The Limits of “Indoctrination” Talk
Many recent debates about education have focused on the idea of indoctrination. The following dialectic is by now familiar: someone points to a concept,...
A Soul From Whom Nothing Can be Taken: Marguerite Porete—Mystic and Philosopher
Marguerite Porete said nothing as her life was taken from her. Or so goes the legend. The facts, according to reliable sources, are these:...
Tending to Ballroom: An Inquiry of Wayward Improvisation and Cultural Cooptation
“If everybody went to balls and did less drugs, it’d be a fun world wouldn’t it?”
I have only seen Jennie Livingston’s 1990 documentary...
The Cost of Keeping the Peace: Relationship Advice and Oppressive Norms
Many of us have probably heard the following pieces of advice when navigating conflicts in an interpersonal relationship. Pick your battles: don’t make an...
Writing Fungal Flesh
We don’t always realize the damage our words can do to others. Lately, I’ve been thinking about how rarely affective correspondences are taken into...
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...