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....
The Limits of “Indoctrination” Talk
Many recent debates about education have focused on the idea of indoctrination. The following dialectic is by now familiar: someone points to a concept,...
Why I Support the Virtual APA: The Growing Pains of Virtual Conferences
The Diversity and Inclusiveness Beat is running a mini-series called “Why I Support the Virtual APA.” This post marks the third of four installments....
Rediscovering a Neglected Tradition: Book Review—Korean Philosophy: Sources and Interpretations
We often picture ourselves the birth of philosophical thought happening before the eyes of the Athenian citizens, mesmerized and horrified by the discussions and...
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....