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...
You’re Wearing That? From School Dress Codes to Rape Culture
The email from my daughter’s elementary school principal arrived one spring afternoon. It stated that effective immediately for all elementary school students (K-6th grade),...
Stop Talking About Accommodations and Start Talking About Access
“Many of us who are disabled are not particularly likeable or popular in general or amid the abled. Ableism means that we--with our panic...
Jean-Paul Sartre: Exalting Black Thought and Living Existentialism
For progressive readers, existential philosophy reaches its apogee when it serves as the theoretical foundation for progressive political commitments and engaged activism. Existential thought...
Obstetrics’ Security Blanket: The Case of Continuous Electronic Fetal Monitoring in Healthy Births
Following the #MeToo movement came the #violence_in_obstetrics movement, which started in 2018. In fact, the mistreatment of women in maternity wards is so widespread...
Changing Identities: Are Race and Gender Analogous?
Analogies don’t compare two identical things—if they did, they wouldn’t be analogies. Analogies compare things similar in certain important respects. Analogies can illuminate latent...
Sappho of Lesbos was a Lover of Wisdom, But What Kind?
Ancient Greek poet and songstress, Sappho of Lesbos, is best known for her homoerotic verse. Sappho didn’t argue about serious philosophical topics like ethics...