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kai clement-milanovich

@kialectics.bsky.social
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philosophy & social work grad student @ uw seattle | they/them 🏳️‍⚧️ | feminist epistemology, applied ethics and philosophy of (social) science phil.washington.edu/people/kai-milanovich

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kai clement-milanovich @kialectics.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
this is getting some milage in the all grad group chat
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kai clement-milanovich @kialectics.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
The development of a valid and reliable measurement tool is compatible with, and quite comparable to, the feminist project of identifying how gendered relations of power enable the persistence and concealment of sexual violence.
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kai clement-milanovich @kialectics.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
This article examines the development of Mary Koss’s influential Sexual Experiences Survey, one of the earliest tools used to estimate the national prevalence of sexual violence. Koss's research is a great case study to assess the value of feminist standpoint theory. The surprising conclusion?
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kai clement-milanovich @kialectics.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
🔔new publication alert!🔔 (details below) philpapers.org/rec/MILOPA-3... #femphilsci #standpoint #philsky #philsci #philosophysky
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Kai Milanovich, On Power and Measurement Systems: Feminist Standpoint Empiricism and the Sexual Experiences Survey - PhilPapers
This article examines the development of Mary Koss’s influential Sexual Experiences Survey and defends her then-controversial interpretive choice to endorse a broad-scope definition of rape. Koss’s ch...
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kai clement-milanovich @kialectics.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
The development of a valid and reliable measurement tool is compatible with, and quite comparable to, the feminist project of identifying how gendered relations of power enable the persistence and concealment of sexual violence.
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kai clement-milanovich @kialectics.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
This article examines the development of Mary Koss’s influential Sexual Experiences Survey, one of the earliest tools used to estimate the national prevalence of sexual violence. Koss's research is a great case study to assess the value of feminist standpoint theory. The surprising conclusion?
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kai clement-milanovich @kialectics.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
thank you, Hane!
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kai clement-milanovich @kialectics.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Nancy's work has always been compelling to me, and this paper is (in part) trying to renew part of the spirit from her style of feminist theorizing. it's so apt that this named award was granted to a paper that retraces the steps of her thinking. i'm honored!
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kai clement-milanovich @kialectics.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
also: i was, on the basis of this paper, awarded the Nancy Hartsock Endowed Graduate Student Award, which recognizes creative achievements of an emerging scholar doing work in feminist theory.
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kai clement-milanovich @kialectics.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
i appreciate your thoughtful engagement with the piece! i found a lot of joy engaging with your argument here :)
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kai clement-milanovich @kialectics.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
hey, look! my first paper was published in Hypatia
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lila graham (mere finite mode) @deussivenatura.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
hi everybody! if you're an academic philosopher and would prefer your colleagues didn't produce propaganda which furthers the trump administration's attempt to eradicate transgender people from public life, consider reading/signing this open letter about it! dearprofessorbyrne.wordpress.com
dearprofessorbyrne.wordpress.com
Dear Professor Byrne
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
The revolution is full of 60-year-old women who love their trans kids.
Protest sign

NO KINGS
HANDS OFF
My tans child
My $, civil liberty, healthcare
The Rule of Law
Environmental Protection
National Parks
The Arts
Our Truthful History
And too much chaos to list on one poster
#Trump’s America Global Embarrassment
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Anne Fausto-Sterling @birdlady.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
1/5 I am pleased to announce a new paper, based on a talk I gave last year at the annual meeting of the Human Biology Association. This link is open 4 a free read for a while but eventually it will get pay-walled because I can't afford open access. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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Rethinking Gender/Sex Identity
Until quite recently, investigations of gender/sex development operated from a baseline assumption that gender/sex is dichotomous or binary. Most such studies constructed gender/sex outside of or adj....
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Sarah Quinn @sarahquinn.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
dailyuw.com
'Better options exist'
Faculty began circulating an open letter on Friday to be sent to leadership including the Board of Regents, President Ana Mari Cauce, provost Tricia Serio, and dean of the College
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 01/02/2025
The next administrator who sends me a “be patient—this is business as usual” email gets this piece in reply. Worth a read.
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Jason Diamond @jasondiamond.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
I was walking down Canal Street and bought this. It’s crazy how quickly they can get merch made these days.
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kai clement-milanovich @kialectics.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
nice meeting some folx!
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kai clement-milanovich @kialectics.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
fortunately this year's #SSWR25 is taking place just a few miles from home. looking forward to meeting the wonderful social work researchers :)
Image of my nametag for the Society of Social Work Research 29th Annual Conference.
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kai clement-milanovich @kialectics.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
cf. Kripke 1980
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kai clement-milanovich @kialectics.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
TLDR: keep an eye out for people indirectly using your name & credentials for AI generated muck. like look at the description here
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kai clement-milanovich @kialectics.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
granted, only the name is used and nothing about her title, so i suppose it is possible that there is another Klein who writes platitudinously. i hope it is not her, at least, because i emailed the Yale professor to say the book seems like a fake 🤷🏻
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kai clement-milanovich @kialectics.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
the sites say it was written by “Ph.D. Jennifer Klein,” who is actually a historian, but she seems to mainly work on labor stuff and the two books she has published read way way way better. lol
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kai clement-milanovich @kialectics.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
it seems to only be available as an audiobook which is open for purchase on several platforms. the description doesn’t read like it’s a real book, doesn’t seem to have a real publisher, and reads like it’s a collection of wikipedia articles
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kai clement-milanovich @kialectics.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
makes you really wonder about the credibility of current SEP article authors…
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kai clement-milanovich @kialectics.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
what Brett means is that there are no good philosophers. it’s just the contemporary form of Plato’s no knowledge argument
screenshot of the “About” page on the SEP. Text reads, “as of Summer 2023, has nearly 1800 entries online”
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kai clement-milanovich @kialectics.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Alison has written such a diverse body of work and i have found it all insightful! her work on standpoint theory got me interested in the project i’m working on in my phd, and she is also fostering my appreciation of phil sci. i’m so glad she’s getting more recognition!
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kai clement-milanovich @kialectics.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
interesting! twenty seems like a lot, but maybe i'm underestimating them. how did you come up with grades? was there a rubric? i'd love to see the instructions if they help clarify :)
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kai clement-milanovich @kialectics.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
could you say a little more about how you structured the exam? im curious!
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kai clement-milanovich @kialectics.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
when i did DSP work in Kansas City the pay was abysmal. i cannot imagine that personal budget in NYC
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kai clement-milanovich @kialectics.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
love the cover
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kai clement-milanovich @kialectics.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
anyway @helendecruz.net is absolutely right about this: “Students who believe in two-tier philosophy try to jump through the hoops they hope will lift them up into the category of hirable, important philosophers”
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kai clement-milanovich @kialectics.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
kinda wild, as a grad student in philosophy, to just keep learning about more of the disciplines closet skeletons
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Dr. Sandra Duffy Golden @sandraduffy.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Sex! Based! Rights! Aren't! A! Thing! - sincerely, a human rights expert
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kai clement-milanovich @kialectics.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
but also, fitting to the affect of our era, Charles Ives' Variations on "America"
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kai clement-milanovich @kialectics.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
notably Frederic Rzewski's The People United Will Never Be Defeated! (1975)
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kai clement-milanovich @kialectics.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
minimalist hell (listening exclusively to 'variations on a theme' while grading student papers all on the same prompts)
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kai clement-milanovich @kialectics.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
i've always wondered how many wires you would need to take off the bird cage for it to stop being a structural inhibition. i mean, taking off a few wires is surely enough to slide out of the cage, but i think that doesn't hold up to the analogue either
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Anna Gjika @gjikaphd.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
I know the school officials here failed miserably, but I also want to note just how unprepared schools are for this. Realistically, the legal landscape here is not clear cut, and enforcement (at all levels) is abysmal. We're failing young victims in all sorts of ways.
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
All of these “gender tests” are state-sanctioned sexual assault. It is so inherently violating to have your body sized up so that someone can determine whether to violate your rights.
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kai clement-milanovich @kialectics.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
me being tucked into my dogmatic slumber
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kai clement-milanovich @kialectics.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
really like the allemande and the b section of the courante
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kai clement-milanovich @kialectics.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
you are the un-ready world ig
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kai clement-milanovich @kialectics.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
i haven’t checked out the book but i love her “U.S. Third World Feminism: The Theory and Method of Oppositional Consciousness in the Postmodern World” which afaik has some overlap
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Amelia Wirts @awirts.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
I just published this paper that argues that, in the US, criminal law cannot carry feminist messages. This is a reason against using criminal law responses to combat gender-based violence. Please check it out! philpapers.org/rec/WIRMMH
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Amelia M. Wirts, Mixed Messages: How Criminal Law Fails to Express Feminist Values - PhilPapers
Criminal law practices in the US, including policing and incarceration, have drawn heavy criticism for their disproportionate impact on black people, particularly black men. At the same time, some fem...
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kai clement-milanovich @kialectics.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
yeah but like. that's just subjective man
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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Embarrassing! Just found someone appealing to an inductive argument as if it shows anything. Do they even teach Hume in schools nowadays!? Wtf is going on in chemistry grad school.
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Kade Cicchella @kadecicchella.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
love a good distinction
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kai clement-milanovich @kialectics.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
“A cisgender boy who wants testosterone to kick off the development of male sex characteristics can still get it. A transgender boy who wants testosterone for the exact same reason cannot.”
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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Barrett and other conservatives don't seem to see how state-sanctioned discrimination against trans people basically always takes the form of sex discrimination—imposing unique restrictions on people's rights based on their sex assigned at birth. Frustrating that the argument isn't breaking through.
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