of the ‘gender critical’ movement is splintering both the feminist and LGBT+ movements globally, with some aligning politically with the Far- and Christian Right against trans rights, adopting their terminology of ‘gender ideology’ and potentially posing a wider threat to sexual and reproductive rights. While this a difficult situation for trans people, kin and allies, this special issue seeks to emphasise that legal battles – including battles (temporarily) lost – are also an opportunity to seek to reinforce old alliances and to form new ones, to find new legal frontiers and imaginaries, to reinforce the theoretical and methodological underpinnings of legal arguments as well as intergenerational memory of what feminist legal work is, has been and should be about. How, we ask, do these decisions (and those like them globally) reflect and reproduce structures of coloniality, heteronormativity and cisnormativity? What do these decisions add to critiques of legal feminism? What would be construct…
Dr Louise Richardson-Self@lvself.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Excited to share "Religious Freedom and Meaning Vertigo: A Social Imaginaries Analysis of ‘The Persecuted Faithful’ in The Australian’s Op-Eds" forthcoming in For, Against, Together: Antagonistic Political Emotions edited by the brilliant @lucyosler.bsky.social & Thomas Szanto tinyurl.com/374skfza

Religious Freedom and Meaning Vertigo: A Social Imaginaries Analysis of ‘The Persecuted Faithful’ in The Australian’s Op-Eds

In Australia, divisive debate on the matter of religious freedom has come to the fore following the introduction of marriage equality in 2017 and increasing protections against trans and gender divers...

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