Willow Starr

Eastern APA people: come hang!

Yep, that’s MAGALOGIC tbh

It’s almost like HRT is more humane and cost effective for treating gender dysphoria than torture and counseling 🤯

call for pitches & questions! For the spring 2026 edition of being trans in philosophy called “#1 issue: the job market”. Submit pitches & questions by Dec 20th to our website: https://being.transinphilosophy.org.

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CALL FOR PITCHES! Our Spring 2026 edition “the #1 issue: the job market” needs you. See the full CFP on our website. The theme is the job market and the content is however you all need and want to engage with that 💥

Inside: @talia-mae.bsky.social interviewed by @n1c0n1c0.bsky.social, sex and love via Plato by Josh Kramer; an how to guide to queering ethics by @beegs1.bsky.social; a piece on how trans experience informs @willow-starr.bsky.social's work in philosophy of language 3/

Here are the _public_ email addresses for the reporters and the standards editor listed on the WSJ site.

Standards editor:
David.marcelis@wsj.com

Journalists who wrote the article:
james.fanelli@wsj.com
sadie.gurman@wsj.com

Politely and peacefully demand a retraction and an apology.

@floresophize.bsky.social & @n1c0n1c0.bsky.social nail how words get caught up in political struggles and how dominant culture uses that to do its thing.

the zine is getting around out there. make your own pass them around 🖨️💜

Restoring the biological truth that sex is messy and complex, and we are all better off when medicine, science and social policy reflect this.

Dear Professor Byrne

My brave coworkers at MIT put together a statement re: Alex Byrne's confirmation that he co-authored the HHS report recommending against gender-affirming care for trans youth (www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...)

Please read the letter and sign at: dearprofessorbyrne.wordpress.com

Supporting trans kids is so easy when you’re in their actual life. The bullies in the White House and Supreme Court think the State should be used to destroy them instead. Fuck them. We will find ways to support them anyway ✨

Blocker bans are abuse.

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“Trans life is the life of Wittgenstein’s lions, one’s words forever falling dead born from the mouth.” 💯🔥 Thanks for your amazing contribution 💕

⚡️ OUT NOW ⚡️

When I left the discipline, I was one of two trans femmes of color with a PhD in philosophy and I could not see, or even imagine, a department that would hire me. Leaving ended up being on of my best decisions, an opportunity to leave an abusive relationship on my own terms.

#beingtransinohilosophy

“You would think philosophy would aim to make trans people more safe. But chasers always shoot themselves in the foot.” WE LAUNCH TOMORROW💥

#beingtransinphilosophy

sounds gay I’m in

Trans experience dictated by trans people in philosophy. I know! Kinda revolutionary 🎯🥹. Can’t wait for this zine to launch ⚙️💎

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Life of the Mother When the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022, doctors warned that women would die, but lawmakers who passed state abortion bans didn’t listen. The worst consequences are now becoming clear.

Making America Great Again by killing women and scapegoating trans women as the real threat. Patriarchy is the gender ideology we all need protection from.
#abortion #maga #gender #women #trump #pulitzer

Screenshot of XML information open in notepad, showing “Alex Byrne” under the creator tag..

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.

New FBI Data: Anti-LGBTQ+ Hate Crimes Continue to Spike Attacks Based on Gender Identity Up 16% from Prior Year, Those Based on Sexual Orientation Up 23%

Meanwhile, anti-LGBTQ+ hate crimes spike… www.hrc.org/press-releas...

The Real Origins of the Religious Right They’ll tell you it was abortion. Sorry, the historical record’s clear: It was segregation.

It’s not like religious freedom has been used to defend racial segregation in schools too. Oh wait: www.politico.com/magazine/sto...

How Sam Alito Inadvertently Revealed His Own Homophobia From the Bench So what was the message of Uncle Bobby’s Wedding?

Chat, Mahmoud v. Taylor is so bad. The argument amounts to claiming that religious freedom conflicts with merely knowing about LGTBQ+ people and our lives. At least (checks notes) 6 justices seem poised to accept this argument 😭

slate.com/news-and-pol...

Abortion Bans Upended Their Lives—Now They’re Fighting Back, One Story at a Time Across the country, abortion storytellers are putting the struggle for reproductive freedom into powerful new words.

"As she spoke, the M-word—murdered—hung heavy in the auditorium... She wanted to be very clear, Williams continued: The abortion did not kill her daughter, the mother of a 6-year-old son; the healthcare professionals who were well-equipped to keep her alive but failed to do so did."

Making America Great again by starving our kids and disabled people, all so trans kids can be excluded from school activities. (*upside down American flag*)