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The Price of Being Unrecognized: Epistemic Exclusion and the Burden of Speaking as an...

Across post-colonial and Global South scholarship, a growing body of work has shed light on how colonial legacies and global hierarchies shape knowledge production....

Stamps, Sex, and Second Sex

Simone de Beauvoir is often remembered as a formidable philosopher, feminist theorist, and novelist—one who reshaped modern thought on freedom, gender, and ethics. Yet...

A Duty to Resist Love Island: An Inquiry

If you are in any way tuned into pop culture, you’ve definitely heard of the reality TV show, Love Island. While the show originated...

Access Intimacy & Killjoy Kinship

As my cursor hovered over the "join" icon on Zoom, I braced myself to enter what I have often experienced as a hostile world....

The Ethics of “I”: Philosophy, Voice, and the Politics of Inclusion

1. Neither Here Nor There, But Thinking Through Both My own philosophical journey was shaped by the tension between place and thought, between inherited traditions...
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How we Make Each Other or, How is this Book Philosophy?

For years now, I have grappled with how to do philosophy as a trans person and how to do philosophy from the social position...

Teaching Medical Humanities as a Woman Philosopher: Notes from the Classroom

When I accepted a postdoctoral fellowship in Medical Humanities at the University of Texas at San Antonio, I was equal parts thrilled and uncertain....
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Beyond Personhood: An Essay in Trans Philosophy

My book, Beyond Personhood: An Essay in Trans Philosophy, was recently published this past March by University of Minnesota Press, and I should be...
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Interview with New Associate Editor of the Women in Philosophy Series

Welcome, and thanks for joining the Blog! Could you tell us more about yourself? What do you think our readers should know about you?  Thanks...
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Crimes against women is the excuse, not the cause

Sometimes, you know just from the title: “Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government.” Rich as this...