SE02 E04: Field notes: Featuring Riley Lewicki, Alanah Mortlock with special guest Amy Marvin
Thinking Trans // Trans Thinking Conference, March 2025
Tech/conference host extraordinaire and surprise guest on this episode(!), Isobel Bess, https://echosequence.space/
Film Events
Website for Trans Film / Trans Space: https://echosequence.space/transfilm
The specific page for our Lingua Franca screening on May 1st: https://www.hallwalls.org/media-arts/6754.html
Check back for future screenings!
Amy Marvin
Essays
https://philpeople.org/profiles/amy-marvin
Lynn Borton. 2019. “Curios & Curiotizing, with Amy Marvin.” Choose to Be Curious (podcast), October 16. Choose to Be Curious episode page.
Marvin, Amy. 2020. “Transsexuality, the Curio, and the Transgender Tipping Point” Curiosity Studies: A New Ecology of Knowledge. Editors, Perry Zurn, and Arjun Shankar. University of Minnesota Press, https://manifold.umn.edu/read/64316c7b-6f7a-445f-8922-47a5f61ee512/section/e2d69218-a80e-424c-b0f8-af4e1a01ac68#ch11
Marvin, Amy. 2023. “Oppression, Subversive Humor, and Unstable Politics.” The Philosophy of Humor Yearbook 4 (1): 163–186. https://doi.org/10.1515/phhumyb-2023-0007
Marvin, Amy. 2024. “The Circulation of Trans Philosophy: A
Philosophical Polemic.” APA Feminism and Philosophy Newsletter, 24(1): 2-12.
Riley Lewicki
https://rileyhannahlewicki.weebly.com/
Lewicki, Riley Hannah. 2023. “Prefiguring the Otokonoko Genre: A Comparative Trans Analysis of Stop!! Hibari-Kun! and No Bra.” Journal of Anime and Manga Studies 3: 62–84.
Alanah Mortlock
https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/alanah-mortlock
Mortlock, Alanah E., “Transracialism’s Trans Grammars and the Abstraction of Blackness,” in Hypatia, 2026, pp. 1-23, doi:10.1017/hyp.2025.10046
Works We Mentioned
Arendt, Hannah. 1968. Between Past and Future: Eight Exercises in Political Thought. New York: Viking Press.
Arendt, Hannah. 1973. The Origins of Totalitarianism. New ed. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich.
Beauvoir, Simone de. 1992. Force of Circumstance. Translated by Richard Howard. New York: Paragon House.
Bey, Marquis. 2017. “The Trans*-ness of Blackness, the Blackness of Trans*-ness.” TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly 4 (2): 275–295. https://doi.org/10.1215/23289252-3815069.
Burke, Megan. Becoming a Woman: Simone de Beauvoir and the Politics of Trans Existence (New York: Polity, 2025) https://www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?book_slug=becoming-a-woman-simone-de-beauvoir-and-the-politics-of-trans-existence--9781509561988
Cooper, Anna Julia. A Voice from the South, 1892 https://archive.org/details/voicefromsouth00coop/mode/2up
Davis, Dierdre. 1994. “The Harm that Has No Name: Street Harassment, Embodiment, and African American Women.” UCLA Women's Law Journal, 4(2): 133-178. https://escholarship.org/content/qt83b9f21g/qt83b9f21g.pdf
Du Bois, W. E. B. 1998. Black Reconstruction in America, 1860–1880. New York: Free Press.
Du Bois, W. E. B. 2007. The Souls of Black Folk. Edited by Brent Hayes Edwards. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Ellison, Treva, Kai M. Green, Matt Richardson, and C. Riley Snorton. 2017. “We Got Issues: Toward a Black Trans*/Studies.” TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly 4 (2): 162–169. https://doi.org/10.1215/23289252-3814949.
Gordon, Lewis R. 2022. “On the Development of Black Consciousness.” Literary Hub, January 13, 2022. https://lithub.com/lewis-r-gordon-on-the-development-of-black-consciousness/.
Khader, Serene. 2024. Faux Feminism: Why We Fall for White Feminism and How We Can Stop. Boston: Beacon Press.
Lewis, Sophie. Enemy Feminisms: TERFs, Policewomen, and Girlbosses Against Liberation (London: Haymarket Books, 2025)
Mohanty, Chandara Talpade. “Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Discourses,” in Feminist Review Volume 30 (1988): 61–88.
Plato. 1992. Republic. Translated by G. M. A. Grube, revised by C. D. C. Reeve. Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing.
Spelman, Elizabeth V. 1988. Inessential Woman: Problems of Exclusion in Feminist Thought. Boston: Beacon Press.
Truth, Sojourner. https://www.thesojournertruthproject.com/compare-the-speeches/
Wollstonecraft, Mary. 1996. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. Edited by Janet Todd. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
ContraPoints (Natalie Wynn), https://www.contrapoints.com/
Additional Resources:
WEB Dubois
Talia Mae. 2018. “When Tables Speak: On the Existence of Trans Philosophy.” Daily Nous, May 30, 2018. https://dailynous.com/2018/05/30/tables-speak-existence-trans-philosophy-guest-talia-mae-bettcher/
(and the link to Amy’s comment):
https://feministphilosophers.wordpress.com/2018/05/17/talking-about-talking/#comment-163853
Sound
Pres, Josef. 2024. “Piano loops 128 effect octave long loop”, Freesound, https://freesound.org/people/josefpres/sounds/723002/
Seth_Makes_Sounds. 2024. “Brainstatic v1”, Freesound ,https://freesound.org/people/Seth_Makes_Sounds/sounds/730699/
Special thanks to Amy Marvin for generous transcript editing on this episode!