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ding @not.dingherself.com · 17/09/2026

new haven folks! come by on Sep 28 for a screening & discussion of /Paris Is Burning/ (1990), the critically acclaimed—and thoroughly critiqued—Jennie Livingston documentary which exposed the mainstream American psyche to the Harlem ballroom scene, drag, passing/“realness,” chosen families, [1/2]

Flyer for the event:

Screening & discussion of Paris Is Burning
Monday, September 28, 1:30–3:25pm
William L. Harkness Hall 204
Presented by the feminist philosophy seminar

Suggested readings (short!):

* bell hooks, “Is Paris Burning?” (1991)
* Judith Butler, “Gender Is Burning: Questions of Appropriation and Subversion” (1993)
* Sandy Stone, “The /Empire/ Strikes Back: A Posttranssexual Manifesto” (1991)
* Susan Stryker, “My Words to Victor Frankenstein above the Village of Chamounix: Performing Transgender Rage” (1994)

Please email Dr. Ding (ding.ding@yale.edu) for the readings or questions.

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Sukaina @sukaina.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Thrilled to tell you that my paper “Protests as World Making Projects” with bestie Lidal Dror is now forthcoming and available open access on early online view at Nous 🧵 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

Protests as World‐Making Projects

On one common way of distinguishing forms of protest, civil disobedience is a communicative act that aims to achieve its goals through moral persuasion, whereas direct action has as its goal to direc...

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ding @not.dingherself.com · 13/08/2026

does anyone want a northsky invite

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ding @not.dingherself.com · 13/08/2026

people should write more journals not journal articles

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ding @not.dingherself.com · 10/08/2026

"my internet isn't working" "have you tried downloading our app"

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ding @not.dingherself.com · 10/08/2026

trust women, trust metaphysics

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ding @not.dingherself.com · 10/08/2026

was in the same 10m² with 40 transsexual women and it was kinda magical

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ding @not.dingherself.com · 08/08/2026

you are cute no matter what implausible mereology you believe in

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Amy Marvin @amymarvin.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

had a good time chatting about chaser sexologists, hack comedians, and Graham Linehan’s world-historical crash out

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ding @not.dingherself.com · 04/08/2026

the idea that this one specific very active group of people is an imbalance to be straightened out, rather than the very reason the platform is what it is, is the mistake that bluesky will come to regret

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ding @not.dingherself.com · 03/08/2026

went to a screening of the restored welcome ii the terrordome with the director @bambrooklyn.bsky.social . surprised to learn that this all started out as a student project!

photo of the Q&A after the screening. the director, Ngozi Onwurah, is speaking. shot on a flip phone so not the most visible.

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ding @not.dingherself.com · 31/07/2026

such a beautiful day in nyc

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ding @not.dingherself.com · 30/07/2026

when august comes i’ll finally start working on my summer projects

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ding @not.dingherself.com · 30/07/2026

who taught straight people the word ‘rails’

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Tim Gill @timgill924.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Let’s be honest. If Philosophy hasn’t been ‘liquidated’, Sociology will not be. For all the criticisms, at least Sociologists collect data. Meanwhile the Philosophy people just make things up out of thin air. Just whatever they want. Doesn’t matter.

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Total and complete shut down of gender until we can figure out what the hell is going on

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ding @not.dingherself.com · 21/07/2026

riding nyc subway and watching people being glued to their phones scrolling instagram and facebook really changed my perspective on life and society

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ding @not.dingherself.com · 20/07/2026

seagulls from santa cruz

seagull #1: standing on top of a white tent with the sun setting in the background

seagull #2: chilling on top of a green shipping container and having a moment with me (looking into the camera)

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Saint JESSICA DUNN ROVINELLI @jdrllc.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

mayor mamdani bring your film to brooklyn’s only film lab Full Spectrum Photo staffed conveniently by only transgender women for develop and scan starting at only &$9.99

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ding @not.dingherself.com · 17/07/2026

what stage of transition is youtube serving you perimenopause ads?

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ding @not.dingherself.com · 12/07/2026

email as a hobby (EaaH)

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Society for LGBTQ Philosophy @philosophy.lgbt · 07/07/2026

when we went to the second QAF conference in Santa Cruz, we remembered to pack propaganda!

A picture of our merch! Advertisement for our listserv as well as two stickers: one with the texts "philosophy.lgbt" and "society for lgbtq philosophy" on rainbow background, and the other with the texts "access to bathrooms = access to public life" and "every day = international take a trans colleague to the bathroom day" in trans flag colors

A photo of the audience at the conference. the big auditorium is full!

Our rainbow sticker on an NYC OMNY card attached to the carabiner

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Benjamin McKean @blmckean.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Clarence Thomas citing MIT philosopher Alex Byrne to support his ultra-transphobic opinion. I hope all the analytic philosophers who defended Byrne as a serious, apolitical scholar see this and learn something, but I'm not hopeful.

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ding @not.dingherself.com · 25/06/2026

start of a horror story: i'm a metaphysician and you just gave me three distinctions

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ding @not.dingherself.com · 16/06/2026

having friends visiting is such a useful life hack to finally clean your apartment! would recommend

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ding @not.dingherself.com · 15/06/2026

spent the weekend speedrunning the “replying to emails to trying mutt again to learning python” pipeline

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ding @not.dingherself.com · 06/06/2026

𝘱𝘶𝘵𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘥𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘪𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘴 𝘪𝘴 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘨𝘪𝘷𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘯 𝘢𝘳𝘨𝘶𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵

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Elizabeth Lanphier @ethicselizabeth.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

“citing environmental and ethical objections to AI that don't align with her religious beliefs”

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ding @not.dingherself.com · 02/06/2026

am i doing something right when a trans girl tells me that two of her exes as well as her current gf are all in my feminist philosophy class lol

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ding @not.dingherself.com · 21/05/2026

today i learned that you could just deploy docker on google cloud? so of course i should use google to run all my self-hosted degoogling shenanigans right

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ding @not.dingherself.com · 21/05/2026

woah i might have figured something out: even with 2fa, you don't use app-specific passwords for caldav? how?? why??

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ding @not.dingherself.com · 21/05/2026

couldn't sleep but i made soup

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ding @not.dingherself.com · 20/05/2026

have to go to midtown send thoughts & condolences

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ding @not.dingherself.com · 20/05/2026

lost a whole day yesterday to academic misconduct meetings (a record 5 this semester!! the ivies are really something). but a cleaned my kitchen (mostly)! you lose some you gain some i suppose

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ding @not.dingherself.com · 19/05/2026

oh i forgot: you need a smartphone with internet AND bluetooth AND an app in order to use city compost bins why @mayor.nyc.gov @nycsanitation.bsky.social why???? flip phone users have a right to compost too

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ding @not.dingherself.com · 19/05/2026

student coaxed me into giving flip phone a try. a week into it: loves: T9 keyboard, usb-c, wifi, rss, the cool thing you do to open a flip phone, can do google maps, swappable battery swappable battery swappable battery pain points: email, calendar/contact sync, rideshare

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ding @not.dingherself.com · 19/05/2026

was told that writing a guide on the new barnard printers would be a "massive service to the college" lol took me 5 minutes to figure out when colleague wasted half an hour on the phone with IT and no resolution

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ding @not.dingherself.com · 18/05/2026

playing with another new coffee today. so finicky but i don't think i've ever tasted coffee that passes as grape-flavored sparkling wine. so good

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ding @not.dingherself.com · 18/05/2026

had to explain to a student that it is academic misconduct to ask AI chatbot to come up with sources supporting their thesis and then citing without ever actually reading them. three hours of my life i'm not getting back

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ding @not.dingherself.com · 18/05/2026

it's really depressing how shitty AI has made search so that chatbots get used instead. can't find shit on the internet nowadays

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ding @not.dingherself.com · 17/05/2026

what better time to start new coding projects than amid end-of-semester chaos dingherself.com/blog.html

Screenshot of my blog under construction along with the source html code I'm writing. There are 3 posts teased in the blog at the moment:

Making Blogs Chic Again, or: Belated Hello World

Might a post-apocalyptic Internet finally deliver the promises of the long ’50s?

AY 2025 Coffee in Review

When the clock struck midnight on NYE, the last thing I expected was to be blown away by beans from a Santa Cruz roastery. What has society become?

At Long Last, Introducing Noodles/麵/面/Miàn/🍜

Somehow The Matrix convinced my students that “reality is in the eye of the beholder.” Luckily even then you can trust a Sichuanese girlie how to noodle.

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