Diversity and Inclusiveness

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...

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...

As my cursor hovered over the "join" icon on Zoom, I braced myself to enter what I have often experienced as a hostile world....

What could a revolutionary thinker like Frantz Fanon possibly draw from the political philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche, a self-proclaimed anti-egalitarian, anti-democrat, and anti-socialist? Nietzsche clearly...

1. Neither Here Nor There, But Thinking Through Both My own philosophical journey was shaped by the tension between place and thought, between inherited traditions...

Introduction Contemporary critical theories of Black life, particularly Afropessimism as formulated by Frank Wilderson and the postcolonial fatalism found in Achille Mbembe’s On the Postcolony...

For years now, I have grappled with how to do philosophy as a trans person and how to do philosophy from the social position...

Frantz Fanon’s work has primarily been received through the lens of his political writings and the political aspects of his work. His psychiatric writings...

When I accepted a postdoctoral fellowship in Medical Humanities at the University of Texas at San Antonio, I was equal parts thrilled and uncertain....

My book, Beyond Personhood: An Essay in Trans Philosophy, was recently published this past March by University of Minnesota Press, and I should be...