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...of the body, including beautification, miscarriage, and sexual ethics. She is currently working on a co-authored work addressing the social, political, and ethical meanings of voice as human-generated sound. Olúfẹ́mi...

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Crisis, COVID-19, and Democracy

Although the COVID-19 pandemic and the climate crisis are both provoked by natural phenomena, the dangers they present are political. The size, scope, and longevity of the suffering they trigger...

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò

Olufemi O. Taiwo is an assistant professor of philosophy at Georgetown University. His theoretical work draws liberally from the Black radical tradition, anti-colonial thought, German transcendental philosophy, contemporary philosophy of...

Black Issues in Philosophy: The Day Botswana Stopped Being an African Country

by Olúfẹmi Táíwò Source: Lesbians, Gays and Bisexuals of Botswana (LEGABIBO) On June 11, this year, the Lobatse High Court in Gaborone, Botswana’s capital, returned a verdict in an appeal...

Nkiru Nzegwu: Philosopher, Artist, Art Historian, and Trail Blazer

...Ferdinand Odimegwu (Nnamdi Azikiwe University) Oyèrónké Oyĕwùmí (Stony Brook), Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò (Cornell), in addition to the more senior in age art historian Rowland Abiodun (Amherst). They have taken on the...

Diversity and Philosophy Journals: How to Avoid Conservative Gatekeeping

...concrete oppression and marginalization will tend to be interested in thinking critically about social issues. My new colleague, Olúfẹmi O. Táíwò (UCLA/Georgetown), recently said in an interview on Daily Nous,...

Black Issues in Philosophy: Losing Ground as Existential Reflection on Philosophy

...Issues in Philosophy: 6M      COMMITTEE SESSION: Stephen C. Ferguson, Philosophy of African American Studies Friday, 4 PM to 6 PM Speakers: John McClendon (Michigan State University) Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò (University of...

I Am a Teacher, Not a Job Trainer: A Philosophy Teacher Pushes Back

I love to teach first-year classes or, as I like to call them, my New York City classes because “If I can make it there, I can make it anywhere”...

Black Issues in Philosophy: An Interview with Cornel West

...(Purdue University) Speaker: William Paris (Pennsylvania State University) “‘We Know Nothing About Her’: Hortense Spillers’s ‘Ungendering’ and Frantz Fanon’s Unfinished Argument in Black Skin, White Masks” Commentator: Olúfemi O. Táíwò...