What It’s Like to be an HBCU Faculty Member: Anika Simpson
The purpose of this APA Blog series, What It’s Like to be an HBCU Faculty Member, is to spotlight faculty members in our profession...
Presidential Powers and Captive Maternals: Sally, Michelle, and Deborah
I smile rarely, but I am surviving. — Deborah Danner
Introducing the Captive Maternal
Captive Maternals are self-identified female, male, trans or ungendered persons feminized and...
Dawn of Darkness
(Composed on 24 March 2020)
I know, I know,
It threatens the common gestures of human bonding
The handshake,
The hug
The shoulders we give each other to cry...
Introducing the Associate Editor of the Women in Philosophy series: An Interview with Julinna...
The Women in Philosophy series is pleased to announce that Julinna Oxley is coming onboard the APA Blog team as the Associate Editor of...
The Philosophical Activism of Lydia Maria Child
In 1846, a reviewer for the Southern
Quarterly Review was evaluating the writings of one of the United States’
most prolific authors, a woman named Lydia...
Across the Great Divide: Father and Daughter Philosophers
Last October, I presented a paper at an Ethics conference focused on African Americans and justice. I was pleased to see an older gentleman...
Worlds, Ideals, and Solidarity: A Feminist Primer
“Everything that forces itself into the world is subject to the principle of particularization.” - G. W. F. Hegel
To
“change the world”—to engage in responsible...
Reflections on Being a First-Generation and/or Low-Income Graduate Student
“...for many students the process of upward mobility requires far more than perseverance: it also requires brutal decisions and painful sacrifices, threatens their relationships...
Unconscious Abolitionism: Beyond the Reform or Revolution Debate
I had the uncommon pleasure of hearing Ruth Wilson Gilmore speak twice last semester, once at my alma matter and once at a conference.
In...
An End to “Blind Review”
Philosophers often think about normativity just when doing normative philosophy. When we decide it's time to submit instead of revise, we often think we...