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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 · 16/10/2026
I'm not suggesting that it's like a thought experiment. What I mean is that "biological sex" is a pseudoscientific concept designed to facilitate the rollback of trans rights. The people who are treating it as if it's a neutral description of human diversity are missing the point
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Dr. Sandra Duffy Golden @sandraduffy.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Shall we do a bit of theory? I think we need the proper language to describe all of this, and I think the concept we need to discuss is 'necropolitics'. 🧵
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christopher griffin @chris-brighton.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
For Tax Purposes, They Live
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Senthorun S. Raj @senthorun.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
“It is not just history that haunts. It is that in these institution, elite, white, British institutions, we become the ghosts, Black and brown people, reminders of what they refuse to recognise let alone to give up.” Thinking with Jason Arday, Sara Ahmed exposes the racism of/in higher education.
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British Racism
In an earlier post, Stories of Institutional Violence, I shared that I hoped to write some posts in honour of Professor Jason Arday’s life and legacy.
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christopher griffin @chris-brighton.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Nobody's denying that trans and intersex people are a minority (though I think your figures are wrong, it's more like 1-2% of the population). But so what? Don't minorities deserve respect, rights, dignity?
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christopher griffin @chris-brighton.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Have you seen this open letter from biologists and other experts on the matter? docs.google.com/document/u/1...
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Biology is not binary: a letter from biologists, doctors, and other experts to Bridget Phillipson, Minister for Women and Equalities
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christopher griffin @chris-brighton.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
I assume you mean cis women. They didn't win, because biological determinism was the cornerstone of misogyny and patriarchal oppression for about 200 years before the feminist revolution. These transphobes are taking everyone backwards
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christopher griffin @chris-brighton.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
The law has been hijacked by bigots. What respect does it deserve?
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christopher griffin @chris-brighton.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
It's impossible for the "privacy, dignity and safety" of anyone to be protected as long as this divisive and incoherent notion of "biological sex" continues its rampage through our legislation and social policy
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Zeynep Sandalli @zeynepsandalli.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
This is how Carole Pateman begins "The Sexual Contract". It's one of my favourite openings in political theory!
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Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
1/4 🧵 Nigel Biggar really displays his disinterest in colonial history in @Telegraph today. There were 13,000 British investors in the SLAVE TRADE, trafficking African captives to the Americas. Countless more invested in plantation SLAVERY. www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/10...
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Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studie @wgss-umd.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Applications for visiting students are now open! Take a 3 week college level course in Disability or LGBTQ+ Studies 🌈🎓 this winter with WGSS. #academicsky
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Dr. Sandra Duffy Golden @sandraduffy.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Oh hi, there I am now. Come hear me talk. Online, 11.11.26. www.lexnetwork.org/lex-public-s...
A flyer for my LEX Public lecture featuring my photo and the abstract/info for the talk (it's also in the link so I won't type it out here). I am a white femme person with short brown curly hair and black glasses. I'm smiling at the camera wearing a multicoloured keffiyeh over a stripy top and one of my floral tattoos is just visible.
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
New working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854
Taxing Entrepreneurial Wealth: Evidence from
Norway, 2021-2025
Marius A. K. Ring
WORKING PAPER 35854|
DOl 10.3386/w35854
ISSUE DATE October 2026
Whether imposing higher taxes on business owners adversely affects business activity by constraining investment and inducing capitalist flight is a central question in the ongoing debate on how to tax the ultra wealthy. To shed new light, I exploit a series of related Norwegian reforms during 2021-2024 that increased dividend tax rates, removed migration-related capital gains tax loopholes, and nearly doubled the effective marginal tax rate on business wealth. These reforms spurred international debate and, allegedly, an "exodus" of Norwegian billionaires (Financial Times,
2023). While I document clear effects on migration, these responses are concentrated among the top 0.1% of the wealth distribution and mostly confined to 2022 and 2023. My results indicate that at most 100 individuals left due to the reforms. I find no evidence of significant outmigration or reduced inflows of startup founders or inventors. I estimate that absent any outmigration, wealth tax revenues would have increased by 75% from 2021 to 2024. Reform-driven outmigration lowers the revenue gain to 71.5%. My findings further show that outmigrating owners' firms remain economically active and do not reduce investment. In a broader set of analyses, I examine whether business outcomes are affected, regardless of whether owners outmigrate, since firms may reduce investment both due to liquidity constraints or distortions to owners' savings decisions. I compare firms owned by Norwegian individuals subject to the wealth tax with firms owned by foreigners and other tax-exempt entities. By merging historical ownership data from Orbis with the Norwegian shareholder register, I perform these analyses on both Norwegian and foreign-domiciled firms.
Across settings, I find no evidence that Norwegian-owned firms pay out more dividends or invest less after the reforms,…
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Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
🚨 ALERT 🚨: All of Stuart Hall's notebooks have been digitized and are freely available to browse and read??? stuarthalldigital.bham.ac.uk/archival_mat...
Stuart Hall notebook: NOTES ON THE REPRODUCTION OF IDEOLOGIES AND THE MEDIA (Orange notebook, "Summit Students Pad")Stuart Hall notebook page with headline: "Problems for a Marxist Theory of the Media" and a series of bulletpoints. Lined notebook paper with black handwriting.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
we are watching a massive transfer of wealth during an era of massive wealth creation (however much it might be just paper money it’s powerful) — reinscribing gender during this moment is a choice about who will be a citizen for the next three hundred years.
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Caleb Ward @calebw.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Police shot a less lethal grenade at this child and it blew off his hand when he picked it up. That is fucking awful. Every attempt by the French education minister and his police to gaslight the world about what is happening here will fail.
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Hundreds of French schools shut, teen loses hand in protests
The student protests that rocked France last week have prompted authorities to keep up to 500 schools closed on Monday. A teenage boy lost his hand, seemingly while trying to pick up a police tear gas...
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Margaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
"Those who build walls are their own prisoners." --Ursula le Guin
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gil, a finite mode @gilmorejon.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Derrida said that each death isn't the end of *a* world, it is the end of *the* world, and I think he's right. taking this insight seriously is what it means to actually not be a utilitarian monster
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Viktoria Huegel @viktoriahue.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
🗓️ Another great CAPPE event coming up. Links below 👇
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
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Robin D. G. Kelley: What We’re Experiencing Right Now Is Fascism
Technologies from Israel have turbocharged surveillance by ICE, Border Patrol, and the Department of Homeland Security.
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King's English @kingsenglish.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
🎥 Join us for the Sylvia Wynter Lecture on 9 October, where you can enjoy a screening of Onyeka Igwe's film A Radical Duet (2023) followed by a conversation between the filmmaker and Alexander Weheliye. 🔗 Spaces are limited – register now to secure your ticket ⬇️ www.kcl.ac.uk/events/the-s...
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The Sylvia Wynter Lecture: Onyeka Igwe and Alexander G. Weheliye | King's College London
A screening of Onyeka Igwe's film A Radical Duet (2023), followed by a conversation between the filmmaker and Alexander G. Weheliye.
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
'Brighton informed its University and College Union (UCU) branch on Monday (14 September) that it intends to terminate its current trade union recognition agreement and all collective agreements on terms and conditions from next June.'
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Brighton looks to redraw trade union agreements and close campus
UCU and UNISON warn changes to trade union agreements could lead to unions being derecognised
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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 14/09/2026
UCU members at Brighton University face the threat of derecognition. We have called an emergency rally tomorrow at 1:15pm. It would be amazing to see as many #TUC26 delegates as possible in attendance. 58-67 Grand Parade, Brighton and Hove, Brighton BN2 0JY
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christopher griffin @chris-brighton.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Slim Shady might have some suggestions
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Mattilda B Sycamore @mbsycamore.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
"When somebody makes you their monster, they cede to you a tremendous power, and you should not reject the gift."💫💥 @susanstryker.bsky.social, CHANGING GENDER
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David Papineau @davidpapineau.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
We are hiring—a permanent lectureship in Ethics/Political Philosophy—deadline 15 Nov www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/144566-...
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Lecturer in Ethics and/or Political Philosophy | King's College London
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Ruth Pearce @notrightruth.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
This is the most fucked up and immediately harmful policy decision I think I've ever seen in adult trans healthcare in the UK, and that's saying something. The Welsh Gender Service is one of the best in the country. It is widely praised by the patients it helps. That is why it is being targeted.
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Jess McLaughlin, PhD (they/them) @jfmclaughlin92.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
essential listening for academics, especially my fellow biologists
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roterote @roterote.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Here is the full suspension letter from UGent that was sent to Nathan Cofnas, it shows ample reason for his suspension and potential termination. Including breach of contract, using the University of Ghent’s name and legitimacy to promote his racial supremacist views and causing reputational damage.
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Jon Phillips @jowiph.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Given all the discussion of Cofnas et al these last few days, seems like a good time to remind people that I have a starter pack of people who work on (and against) scientific racism you can use to find more relevant people to follow
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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.
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Viktoria Huegel @viktoriahue.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Very excited to discuss „wellbeing“ with @thomaspiketty.bsky.social , @samchambersart.bsky.social & Prathama Banerjee - come join us online or in Brighton!
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Ruth Pearce @notrightruth.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
I'm seeing a lot of people invoke the figure of the intersex person in current discourse on sex and gender, especially in relation to the UK government's anti-trans segregation regime. But the actual voices of actual people are getting lost. This buried report offers vital evidence to counter that.
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christopher griffin @chris-brighton.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Not sure if "snub" is the right word here. The Supreme Court, notoriously reluctant to actively protect the rights of minorities, declared Trump's executive order unconstitutional - even after he showed up to the court in person to glare at the judges as they heard evidence.
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I support Somali-Americans @adamrothman.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Trump Violates Constitution Again
Trump tries new tack against birthright citizenship after Supreme Court snub
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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 05/08/2026
Good Law Project are supporting a legal challenge against this transphobic code of practice. Please join our fight back 👇 goodlaw.social/n8fy
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Fight back against the code of practice
The government’s transphobic code of practice is now up and running. But we’re not going to take it, we’re helping to fight back. Join us
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Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studie @wgss-umd.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Applications are now open for the PhD program in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at #UniversityofMaryland 🌈🎓 Learn more about the program and apply at go.umd.edu/ApplyWgssPhd Applications are due no later than Tue, Nov 17, 2026 at 11:59 PM #AcademicSky #PhDSky #feministsky
Image announcing the opening for Applications for the PhD in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies in the Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at University of Maryland.
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Ordinary Notes @hystericalblkns.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
How about this. No one should go hungry. No one should go unhoused. No one should go without dental and medical care. Or education. Or mental health care. Or whatever they need to live a good life. We don’t need billionaires.
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Zoe Storm @zoestorm.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
On the fourth of July, 1980, about fifteen trans women went to one of the most upscale public swimming pools in Milan, took off their tops, and started lounging around. It was a Friday, and the height of the summer vacation, so there were plenty of families with young children around. 1/
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MJ Quigley @mjqwrites.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
100% this, never ever respond to a trans person that "oh reform will be worse" because, we are not talking about what reform may do, we are actively trying to fight what labour are doing now, in the present. The only different is labour try to make it nice, with bullshit lik respect and dignity
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 01/07/2026
The term "biological sex" was adopted widely only in the last decade as a reaction to mainstream acceptance of trans people. It was rarely if ever used before that. By any metric, from legislative usage to search query usage, it's plainly evident this is a novel term only made popular by the right.
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Maddie Stone @themadstone.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
I’ve spent more than a year reporting on how the fossil fuel industry has infiltrated academia over the last 30 years, shaping fundamental paradigms on how to address climate change. My first story in the new @propublica.org and @drilledmedia.bsky.social series, “Carbon Captured”, is out today.
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Sandeep Bakshi @sandeepbak.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Superb special issue call; "Frantz Fanon and Global Combative Decoloniality" eds. Nelson Maldonado-Torres & Mireille Fanon. Abstracts due Oct 2026. Submission accepted in English, French, Spanish & Portuguese. Please make a submission & share widely. www.revistatabularasa.org/en/call-for-...
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Tabula Rasa Issue 62 (April-June, 2027)Tabula Rasa Issue 62 (April-June, 2027) – Revista Tabula Rasa
Tabula Rasa es una revista científica del área de las ciencias sociales con una periodicidad trimestral, dedicada principalmente a las disciplinas de la Antropología, Historia, Sociología, Trabajo Soc...
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christopher griffin @chris-brighton.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Link to the table of contents. The introduction is open access read.dukeupress.edu/social-text/...
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Volume 44 Issue 2 (167) | Social Text | Duke University Press
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christopher griffin @chris-brighton.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
In their introduction to the new issue of Social Text, which is called "Sylvia Wynter and the Question of Technology," editors Che Gossett and @tavia.bsky.social emphasise the ongoing relevance of Wynter's work. Opening sentence:
The curious arrival of white “refugees” from South Africa to US shores, at a moment when the Trump administration is furiously trampling on due process to fulfill campaign promises to deport millions of “undesirables” from Latin America, is as vivid an enactment as one could imagine for what Sylvia Wynter has called the overrepresentation of Man.
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Anthony Obst @aobst.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
New special issue of Social Text @dukepress.bsky.social on Sylvia Wynter and technology, edited by Che Gossett and @tavia.bsky.social read.dukeupress.edu/social-text/...
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Volume 44 Issue 2 (167) | Social Text | Duke University Press
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Nandita Sharma @nsharma101.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
My paper, "Go back to where you come from”: the national re-making of racist borders,” has just been published in *Citizenship Studies.* I talk about how nationalism adds to the racist repertoire by drawing a line between people seen to be of a place and those who are declared to be out of place.
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“Go back to where you come from”: the national re-making of racist borders”
Racism draws dividing lines that delineate between supposedly different types of people. Nationalism adds to the racist repertoire by also drawing a line between people seen to be of a place and th...
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minor compositions @minorcompositions.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Now released to the book trade. A Studious Use. Designing from the Undercommons Giovanni Marmont
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