The Blacker the Madness: The Balmy Methodologies of La Marr Jurelle Bruce
“I shall be derelict. I leave methods to the botanists and the mathematicians. There is a point at which methods devour themselves.”
Frantz Fanon, Black...
Irigaray and Contemporary Feminist Politics
The famous militant feminist slogan from the 1970s, “the future is female,” experienced a resurgence recently following signs of the rolling back of important...
Understanding Neurodiversity, Unlearning Neuronormativity
April is autism acceptance month. Truly accepting autism requires both understanding neurodiversity and unlearning neuronormativity. The discussion that follows aims to provide some steps...
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...