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....
Nietzsche, Fanon, and an Egalitarian Politics
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...
The Ethics of “I”: Philosophy, Voice, and the Politics of Inclusion
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...
Historicity and Intersubjectivity as Epistemologies of Black Liberation
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...
How we Make Each Other or, How is this Book Philosophy?
For years now, I have grappled with how to do philosophy as a trans person and how to do philosophy from the social position...








