Controversy over my article was so heated that news of it spread from the rarefied world of academic philosophy into the New York Times. I was widely misinterpreted as saying that transgender and transracial identities are the same, or that gender and race are constructed in exactly the same way.

My research lies at the intersection of critical race, feminist and animal ethics. Throughout my research, I have considered several ways in which animals, women and racially subordinated groups are oppressed, how this oppression often overlaps and how it serves to maintain erroneous and harmful conceptions of humanity. Uniting these lines of research is an underlying concern to theorize justice for oppressed groups.

Calls for intellectual engagement are also being shut down because they “dignify” the article.

(He was not charged in the death but was convicted of carrying a concealed weapon.) “Nothing bad happened to his career,” Chappelle says. “Do you see where I’m going with this?” In the United States, he says, you can shoot and kill a Black person, “but you better not hurt a gay person’s feelings.”

But if there was a meeting where this was decided, no one invited me.

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