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...
Monnica, The Patron Saint of Mothers of Disappointing Children (i.e. Philosophers)
by Patricia Grosse
The first mention of St. Monnica in Stephen Greenblatt’s The New Yorker article “How St. Augustine Invented Sex” occurs in the second...
Philosophical Methodologies of Critical Race Theory
by Richard A. Jones
Critical Race Theory (CRT), in its most influential form, was initiated at Harvard Law School by Derrick Bell’s early critique of...
Women in Philosophy: Cramblett, Race, Disability, and Liberatory Politics
by Desiree Valentine
In October of 2014, news outlets began reporting on a case of a lesbian couple suing a sperm bank for receiving the...
On Philosophical Scholarship of Gender: A Response to “12 Leading Scholars”
Editor's note: The letter below was penned in response to another letter titled “Philosophers Should Not Be Sanctioned Over Their Positions on Sex and...
Working Intersectionally to Abolish White Supremacy: An Interview with Alyosha Goldstein
by Luis J. Beltrán-Álvarez
Dr. Alyosha Goldstein is Professor of American Studies at the University of New Mexico. Goldstein dedicates his research to the study...
Women in Philosophy: Neocolonialism’s Anxieties? Schooling Women of Color
by Falguni A. Sheth
A number of news stories have appeared recently about self-appointed authorities who have taken it upon themselves to educate Black women...
Philosophy in the Contemporary World: Pushing Back Against the Business Model
It is no secret that among the humanities the discipline of philosophy is still one of the worst offenders when it comes to including...
Black Issues in Philosophy: Jane Anna Gordon on Creolizing Power, Theory, and Education
by Rosemere Ferreira Da Silva
In November 2018, Professor Jane Anna Gordon presented a public lecture and seminar at the State University of Bahia (UNEB)...
Women in Philosophy: Using the Feminist Theory Archive
In March 2017, Marianne Hirsch delivered a keynote lecture for the Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women at Brown University’s Archives Make...