A Soul From Whom Nothing Can be Taken: Marguerite Porete—Mystic and Philosopher
Marguerite Porete said nothing as her life was taken from her. Or so goes the legend. The facts, according to reliable sources, are these:...
Why I Support the Virtual APA: Access. Access. Access…Did I Mention Access?
The Diversity and Inclusiveness Beat is running a mini-series called “Why I Support the Virtual APA.” This post marks the second of four installments....
Tending to Ballroom: An Inquiry of Wayward Improvisation and Cultural Cooptation
“If everybody went to balls and did less drugs, it’d be a fun world wouldn’t it?”
I have only seen Jennie Livingston’s 1990 documentary...
Why I Support the Virtual APA: Why I Hope to See You at the...
The Diversity and Inclusiveness Beat is running a mini-series called “Why I Support the Virtual APA.” This post will be the first out of...
The Cost of Keeping the Peace: Relationship Advice and Oppressive Norms
Many of us have probably heard the following pieces of advice when navigating conflicts in an interpersonal relationship. Pick your battles: don’t make an...
The Problem of Reproduction in Mazú’s Shady River (2020)
During the 1940s, the mine at Rio Turbio, Argentina was established for the extraction of coal. Tatiana Mazú González’s Shady River (2020) directs its...
Writing Fungal Flesh
We don’t always realize the damage our words can do to others. Lately, I’ve been thinking about how rarely affective correspondences are taken into...
Deadnames and the Philosophy of Language
Names are a big deal in the philosophy of language. Gottlob Frege taught philosophers about sense and reference with “Hesperus” and “Phosphorus.” Bertrand Russell...
The Price of Being Unrecognized: Epistemic Exclusion and the Burden of Speaking as an...
Across post-colonial and Global South scholarship, a growing body of work has shed light on how colonial legacies and global hierarchies shape knowledge production....
W(h)ither Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion?
“Diversity” has a strange history as an institutional goal. Standard (pre-)histories of diversity initiatives in the U.S. government and the private sector typically trace...