early career researcher working in trans studies, decolonial studies, feminist epistemologies, radical politics, and neurodiversity studies. big fan of Wynter and Derrida. they/them.
christopher griffin
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The Sylvia Wynter archive has recently opened at Duke, and there's an online version of the inaugural exhibition. Includes some fascinating snippets from her papers, plus rare photos, like this one. Link to the exhibit: exhibits.library.duke.edu/exhibits/sho...
I wrote something, and I got a lot out of my system while doing it. I am trying to be like Audre Lorde, and fill my anger with "information and energy." But sometimes, it's a scream into the void that's necessary.
Thanks @aoifemod.bsky.social and DFLW for the opportunity.
dflw.ie/breaking-the...
🚨DR UK's Statement on the EHRC's New Code of Practice
"We are appalled at implications that an adequate workaround is trans people using Disabled toilets instead. We will not be used as a loophole in the wider erosion of trans rights."
Full statement👇
www.disabilityrightsuk.org/news/disabil...
I felt differently after reading Sylvia Wynter. It took a few years to wrap my head around her ideas, yes, but once I caught a glimmer of her project and voice, everything shifted in me, and grew from there—including how I inhabit and live with and move through academic worlds.
Reading excerpts from yet another book discussing how transition positions "biomedical intervention as necessary" and makes trans people "cathect hope on a for-profit medical industry" and I am done. I am fucking done. This is fucking out of touch with reality and yet rife in trans scholarship.
NEW BOOK(S) ALERT! 🌈🥰🌈 I’ve been writing and writing and have two new books coming out next year. This is the PM listing for the two books. I’m so thankful, and am excited about these offerings. They are as follows:
