Gaze
I am watching the news with my brother-in-law on a drizzly October evening at his house in Yvelines, southwest of Paris. He stands against...
Emotional Labor and Affective Injustice
The 'Concept Creep' of Emotional Labor
The term “emotional labor” used to be more narrowly defined than it is today. Sociologist Arlie Hochschild invented the...
On Revolutionary History and the Freedom Project: A Review Essay of Julius Scott’s The...
Julius S. Scott’s The Common Wind: Afro-American Currents in the Age of the Haitian Revolution was rightly bestowed with the Frantz Fanon Outstanding Book...
A Feminist in the Forest
Like many others this past year, my children and I sought refuge from the pandemic in the great outdoors. Instead of traveling far from...
A Reply to Paget Henry’s “Self, Language and Metaphysics: A Review of Teodros Kiros’s...
Paget Henry wrote a review of my book Self-Definition: A Philosophical Inquiry from the Global South and the Global North. I offer here some...
Select Philosophy Podcasts (Co-)Hosted by Women: A Listicle
Podcasting is to the early 2020s what blogging was to the late aughts. The philosophy podcast world in particular has exploded, and it can...
Ethics of Freedom, Politics for Decolonization: Thoughts on Devin Shaw’s Philosophy of Antifascism
Devin Zane Shaw’s Philosophy of Antifascism offers an account of the normative basis for militant or insurrectionary antifascist praxis, concluding with a reflection on...
Righteous Anger in the Classroom
In recent months, there’s been much public debate about Critical Race Theory, which most legislators believe boils down to teaching about race in the...
Mental Health & Disability Caucus: Community Support through Collaborative Action
Graduate school is a challenge during the best of times. Grad school during a pandemic? A single look at all the MAs and PhDs...
On Antique Spoons: Chapters on Love, Loss and the Politics of Memory
At the release of the Vuma Levin Quintet’s acclaimed CD The Spectacle of An-Other in 2015, Sihle Mthembu had this to say in The...