Making Womanness Striking: Salience-based Tensions in Socially Progressive Initiatives
you will always end up philosophically on the subject of your gender simply because you will be seen as a woman first and...
Queerness, Decolonization, and Ontological Suspension: A Brief Sketch
What contribution can philosophy make to queer and anticolonial politics? While answers are myriad, a significant number of philosophers have responded to this question...
Interview with Dr. Nathifa Greene
Dr. Nathifa Greene, I would like to thank you for taking the time to speak with me today. I’m really looking forward to hearing...
Devising Opposition in Feminist Philosophies of Care
I was always amazed by and envious of the aloof effect conjured effortlessly by my peers when I was younger. I longed to master...
Chasing Desire
In her 2023 Netflix special It’s Great to be Here, comedian Michelle Wolf makes two trans jokes. The second joke comes in the context...
The Intersection of Black, Caribbean, and Deaf Communities: An Interview with Dr. Derefe Chevannes
Originally from Jamaica, Dr. Chevannes is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Memphis. Dr. Chevannes’s research surrounds the intersection of...
Social Processes and Shifting Existential Burdens: A Nietzschean Reading of Zora Neale Hurston’s African-American...
Mules carry other people’s burdens. Zora Neale Hurston's third book, Their Eyes Were Watching God, describes the condition of being a mule. They are...
From the “Chinese Simone de Beauvoir” to the “Chinese He Yin Zhen”: Decolonizing Anglo-European...
He Yin Zhen (1884—circa 1920) was a radical Chinese anarcha-feminist political philosopher. Her radicalness manifests itself not only in her views on such issues...
Black Feminist Theory and Praxis: An interview with Dr. Desireé Melonas
Desireé Melonas is an Assistant Professor in the departments of Political Science and Black Study at the University of California, Riverside. She searches and teaches in the...
Ozempic, “Food Noise,” and the Pathologization of Hunger
An immense cultural discourse has sprouted around Ozempic and Wegovy, two prescription drugs that are being used to help people lose weight. One effect...