Very excited for this book to be out in the world. Jeremy wrote an awesome chapter, and it would be great for your ethics courses (especially if you’re at a Big Sports School). (Sports, go, sports!)
(And it was a bit of needed lightness and fun as we wrapped up week 14 of the semester… 2 more weeks to go! 😅)
Then we had a really lively, lovely discussion of taste and aesthetic appreciation, and Hume’s standard of taste, where students had lots of tangible examples to bring in to our conversation. It seemed to go over really well, and was one of those classes that makes me love teaching so much.
Today in class we set up the room like an “art gallery” and I brought in a variety of artworks, supplemented by student art. Students spent the first 20 minutes of class walking around our “gallery” (with sparkling grape juice and snacks, provided by me) and they evaluated the art they saw.
As of yesterday, @lizscar.bsky.social and I’s new book, An Introduction to Contemporary Aesthetics: Art, Community, and Experience is officially out! 🥳🥳🥳
You can order it here:
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Bold of you to assume that you never wrote anything to inspire this, vs the issue just being that she never had the chance to read it. If she had been more familiar with your work…
Get out of my swamp.
Can’t forgive you for the Shrek erasure. You’re a fake fan.
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.
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
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I haven’t had the chance to teach it yet, but think it would be worth teaching some excerpts from Sabrina Strings’ “Fearing the Black Body” and/or Da’Shaun Harrison’s “Belly of the Beast” on the intersections of race (specifically anti-black racism) and fatness/fatphobia
the horizon, and seeing videos of students across the country at end of year recitals and dissertation defenses and more, it’s just a beautiful time of year. I am so, so lucky to be even a small part of these journeys, and to get to witness the wonderful things my students are and become. 🥹
Today started out rough, but one thing that really helped me navigate it is remembering that it’s my favorite time of year— a time when so many students are celebrating accomplishments as we wrap up the academic year. Between spring plays/musicals, and hearing students chatter about graduation on
It’s not a traditional academic article, but there is an interesting piece from Buzzfeed about using AI to depict fat people in science fiction that pairs really well w/ Paul Taylor’s chapter on invisibility from Black is Beautiful! The Buzzfeed piece is by Cheyenne Davis
My students seemed to get a ton out of Mia Mingus’s “Moving Toward the Ugly”, and we had a really lively discussion of John Dyck’s AFB post “In Defense of Country Music”. I do a couple class choice days and my students have always voted to discuss and enjoyed Elizabeth Scarbrough’s work on ruins.
If only this shirt was sold by one of your university’s approved vendors… it’s my favorite Philosophy Shirt. Nothing says cool like ska and flames!
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let myself be both a professor and a human being without beating myself up for the human parts.
feel so guilty that I didn’t get them done, and I don’t know how to explain to them why I’m behind on work. I am human and I am doing my very best but it feels like it isn’t enough right now and I am very sad about it. Just shouting this into the void, because I am still trying to figure out how to
Today marks 8 years since my mother passed away unexpectedly, and it is the first year I am back home for the occasion. It has been…a really rough time tbh. I lost the day to random fits of sobbing, and a huge pile of student exams stand ungraded, and students are asking for them and I
Also had a virtual doctors appt this week where you could not schedule the appointment without putting in your weight and viewing the automatic bmi calculator. It has been a week. I hate the reality of being embodied. Ghosts really have it made.
I am eternally grateful that my school is paying for all faculty to get regalia since we’re required to attend graduation, but having to spend the morning measuring myself is a special kind of hell.
Now facing my annual Winter Tradition of wanting to abandon all of my existing research projects to devote my time to writing about the philosophy of Christmas movies. It gets harder to talk myself out of it every year.
Gonna try the whole half-professional, half-just me thing on this account, so I guess hi if you know me from philosophy, and also maybe run away if you don’t want to hear my thoughts on my depression, Christmas movies, and raccoons? (truly just don’t have the energy to run separate accounts anymore)
