Reframing Abortion Lessons
An anticipated disaster is no less horrifying when it eventually occurs. Many of us experienced such horror as we read the leaked Supreme Court...
Tone-Policing and the Assertion of Authority
Tone Policing is a dangerous habit that has real psychosocial consequences. CHANDRA PRESCOD-WEINSTEIN
If tone policing is anything at all, then it is bad....
The Weight of Whiteness: A Conversation between Alexis Shotwell and Alison Bailey
Alexis Shotwell: Thanks so much for talking with me about your wonderful book (The Weight of Whiteness: A Feminist Engagement with Privilege, Race, and...
(Everyday) Violence and Speechless Horror
A recent conference on the work and influence of Bat-Ami Bar On, memorialized by Dianna Taylor in this series, highlighted the reach of her...
Doomscrolling and the Unspeakable
I’m greeted by my social media timeline, filled with equal parts dystopian memes and political calls for action. I have five minutes between tasks,...
Interview with new Associate Editor of the Women in Philosophy series
The Women in Philosophy series at the APA blog would like to thank Julinna Oxley for her service as Associate Editor from 2020-2021. We...
Queering the Ancient World: Liminal Agency in Greek Myth and Presocratic Philosophy
The Pre-Socratics were pre-occupied with the mysterious relation between opposites. Heraclitus is famous for making paradoxical claims like “immortals mortal, mortals immortal, living the...
Layers of Meaning, Layers of Telling: How German Women Intellectuals Constructed Female Identity
Oftentimes I hear, more or less bluntly put, that working on woman intellectuals in Germany is a niche, something one would do because she...
On Being a Community of Women Philosophers: SWIP-TR Conferences in Isolation
“I came to theory because I was hurting–the pain within me was so intense that I could not go on living. I came to...
Ask A Senior Woman Philosopher: Advice for New Faculty Leaders
I’m a new administrator and I’m interested in developing and advocating for inclusive policies to better support junior women in the discipline of Philosophy....