Holly Lawford-Smith
An event organized by the Victorian Women's Guild, and hosted at the University of Melbourne. Addressing the proposed Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration Amendment Bill 2019 (VIC). Chaired by Nina Vallins (Victorian Women's Guild), and with speakers Holly Lawford-Smith (University of Melbourne), Hayden Opie (University of Melbourne), Virginia Mansel Lees (La Trobe University), and Bronwyn…
Student activists attempt to have the Australasian Association of Philosophy deplatform my talkStudent activists attempt to have the Australasian Association of Philosophy deplatform my talk ‘Women-Only Spaces and The Right To Exclude’. They organize a protest for outside the conference. Reported here. Details of the protest (which Facebook later removed) are here, here, and here.
My account @aytchellesse permanently suspended from Twitter for ‘Violating our rules against hateful conduct’. No details provided, and all appeals rejected without explanation.Details here. Reported here. My open letter here.A detailed argument against Twitter’s treatment of feminists here.November 2022 petition for reinstatement of gender-critical accounts by the Free Speech Union here.
Jane Clare Jones & I give a public talk at the University of Reading. Student activists attempt to have the event cancelled, and (when it goes ahead) protest the event.
In the 40 years since the events at Olivia Records, gender categorization seems to pop up sporadically in the mainstream press, leading to what sociologists Laurel Westbrook and Kristen Schilt call “gender panics,” and then they disappear only to emerge again at some other time. An analysis of gender panics show that people fear some…
3AM Magazine withdraws Richard Marshall’s interview with me, after complaints about my answers to interview questions about trans issues. Details here.Richard Marshall resigned in protest.All of his interviews with philosophers, previously published to 3AM, are now available at 3-16am.co.uk, including mine.
There are many actions that we attribute, at least colloquially, to states. Given their size and influence, states are able to inflict harm far beyond the reach of a single individual. But there is a great deal of unclarity about exactly who is implicated in that kind of harm, and how we should think about…
Lawford-Smith, Holly. ‘What’s Wrong With Collective Punishment?’, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 3/CXVIII (2018), pp. 319-338.Lawford-Smith, Holly. ‘Does Purchasing Make Consumers Complicit In Global Labour Injustice?’ Res Publica 24/3 (2018), pp. 319-338.
Guest philosopher Colin Klein talks with Holly Lawford-Smith and Richard Rowland about whether insects are conscious and what that would mean.
