Revisiting the Brown Babe’s Burden
by Tracy Llanera
The job
season is here again. If you’re on the market as an ABD or an early career
researcher and you have a non-mainstream...
F.E.A.S.T. Conference 2019
by Jamie Ritzo and Laura Brown
October 3-6, 2019 marked the tenth official FEAST
(Feminist Ethics and Social Theory) Conference, along with the 20-year
anniversary of the...
When Home Isn’t: Feminist Philosophy and the U.S. Foster Care System
by Katherine Davies
On any given day, approximately 400,000 children are active recipients of the U.S. welfare program known as the foster care system. There...
Racism’s Guts? The Physiology of Oppression
by Shannon Sullivan
Can a person’s belief in racial hierarchy—for example, that white people are superior to Black people—be embodied in their gut? I wondered...
Bénédicte Boisseron’s Afro-Dog
by Lewis R. Gordon
Bénédicte Boisseron’s Afro-Dog: Blackness and the Animal Question (Columbia UP, 2018) addresses a fundamental feature of racism—namely, the idea of the...
The Fantasy of Normalcy: Neoliberalism, the Family, and the New Right
by Cinzia Arruzza
In a comment published in New York Magazine in 2018, Andrew Sullivan warns the LGBT movement against its leftist “excesses,” which run...
On the Mystical Logic of Howard Thurman
by Darian Spearman
I first would like to thank Dr. Anthony Neal for his work explicating the philosophical elements of Howard Thurman’s work. I had...
The Assisted Reproduction of Race
by Camisha Russell
In 2009, I was just starting to outline what would become my first book, The Assisted Reproduction of Race. I wanted to...
Graduate Students on Diversity and Inclusivity in Philosophy
Many philosophers recognize that the field has a “gender problem,” and maybe even a “race problem,” but I have come to believe that it...
LaRose Parris’s Being Apart as a Contribution to Existential Phenomenology
There are certain books that make a significant impact upon initial reading but that, over the course of time, reveal themselves to have had...