To be made a Martyr or a Minstrel: Lessons from Aesthetic Theory on Academic...
Introduction: What’s love got to do with it
“Philosophy doesn’t love me, just the idea of me,”
This was the opening line to a presentation I...
An Anarchist Politics of Land: The Importance of Klee Benally
In 2023, shortly before his death, Klee Benally published No Spiritual Surrender: Indigenous Anarchy in Defense of the Sacred, a book of emancipatory thought...
What We Talk About When We Talk About “Personhood”: A Critical Review of Menkti’s...
In the recently published Menkiti’s Moral Man, Oritsegbubemi Anthony Oyowe defends the late Ifeanyi Menkiti’s communitarian theory of personhood. According to this theory, “A...
Queerness, Decolonization, and Ontological Suspension: A Brief Sketch
What contribution can philosophy make to queer and anticolonial politics? While answers are myriad, a significant number of philosophers have responded to this question...
The Intersection of Black, Caribbean, and Deaf Communities: An Interview with Dr. Derefe Chevannes
Originally from Jamaica, Dr. Chevannes is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Memphis. Dr. Chevannes’s research surrounds the intersection of...
Social Processes and Shifting Existential Burdens: A Nietzschean Reading of Zora Neale Hurston’s African-American...
Mules carry other people’s burdens. Zora Neale Hurston's third book, Their Eyes Were Watching God, describes the condition of being a mule. They are...
Black Feminist Theory and Praxis: An interview with Dr. Desireé Melonas
Desireé Melonas is an Assistant Professor in the departments of Political Science and Black Study at the University of California, Riverside. She searches and teaches in the...
Bergson and Reproductive Justice: Critiquing Boundary-Drawing around Race and the Individual
Several of the most acute social problems in the U.S. intersect in the domain of reproductive justice (RJ). Considerations about choice and autonomy, our...
The Cosmos: Black Like Me
When Brown University cosmologist Stephon Alexander steps up to the podium in June to accept the 2024 Frantz Fanon Award for Outstanding Achievements in...
“If you become a monster, the fight is not worth it”: An interview with...
Mouhamadou El Hady Ba is an associate professor of Philosophy at Cheikh Anta Diop University in Dakar, Senegal. Professor Hady Ba is also the...