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christopher griffin
@chris-brighton.bsky.social
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early career researcher working in trans studies, decolonial studies, feminist epistemologies, radical politics, and neurodiversity studies. big fan of Wynter and Derrida. they/them.
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christopher griffin @chris-brighton.bsky.social · Aug 6
My new article addresses the claim that the rights of trans women 'clash' with the rights of cis women. I examine the coloniality of the concept of rights underpinning this idea, exploring the erotics of sacrificial feminism and zero-sum politics in general... 🧵 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Dispossessive rights: coloniality and trans-exclusion in zero-sum politics
The idea that rights are possessions that are given and lost is so ubiquitous within the dominant discourse that its metaphoricity is forgotten. This amnesia naturalises possessive individualism, a...
www.tandfonline.com
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rebeccasear.bsky.social
"Drawing on a corpus of over 15,000 scholarly articles published between 1800 and 2024, we map the linguistic landscape of eugenics in scholarly discourse to reveal its institutional, scientific, and sociopolitical entrenchment"

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Echoes of Eugenics: Tracing the Ideological Persistence of Scientific Racism in Scholarly Discourse | Proceedings of the 5th ACM Conference on Equity and Access in Algorithms, Mechanisms, and Optimiza...
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November 23, 2025 at 9:24 AM
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jessothomson.co.uk
Kathleen Stock has written an article against "abortion permissiveness". She claims abortion requires "justification" saying the state should limit "unacceptable decision-making" by women about their own bodies.

This is who anti-trans activists proclaim as the feminist thought leaders of our time.
What progressives won’t say about abortion The sanitised narrative ignores ethical truths
November 21, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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suchmayer.bsky.social
Ursula K. Le Guin's Futures: Theo Downes-Le Guin in conversation with SF Said @whatsfsaid.bsky.social

Burley Fisher Books @burleyfisher.bsky.social
3 December, 6.30 pm

This is going to be an ABSOLUTE TREAT! #LeGuin fans, #VarjakPaw fans, fans of most excellent conversation, come on out!
Ursula K. Le Guin's Futures: Theo Downes-Le Guin in conversation with SF Said
3rd December 6.30pm for 7pm Start In this special event, Theo Downes-Le Guin, Ursula K Le Guin’s son, literary executor and head of the Ursula K. Le Guin Foundation, discusses his work with his mother...
burleyfisherbooks.com
November 19, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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senthorun.bsky.social
Over two decades ago, a Labour government repealed “Section 28” which aimed to prevent positive discussions about homosexuality and gay lives in schools. Now a Labour government pursues transphobia and erases trans and non-binary lives. Today’s political transphobia is basically recycled homophobia.
amnestyuk.bsky.social Amnesty International UK @amnestyuk.bsky.social · 11d
Twenty-two years ago today Section 28 was repealed.

But we're seeing history repeat itself as some in the media and in politics spread bigotry and misinformation about trans people.

1/8🧵
November 18, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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jessicavalenti.bsky.social
This all-male panel is deciding whether South Carolina women can be charged with murder for their pregnancies — and whether birth control and pro-choice websites stay legal.

This a real thing happening today. Don't look away.
November 18, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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intellpublics.bsky.social
Insurgent Visions: Feminism, Justice, Solidarity
A conversation with Chandra Talpade Mohanty and Linda Martin Alcoff
Monday, December 8, 2025
6:30pm ET online
bit.ly/insurgent_vi...
November 17, 2025 at 4:05 PM
chris-brighton.bsky.social
To give an example of just one connection between Trans Studies and deconstruction, here are some thoughts about 🔔Clang🔔, the recent translation of Derrida's Glas by David Wills and Geoffrey Bennington (W&B). Why retranslate Glas today? What makes this a relevant text? Or a relevant #translation? 🧵
Photo of a very large Hello Kitty toy holding a paperback copy of Clang by Derrida. Hello Kitty has purple fur and is wearing flamingo sunglasses.
November 17, 2025 at 1:42 AM
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cnlester.bsky.social
Final night tonight! It's been a phenomenal experience - if you're in London and want to support trans artists then COME!

www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/202...

If cost is a barrier, just message me and we'll work it out - we want you there
November 15, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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inqyr.bsky.social
🚨 🌈🎓 🚨

The University of Edinburgh is recruiting for a funded full-time post-doc researcher to help with the "Rain within the Rainbow" project exploring LGBTQ+ suicide and suicide prevention through the life course in the UK.

Apply here by November 21st: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPH708/r...
Research Fellow (Rain within the Rainbow) at The University of Edinburgh
Discover an exciting academic career path as a Research Fellow (Rain within the Rainbow) at jobs.ac.uk. Don't miss out on this job opportunity - apply today!
www.jobs.ac.uk
November 14, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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riislover667.bsky.social
Hello internet, poet Caitie Moore wrote a crystalline elegy following the pulse nightclub shooting that is scrubbed from the internet because the online publication folded. Looking ahead to the ten year anniversary in June it should be republished where a lot of people can read it forever
November 14, 2025 at 5:13 PM
chris-brighton.bsky.social
The trans challenge to common sense is part of an epistemic revolution that has genuinely decolonial potential. Now is not the time to return to positivism, essentialism, and other "little conservatisms"!
taliabhatt.itch.io Talia "Estro Junkies" Bhatt ♀︎♀︎ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 15d
"my least woke opinion is---"

That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.

Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
November 14, 2025 at 3:56 PM
chris-brighton.bsky.social
Call for panelists! Join me for a panel on ✨Trans Studies and Deconstruction✨ at the Derrida Today Conference (July 2026, Paris). More info in 🧵

#Derrida #TransStudies #AcademicSky #AcademicResearch #PhilSky #gendersky #signalboost #FeministSky #cfp #lit #socialtheory 🌈🎓 @derridatoday.bsky.social
Graphic calling for panelists for a Trans Studies panel at the 9th Derrida Today Conference, to be held at the École Normale Supérieure (Paris)​ on 13–17 July 2026. Includes a photo of Derrida wearing a pink and blue shirt-tie combo that uncannily foreshadows the colours of the Trans Pride flag.
November 12, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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hypatiabeauvoir.bsky.social
Looking forward to our coming conference this week on “Resistance, Refusal, Survival: Contesting Hostile Environments” and to having this great group of people at @unisg.ch!

Organized together with @christineabbt.bsky.social & @mcbstyler.bsky.social
November 11, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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genderhorizon.com
The New York City Trans Oral History Project has this wonderful two hour oral history with Miss Major. Take some time to listen to it; it's quite extraordinary. We have learned so much from Miss Major. nyctransoralhistory.org/interview/mi...
October 14, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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wgssouth.bsky.social
Check out our 2026 LGBTQ Caucus CFP: "Trans, Intersex, and Queer Freedom Dreams and Futurities"

If you have something to say, let us hear it! Join us at Wake Forest University this March!

Submissions Due Dec. 1st wgssouth.org/2026conference

#lgbtq #queerstudies #southernstudies #academicsky
Purple background with dual, flipped images (reminiscent of tarot cards) of a feminine face with long flowing hair that cascades around the figure's hands, which hold a planet.
November 7, 2025 at 4:17 PM
chris-brighton.bsky.social
It's finally time for the almost-infinitely-deferred gift of Given Time II to be given. Almost.

#Derrida #Heidegger #gift #AcademicSky #AcademicResearch #PhilSky 📚💙
November 6, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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jem.writes.fyi
"the sixties’ movements were really the first opening phase of the dynamic in which the series of “isms” (initiated by the black antiapartheid struggle for civil rights, women’s rights/feminism, indigenous & other of-color rights, gay & lesbian rights) erupted to challenge Man’s episteme, its truth"
Screenshot from Sylvia Wynter and Katherine McKittrick's chapter "Unparalleled catastrophe for our species? Or, to give humanness a different future: Conversations" (2015). Text: Now with respect to the challenges to the single biocentric model of liberal monohumanist Man, the sixties’ movements were really the first opening phase of the dynamic in which the series of “isms” (initiated by the black antiapartheid struggle for civil rights, women’s rights/feminism, indigenous and other of-color rights, gay and lesbian rights, and so forth) had erupted to challenge Man’s episteme, its truth, and therefore its biocentric descriptive statement. And momentarily, they were making these challenges all together. Ah, but when you separate them, you retreat into the bourgeois order of things. And that was the remimeticized Bovaryism trap into which we all fell.39 The sixties’ movements had begun that whole ripping apart of the emperor’s clothes—and remember, the sixties movements had been fueled by the earlier anticolonial movements all over the world, which had climaxed in Vietnam, Algeria, and elsewhere. All such humanly emancipatory struggles, all then so fiercely fought for! You bring them together, and the world system had begun to question itself!
November 6, 2025 at 4:24 AM
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derek.bike
good morning specifically to the FBI agent who introduced Mamdani’s dad to Marx
guy said, “Do you like Marx?” I said, “I haven’t met him.” Guy said, “No, no, he’s dead.” “Wow, what happened?” “No, no, he died long ago.” I thought the guy Marx had just died. So then, “Why are you asking me if he died long ago?” “No, he wrote a lot. He wrote that poor people should not be poor.” I said, “Sounds amazing.” I’m giving you a sense of how naïve I was. After they left, I went to the library to look for Marx. So that was my introduction to Karl Marx. BS: The FBI. MM: The FBI. Then, of course, I took a class on Marx. Couldn’t just get Marx out of the library. But,
November 5, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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reginakanyuwang.bsky.social
Call for inaugural issue of—Polyfora: A Journal of Speculative CoFutures—an interdisciplinary journal devoted to unearthing possible futures, accepting peer-reviewed articles, stories, artworks, and essays from many languages and perspectives:
journal.cofutures.org
November 5, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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sandeepbak.bsky.social
Hello dearies, I've made available online my syllabus for the course titled,

Bodies and Sexualities: Transnational/Queer Feminisms

It's a reading-heavy course (3hours each week, 8 weeks in all) for MA Year 2 students with a guest lecture. You can consult it here: doi.org/10.13140/RG....
November 4, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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leahtigers.bsky.social
several days ago i got my advance copy of Gendertrash, a compilation from @littlepuss.net of the legendary 90s trans zine, which releases today. only holding it did i really grasp the significance of the repub, amount of lost material recovered, and the honor of being asked to write the afterword. x
November 4, 2025 at 5:37 PM
chris-brighton.bsky.social
This conversation between Rosaura Martínez-Ruiz and @danielloick.bsky.social is really instructive in showing why abjection (and other European concepts of constitutive exclusion) must be carefully rethought for understanding structures of violence in the Global South.
#AcademicSky #polphil #polisci
November 4, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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drsamischalk.bsky.social
If you’ve been waiting to get the audio version of my book Black Disability Politics (narrated by @imanibarbarin.bsky.social), it’s currently deeply discounted on @libro.fm!

libro.fm/audiobooks/9...
Black Disability Politics Audiobook on Libro.fm
In Black Disability Politics Sami Schalk explores how issues of disability have been and continue to be central to Black activism from the 1970s to the present. Schalk shows how Black people have long...
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November 4, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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criticaltimes1.bsky.social
"By paying closer attention to the hatred of surplus populations in contemporary global fascisms, we can see another dimension of authoritarian domination: not just objectification—disposing the other—but also abjection, disposing of the other."

An Exchange btwn Daniel Loick & Rosaura Martínez-Ruiz
November 3, 2025 at 3:26 PM
chris-brighton.bsky.social
Captivated by this 1988 edition of Ursula Le Guin's Always Coming Home. The artwork by Mike van Houten is beautiful, and the text features numerous illustrations, charts, maps, poems, and even music notation ⤵️

#BookSky #UrsulaLeGuin #speclit #ScienceFiction #FantasyBookSky #illustration 🪐📚 🏺
Photo of the cover of the 1988 edition of Ursula Le Guin's Always Coming Home. The artwork, a painting by Mike van Houten, shows a person standing outside a wood cabin and gazing upon a landscape of mountains and forests, with a small settlement nearby.
November 3, 2025 at 5:36 PM