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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...
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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...
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Dating Online Masculinities

I started using online dating sites in 2005, after I met a woman on a plane who told me she met her boyfriend on a site...

What It’s Like to be an HBCU Faculty Member: Brandon Hogan

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...
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Vulnerability, Freedom, and Political Transformation

by Laura McMahon On January 9, 1961 in Athens, Georgia, 19-year-old Charlayne Hunter-Gault and 19-year-old Hamilton Holmes became the first African American students to enroll at the University...
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Prize Competition: Feminist analytic theology 

Thanks to funding from the American Philosophical Association’s Diversity and Inclusiveness Fund, the editors of the Journal of Analytic Theology are pleased to announce...
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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...
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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...