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...
A Reflection on Juneteenth 2021
Juneteenth (also known as Emancipation Day)—the celebration of June 19, 1865, the day in which Texas complied with the Emancipation Proclamation—is now a national...
“Hi, I’m New Here”: Building a Network of Support
We hardly enter academic spaces as equals. A growing body of literature shows that membership in different social categories such as race, gender, sexuality,...
Diversity and Equity in Recruitment & Retention
How philosophers hire, tenure, and promote faculty in the U.S. likely contributes to philosophy’s low overall demographic diversity. For example, a recent study shows...
Jumping to conclusions? The hidden shortcuts in “he-said–she-said” and “sexual harassment”
Susan and Richard work together at a law firm. One day when they’re alone in the conference room, Richard makes a vulgar sexual overture....
Lewd, Feeble, and Frail: Subverting Sexist Tropes to Gain Authority
I recently waded through a 700+ page volume on philosophical theology that seriously under-represents the historical contributions of women (and POC, and LBGT+ folx,...
Medical Sexism in Prescribing Birth Control
Practically everyone who is eligible to use birth control chooses to use it at some point in their life. And the availability of contraception...
Antiblackness and Philosophical Duplicity
The black woman philosopher Adrian Piper had an unfortunate run-in with Wilfred Van Orman Quine on her first day as a Harvard graduate student....
Dismantling Kantian Frames: Notes toward a Feminist Politics of Location and Accountability
Kant’s philosophical system is one of those master discourses in the discipline of philosophy (and beyond) – a whole architecture – that everyone, including...