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philosopher @barnard.edu working on conceptual, normative, and jurisprudential issues about gender and its embodiment; “has a very specific sense of humor” and an em dash problem; they/she/my love; not.dingherself.com
Co-wrote an essay with Steven Gimbel on "Jokes, Puns, and Philosophy" featuring an overview of syntactical / semantic / pragmatic approaches to humor! Carnap, Gödel, and Derrida together at last: philpapers.org/rec/MARJPA-5 #philsky
The snow? Pretty sure snow was invented in Canada.
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tell ur grad students!! there is a prize involved! 🎀
The second edition of the Queer Analytic Philosophy conference will be in June in Santa Cruz, CA, right before SF Pride! Call for submissions (of pitches, papers, to chair or comment...) here!
#philsky
amazing title!!
Two Women kissing in front of a line of police officers during a gay rights demonstration in Staten Island in New York in 1990. (Photo by Thomas McGovern.) Taken from "Making Out, Making Change: The History of Queer Kiss-Ins by Stef Rubino on Autostraddle
Hot for Revolution Caleb Ward Abstract Activists for feminist, queer, and disability justice commonly describe their work as motivated by an erotic desire to build a different world. This chapter argues that this is not merely a metaphor. Drawing on activist case studies and the work of Audre Lorde, the chapter shows that erotic desire and pleasure in social movements can foster political agency for people targeted by sexual oppression. It traces three political benefits of erotic passion in this context: personal empowerment, communal moral resistance against oppressive norms and justifications, and enhanced political imagination toward a world that supports sexual agency. However, because intimate relationships within movements are often distorted by dominant, pernicious ideologies around sex, these political benefits are only realizable when a movement is organized internally around a relational infrastructure – an ethos – that supports sexual agency and equality, responsive to the needs of those targeted by sexual oppression. Keywords: political agency, sexual oppression, social movements, sexual agency, Audre Lorde, feminism, disability, queer politics, moral resistance, political imagination
Members of the Lesbian and Gay community stage a Valentine‘s Day “Kiss-In” 14 February 1988 outside St Patrick’s Cathedral in New York to present a message of their unity and love in the face of the “church condoning anti-gay and anti-lesbian violence”. (Photo by MARIA BASTONE / AFP)
What does it mean to be hot for revolution—to feel a desire to transform the world in your belly and your bones?
Here's my latest, on how erotic desire feeds political agency. I draw on AIDS activism, disability justice & other movements against sexual oppression.
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People are being executed in the street over a problem that straight up does not exist and both parties are complicit in the lie
omggg publishing in autostraddle about lesbian nuns as a philosopher is the coolest thing ever!! congrats!! 🤩
Why you should read a forgotten 80s bestseller about lesbian nuns - the reason is much more wholesome than you think.
(Also truly living my best Catholic school girl life - I love @autostraddle.bsky.social and it's thrilling to get to write heretically for them!)
some history around this: in the US, a lot of standards around double blind trials changed in the 1990's because of the advocacy of queer and trans AIDS activists who thought double blind trials for life saving medications were unethical. It's sad to see medicine reverting to harmful practices.
This is horrifying
Prison is like a pawn shop. It tries to suck every penny out of you.
Seeing Zohran instantly getting a bunch of shit done in like a week makes you realize that politicians could always do that on some level if they wanted it bad enough and very few of them actually do.
so cool!! do you have a syllabus you’d be willing to share?
It's really fun to think about how the artist can make an argument but omission, whereas in propositional arguments, you can seldom get away with this. The artist can question the very ground they paint on, all while still painting something of such immense beauty.
Global mean temperature 2025: 1.44 ± 0.13 °C above the 1850-1900 average, based on a synthesis of eight international datasets.
2025 was the second or third warmest year on record. 2024 remains the warmest.
That makes the past 3 years are the 3 warmest years on record.
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Turned off the Supreme Court arguments against transfemmes, trans women, and trans girls in sport and am instead explaining to the cat why SCOTUS needs to be abolished (and sending friends photos of said cat), we all cope in different ways
Cover of book with title “Lesbian Nuns: Breaking Silence”. The cover is grayish blue and shows a schematic drawing of two nuns in full garb standing close to each other.
In 1985, a compilation of about 50 testimonies of (former and current) lesbian nuns was published. It has largely been forgotten, but in its day a shocking 150,000 copies were on the market, and it was published in 11 countries. Here is why you should read it now. 1/
please do! i'll DM you my email
How cool! Do you have a link?
aww thanks for liking the piece!
Ding is one of the most exciting new voices in philosophy of gender I’ve seen in a long time
Essay link in the original post 👇
Legalize Plato t-shirt ad
What a joke academic philosophy is that this is what they’re rallying around when it’s about persecuting trans folks. Academic philosophy is basically just teams sports. This shirt is as bad as the “Plato’s Search and Rescue Team,”
Eastern APA people: come hang!
every year I read all the bios on this post and ball and buy way too many cookies 🥹🥹😫😫
Remember when cancel culture was gonna come for Aristotle?
A devastating story about the life and death of Lia Smith, a transgender woman and college student targeted by conservatives online because she briefly participated on the school's diving team. Lia was found dead by suicide last fall at the age of 21.
(Unlocked article below)
okay so i've seen so many people posting about this i just had to make it a sticker
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