Simone de Beauvoir and “Women’s Work”
1. Crisis of Reproduction
In the short film, Loin du 16e (Far from the 16th), Walter Salles and Daniela Thomas evocatively portray what we might identify...
Drucilla Cornell, in Memoriam
The following is a revised reflection of a post on Drucilla Cornell for the Frantz Fanon Foundation. It is posted here because of the...
Approaching Philosophy
This series invites seasoned philosophers to share critical reflections on emergent and institutionalized shapes of and encounters within philosophy. The series collects experience-based explorations...
Gender Together: Identity, Community, and the Politics of Sincerity
Around 11:55 pm on Saturday, November 19, 2022—just moments before midnight on National Transgender Day of Remembrance—someone walked into Club Q, a queer nightclub...
Is it all in my Head? Institutional Sexism in Medicine
There is a world of poorly understood chronic illnesses of which only the afflicted themselves have an intimate knowledge. My journey into this world...
Constituting Belonging: On Kris Sealey’s Creolizing the Nation
Kris Sealey opens Creolizing the Nation, recent winner of the Caribbean Philosophical Association’s Nicolás Cristóbal Guillén Batista Outstanding Book Award, by relating the circumstances...
“The Writing Workshop”: Increasing Representation in Philosophy
It’s common in philosophy departments to have fewer women on faculty than men. In our Ph.D. granting institution (at least while we were there),...
Globalizing Political Theory and the Challenges of Making it Happen
The call to globalize and decolonize academia and to decenter European and North American political thought and philosophy within these fields is by now...
Navigating (Living) Philosophy: Reflections on Dragon Philosophy and Guerrilla Love with Kalonji Changa
This series invites seasoned philosophers to share critical reflections on emergent and institutionalised shapes of and encounters within philosophy. The series collects experience-based explorations...
The Limitations of the Criminal Law’s Ability to Express the Value of Women
Feminist legal and political philosopher Jean Hampton was not alone when she argued in 1998 that gender-based violence is “perhaps the most important tool...