Sisyphus in the Kitchen: The Tradwife Brand and the Closed Menu of Women’s Lives
Nostalgia, “Again,” and Who Gets to Count
The slogan: “Make America Great Again” works by inviting us to long for a past that was ordered,...
Race, Risk, and the VBAC Calculator: The Politics of Race Correction in Childbirth
I started noticing a pattern. Every Black woman I know who has given birth in the past decade delivered by cesarean. Some of those...
Seeing Ourselves Through Others: A Feminized and Uncultivated Form of Self-Consciousness?
A major achievement of feminist, antiracist, and other critical philosophies has been to disclose that seemingly neutral philosophical concepts are in fact (at least...
What Do We Really Know About “Obesity”?
In 1864, the scientist Benjamin Apthorp Gould was appointed to conduct a survey of the physical characteristics of thousands of Civil War soldiers, sailors,...
The Feminine as Structural Problem
Twelve years ago, I committed to a life in philosophy—knowing it meant poverty and prolonged adolescence. Years of it. Maybe forever, given the job...
Feminist Theory in Times of Racial Terror: Spillers, Hartman, Snorton
Feminist theory provides means for unshackling ourselves from restrictive cultural and social rules and practices, when it comes to gender relations and identities. But...
Why Engage with the Past? Philosophy and Its History
In philosophy, you quite immediately notice a striking difference between content taught and philosophical research, for example, when looking at how philosophy departments are...
When Gender Policing Backfires
Recently, I was coming home from a conference, and I had just gotten through TSA at an airport that I had been to before....
Indigenous Antif*scism
Leanne Betasamosake Simpson’s work has been crucial to our understanding of the subjective and objective transformations necessary not merely to respond to colonization but...
Why I Support the Virtual APA: How I Hate Virtual Conferences and Why I...
The Diversity and Inclusiveness Beat is running a mini-series called “Why I Support the Virtual APA.” This post marks the fourth and final installment....