Publications

• Schadde, Lava Changing our Picture: Sex, Gender and the Lived Body(forthcoming in Puncta, Journal for Critical Phenomenology)

  Abstract: While feminist philosophers concerned with the category ‘woman’ have focused mainly on the concepts of sex and gender, little attention has been paid to alternative ways of framing women’s subjectivity, such as through the phenomenological concept of the ‘lived body.’ In What is a Woman? (1999), Toril Moi argues in favor of returning to the lived body as an alternative ‘picture’ that should render theorizing through sex and gender obsolete. While I contend that Moi's critique of sex, gender, and the sex/gender distinction must be taken seriously, I argue that the conception of ‘woman’ arising out of Moi’s framework is trans-exclusionary and can therefore, at best, be viewed as a complementary framework to the concepts of sex and gender. I suggest a route for understanding the facticity of sex that does not assume the facticity of femaleness/maleness, as to offer a conception of the lived body more responsive to trans experience and productive for trans theorizing.

Book Reviews

• Schadde, Lava (2025). A Short History of Transmisogyny, by Jules Gill-Peterson. Womens Study Quarterly 53(3): 231–235.

• Schadde, Lava (2024). Gender Without Identity, by Avgi Saketopoulou and Ann Pellegrini. Room: A Sketchbook for Analytic Action 2 (24):52-55.

Talks

• Rethinking the Sex/Gender Distinction

  • Social Philosophy Workshop, CUNY Graduate Center, April 2026

  • MAP-PENN Graduate Conference, University of Pennsylvania, April 2026

  • LSExSWIP: “What’s Next for Feminism?”, London School of Economics, May 2025

  • 99th Joint Session of the Aristotelian Society and the Mind Association, University of Glasgow, July 2025

  • Association for Social and Political Philosophy Annual Conference, University of Glasgow, July 2025

• Towards Different Notions of Sex

  • Rethinking the Sexed Body, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain, October 2024

  • Understanding Value XII, University of Sheffield, July 2024

• Changing our Picture: Sex, Gender, and the Lived Body

  • The Social and Political Philosophy Workshop, CUNY Graduate Center, March 2024

• Ameliorating Sex

  • The Sexontology Workshop, CUNY Graduate Center, October 20222

  • The UK Trans Philosophy Workshop, University of Glasgow, May 2022

Comments

• “Doubts about Critical Social Ontology”

  • Dominic Aishe, American Philosophical Association Eastern Division Meeting 2026, Baltimore, MD.

Work in Progress (drafts available upon request)

• A paper developing a critique of conferralism in regards to ‘sex’.

• A paper on the viability of the sex/gender distinction.

• A paper on uptake and the normativity of care.

• A paper on the limits of consent and the potential of ‘sexual subjectivity’.