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Women in Philosophy: Trans Philosophers and The Politics of Bathrooms

by Tamsin Kimoto Trans scholars have written extensively on the politics of bathrooms and other sites of administrating gender. Perry Zurn, for example, has done extensive...
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Black Issues in Philosophy: Postcolonial Encounters in Dakar

By Angela Roothaan I offer this reflection from my blog at the request of the editors of Black Issues in Philosophy.  It is my post...
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Women in Philosophy: Ask a Senior Woman Philosopher about Social Media

The Women in Philosophy Series at the APA Blog is beginning a new mini-series, Ask A Woman Philosopher, in which senior women philosophers will...
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Black Issues in Philosophy: A Conversation on Sorry to Bother You

Steven Manicastri is a political theorist and labor organizer.  Having recently viewed Sorry to Bother You and seeing its clear relevance to his own research...
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Women in Philosophy: Hypatia: The Good Woman?

by Danielle A. Layne This is not a post on Hypatia wherein I rehearse what most of us already know about the Neoplatonic philosopher and...
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Women in Philosophy: Online Misogyny and Our Profession

By Cassie Herbert This winter anonymous commenters on a philosophy blog wanted to ridicule a ‘liberal’ professor. In order to do this, they wrote about...
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Women in Philosophy: The Ethical Call to Decolonize the Philosophical Canon

By Miranda Pilipchuk “You go to women? Do not forget the whip!” I was an undergraduate philosophy major when I first read those infamous words...
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Some Thoughts on Juliet Hooker’s Theorizing Race in the Americas

By Lewis Gordon Juliet Hooker is a political theorist in the Department of Political Science at Brown University.  Her work focuses on the contradictions of...
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Women in Philosophy: Minority Identities, “Minority Concerns”

By Tiffany Gordon Most of my work is situated along the lines of my identity. It should not be surprising, then, that since I am...
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On Diversifying the Classroom from Within: An Interview with Perry Zurn

Perry Zurn is Assistant Professor of philosophy at American University. He researches broadly in the fields of political philosophy, gender theory, and applied ethics, and his work contributes...