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Mich Ciurria

@michciurria.bsky.social
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Disabled queer antiwork Marxist feminist & youth suffragist

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Mich Ciurria @michciurria.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
For those who can’t afford to attend, or refuse to attend a party in a fascist-controlled police state, the message is clear: let them eat cake.
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Mich Ciurria @michciurria.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
A lot of adopted children are human trafficking victims. I wouldn’t trust what adoptions agencies say about children’s families of origin.
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Mich Ciurria @michciurria.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
biopoliticalphilosophy.com/2025/11/02/u... Philosofriends, check out my blog post advertising my paper on billionaire philanthropy and academic philosophy.
biopoliticalphilosophy.com
UnKoch My Philosophy Department: Reject Billionaire Donations for Disability Justice!
This week, my paper on billionaire philanthropy and academic philosophy was published in a special, open access issue of the Journal of Academic Freedom, titled P…
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Mich Ciurria @michciurria.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
Sports has always been an arena for political conflicts to play out in a controlled setting. At the turn of the 19th Century, white supremacists were desperate to find a white boxer to defeat Jack Johnson, the first Black heavyweight boxing champion...1/5
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Mich Ciurria @michciurria.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
I just watched the first 2 minutes of the Charlie Sheen documentary & it’s off to a good start. Sheen relays a story about how he was invited to meet the pilot of a standard commercial passenger flight while he was ‘pirate drunk‘… 1/3
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Academe @academemagazine.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Mich Ciurria, “UnKoch My Philosophy Department: A Case Study in Billionaire Philanthropy” 2/4 @michciurria.bsky.social www.aaup.org/JAF16/unkoch...
Quote from "UnKoch My Philosophy Department: A Case Study in Billionaire Philanthropy" by Mich Ciurria:
We, as academics, should avoid complicity in academia’s depressing descent into corporate sycophancy.
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Mich Ciurria @michciurria.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
I watched a YouTube video by a trans woman on Julius Evola’s fascist philosophy and the comments section was full of vile fascist hatred. All the other videos I could find on Evola described him as a hero and a prophet. We’re doomed.
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Mich Ciurria @michciurria.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
I got some constructive, definitely not ableist feedback from a philosophy professor at Southern Illinois University - Carbondale.
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Mich Ciurria @michciurria.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
Philosofriends, please read & share my post.
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Mich Ciurria @michciurria.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
I was just informed that my friends have been giving money to an alleged photographer from Gaza, Sarah Murtaja. If you Google "Sarah Murtaja," there are multiple results stating that she is a scammer. 1/5
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Mich Ciurria @michciurria.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Is Trump going to invade Venezuela? The US navy destroyed ‘at least three’ Venezuelan boats for allegedly transporting drugs (but probably not), and Trump has been saying since 2017 that he wants to invade Venezuela. 1/6
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Mich Ciurria @michciurria.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
What ‘evidence’ are they going to submit? A copy of Gender Trouble? The Second Sex? The only relevant evidence is in a book on gender theory.
‘The 218-page complaint accuses Ms Owens of spreading "verifiably false and devastating lies" about the Macrons, including that Brigitte was born a man.’
‘Macrons will submit ‘scientific evidence' in defamation case to prove Brigitte is a woman.’
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Mich Ciurria @michciurria.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
None of these people defended Kirk’s death. None. This is just a smear campaign to get people fired.
Professors defend Charlie Kirk assassination on Bluesky
\ In response to the assassination of Charlie Kirk on Wednesday, various university faculty and staff have expressed views on Bluesky that appear to support his killing.
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Mich Ciurria @michciurria.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Black man found hanged, no foul play suspected. It’s the same story over and over, isn’t it?
2 news stories on a black man found hanged, deemed suicide
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Mich Ciurria @michciurria.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
Trump’s friends are fascists. Who can deny it? Fox & Friends co-host Brian Kilmeade said that homeless people who ‘don’t use the resources given to them’ should be killed by ‘involuntary lethal injection… or something - just kill them.’
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Mich Ciurria @michciurria.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Despite popular opinion, I don't think that most leftists - even those who support political violence - are "celebrating" Charlie Kirk's assassination. One reason is that no one knows who assassinated him, or why...1/5
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Mich Ciurria @michciurria.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
I’m writing a paper fluenced by Alison Jaggar’s work on how the professionalization of philosophy creates conflicts of interest between professional philosophers and the public..1/5
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Mich Ciurria @michciurria.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
I wish I had looked into this sooner. In my interview for Dialogues on Disability, I noted that the Civil Society Initiative at WashU has engaged in both-sideism: the idea that we should always present “both sides” of an issue without regard to asymmetries of power...1/4
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Mich Ciurria @michciurria.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
I'm a micro-influencer! Check out my philosophical posts on IG: www.instagram.com/reel/DNgCQHw...
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Mich Ciurria @michciurria.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Check out my interview for Dialogues on Disability! An excerpt: In March, Saba Fatima gave an excellent talk at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville (SIUE) on philosophers’ role in the rise of American fascism.
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Mich Ciurria @michciurria.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
‘We’ll give the homeless a place to stay… kind of like a prison but worse… and the criminals will go to prison… as well as the immigrants... all of my political enemies… Prison for everyone! Everyone’s going to be afraid and my friends are gonna make a lot of money off of all these prisons! -Trump
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Mich Ciurria @michciurria.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
I'm reading about how Rawls shaped professional political philosophy. He drew a lot of sketchy distinctions: between the domestic and the political, between nation states, between lucky and unlucky citizens... 1/2
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Mich Ciurria @michciurria.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
I'm reading Rima Basu's excellent paper on why philosophers would publish bullshit. Can anyone recommend other resources on perverse incentives in academia that lead to bullshitting, bad faith, and other epistemic perversions?
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Mich Ciurria @michciurria.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
When you show up to the philosophy conference like…
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Mich Ciurria @michciurria.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
I googled "Vittoria Lion: animal" because I'm searching for her work on animal ethics, and Google AI auto-generated this result: "Vittoria Lion is a PhD candidate in Art History at the University of Toronto, not an animal." Well, actually, humans are animals, so...
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Mich Ciurria @michciurria.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
If you’re a r@pist, you could even be President some day
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Mich Ciurria @michciurria.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
‘At the end of the day, you all go into debt and you all hate each other. That’s called consumerism.’ This prof’s lecture on Marxism & alienation is pretty good!
Prof Jiang Xueqin, consumerism is the perfection of slavery
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Mich Ciurria @michciurria.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Actually, I think part of the reason AI is unfunny is simple: it's programmed to be too polite. But jokes usually have bite. In fact, a lot of jokes are take-downs. For example, I saw a meme today that said... 1/3
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Mich Ciurria @michciurria.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
It's so annoying when philosophers argue that no one's individual choices make any difference, so it doesn't matter if we kill animals or buy a yacht or commit any other harms. Then other philosophers write paragraphs in response to the no-responsibility premise: 1/4
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Mich Ciurria @michciurria.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
This guy says that his life is ruined because all of his skills have been replaced by AI. One example: he wrote two scripts for animated YouTube videos on a growing channel. 1/4
Andrew Cole - YouTube
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Mich Ciurria @michciurria.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
I remember the first time I heard about ‘gender critical theory’ (years ago), I posted here that it’s mainly just just TERF activism rebranded, and a lot of people were like, No, It’s totally different and way more legitimate! 1/4
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Mich Ciurria @michciurria.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Declining population isn’t a problem if you take money from billionaires. Make Elon pay for pensions.
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Mich Ciurria @michciurria.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
People starve in jail but the cause of death is misleadingly labeled ‘protein-calorie malnutrition.’ It is mainly disabled & Mad people who are starved to death. #eugenics
Why people with mental health issues have 'Starved in Jail.' A journalist investigates

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Mich Ciurria @michciurria.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Interesting

Are Kids With ADHD Being Treated Effectively?

APRIL 24, 20253:43 PM ET

LISTEN· 45:00
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Mich Ciurria @michciurria.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
What a terrible person - why make this your legacy?
After 2.5 years of PETA's relentless campaigning & over 650,000 actions taken by PETA supporters like you, Margaret Livingstone's infant monkey laboratory at Harvard has lost all funding! She ripped baby monkeys from their moms & sewed their eyelids shut to see how badly it damaged their brains & visual development, then after years of torment she killed & dissected many of them. Pls help shut down more pits of misery--tell Congress to stop funding the 7 National Primate Research Centers now: https://peta.vg/42jy <3 PETA. STOP2quit
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Mich Ciurria @michciurria.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
If the 3 ‘sister wives’ hadn’t divorced Kody Brown after 8 seasons, some viewers might still think that he’s a half-decent person. Now he’s one of the most hated reality-TV villains, fittingly.
Kody Brown with characteristic mad expression
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Mich Ciurria @michciurria.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Philosophy rankings analogy: Adam Conover explains how star ratings entrench prejudices because they reflect the values & perspectives of a small group of privileged elites. 1/3
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Mich Ciurria @michciurria.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
‘In fact, some studies have found that universal mental-health lessons actually make things worse…’
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Mich Ciurria @michciurria.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
I told the doctor to stop & she didn’t www.npr.org/sections/sho...
npr.org
Doctors urged to treat pain for IUD insertion and other procedures
A major medical group now recommends pain-blocking treatments for IUD insertion and other procedures amid a growing recognition that women's pain should be treated.
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Mich Ciurria @michciurria.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
www.npr.org/sections/hea...
npr.org
How 'Bad Medicine' Dismisses And Misdiagnoses Women's Symptoms
Journalist Maya Dusenbery argues that medicine has a "systemic and unconscious bias" against women that is rooted in "what doctors, regardless of their own gender, are learning in medical schools."
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Mich Ciurria @michciurria.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
The UN's humanitarian chief, Tom Fletcher, says 14,000 babies could die in Gaza in the next 48 hours if more aid doesn't reach them Israel ended an 11-week blockade on aid entering Gaza on Monday - but Fletcher says only five lorries got in, and the aid hasn't reached anyone yet 1/3
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Mich Ciurria @michciurria.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
Before
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Mich Ciurria @michciurria.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Witness protection, 5150 You couldn't wait to make the call Get me sedated, no need to feel guilty There's nothing you'll be liable for
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Mich Ciurria @michciurria.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Cows have political agency, too 💕
The Independent • @Independent
Cow escapes on way to
slaughterhouse, smashes metal fence, breaks human's arm, and swims to uninhabited island where she still lives
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Mich Ciurria @michciurria.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
I’m very disappointed in this entry. References to feminist arguments for abortion are woefully inadequate, as are references for the (short) section on disability & abortion. plato.stanford.edu/entries/abor...
plato.stanford.edu
The Ethics of Abortion (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
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Mich Ciurria @michciurria.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Life is unfair. Neuronormative. Ableist. Do you know what neoliberal society wants you to do about it? It’s in the chorus of this song.
Black Box Recorder- Child Psychology (Official Video)
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Mich Ciurria @michciurria.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
I always thought the choice was mine And I was right, but I just chose wrong I start the day lying and end with the truth That I'm dying for the knife
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Mich Ciurria @michciurria.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Plotinus, Porphyry tells us, had the gift of reading men’s souls. One day, without any warning, he told his astounded disciple not to try killing himself but rather to take a journey...1/3
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Mich Ciurria @michciurria.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Sometimes I watch movies from the ‘40s & ‘50s and they’re all about the same problems. Seventy years later, same problems. The more things change, the more they stay the same.
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Mich Ciurria @michciurria.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Reposting on why ChatGPT is ableist, and so is academia: "The popular solution is doomed to fail because it doesn’t get to the heart of the problem: the elitist academic standards that incentivize and encourage the use of ChatGPT....
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