Vulnerability, Freedom, and Political Transformation
by Laura McMahon
On January
9, 1961 in Athens, Georgia, 19-year-old Charlayne Hunter-Gault and 19-year-old
Hamilton Holmes became the first African American students to enroll at the
University...
Fashion and Feminism
by Amie Leigh Zimmer
Philosophers and feminists have always agreed on one thing: fashion is not a topic that merits serious philosophical consideration. Karen Hanson...
The Mesoamerican Philosophy Renaissance
500 years after the conquistadors began burning books written by the original philosophers of Mexico and Guatemala, America’s classical thinking now rise like a...
Ask a Senior Woman Philosopher: Addressing Bullying
by Ann E. Cudd
I have a senior colleague, a man whose work is in metaphysics and epistemology, while mine is very decidedly not, who...
“This Bill Would Create a Crime”: Time, State Practices, and the California Gender Recognition...
by Marie Draz
On October 15, 2017, the California Gender Recognition Act (CGRA) was signed into law. It went into effect on January 1,...
How to Philosophize with an Affinity of Hammers: Censorship and Reproductive Freedom in France
by Jill Drouillard
On Oct.
24, 2019, French philosopher Sylviane Agacinski was scheduled to speak at the
Université de Bordeaux-Montaigne on « l’être humain à l’époque de sa...
F.E.A.S.T. Conference 2019
by Jamie Ritzo and Laura Brown
October 3-6, 2019 marked the tenth official FEAST
(Feminist Ethics and Social Theory) Conference, along with the 20-year
anniversary of the...
When Home Isn’t: Feminist Philosophy and the U.S. Foster Care System
by Katherine Davies
On any given day, approximately 400,000 children are active recipients of the U.S. welfare program known as the foster care system. There...
Racism’s Guts? The Physiology of Oppression
by Shannon Sullivan
Can a person’s belief in racial hierarchy—for example, that white people are superior to Black people—be embodied in their gut? I wondered...
The Fantasy of Normalcy: Neoliberalism, the Family, and the New Right
by Cinzia Arruzza
In a comment published in New York Magazine in 2018, Andrew Sullivan warns the LGBT movement against its leftist “excesses,” which run...