(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....
Roe v. Wade and the Need for a Feminist Theory of Borders
In early December, the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments in what may prove to be one of the most significant migration cases of our...
Gender Ratio in Philosophy: An Interview with Katharina Nieswandt
Katharina Nieswandt directed a team of philosophers and psychologists (Heather Maranges, Maxine Iannuccilli, Ulf Hlobil and Kristen Dunfield) who developed the first inferential-statistical model...
Relational Perspectivism in Anzaldúa and Lugones Contra Nietzsche
Nietzsche’s philosophy holds radical possibilities for feminist philosophy. He disrupted traditional philosophical accounts of what it means to be human and how we create...