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kai milanovich

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philosophy & social work grad student @ uw seattle | they/them 🏳️‍⚧️ | feminist epistemology, applied ethics and philosophy of (social) science | program design and community education manager @ trans-wa phil.washington.edu/people/kai-milanovich

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kai milanovich @kialectics.bsky.social · Nov 25

Intro for new followers:
I am a grad student working in philosophy (PhD) and social work (MSW). Here is a brief view of how I have been working at the intersection of these fields:

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kai milanovich @kialectics.bsky.social · Jul 3

thank you, Hane!

kai milanovich @kialectics.bsky.social · Jul 3

Nancy's work has always been compelling to me, and this paper is (in part) trying to renew part of the spirit from her style of feminist theorizing. it's so apt that this named award was granted to a paper that retraces the steps of her thinking. i'm honored!

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kai milanovich @kialectics.bsky.social · Jul 3

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 · Jul 3

New paper up from Kai Milanovich - 'Distinguishing Situated Knowledge and Standpoint Theory: Defending the Achievement Thesis'

Distinguishing Situated Knowledge and Standpoint Theory: Defending the Achievement Thesis | Hypatia | Cambridge Core

Distinguishing Situated Knowledge and Standpoint Theory: Defending the Achievement Thesis

www.cambridge.org

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kai milanovich @kialectics.bsky.social · Jul 3

i appreciate your thoughtful engagement with the piece! i found a lot of joy engaging with your argument here :)

kai milanovich @kialectics.bsky.social · Jul 3

hey, look! my first paper was published in Hypatia

Aidan McGlynn @aidanmcglynn.bsky.social · Jul 3

New paper up from Kai Milanovich - 'Distinguishing Situated Knowledge and Standpoint Theory: Defending the Achievement Thesis'

Distinguishing Situated Knowledge and Standpoint Theory: Defending the Achievement Thesis | Hypatia | Cambridge Core

Distinguishing Situated Knowledge and Standpoint Theory: Defending the Achievement Thesis

www.cambridge.org

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lila graham (mere finite mode) @deussivenatura.bsky.social · Jun 29

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

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · Jun 14

The revolution is full of 60-year-old women who love their trans kids.

Protest sign

NO KINGS
HANDS OFF
My tans child
My $, civil liberty, healthcare
The Rule of Law
Environmental Protection
National Parks
The Arts
Our Truthful History
And too much chaos to list on one poster
#Trump’s America Global Embarrassment

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Anne Fausto-Sterling @birdlady.bsky.social · Apr 27

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....

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Sarah Quinn @sarahquinn.bsky.social · Apr 26

'Better options exist'

Faculty began circulating an open letter on Friday to be sent to leadership including the Board of Regents, President Ana Mari Cauce, provost Tricia Serio, and dean of the College

www.dailyuw.com

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · Feb 1

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 · Feb 1

Having 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...

Musk's Junta Establishes Him as Head of Government

Imagining how we'd cover overseas what's happening to the U.S. right now

www.doomsdayscenario.co

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Jason Diamond @jasondiamond.bsky.social · Jan 17

I was walking down Canal Street and bought this. It’s crazy how quickly they can get merch made these days.

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kai milanovich @kialectics.bsky.social · Jan 17

nice meeting some folx!

kai milanovich @kialectics.bsky.social · Jan 16

fortunately this year's #SSWR25 is taking place just a few miles from home. looking forward to meeting the wonderful social work researchers :)

Image of my nametag for the Society of Social Work Research 29th Annual Conference.

kai milanovich @kialectics.bsky.social · Jan 16

cf. Kripke 1980

kai milanovich @kialectics.bsky.social · Dec 30

TLDR: keep an eye out for people indirectly using your name & credentials for AI generated muck. like look at the description here

kai milanovich @kialectics.bsky.social · Dec 30

granted, only the name is used and nothing about her title, so i suppose it is possible that there is another Klein who writes platitudinously.

i hope it is not her, at least, because i emailed the Yale professor to say the book seems like a fake 🤷🏻

kai milanovich @kialectics.bsky.social · Dec 30

the sites say it was written by “Ph.D. Jennifer Klein,” who is actually a historian, but she seems to mainly work on labor stuff and the two books she has published read way way way better. lol

kai milanovich @kialectics.bsky.social · Dec 30

it seems to only be available as an audiobook which is open for purchase on several platforms. the description doesn’t read like it’s a real book, doesn’t seem to have a real publisher, and reads like it’s a collection of wikipedia articles

kai milanovich @kialectics.bsky.social · Dec 30

i think i stumbled upon a fake (or AI generated?) book that uses the name of a Yale historian.

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kai milanovich @kialectics.bsky.social · Dec 20

makes you really wonder about the credibility of current SEP article authors…

kai milanovich @kialectics.bsky.social · Dec 20

what Brett means is that there are no good philosophers. it’s just the contemporary form of Plato’s no knowledge argument

screenshot of the “About” page on the SEP. Text reads, “as of Summer 2023, has nearly 1800 entries online”

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kai milanovich @kialectics.bsky.social · Dec 20

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 · Dec 20

Warm 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!

Alison Wylie awarded honorary doctorate by Erasmus University Rotterdam

Philosopher of science Alison Wylie was awarded an honorary doctorate for her contributions to the philosophy of science during the 111th Dies Natalis on Nov. 8

www.eur.nl

kai milanovich @kialectics.bsky.social · Dec 20

interesting! twenty seems like a lot, but maybe i'm underestimating them. how did you come up with grades? was there a rubric? i'd love to see the instructions if they help clarify :)

kai milanovich @kialectics.bsky.social · Dec 20

could you say a little more about how you structured the exam? im curious!

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kai milanovich @kialectics.bsky.social · Dec 19

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 · Dec 19

Our 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.