Diversity and Inclusiveness

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Gender Together: Identity, Community, and the Politics of Sincerity

Around 11:55 pm on Saturday, November 19, 2022—just moments before midnight on National Transgender Day of Remembrance—someone walked into Club Q, a queer nightclub...
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Is it all in my Head? Institutional Sexism in Medicine

There is a world of poorly understood chronic illnesses of which only the afflicted themselves have an intimate knowledge. My journey into this world...
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Constituting Belonging: On Kris Sealey’s Creolizing the Nation

Kris Sealey opens Creolizing the Nation, recent winner of the Caribbean Philosophical Association’s Nicolás Cristóbal Guillén Batista Outstanding Book Award, by relating the circumstances...
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“The Writing Workshop”: Increasing Representation in Philosophy

It’s common in philosophy departments to have fewer women on faculty than men. In our Ph.D. granting institution (at least while we were there),...
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Globalizing Political Theory and the Challenges of Making it Happen

The call to globalize and decolonize academia and to decenter European and North American political thought and philosophy within these fields is by now...
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Navigating (Living) Philosophy: Reflections on Dragon Philosophy and Guerrilla Love with Kalonji Changa

This series invites seasoned philosophers to share critical reflections on emergent and institutionalised shapes of and encounters within philosophy. The series collects experience-based explorations...
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The Limitations of the Criminal Law’s Ability to Express the Value of Women

Feminist legal and political philosopher Jean Hampton was not alone when she argued in 1998 that gender-based violence is “perhaps the most important tool...
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What’s In a Name? Rethinking CSW

On September 23, 2022 the APA hosted the first of three currently-planned panels on “The Status of ‘Women’ in the Committee on the Status...
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Phenomenological Communicologist Jacqueline Martinez, Vice President of the Caribbean Philosophical Association

Jacqueline M. Martinez was recently elected to be the Vice-President of the Caribbean Philosophical Association. This means, as of 2024, she will be the...
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Sylvia Wynter and the Concept of the Homocene

What—or who—is responsible for the state of the planet? The “or who” suggests a distinction between two types of responsibility. One we may term...