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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...
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Changing the Way We Teach Formal Philosophy

Which non-living philosopher do you identify with most? This question was posed to professional philosophers on the 2020 PhilPapers survey of philosophers (“For which...
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Julia Kristeva’s Philosophical Revolutions

My title riffs on the article penned by Kelly Oliver called “Julia Kristeva’s Feminist Revolutions” in Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy, which aimed...
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What Are Oppressive Acts? Conceptual Engineering and Pornography

Criticisms of inegalitarian pornography (which I will call "pornography" hereafter for brevity)—or what Ann Eaton defines as “sexually explicit representations that as a whole...
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Staving Off and Serving Up Inventions

Saturday Morning Lessons My mother’s employment for as long as I can remember was that of a home attendant, also known as a "home health...
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Reconsidering how we think about sexual violence

Over the last decade, philosophers have paid significant attention to the topic of sexual violence. Much of this work is socially engaged, building theory...