For Modernity: A Review of Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò’s Against Decolonisation
Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò’s Against Decolonisation: Taking African Agency Seriously delivers a clearly-articulated and well-supported defense of its eponymous thesis. It should come as no surprise...
Witches and ‘Welfare Queens’: The Construction of Women as Threats in the Anti-Abortion Movement
While today’s anti-abortion movement has been empowered by the recent fall of Roe v. Wade, the original ‘right-to-life’ movement dates to the mid-nineteenth century....
Ableism and ChatGPT: Why People Fear It Versus Why They Should Fear It
Philosophers have been discouraging the use of ChatGPT and sharing ideas about how to make it harder for students to use this software to...
“Swing on, Swing On”: Blue Note Hope and JID’s Forever Story
Black American music has a long tradition of keeping hope alive. W.E.B. Du Bois highlighted the importance of the “sorrow song”—the “rhythmic cry of...
The Virtuous Image: Femininity and Portraiture on the Internet
Images of bodies impact young people, especially young girls and women. The normative implications of those images—what a body ought to look like and...
Navigating (Living) Philosophy: Playing in a Rigged Game
Dear Green BIPOC Philosophers,
Thank you for having a mustard seed’s worth of faith that philosophy can diversify and for tenaciously continuing to show up....
Dis-alienating Theory: On François Tosquelles, Frantz Fanon, and Political Theory by way of Camille...
Camille Robcis's Disalienation: Politics, Philosophy, and Radical Psychiatry in Postwar France is a lively and timely intervention into a variety of fields. The book...
Gender Changes: Genderfluidity and Trans Possibilities
In a recent interview with the New York Times, Bella Ramsey remarked, “I guess my gender has always been very fluid,” explaining that he always...
Meditations on Africatown, Part 1: Sensing Reality
Editor’s Note: What follows is the first in an intended series of reflections by the author on experiences in the undertaking of a research...
On the Continuing Necessity of Psychoanalysis for Feminist Philosophy
We live in an era in which “gender” has become a political football, in which the broadening legitimacy of same-sex marriage, as well as...