Fashion and Feminism
by Amie Leigh Zimmer
Philosophers and feminists have always agreed on one thing: fashion is not a topic that merits serious philosophical consideration. Karen Hanson...
The Mesoamerican Philosophy Renaissance
500 years after the conquistadors began burning books written by the original philosophers of Mexico and Guatemala, America’s classical thinking now rise like a...
Hanétha Vété-Congolo, President of the Caribbean Philosophical Association
by Lewis Gordon
Dr. Hanétha Vété-Congolo, Professor of Romance Languages and an affiliate in the Latin American Studies Program and the Gender, Women and Sexuality...
Ask a Senior Woman Philosopher: Addressing Bullying
by Ann E. Cudd
I have a senior colleague, a man whose work is in metaphysics and epistemology, while mine is very decidedly not, who...
White Philosophers: It’s Time to Stop Using Digital Blackface
The origins of blackface date from the early 19th
century minstrel shows, in which white actors blackened their faces to take up racist,
exaggerated and stereotypical...
How to Philosophize with an Affinity of Hammers: Censorship and Reproductive Freedom in France
by Jill Drouillard
On Oct.
24, 2019, French philosopher Sylviane Agacinski was scheduled to speak at the
Université de Bordeaux-Montaigne on « l’être humain à l’époque de sa...
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...