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...
Stamps, Sex, and Second Sex
Simone de Beauvoir is often remembered as a formidable philosopher, feminist theorist, and novelist—one who reshaped modern thought on freedom, gender, and ethics. Yet...
A Duty to Resist Love Island: An Inquiry
If you are in any way tuned into pop culture, you’ve definitely heard of the reality TV show, Love Island. While the show originated...
Access Intimacy & Killjoy Kinship
As my cursor hovered over the "join" icon on Zoom, I braced myself to enter what I have often experienced as a hostile world....