The football du jour

A conference takes shape.

https://twitter.com/Docstockk/status/1472558140470222853
https://twitter.com/Docstockk/status/1472561023894769665

Let’s read it.

The first UK Workshop in Trans Philosophy will take place over two days on 24th and 25th March. Whilst nominally based at the University of Glasgow, the workshop will take place online.

Trans philosophy – philosophy that speaks to the experiences of, politics, and cultural production of transgender people – is one of the fastest-growing fields in contemporary philosophy. In addition to hallmark papers such as Kapusta (2016), Bettcher (2013, 2019), and Dembroff & Wodak (2018), last year saw the publication of the ground-breaking volume of trans political theory and philosophy Transgender Marxism (Gleeson and O’Rourke 2020). Beyond the realm of published work, a new generation of PhD and early career trans philosophers is beginning to produce exciting new thought.

Trans philosophy identifies as philosophy but is actually wankery.

This rapid growth has come against a difficult political background, especially in the UK. Transgender people have become the political football du jour in the UK, facing what Meg John Barker (2017) has called a “moral panic” that has only intensified in the past three years.

Hilarious that they think they have to name someone as the source for the familiar phrase “moral panic.” It’s like giving a citation for “pain in the ass” or “pile of sick.”

Anyway I’m sure it will be very trans scholarly and trans fascinating.

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