about

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Alexis
she/they🐤 @regresssion

phd student in philosophyuniversity of bristolmusician, podcaster

research

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in my phd, i work on the relations between marxist philosophy and the metaphysics of gender

i co-convened the UK Workshop in Trans Philosophy

interests

  • social ontology of gender, race and class, esp. Sally Haslanger

  • marxist philosophy

  • marxist- / materialist feminism, queer marxism

  • critical philosophy of science and medicine

  • trans studies

publications

presentations

  • Needing otherwise: against the heterosexism of Marx's account of needs (Historical Materialism 2024)

  • Ideology, naturalised: Haslanger and Rouse on social practice (Marxism and the Pittsburgh School 2024)

  • Femboys in the Factory: Trans Labour beyond Abjection? (Historical Materialism 2023)

  • Invited attendee of Critical Theory Summer School (Centre for Social Critique, Berlin 2023)

  • Sally Haslanger's epistemic conception of ideology (Social Ontology 2023)

  • Invited commentator in book manuscript workshop for Gender Identity: What It Is and Why It Matters (OUP, forthcoming) by Rach Cosker-Rowland (University of Leeds 2022)

  • What are we doing when we gender ourselves? (Thinking Trans // Trans Thinking 2022)

  • Gender, exploded: social and sexual reproduction across social categories (MANCEPT What Is Gender? 2022)

  • What is trans reproduction? (UK Workshop on Trans Philosophy 2022)

  • Gender and Reification: Reading Sally Haslanger as a Marxist-feminism (MANCEPT What Is Gender? 2021; Social Ontology 2021)

podcasts

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All-Union Radiowith KB
part of the Abnormal Mapping networkwe read and discuss the webnovel Unjust Depths by Madiha S.