Sexism, Inattention, and Moral Responsibility
Consider an all-too-familiar scene. John and Martha are visiting Barry—their adult son—and his family for a holiday. After a delicious dinner he played no...
Remarks Upon Receiving the Frantz Fanon Lifetime Achievement Award
Note from the editors: These remarks were composed by Dr. Marcos in Spanish and delivered at the awards ceremony of the Caribbean Philosophical Association’s...
“I Can See Your Gender”: Givenness at the Paris Olympics
Something catches the eye—no, not something, somebody—but the passage from something to somebody takes a fraction of an instant. The familiarity of the person’s...
Remembering Robert L. Allen
This past July, Robert L. Allen passed away at 82. As an undergraduate student, Allen had a very large impact on me. I took...
Philosophy Meets the Gendertrash from Hell
“You don't look like a poet. You look more like one of those people they're always writing about in the Times.” - Samuel R....
To be made a Martyr or a Minstrel: Lessons from Aesthetic Theory on Academic...
Introduction: What’s love got to do with it
“Philosophy doesn’t love me, just the idea of me,”
This was the opening line to a presentation I...
Pretendians from the Perspective of a Cherokee
Since I was young, I have deeply valued, honored, and even boasted about being Cherokee. I am a citizen of the Cherokee Nation of...
An Anarchist Politics of Land: The Importance of Klee Benally
In 2023, shortly before his death, Klee Benally published No Spiritual Surrender: Indigenous Anarchy in Defense of the Sacred, a book of emancipatory thought...
The 4B Movement is a Labor Strike
Within the last year, the 4B movement has gained a large following in the United States, now boasting full social media accounts dedicated to...
“In Order to Live We Must Synthesize Thought and Feeling”: Reflections on Philosophical Pedagogy...
As many of us head back into our classrooms to greet new cohorts of students, I am thinking about what it means (to me)...