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April 11, 2022

Cisnormativity and the Trans Visibility Paradox

A while ago, I found myself in a bizarre conversation with a cisgender man who insisted he had a grand theory derived from the supposed exceptionality of trans experience. No […]

March 19, 2022

The Borderlands of Ukraine: A Preliminary Approach

As war between Ukraine and their oppressive, autocratic, neighbor to the north escalates, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has declared that all male citizens 18-60 years of age are forbidden from […]

March 7, 2022

On “Good Life”

You all know this, but I’ll say it anyway: house music is Black music; techno is Black music. I’m just a guest in these sonic spaces. That’s complicated, as I’m […]

February 23, 2022

How to Radically Transform Society, with bell hooks

“Love is an action, never simply a feeling” [bell hooks] On December 15, 2021, bell hooks passed away at the age of 69. A university professor, intellectual, feminist, poetess, and […]

January 30, 2022

Guilty Mind, Guilty Body, Guilty Soul: (Im)Purity Culture in the American Catholic Church

At the age of 10, Jane peered down at a pristine white flower. “Look at the flower in your hand, Jane. Notice how perfect it is,” Alba said, “How pure. […]

January 11, 2022

For an Anticapitalist Sexual Politics

There’s something the discussions around identities, whether they are driven by a critique of identitarianism or a defense of identity as a political category, reveal: the divisions within capitalism aren’t […]

April 28, 2021

Girlhood: An Apocalypse

I haven’t had my period in three months. It’s okay. This story doesn’t end with me pregnant. I’m not pregnant anywhere in it. I’m just thinking. Thinking heavy like always, […]

March 14, 2021

A Plea for Good Manners: A Rapbuttal

This week, the post “A Plea for Good Manners” by Robert Mass (possibly seen here) was brought to my attention. Its contents took me quite by surprise – and so, […]

March 8, 2021

100 Reasons to Prosecute the Dictator

Feminicide is defined as the massacre of women and the killing of women with direct state responsibility. This responsibility of the state includes, delayed legal punishment and impunity. Feminicide refers […]

February 22, 2021

Unrelenting: Haitian Feminism on the Front Lines

“Olmene listened to her attentively while trying to reconcile the mother with the market vendor, with the woman she was discovering. Ermancia realized this and, just before she closed her […]

February 2, 2021

Essential Strike Manifesto for the 8th of March

We are the women who are essential for the healing of the entire world from the pandemic. We are doing essential work and yet we find ourselves in miserable conditions: […]

November 10, 2020

Haunting and Hosting

My original intentions for this post were complicated by three visitations.[1]In addition to the focus on Alexander, my plan was to engage with other Black and decolonial feminist thinkers that […]

October 2, 2020

Interview: Lydia Caldana, GSSI Student/GSSI Website Developer

Hi Lydia. To get started, why don’t you tell us a bit about yourself.I’m Lydia Caldana. I am from Brazil and left for Italy in 2009 when I was 17 […]

September 30, 2020

Liberation For Everybody: A Call For Abolitionist Feminism

DUN-DUN. The theme music starts. Within the next hour, Benson will serve justice to some monster (after Stabler gets a few hits in). The criminal will leave the courtroom in […]

September 22, 2020

Sexistential Crisis // I. Camus. The Myth of Sissyphus; or, L’Être Étrange

This post marks the beginning of a series on Sexistential Crisis – taking as ‘focal exemplars’ sequentially: Camus, Fanon, de Beauvoir and Sartre, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, and Hegel. These are not […]

August 31, 2020

Intellectual Foremothers

Reflections from The New School From 2015 through 2017 we traced the intellectual journey of Frieda Wunderlich, the only female professor to join a cohort of European scholars rescued from […]

August 18, 2020

Dream of A Keen

Before I was diagnosed with breast cancer, I dreamed that I had gained a new internal organ. It was called a “keen,” which afterward I thought might be a hybrid of my kidney and spleen.

August 18, 2020

Living In The Uncanny

Sometimes it snows in April, as Prince sings, but you know it’s uncanny when it hails in May, like it did a few days ago. I live in the epicenter […]

August 18, 2020

No Longer in Exile: The Legacy and Future of Gender Studies at the New School

No Longer in Exile' was a two-day conference held in March 26-27, 2010 in celebration of the re- establishment of a gender studies program at The New School university.

July 6, 2020

Anarchafeminism in Times of COVID with Chiara Bottici

In this talk, I argue that anarchafeminism is a particularly timely form of feminism, because it is able to articulate a feminist position without turning the latter into yet another […]

Dream of A Keen

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April 11, 2022

Cisnormativity and the Trans Visibility Paradox

A while ago, I found myself in a bizarre conversation with a cisgender man who insisted he had a grand theory derived from the supposed exceptionality of trans experience. No […]

March 19, 2022

The Borderlands of Ukraine: A Preliminary Approach

March 7, 2022

On “Good Life”

You all know this, but I’ll say it anyway: house music is Black music; techno is Black music. I’m just a guest in these sonic spaces. That’s complicated, as I’m […]

February 23, 2022

How to Radically Transform Society, with bell hooks

“Love is an action, never simply a feeling” [bell hooks] On December 15, 2021, bell hooks passed away at the age of 69. A university professor, intellectual, feminist, poetess, and […]

January 30, 2022

Guilty Mind, Guilty Body, Guilty Soul: (Im)Purity Culture in the American Catholic Church

At the age of 10, Jane peered down at a pristine white flower. “Look at the flower in your hand, Jane. Notice how perfect it is,” Alba said, “How pure. […]

January 11, 2022

For an Anticapitalist Sexual Politics

April 28, 2021

Girlhood: An Apocalypse

I haven’t had my period in three months. It’s okay. This story doesn’t end with me pregnant. I’m not pregnant anywhere in it. I’m just thinking. Thinking heavy like always, […]

March 14, 2021

A Plea for Good Manners: A Rapbuttal

This week, the post “A Plea for Good Manners” by Robert Mass (possibly seen here) was brought to my attention. Its contents took me quite by surprise – and so, […]

March 8, 2021

100 Reasons to Prosecute the Dictator

February 22, 2021

Unrelenting: Haitian Feminism on the Front Lines

“Olmene listened to her attentively while trying to reconcile the mother with the market vendor, with the woman she was discovering. Ermancia realized this and, just before she closed her […]

February 2, 2021

Essential Strike Manifesto for the 8th of March

We are the women who are essential for the healing of the entire world from the pandemic. We are doing essential work and yet we find ourselves in miserable conditions: […]

November 10, 2020

Haunting and Hosting

My original intentions for this post were complicated by three visitations.[1]In addition to the focus on Alexander, my plan was to engage with other Black and decolonial feminist thinkers that […]

October 2, 2020

Interview: Lydia Caldana, GSSI Student/GSSI Website Developer

Hi Lydia. To get started, why don’t you tell us a bit about yourself.I’m Lydia Caldana. I am from Brazil and left for Italy in 2009 when I was 17 […]

September 30, 2020

Liberation For Everybody: A Call For Abolitionist Feminism

DUN-DUN. The theme music starts. Within the next hour, Benson will serve justice to some monster (after Stabler gets a few hits in). The criminal will leave the courtroom in […]

September 22, 2020

Sexistential Crisis // I. Camus. The Myth of Sissyphus; or, L’Être Étrange

August 31, 2020

Intellectual Foremothers

Reflections from The New School From 2015 through 2017 we traced the intellectual journey of Frieda Wunderlich, the only female professor to join a cohort of European scholars rescued from […]

August 18, 2020

Dream of A Keen

Before I was diagnosed with breast cancer, I dreamed that I had gained a new internal organ. It was called a “keen,” which afterward I thought might be a hybrid of my kidney and spleen.

August 18, 2020

Living In The Uncanny

Sometimes it snows in April, as Prince sings, but you know it’s uncanny when it hails in May, like it did a few days ago. I live in the epicenter […]

August 18, 2020

No Longer in Exile: The Legacy and Future of Gender Studies at the New School

No Longer in Exile' was a two-day conference held in March 26-27, 2010 in celebration of the re- establishment of a gender studies program at The New School university.

July 6, 2020

Anarchafeminism in Times of COVID with Chiara Bottici

In this talk, I argue that anarchafeminism is a particularly timely form of feminism, because it is able to articulate a feminist position without turning the latter into yet another […]

Living In The Uncanny

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April 11, 2022

Cisnormativity and the Trans Visibility Paradox

A while ago, I found myself in a bizarre conversation with a cisgender man who insisted he had a grand theory derived from the supposed exceptionality of trans experience. No […]

March 19, 2022

The Borderlands of Ukraine: A Preliminary Approach

March 7, 2022

On “Good Life”

You all know this, but I’ll say it anyway: house music is Black music; techno is Black music. I’m just a guest in these sonic spaces. That’s complicated, as I’m […]

February 23, 2022

How to Radically Transform Society, with bell hooks

“Love is an action, never simply a feeling” [bell hooks] On December 15, 2021, bell hooks passed away at the age of 69. A university professor, intellectual, feminist, poetess, and […]

January 30, 2022

Guilty Mind, Guilty Body, Guilty Soul: (Im)Purity Culture in the American Catholic Church

At the age of 10, Jane peered down at a pristine white flower. “Look at the flower in your hand, Jane. Notice how perfect it is,” Alba said, “How pure. […]

January 11, 2022

For an Anticapitalist Sexual Politics

April 28, 2021

Girlhood: An Apocalypse

I haven’t had my period in three months. It’s okay. This story doesn’t end with me pregnant. I’m not pregnant anywhere in it. I’m just thinking. Thinking heavy like always, […]

March 14, 2021

A Plea for Good Manners: A Rapbuttal

This week, the post “A Plea for Good Manners” by Robert Mass (possibly seen here) was brought to my attention. Its contents took me quite by surprise – and so, […]

March 8, 2021

100 Reasons to Prosecute the Dictator

February 22, 2021

Unrelenting: Haitian Feminism on the Front Lines

“Olmene listened to her attentively while trying to reconcile the mother with the market vendor, with the woman she was discovering. Ermancia realized this and, just before she closed her […]

February 2, 2021

Essential Strike Manifesto for the 8th of March

We are the women who are essential for the healing of the entire world from the pandemic. We are doing essential work and yet we find ourselves in miserable conditions: […]

November 10, 2020

Haunting and Hosting

My original intentions for this post were complicated by three visitations.[1]In addition to the focus on Alexander, my plan was to engage with other Black and decolonial feminist thinkers that […]

October 2, 2020

Interview: Lydia Caldana, GSSI Student/GSSI Website Developer

Hi Lydia. To get started, why don’t you tell us a bit about yourself.I’m Lydia Caldana. I am from Brazil and left for Italy in 2009 when I was 17 […]

September 30, 2020

Liberation For Everybody: A Call For Abolitionist Feminism

DUN-DUN. The theme music starts. Within the next hour, Benson will serve justice to some monster (after Stabler gets a few hits in). The criminal will leave the courtroom in […]

September 22, 2020

Sexistential Crisis // I. Camus. The Myth of Sissyphus; or, L’Être Étrange

August 31, 2020

Intellectual Foremothers

Reflections from The New School From 2015 through 2017 we traced the intellectual journey of Frieda Wunderlich, the only female professor to join a cohort of European scholars rescued from […]

August 18, 2020

Dream of A Keen

Before I was diagnosed with breast cancer, I dreamed that I had gained a new internal organ. It was called a “keen,” which afterward I thought might be a hybrid of my kidney and spleen.

August 18, 2020

Living In The Uncanny

Sometimes it snows in April, as Prince sings, but you know it’s uncanny when it hails in May, like it did a few days ago. I live in the epicenter […]

August 18, 2020

No Longer in Exile: The Legacy and Future of Gender Studies at the New School

No Longer in Exile' was a two-day conference held in March 26-27, 2010 in celebration of the re- establishment of a gender studies program at The New School university.

July 6, 2020

Anarchafeminism in Times of COVID with Chiara Bottici

In this talk, I argue that anarchafeminism is a particularly timely form of feminism, because it is able to articulate a feminist position without turning the latter into yet another […]

No Longer in Exile: The Legacy and Future of Gender Studies at the New School

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April 11, 2022