Navel Gazing Lawyers and Philosopher-Judges: A Tale of (At Least Two) Personhoods
The left side of Damien Hirst's statue, Verity, from Ilfracombe harbour arm.
A Change in Title: From “Women in Philosophy” to “Gender, Sexuality, and Women in...
As Sara Ahmed reminds us, a name can be a wall, a name can be a door. The names we use for public platforms...
But, Is She (bell hooks) a Philosopher?
This essay draws inspiration from the various traditions of Black feminist philosophy, in particular the works of bell hooks and Patricia Hill Collins. Collins...
Can the Historical Materialist Be a Woman? On the Woman Question in Walter Benjamin
This year I agreed to be a part of a translation project: alongside two fellow academics, the aim was to translate the fifty-something page...
Sisyphus in the Kitchen: The Tradwife Brand and the Closed Menu of Women’s Lives
Nostalgia, “Again,” and Who Gets to Count
The slogan: “Make America Great Again” works by inviting us to long for a past that was ordered,...
Race, Risk, and the VBAC Calculator: The Politics of Race Correction in Childbirth
I started noticing a pattern. Every Black woman I know who has given birth in the past decade delivered by cesarean. Some of those...
Seeing Ourselves Through Others: A Feminized and Uncultivated Form of Self-Consciousness?
A major achievement of feminist, antiracist, and other critical philosophies has been to disclose that seemingly neutral philosophical concepts are in fact (at least...
What Do We Really Know About “Obesity”?
In 1864, the scientist Benjamin Apthorp Gould was appointed to conduct a survey of the physical characteristics of thousands of Civil War soldiers, sailors,...
The Feminine as Structural Problem
Twelve years ago, I committed to a life in philosophy—knowing it meant poverty and prolonged adolescence. Years of it. Maybe forever, given the job...
Feminist Theory in Times of Racial Terror: Spillers, Hartman, Snorton
Feminist theory provides means for unshackling ourselves from restrictive cultural and social rules and practices, when it comes to gender relations and identities. But...