Decolonial Philosopher/Theorist María Lugones, Now Among the Ancestors
I lit a candle in memory of María Lugones, who joined the ancestors last week on July 14th. She is correctly memorialized as a...
“Is America Possible?”: Protest, Pandemic, and Planetary Possibility
This is a revised version of a June 13, 2020 lecture delivered at the Global Center for Advanced Studies.
The title of this article announces...
Toward Creolizing Schooling
The project of creolizing education emerged from concerns with the failures of U.S. public schooling as a public good. Many argue and assume that...
Why We Forget
We live in a country whose population has not acquired the habit of taking historical memory seriously…. But histories never leave us for another...
#AgainstPoliceViolence
Editor's note: This special edition of Black Issues in Philosophy is being run to provide insight into the recent killing of George Floyd by...
A Life that Is Not One
I am dreaming a lot right now. Often nightmares that bring me back to the world of my childhood as a little Jewish girl,...
True Brazilian Democracy
My book How Fascism Works was published in September 2018. In it, I discuss many countries—the United States, Germany, and Italy, of course, and...
Dawn of Darkness
(Composed on 24 March 2020)
I know, I know,
It threatens the common gestures of human bonding
The handshake,
The hug
The shoulders we give each other to cry...
“Let me take it from the top. Hello. I’m The Doctor”: Sakena Young-Scaggs and...
On March 19th, Lewis Gordon came across this article by Mel Perez on the surprising development of a Black female incarnation of The Doctor,...
Virus: all that is solid melts into air
There
is a debate within the social sciences about whether it is easier to ascertain
the truthfulness and quality of a society’s institutions under normal daily
circumstances...