Here is a collection of some of our favourite posts from 2019. Of course, all of the installments of Dialogues on Disability (here) hold pride of place on BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY too. Some of the CFPs that we posted over the course of the year were also amazing! If we missed one of your favourite posts, please let us know so that we can add it to this list!
JANUARY
Where Are the Women? (Guest Post by Sarah Tyson)
Climate Change: An Unprecedently Old Catastrophe (Guest Post by Kyle Whyte)
Between Bird Box and A Quiet Place: Blockbuster Depictions of Disability
Bird Box’s Mental Illness Problem and Blindness as Metaphor
FEBRUARY
Black Women Philosophers Conference, CUNY Graduate Center, Mar. 15-16, 2019
Community Education Project: A Prison Education
Elitism and the Engines of Democracy
MARCH
Back to Campus Post Baby and Post Parental Leave
Alcoff on Rape and Consistency: A Survivor Speaks
Is This Post Substantive Enough?
New Chapter Published: Second Thoughts on Enhancement and Disability (Oxford Handbooks)
Helen De Cruz and Prestige Bias (in Canadian Philosophy Departments)
(How) I Ruined the APA’s Reputation Amongst Disability Studies Scholars
APRIL
Microphones, Accessibility, and the APA
Disability, Discourse, Demographics at the Pacific APA
Indigenization Efforts Vary Widely on Canadian Campuses, Study Finds
Philosophy of Disability as Critical Diversity Studies – Now Published!
MAY
The Future of Feminist Philosophy and Opportunities Squandered
Some Things to Consider about Disability and Diversity in Philosophy
Reflecting on a “Bad” Semester – How Can I Plan a “Good” One?
Game of Thrones and Disability: Doing and Undoing Ableism
Neoliberalism, Bioethics, and the Apparatus of Disability in a German Context
JUNE
Racial Emancipation by Charles W. Mills
More on How Bioethics Fosters Homogeneity in Philosophy and Society More Generally
Resist: What Steps Can We Take Against Family Separation and Child Detention?
Commemorating Foucault I: Symposium on Hall’s The Bioethics of Enhancement
Commemorating Foucault II: Symposium on Tremain’s Foucault and Feminist Philosophy of Disability
JULY
Leaving Disabled People Out of Discussions of Universal Design
Taking Fat Students (and Staff) Into Account
Philosophy of Disability: Present and Future, No. 2
NEW BOOKS Interview about Foucault and Feminist Philosophy of Disability
AUGUST
Adding BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY to Your Toolbox
Ableism and the Epistemic Supremacy of Nondisabled Philosophers
In Memorium: Dr. William J. Peace, Disability Rights Advocate and Scholar (d. July 3, 2019)
Some Notes on Dembroff on Hacking, Disability, and Kinds of People
SEPTEMBER
Disability is Social, Political, and Linked to Epistemic Injustice: An Academic Exploration and Personal Reflection (Guest Post by David, Incarcerated at Tomoka Correctional Institution in Daytona Beach, FL)
Notes on a Recent Appointment with a Psychiatrist (Guest Post by Anonymous Philosophy Student)
New Entry in the SEP: Critical Disability Theory
Reviews of Foucault and Feminist Philosophy of Disability
OCTOBER
Situating Disabled Philosophers and Philosophy of Disability in Philosophy
Moments from the Disabling Normativity Conference
Asylum, Credible Fear Test, and Colonial Violence (Guest Post by Elena Ruíz and Ezgi Sertler)
Weinberg and Barnes on Ableist Language
A Canadian University and the Slave Trade
NOVEMBER
Posts on Ableist Language and Discourse
Paper Phones and Anti-Capitalism
“David Chalmers” Generalized and the Depoliticization of Philosophy’s Present
Biopower, Normalization, and Slippery Slopes
Is “The Right to Die” Racialized Biopolitics?
DECEMBER
Practical Suggestions for My Cis Colleagues in Philosophy (Guest Post by Ray Briggs)
Landmark Settlement with Harvard to Improve Online Accessibility
The Disabling Materiality of Feminist Rhetorical Practices
What’s Ahead: Against Natural(izing) Disability
War and Climate Change (Guest Post by Eric Winsberg)