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My sabbatical was approved 😎

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I’ve been watching so many bad 1990s-2000s trans children -focused talk shows / documentaries this week. One of the main differences is that the 2000s UK docs always misgender people (including trans adults)

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There was a TSQ sports issue that I haven’t really looked through as well

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Claire Jackson @claire.northsky.social · 06/10/2026

Weirdly I don’t think there is something for this like general legislation trackers. What I do know is that some discussions about trans people in sports began in the 1960s and then continued into the 1970s, hitting a flashpoint with Renee Richards. Mixed Olympics legalization was like 2004ish

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for the past four months I've been playing bass in a punk band for the first time since 2012. we just released a 3-song demo and you can listen to it here: sweetcrush.bandcamp.com/album/sweet-...

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sweet demo, by sweet crush

3 track album

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Isobel Bess @echosequence.space · 06/10/2026

this fridee'll be one year since other spaces published our first zine. we've published four zines so far, which feels pretty sustainable. trans people are doing a lot of cool and varied work on space/place/time/moment right now. otherspaces.bandcamp.com

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Merch from Other Spaces

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doing my lecture on sexual violence again after a 2 year gap and a bunch of the resources about sexual violence against LGBTQ people that I used to cite have been taken down

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Reminder for October: Fulden Ibrahimhakkioglu and I are co-editing a special issue of Feminist Philosophy Quarterly on Feminist Accountability and Transformative Justice! Essays of up to 9k words due Jan. 4 2027 for peer review. Details here: philevents.org/event/show/1...

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We are irrevocably implicated in the systems of oppression we seek to dismantle, and the effects of those systems live with us and within us. Accountability—understood as taking responsibility for our contributions to and complicity in systemic harms—offers a framework for practicing feminist solidarity, building community, and supporting both individual and collective healing. This special issue explores feminist accountability as a practice that moves beyond punishment and retribution toward transformative justice as an ethical and political project. We are especially interested in work that engages the tensions, limits, and possibilities of accountability: not only as an ethical ideal, but as a lived, contested, and situated practice across interpersonal, institutional, and structural contexts. We invite submissions that examine how accountability is practiced today and how it intersects with broader frameworks of transformative justice. What does it mean to take responsibility for harm within feminist communities? How might accountability reshape our understandings of power, complicity, and solidarity? What challenges arise when transformative justice frameworks—often developed in grassroots and activist contexts—are brought into academic spaces? In keeping with Feminist Philosophy Quarterly’s commitment to inclusive, intersectional, and community-engaged feminist philosophy, we especially encourage submissions that engage and build upon the work of scholars from historically marginalized communities and those most affected by the forms of harm under discussion. Submissions may address, but are not limited to:

-Feminist accountability as a practice: its limits, tensions, and conditions of possibility
-Accountability beyond carceral logics: abolitionist and transformative approaches to harm
-Transformative justice as ethical and political praxis
-Responsibility, complicity, and refusal in conditions of structural injustice
-Practices of repair, restitution, and non-reconciliation
-Community-based responses to harm: care, conflict, and collective healing
-Navigating accountability in a context of backlash and reaction
-The misuse of accountability practices and procedures
-Accountability within feminist movements: power, exclusion, and internal critique
-Pedagogies of accountability: teaching, learning, and institutional responsibility
-The politics of “calling in,” “calling out,” and other modes of response
-Citation as accountability: feminist lineage-building and epistemic responsibility
-Coalition-building and solidarity across asymmetries of power
-Mutual aid, abolition feminism, disability justice, and transformative justice
-Intersections of restorative and transformative justice frameworks
-Feminist responses to interpersonal, gendered, and sexual violence
-Feminist responses to state violence, war, and genocide
-The ethics and politics of care within transformative justice practices

Submission Details:
Deadline: January 4, 2027
Length: Up to 9,000 words (including notes, excluding references)

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now I have to give a talk at a poetry conference titled "Coherence, Consistency, and the Philosophy of Trans Space" to balance this out

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I was hoping to go up there so it’s very nice to know a train can do it!

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kith books @kithbooks.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Planning a road trip through western Mass on the way to Boston in January, is there anything that I should make a point to see or visit (New England is a mystery to me)

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"It's all softness and it burns." - THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A PAST LIFE, Ian Lark Miller @echosequence.space otherspaces.bandcamp.com/merch/ian-la...

Waking Palm
Ian Lark Miller

a line drawing on yellow paper of a three panel grid depicting a walking palm in full, the same again smaller, and a close up of its roots

THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A PAST LIFE

Guess it was different in the first draft,
rough draft, maybe,
like the callus that I used to get
from holding pens too tightly,
wrong.
Rub thumb to middle finger, feel
the way it's carried with me.
What was I digging for?
Not potatoes-I'm no Heaney-
no clean rasping or cool hardness.
Some people excavate themselves.
There's nothing clean about it.
It's all softness
and it burns.

Ian Lark Miller
from Walking Palm

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Larry La Fountain @larrylafountain.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

U.S. at 250: Enduring American Colonialism in Puerto Rico Wed, October 14 | 4:00-6:00 pm 1014 Tisch University of Michigan, Ann Arbor How do debt and colonialism impact the experience of Puerto Ricans? With Jorell Meléndez-Badillo (Wisconsin) and Rocío Zambrana (UPR) Free and open to the public

Flier for event with Rocio Zambrana and Jorell Melendez-Badillo, with their photos and the Puerto Rican flag

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Amy Marvin @amymarvin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It would be nice if trans-led journalism wasn’t such a mess

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Colette Arrand @colettearrand.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

🚨🚨 NEW TRIANGLE QUEER FILM SCREENING 🚨🚨 On Monday, October 26, TQF will be showing Sleepaway Camp at 7pm! It’s going to be fun and stupid and maybe a little offensive, idk. TICKETS: tickets.venuepilot.com/e/film-scree...

A poster for the 10/26 screening of Sleepaway Camp at The Pinhook, depicting a pixelated screaming Angela.

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Amy Marvin @amymarvin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

sick today but I drove my gf to deliver some zines to the post office anyway because I support local small businesses

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ianstein's monster @it-i4n.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

each purchase of Walking Palm is guaranteed to include two Alephs, two brick walls, two past lives (which there is no such thing as), two Little Princes, two salt rings, two closets, two airplanes, three Bostons, and four bathrooms!

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Isobel Bess @echosequence.space · 25/09/2026

new from Other Spaces! Ian Lark Miller's debut poetry collection is a study in leaving and returning, full of shifting light and small surprises. 28 pages. Designed, printed and assembled by hand.

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Ian Lark Miller – Walking Palm from Other Spaces

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Amy Marvin @amymarvin.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Never thought I’d be an ‘actually maybe gambling should be illegal’ person until the mid-2020s

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Caio Major @caiomajor.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Chatterbox Lit interviewed me about the story I published with them, and you can now read the interview here: www.chatterboxlit.com/read/intervi...

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Transition Is A Divine Force: a conversation with Caio Major — Chatterbox Literary

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Caio Major @caiomajor.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I published a new fiction piece last week, a trans coming of age story about magic semen (among other things). Read it at Chatterbox: www.chatterboxlit.com/read/t-boy-n...

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T-Boy Never Fights Alone — Chatterbox Literary

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Colette Arrand @colettearrand.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Oh hey, Triangle-area folks, there are 87 seats in the theater we’re showing Castration Movie in, and I would love to see 86 people in the ones I’m not occupying. Please come out! Tell yr friends!! 🎥 ✂️

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Amy Marvin @amymarvin.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Finally got to run an in-class discussion on Rungano Nyoni's I Am Not a Witch after wanting to teach it for years! Highly recommend if your school has Kanopy

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Becca Petunia 🏳️‍⚧️ @tallgirlpetunia.northsky.social · 21/09/2026

Underemployment is one of the biggest issues trans people face. This is especially true for those in public-facing jobs like acting, where we are often deemed "too controversial." Jack Haven deserves the world: they're endlessly talented and charismatic. So many of us deserve the world.

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Amy Marvin @amymarvin.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Wish someone would specialize in Philosophy of Mind Your Own Business!!

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Isobel Bess @echosequence.space · 20/09/2026

prototyping in the lab

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Amy Marvin @amymarvin.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Wasn’t sure if the students would get We Are Pat because of the generational difference but we were able to have a good conversation about it (I just had to explain what The Crying Game was)

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Amy Marvin @amymarvin.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Kanopy added Castration Movie so I’ll probably teach pt i in my class next semester

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Amy Marvin @amymarvin.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Yeah I think the original media use of “sex change” had a lot of issues (like just referring to “the surgery” as the moment of change as if hormones and social transition don’t matter). Transition does seem a lot more flexible in usage

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Amy Marvin @amymarvin.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Cis people got a bit too comfortable with conceptually distinguishing gender (fake) from sex (real), I no longer do Trans 101 with the gender unicorn and instead start with sexual development as a kind of complicated process that we idealize into discrete types

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Amy Marvin @amymarvin.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I low-key want to go back to calling it a sex change, I always stumble over the phrase “gender affirmation surgery” like a cis person when anyone brings it up

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Amy Marvin @amymarvin.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

planning to get back into teaching some trans lit next semester, which will mark over ten years from when I last taught Trans World-Making Through Literature in 2016

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Isobel Bess @echosequence.space · 18/09/2026

our little upstate ny trans film series now has an instagram page. i dont know what im doing. if you use this awful, terrible, evil website, please follow us on there so we can get clout. www.instagram.com/trans_film_t...

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Amy Marvin @amymarvin.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Isobel said that I have to get a letterboxd account now that I'm a film curator

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Amy Marvin @amymarvin.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

going to Athens, Greece with Isobel which I hope doesn't set off any ancient tragic feuds between philosophers and poets

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ianstein's monster @it-i4n.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

extremely grateful for the opportunity to collaborate with Other Spaces! aside from a couple of poems I've posted on this account, I can count on one hand the number of people who have read my poetry. wild to think some of it will soon be out there for anyone who wants to pick it up

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Isobel Bess @echosequence.space · 16/09/2026

Coming soon from Other Spaces: the debut poetry collection from Ian Lark Miller (@it-i4n.bsky.social). Walking Palm is a study in leaving and returning, full of small surprises.

cover mockup for Walking Palm by Ian Lark Miller. a botanical diagram depicts Socratea exorrhiza at different growth stages on a light orange background. The title is set in Reforma 1918.

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submitting a grant for the book Isobel and I are writing on trans film and trans space 🤞

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from the 2007 Newsweek cover story about trans rights: frames the inclusion of trans women in sports and youth gender transition as gradually accepted policies

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wild to see achievable goals we had in the 2000s now described as 'maximalist'

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