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Being Trans in Philosophy @being.transinphilosophy.org · 10/04/2026

See you live tomorrow!! Zoom info: live.transinphilosophy.org (no registration needed!)

For Zoom info visit LIVE.TRANSINPHILOSOPHY.ORG

Passcode: APAP2026

Meeting ID: 86219912139

Being Trans in Philosophy @being.transinphilosophy.org · 09/04/2026

We participate as a public session in protest of the APA's decision not to hold another divisional meeting online. We urge the discipline to embrace accessibility and sustainability.

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Being Trans in Philosophy @being.transinphilosophy.org · 09/04/2026

The streaming links for all four public sessions of this week's virtual meeting of the American Philosophical Association can now be found in the program pdf!

Public Sessions
The 2026 APA Pacific Division meeting will include four sessions that are
free and open to the public without registration. Descriptions, dates, and
direct Zoom links for these sessions appear below. All meeting times are in
Pacific Time.
Zoom Meeting Password: APAP2026
INVITED SYMPOSIUM: THE ETHICS OF ONLINE CONFERENCING: A TRIBUTE
TO HELEN DE CRUZ (5A)
Thursday, April 9, 4:00–5:50 p.m.
https://us06web.zoom.us/s/81834872823
PHILOSOPHERS FOR SUSTAINABILITY, SESSION 1 (G6A)
Friday, April 10, 8:00–9:50 a.m.
https://us06web.zoom.us/s/86300660500
TASKFORCE ON CONTINGENT FACULTY REPORT (8F)
Friday, April 10, Noon–1:50 p.m.
https://us06web.zoom.us/s/83840568597
INVITED SYMPOSIUM: BEING TRANS IN PHILOSOPHY ZINE (13D)
Saturday, April 11, Noon–1:50 p.m.
https://us06web.zoom.us/s/86219912139

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Carrie Jenkins @carriejenkins.net · 08/04/2026

I urge the @apaphilosophy.bsky.social to reconsider holding some division meetings online. Currently, US-based in-person-only conferences force many to choose between professional exclusion and personal safety risks. 😭

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Being Trans in Philosophy @being.transinphilosophy.org · 08/04/2026

This Saturday we are so excited to present one of four *fully public* sessions of the American Philosophical Association's very last online divisional meeting. No registration needed! & check out the other public sessions on virtual conferencing, contingent faculty, and philosophy in public policy!

April 11, 2026: 12-1:50 PDT / 3-4:50 EDT / 7-8:50 UTC. Being Trans in Philosophy, a zine for and by trans people in the discipline, brings you a live reading and launch party at the 2026 virtual meeting of the American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division. Free online! Public access Zoom link to be posted on https://being.transinphilosophy.org. Readings by: Imogen Sullivan, Ding, Erin Beeghly, Alex Adamson, Emmie Malone, Amy Marvin, Willow Starr, Roshni Truax, and Perry Zurn.

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Being Trans in Philosophy @being.transinphilosophy.org · 25/03/2026

April 11, 2026: 12-1:50 PDT / 3-4:50 EDT / 7-8:50 UST. Being Trans in Philosophy, a zine for and by trans people in the discipline, brings you a live reading and launch party at the 2026 virtual meeting of the American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division. Free online!

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Being Trans in Philosophy @being.transinphilosophy.org · 25/03/2026

Public access Zoom link to be posted on being.transinphilosophy.org. Readings by: Imogen Sullivan, Ding, Erin Beeghly, Alex Adamson, Emmie Malone, Amy Marvin, Willow Starr, Roshni Truax, and Perry Zurn.

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Being Trans in Philosophy

Being Trans in Philosophy collects first-personal accounts of what it’s actually like to be trans or have trans kids as a philosopher.

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Centre for Love, Sex, and Relationships @clsrleeds.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Happy LGBTQ+ History Month! To celebrate, we’ve been asking CLSR members how their experiences shape their work, and what it’s like being LGBTQ+ in philosophy 👇 Special shoutout this month and all months to the amazing work going on over at @being.transinphilosophy.org - check them out!

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Being Trans in Philosophy @being.transinphilosophy.org · 07/01/2026

2026 Eastern APA goers: We’re hosting a session on the status of trans people in the profession, and an alt-smoker Friday night at a local queer club. Hope to see you there 🫶🏼

QT (queer, trans, & fellow feminists, allies, underlings) Smoker, dm for location. Fri 1/9/26, 9pm-??. Eastern APA, Baltimore. Brought to you by Being Trans in Philosophy.

Wednesday Session 2-5pm

Book Symposium: Talia Mae Bettcher, among others.

Friday Session 2-3:50pm

Status of Trans People in the Profession:
Perry Zurn, Willow Starr, Ding.

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Caro Flores @floresophize.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

The extremely rad editors of @being.transinphilosophy.org have put out a call for pitches for the next edition of their zine! They are also hosting cool events at the Eastern and Pacific meetings of the APA (details on the website). being.transinphilosophy.org/cfp/

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Open Call for Pitches & Questions – The #1 Issue: The Job Market | Being Trans in Philosophy: A Zine

We are inviting pitches and questions for Being Trans on the Job Market, a follow-up issue of the zine. Submit by December 20, 2025!

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Being Trans in Philosophy @being.transinphilosophy.org · 16/11/2025

We realize that our zines are also read and circulated beyond academia, so there is a longer-term question of our positioning with community vs. university that we feel unsure about at the moment. Sorry! 2/2

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Being Trans in Philosophy @being.transinphilosophy.org · 16/11/2025

Hi Lauryl- thank you for your interest & question! I wish we had a better answer; we recognize the equity issue. As we are speaking primarily to the discipline of philosophy as scholars and students, we are not putting our zines behind a paywall and do not operate under a budget. 1/2

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Being Trans in Philosophy @being.transinphilosophy.org · 16/11/2025

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 💥

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.

Reflections, news, opinions, interviews, analyses, announcements, poetry, fiction, humor, cartoons, memes, drawings, tips & resources. Surprise us!

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ding @not.dingherself.com · 18/08/2025

got @autoanon.bsky.social ’s new release in the mail (in physical form no less)!! still working my way through it so will have more to share, but this is the kind of texts I wish I could’ve held in my hands when I was figuring things out, and I really can’t wait to see how Naomi’s story unfolds 🫶

Cover of Auto Anon’s Reverse Tomboy: A Novel, photographed against the background of a backyard.

The back cover, which reads: Naomi Soloveitchik has taken the first steps towards the womanhood she hopes to embody but does not yet understand what that means for her relationships to friends, lovers, and her own body. She wrestles with the more masculinized womanhood she aspires to, asking herself if it is possible for a trans woman to be a tomboy. In addition to the central story, also included is a small collection of poems and a brief essay on trans femme butch identity.

"Sweet, poignant, and achingly honest, Reverse Tomboy is a gorgeously-sketched portrait of trans loneliness and pleasure."
- GRETCHEN FELKER-MARTIN

"An extremely personable writing voice, with moments of various joy - overwhelming joy, a stopping joy, a we-must-sit-in-this-joy — cut against usual romantic woes and the sense a fuller life, a social life, can lead to total ease, the opportunity to be newly still. Allusive and sweet and insightful with no caricature bogeymen or manufactured hand-wringing necessary, as AA brings an incredible millesimal fineness to bear on the Bildungsroman to fill out its every nook and cranny instead. In turns light as Hemingway and as funny and sharp as Torrey Peters, Reverse Tomboy is a remarkably brisk and exacting novel of small and sure steps toward grace in the garden of untamed harmony that is made by trans people alive and well in the public sphere."
- BENJAMIN C. DUGDALE

"Reverse Tomboy offers an intimate exploration of the lives of trans people today. Following in the footsteps of Leslie Feinberg's Stone Butch Blues and Imogen Binnie's Nevada, Auto Anon shares a semi-autobiographical narrative of how one becomes oneself. Wedged in the intersection of trans literature and philosophy, readers won't be able to put down the hilariously scathing — and satisfying — critique of the gender roles our society still clings to."
- ELI ERLICK

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Feminist Ethics and Social Theory (FEAST) @feministphilosophy.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

A reminder that we love this zine, in case you somehow haven’t read it yet!

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Being Trans in Philosophy @being.transinphilosophy.org · 14/07/2025

we’re so excited to read Reverse Tomboy from cover to cover!! find the pre-order link in the comments!

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Being Trans in Philosophy @being.transinphilosophy.org · 06/07/2025

did you hear that you could read and print Being Trans in Philosophy today?! seriously, like woahhh!! being.transinphilosophy.org the zine @diversityread.bsky.social 10th anniversary conference (happy bday!!) by @nonamename.bsky.social, SF pride @not.dingherself.com, & SPP @willow-starr.bsky.social

Phot of the Trans in Philosophy zine spotted on a table at the Diversity Reading List 10th Anniversary conference, under the conference program booklet.

Photo of co-editor Ding holding the zine, with a yellow cover, in front of four flying Pride flags at the San Francisco civic center plaza.

Photo of a dozen copies of the Being Trans in Philosophy zine on a circular table, in different colors arranged to create a trans pride, at the society for philosophy and psychology conference.

Photo of Maximiliana and co-editor Willow posing with copies of the zine. Maximiliana's shirt says “Black Trans Lives Matter.”

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Being Trans in Philosophy @being.transinphilosophy.org · 23/06/2025

A grammar lesson, from our zine launched last week 🧑‍🏫

Photo of a page from the Being Trans in Philosophy zine, showing a “grammar lesson” under a gender-neutral sign and the text “they (singular)”: ‘They’ is versatile! In its singular use, it can be used to refer to a person (or thing) without the needless trappings of grammatical gender. For example: “I saw someone at the march. They had a sign that said ‘All my homies hate ICE.’” BUT, when it’s in the mood, ‘they’ can switch to a plural meaning, for example: “I saw two women kissing at the march. They had shirts on that said ‘I love it when girls.’” This latest example also illustrates the distinction between grammatical gender and social gender: ‘they’ refers to two women (social gender) but is gender-neutral (grammatical gender). Some novices in gender and language make the mistake of believing that grammatical gender refers to some Real Gender or even... SEX. But all my homies know that’s silly.

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Being Trans in Philosophy @being.transinphilosophy.org · 19/06/2025

omg thank you & we are so delighted to hear this! please let us know if there’s any way we can be of help/support! 🖤

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Diversity Reading List in Philosophy @diversityread.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

A must read - share widely, print it for your departments, etc. We'll have physical copies printed at our #DRLAnniversaryConference.

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Being Trans in Philosophy @being.transinphilosophy.org · 18/06/2025

Your friendly reminder of exactly how centrist ‘just asking questions’ does harm. Cosplaying curiosity for attention comes with a death toll for trans people.

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Willow Starr @willow-starr.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

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 ✨

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Tony Corsentino @notalegalrecord.net · 18/06/2025

i follow a listserv for trans librarians where i learned about this zine: Being Trans in Philosophy. being an ex-academic philosopher and being quite aware of the transphobia that pervades academic philosophy, i am eager to read it. free to all. being.transinphilosophy.org

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Being Trans in Philosophy

Trans people and our loved ones are not okay—in, with, and because of academic philosophy. Being Trans in Philosophy is a zine collecting first-personal accounts of what it’s actually like to be trans...

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trans scribe @scribetrans.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

I've been harassed and sexualized by students and on campus, was drawn into wildly transphobic discussions by random colleagues, people assuming my relation to my genitals and just putting it out there, and am confronted with awkward silence when talking about transphobic harrassement and barriers

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trans scribe @scribetrans.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

I am lucky to have one of the more accepting academic environments in critical theory, but even they were an absolute disgrace when dealing with trans students criticizing an obviously transphobic seminar

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okay Kelly @kmdoublev.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

I think it's super cool when philosophers use creative formats to share their expertise and engage the public on serious social justice issues. Check it out!

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Feminist Ethics and Social Theory (FEAST) @feministphilosophy.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

This is a must-read for anyone invested in the health of the discipline of philosophy and its institutions

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Haunted Jane Dryden 👻 @janedryden.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Yay! So glad this is out.

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Erin Beeghly @beegs1.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

New, gorgeous zine out today! Being trans in philosophy. Read & share.

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julia 🌋 @hypv.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

note how many of the contributers, especially the grad students, are anonymous

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emmie malone 🏳️‍⚧️ @emmiemalone.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

I’m honored to have been been included alongside so many amazingly talented and thoughtful authors! The pieces in this zine are beautiful and tragic and powerful. They are also urgent and I would encourage you to read and share widely, especially if you are working in philosophy.

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Perry Zurn @perryzurn.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Excited to see this out! And honored to be a part of the project. Much love to @being.transinphilosophy.org for the vision, creativity, and honesty behind this.

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emmie malone 🏳️‍⚧️ @emmiemalone.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Here is my contribution to @being.transinphilosophy.org! Thank you to @not.dingherself.com and @willow-starr.bsky.social for putting this zine together!

A passage, written by Emmie Malone, from the zine Being Trans in Philosophy, Issue #0. It is taken from page 20. It is passage 1/3. It reads:

“The bulk of my experience being trans in philosophy happens at one of three levels. Pirst, there are the would-be allies. They would be allies if a crisis were to come, but like the doctor in Benigni's Life is Beautiful, they are simply unable to ever see a crisis as present at hand, to hear you speak plainly and understand what you mean. So much of the experience of being trans in philosophy mirrors daily life as a trans person in this regard. It involves well-meaning cis people encouraging you by saying that the political realities you have just told them have come to pass hopefully won't come to pass. Trans life is the life of Wittgenstein's lions, one's words forever falling deadborn from the mouth. The would-be ally cannot recognize harm, or panic, or dread as they are brought into the world, they can only understand it as a tragedy. The apparent choice we are left with 1s to be understood as a lesson of history or to let our struggle be as wild and unintelligible as lions running free from the zoo.”

A passage, written by Emmie Malone, from the zine Being Trans in Philosophy, Issue #0. It is taken from page 20. It is passage 2/3. It reads:

“Beyond this is the experience of walking on eggshells. The sad truth is that we must be mindful to manage every interaction. You see, while they would not consciously think the thought or say the words, to many of my colleagues I have functionally not been a person first, but a walking TV news chyron, an invitation for others to think and talk about the ‘transgender issue.’ If you are lucky this conversation will involve you but 1t often does not. If you are very lucky you will get to educate or at least enter into dialogue, but you quickly realize that 1s seldom your role. Instead, you are merely there to sit and nod and look for points of agreement and, perhaps, gentle ways to push them in the right direction as they delineate the precise ways in which your rights and the rights of your community should differ from theirs. That 1s, you are there to launder their opinion on the ‘transgender issue.’ If you do this, you will be rewarded with their approval as ‘one of the good ones’ and they will quickly turn the conversation to the meta level, about how great it 1s when people can talk about ‘this stuff.’ The secret of this conversation, for which you will be punished, is that you are actually one of the bad ones, if not the worst one. Yet, institutional forces, power structures, and professional norms prevent you from responding appropriately as a complete and moral person. If not that then it will be the sober recognition that many of our colleagues are quite visibly only one mismanaged…”

A passage, written by Emmie Malone, from the zine Being Trans in Philosophy, Issue #0. It is taken from page 21. It is passage 3/3. It reads:

“interaction away from quitting the field to join the much more lucrative professional transphobe circuit. You are always at threat to be the inciting incident in their popular op-ed deta1ling their burgeoning transphobia are. The punishment, of course, is the personal and emotional toll of being ever vigilante in balancing the moral injury of complicity in laundering these views and demeaning your character and, on the other hand, introducing the world to the next great public transphobe and 1ts consequences.

Finally, there 1s the fact that academic philosophy does function as the most significant minor league farm system for professional transphobia, that it is seemingly determined to render 1tself the handmaid of this particular political project, and that contemporary analytic philosophy is the academic discipline which has done more to promote the cause of state-sponsored transphobia than any other field in history. What is the APA to a trans man? What is the Dewey Lecture to mean to the trans woman when it means sitting shoulder to shoulder with the brain trust of the current regime's assault on the rights, healthcare, history, and basic dignity of trans people across the country. Being present secures you professional niceties as 1t does then, but in honest I would rather my colleagues just call me a tranny to my face and let me go home to a safe environment with access to healthcare and political recognition. To celebrate the field 1s, plainly, to diminish your self. Of course, it should not be surprising, philosophy has always had its collaborators. But even the Mitläufer of Freiburg was left digging ditches in the end. Accordingly, we might ask, like Cineas did to Pyrrhus, why some in our profession don't just save them themselves the trouble and go dig ditches now instead.”

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Being Trans in Philosophy @being.transinphilosophy.org · 17/06/2025

Issue #0 of Being Trans in Philosophy zine is out now! “We Are Not Trans in a Theoretical Way”. Download & print ur own 🖨️. being.transinphilosophy.org #beingtransinphilosophy #trans #philosophy #gender #feminism #zine #diy

Being Trans in Philosophy issue #0 release. Subtitle: download, make your own. Url: https://being.transinphilosophy.org. Image of 5 zines arranged in the trans pride colors, stacked on top of well-known trans books.

Title: ‘welcome to the WTF.” Image of a biohazard symbol overlayed on a world map with lines radiating from the center of the symbol, and the spires of the biohazard symbol are impinging on two scared trans symbols. A very long list of anti-trans events since 2021 portraying the looming threats to trans life from violence, media, and governmental disenfranchisement. Footer text: https://being.transinphilosophy.org.

Text header: issue #0, june 2025, https://being.transinphilosophy.org, our stories, “we are not trans in a theoretical way”. A list of contributors with each name on a black badge over a purple splatter. The names are: Imogen Sullivan, Erin Beeghly, Ray Briggs, Anonymous, autogyniphiles_anonymous, Emmie Malone, Kelly Potter, Elin McCready, Penny Haulotte, Amy Marvin, Alex Adamson, Perry Zurn, Emil Eva Rosina, and Maximiliana Rifkin.

Text header: issue #0, june 2025, https://being.transinphilosophy.org, our stories, “we are not trans in a theoretical way”. A block of white text on a stippled purple star background reads: “being trans i not a controversial idea. it’s a lived reality.” Under the text appears a black and white image of a feminine eye.

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E.M. Hernandez @emhrnndz.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

But I care so much for the trans people still doing philosophy that I can't help but promote their words, share in their hopes, and wish for something better.

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E.M. Hernandez @emhrnndz.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

I feel bad as someone so visible in trans philosophy not contributing but my story involves such heartbreak that I don't think I could be vulnerable enough; my story such prejudice and failure of support that I cannot provide hope.

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E.M. Hernandez @emhrnndz.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

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.

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E.M. Hernandez @emhrnndz.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

It warms my heart to see this zine being made. From what I've read I admire the vulnerability and hope in these testimonies that philosophy can become a better place for trans people.

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Being Trans in Philosophy @being.transinphilosophy.org · 16/06/2025

“Because even if philosophy is always too late, when the owl of Minerva flies at dusk she knows, ‘One is not born, but rather becomes, woman.’ And sometimes you don't become one.” WE LAUNCH TOMORROW ⚡️

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