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#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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I’ve enjoyed thinking with (and at times being challenged by) @quillkukla.bsky.social’s work on consent for while, so it was a pleasure to review their new book for @flsjournal.bsky.social: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Quill R. Kukla: Sex Beyond “Yes”: Pleasure and Agency for Everyone - Feminist Legal Studies

Feminist Legal Studies -

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all the anti-mamdani hysteria seems to assume that we have had a long succession of Extremely Good Mayors in new york

My review in the Washington Post of Paul Preciado's Dysphoria Mundi www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/0...

Review | A philosopher explores the empowering side of dysphoria

In “Dysphoria Mundi, Paul B. Preciado blends autobiography, academic theory and poetry to argue that we can be more sensitive to all that is out of joint in the world.

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Sex Beyond "Yes" in the Washington Post! www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/0...

Review | ‘Sex Beyond Yes’ asks us to think about more than consent

Quill R Kukla argues that it’s time to talk about the pleasures and self-empowerment of sex and not just how to make it morally permissible

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Important news, Berlin (and nearby) people! Please join me and the amazing Juliana Gleeson, hosted by the inimitable Ben Mauk, for a free discussion and book signing of "Sex Beyond 'Yes'" at Shakespeare & Sons, evening of September 12! And please share! www.shakespeareandsons.com/pages/sex-be...

Netherlands Friends! Come hear me talk about Sex Beyond Yes with Mari Mikkola in Amsterdam on September 10 at ABC books! www.eventbrite.com/e/an-afterno...

Hi friends, new publication! We mostly all know by know that making judgments takes social skills. Here I show that NOT making judgments in epistemically appropriate ways also takes social skills! Not knowing stuff can be surprisingly hard, but often important! Open access 🙂

Collaboration, epistemic skill, and suspension - Philosophical Studies

We cannot understand epistemic competence without embedding agents in the social world of epistemic collaboration. Being a competent epistemic agent essentially involves being competent at specific so...

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This is your LAST CHANCE to register (for FREE!) for the Berlin Workshop on Speech and Harm, which takes place this coming Sunday and Monday (July 13/14)! Only registered participants will be able to get into the building on Sunday, and we need to hand in a list of folks TOMORROW. bwsah.org

Berlin Workshop on Speech and Harm

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The Third Annual Berlin Workshop on Speech and Harm is coming up fast, 13.7-14.7! Our webpage now has complete information. Make sure you REGISTER on our page, as only people registered will have access to the Sunday location. Also please share! *REGISTER*REGISTER*REGISTER*REGISTER* bwsah.org

I am very pleased with this little essay I wrote, "From Accommodation to Access: Decentering Ableism in the Classroom," in *Innovations in Teaching Philosophy*, now in press from Bloomsbury. I hope some of you find it useful in your teaching! drive.google.com/file/d/127xt...

Fans of @helendecruz.net should try to attend this very unusual and lovely online event to honor her life while she is still with us. It's unclear whether she will be able to join but this feels much more meaningful than a memorial to me

Here is my open access review in Ethics of Kate Abramson's fascinating and depressing book, On Gaslighting! www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Abramson, Kate. On Gaslighting. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2024. Pp. 232. $24.95 (cloth). | Ethics: Vol 135, No 4

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The are line dancing in the middle of the protest while shouting Fuck ICE

The 3rd Annual Berlin Workshop on Speech and Harm is coming July 13-14 to TU Berlin, with fantastic speakers, including Willow Starr, Carolina Flores, Dee Payton, Axel Gelfert and more! Details and the FREE registration link are at bwsah.org. Contact me (qrkukla@gmail.com) with any questions!

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The launch for my book on scripts is happening in two weeks. I’m very happy and honored to have @doktorhu.bsky.social and @quillkukla.bsky.social give comments. It’s hybrid. Do come (academic or not)! :)

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Hybrid book launch with fantastic commentators coming up on May 26, 2-4pm, in Berlin (and on Zoom)! Details tba :) All very welcome, academic or not.

I am BEYOND DELIGHTED to share our absolutely off-the-hook interesting and fully open access special issue on "Situating Neurodiversity and Madness" in the Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal. Please read and share! And many thanks to guest co-editor Rua Mae Williams! muse.jhu.edu/issue/53931

alex byrne, in a bold play, throwing his hat in the ring for the rectorate of the university of freiburg

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If you open the anti-trans HHS report’s appendix in NotePad, you’ll see that it was compiled by Alex Byrne. The appendix is a rigorous, scientific overview of systematic reviews. Alex Byrne is an MIT philosophy professor with no apparent background in science, let alone expertise in it.

Not former potus saying Harvard has set a precedent for other universities and I have to hold myself back from mentioning Wesleyan, Georgetown law, Rutgers faculty senate, etc. What we're not gonna do is erase the Jesuits! Sigh, let me reread Elite Capture.

The dire wolf thing is probably creepy and ominous but honestly I'm just happy that science is being used for purposes of fuzziness

Just found out that there will be an audiobook version of my forthcoming book, Sex Beyond "Yes"! Here is a beautiful new promo for the book. And please consider preordering; preorders really affect how the book gets marketed and what exposure it gets!

I am going to give a talk in Kyiv! David Chalmers @davidchalmers.bsky.social is keynoting and the whole lineup is amazing. Very excited!

EXISTENTIAL QUESTIONS

During existential moments in human history, philosophy has served as a refuge, a place of retreat that connects reflection across centuries, whatever the conditions. To practice philosophy in moments...

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Brave to @jeffstein.bsky.social, WaPo's chief economics correspondent, for not wasting any time in stating what must be stated. Hopefully the first of many.

This is beyond terrifying. I mean everything is of course, but this is in a whole new way. We are going to be cut off from any other realities except their death cult and it is happening fast. www.nbcnews.com/media/jeff-b...

Jeff Bezos overhauls Washington Post opinion section, says it will focus on 'personal liberties and free markets'

Opinion Editor David Shipley decided to "step away" after Bezos offered him to continue in his role but under this new editorial focus.

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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...

I'm surprised I haven't thought about this before, but I wonder how RFK's hatred of autistic people and his use of the threat of autism as a public health messaging weapon is going to end up mixing with the inspiration pornification of Musk's autism

We need to spend more time on the fact that Vance made the Minister of Finance of Norway and Chair of the Munich Security Conference burst into public tears of despair.

I wrote a review of Elizabeth Barnes's fascinating book *Health Problems* for Phil Review. Free access here! drive.google.com/file/d/1tavs...