At BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY, we are pleased with everything that we post. But here are some of our favourite posts from 2022. Please search the blog’s archives for additional interventions, Dialogues on Disability interviews, exploratory essays, and more!
January
Dialogues on Disability: Shelley Tremain Interviews Adrian Ekizian Barton (Shelley)
Special Issue on Indigeneity and Disability (Shelley)
Academic Gatekeeping Is Killing Me (Mich)
Why Have (Feminist) Philosophers Ignored Nursing Home Incarceration? (Shelley)
Justicia dialéctica (Axel)
February
Should We Stop Talking of Race, Gender, etc.? (Axel)
Dialogues on Disability: Shelley Tremain Interviews Mich Ciurria (Shelley)
Philosophy Casting Call s02e02: From Aristotle to Waste Colonialism w/Jesi Taylor Cruz (Élaina)
Is Racism Really that Different from Classism, Ableism, etc? (Axel)
March
Philosophy Casting Call s02e03: Pedagogies of Resistance w/Danna Aduna (Élaina)
A Brief Review of Hay’s Think Like a Feminist (Shelley)
Dialogues on Disability: Shelley Tremain Interviews Jane Dryden (Shelley)
Philosophy Casting Call s02e04: Relational Aesthetic Subjectivities w/Judith-Frederike Popp (Élaina)
April
Philosophy Casting Call Podcast s02e05: Gatekeeping, Class, and Applied Epistemology w/Louise Durham (Élaina)
Philosophy Casting Call podcast: s02e06 A Transformative Practice w/Jimena Solé (Élaina)
Dialogues on Disability: Shelley Tremain With Isaac (YunQi) Jiang (Shelley)
The Online Accessibility Pledge and Feminist Philosophy Conferences (Shelley)
May
Against Bioethics, Medically-Assisted Suicide, and Euthanasia (Shelley)
Dialogues on Disability: Shelley Tremain Interviews Andrea Pitts (Shelley)
Embodied Subjectivities in the Philippine Context (Élaina)
Marginalized People Are Not Your Subject to Write About, But Your Peers to Engage With (Axel)
Prestige Bias in Canadian Philosophy Hiring Practices (reprised) (Shelley)
June
Guerrero and the Effects of Claims About “Ignorance” for Change in Philosophy (Shelley)
About the Ableism that Conditions Your Criticisms of Zoom (Shelley)
Dialogues on Disability: Shelley Tremain Interviews Stephanie Jenkins (Shelley)
Is Resistance to MAiD a Feminist Issue? (Shelley)
July
The Tragedy of Nondisability: A Sad and Boring Life (Mich)
Dialogues on Disability: Shelley Tremain Interviews Maeve McKeown (Shelley)
Whataboutisms, Exclusion, and Silencing (Axel)
August
Whose Academic Freedom? Bioethics, MAiD, and the Professionalization of Ableist Exceptionism (Shelley)
Dialogues on Disability: Shelley Tremain Interviews Eric Schliesser (Shelley)
What Can Deans Do? (Shelley)
September
What Makes Something “Social”? (Axel)
Nursing-Home Incarceration and the Fate of One Canadian Philosopher (Shelley)
Dialogues on Disability: Shelley Tremain Interviews Abigail Gossellin (Shelley)
Remembering Charles Mills (Jan 3, 1951-Sept. 20, 2021) (Shelley)
September 30th: A Day for Reflection and Commitment to Change (Shelley)
October
Nondisabled People Always Win the “Hunger Games” of Academic Publishing and Tenure (Mich)
Matters of Moral Taste (Axel)
In Memorium: Kathryn (a.k.a. Kate) Pauly Morgan 1943-2022 (Shelley)
Dialogues on Disability: Shelley Tremain Interviews Gen Eickers (Shelley)
Against Exotic Philosophy, Again (Axel)
November
Beautyism as Ableist Eugenics…And the Mystique of “Choice Feminism” (Mich)
Bioethics (De)Mystified: A Foucauldian Argument for Why Bioethics Must Be Abolished (Shelley)
Solidarity with CUPE and Other Unions (Shelley)
Dialogues on Disability: Shelley Tremain Interviews Robert Chapman (Shelley)
Hirji and the Naturalization of Oppression (Shelley)
December
Elia Nathan on Witches and Empty Concepts (Axel)
Feedback on Philosophy, Disability and Social Change 3 #PhiDisSocCh3 (Shelley)
Dialogues on Disability: Shelley Tremain Interviews Sofia Jeppsson (Shelley)
How Medico-capitalism Fuels Over-diagnosis and Over-medication (Mich)