I give a talk at the University of Sydney. As though it’s still 2023 in Sydney, there is opposition to the department platforming a gender-critical feminist and there are multiple requests for the talk to be cancelled (which the philosophy department refuses and the talk goes ahead without incident). Here's an article in the USyd…

I had been planning to spend my Semester 1 (first half of the calendar year) 2024 sabbatical as a visitor at a philosophy department in the U.S. -- a good department, with plenty of political philosophers and with a reputation for being open-minded as to libertarian and conservative positions, in a swing state. After following-up…

A few days before my winter intensive ‘Feminism’ begins, activists vandalize a public-facing building at the University of Melbourne, and as a result the university assigns security to my course.There are articles about it here, here, and here; and I talked about the situation on Sky News’s Outsiders programme in July.

In the aftermath of my speaking at Let Women Speak Melbourne, there is a poster & sticker campaign against me, my teaching of feminism, and students taking my feminism subject, on the University of Melbourne campus. There’s an article about it here. I talk to MP David Limbrick about it here, and Rita Panahi talks…

My account @aytchellesse is reinstated to Twitter (as a result of a policy change introduced after Elon Musk bought Twitter). Total Twitter-ban length: 3.5 years.

Australia’s National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) passes a motion which incorporates the commitment that “NTEU will: … Condemn the use of gender critical ideology when used to promote or defend transphobia”. They do not give their definitions of ‘gender critical ideology’ or ‘transphobia’, and they do not say how they will determine when gender-critical views…

YouTube channel The Dissenter decides not to post the interview we recorded about my new book.

Philosophy Compass rejects a paper written by Kate Phelan & I after it has been commissioned, peer-reviewed, and revised. (The paper is about women-only spaces).

Students at the University of Reading attempt to have my talk at the School of Law (where I am a Visiting Research Fellow) cancelled by the university. (They do not succeed). They protest outside the talk venue. There’s a write-up about it here.

Members of the OUP USA Guild, and ‘members of the international scholarly community with a relationship… to Oxford University Press‘ have both written Open Letters / Petitions to OUP in response to them publishing my book Gender-Critical Feminism.There are posts about these letters on philosophy’s disciplinary blogs here and here, and there’s a clever…

An article I wrote for O&G Magazine’s language issue titled ‘Those Birthing People, They’re Women’ is taken down from the website because of complaints.The article is still in the print version of the magazine, and in the full PDF of the magazine which can be downloaded here.

Oxford University Press pulls my book Gender-Critical Feminism out of production, reclassifies it from a trade book to an academic book, sends a chapter out for re-review, and requires further revisions. Alex Byrne describes our experiences with OUP here.

The Women’s Human Rights Campaign (WHRC) UK group [now Women's Declaraction International (WDI)] take down the video of a webinar I did with Kathleen Stock for WHRC Australia & New Zealand, where we talked about some hard questions for gender-critical feminists. (This is my first deplatforming by my own side).The video is still available…

Permanently suspended from Medium for ‘Hate speech’. No details provided, appeal rejected without explanation. I was on the platform from October 2018 – October 2020 and had posted 35 gender-critical essays.

Oxford University Press USA decide not to go ahead with a collection of interviews with women philosophers (a sequel to this collection) after its curator, Richard Marshall, refuses to remove Kathleen Stock’s & my interviews from the collection.

Massey University deplatforms the ‘Feminism 2020’ event, organized by Speak Up For Women NZ and at which I am a speaker, under pressure from activists. (The event goes ahead in a new venue).Reported here, Massey’s statement here.

The Queer Political Action Collective organize the protest, speculating wildly as to the content of the talk, and Van Badham tweets this to her 80K followers.Here’s the placard that was sitting outside the building my office is in, for the duration of the protest:

Student activists at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) attempt to have the university cancel my talk, ‘Deplatforming is a feminist issue’ (with Emily Vicendese), for Feminist Forum. I’m sure the irony was lost on them.

The Institute for Art and Ideas (IAI) withdraws an article with contributions from multiple philosophers after the trans activist authors complain about being ‘non-consensually co-platformed’ with gender-critical authors.Details here, with a link to the original piece.IAI later republish the article without the trans activist authors, and publish both their retraction statement and my…

An Equality Australia petition demands that the University of Melbourne deplatform our event ‘The Future of Sex-Based Rights’, a forum to discuss the proposed Births, Deaths, and Marriages Registration Amendment Bill 2019 (which introduced sex self-identification to VIC). Reported here, here, here, and here.