Some of Our Favourite Posts of 2025

Here are some of the posts (with links) that shaped our thinking and active resistance in 2025.

The BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY bloggers wish you the best possible New Year.

Yours in struggle and solidarity.

January 2025

Quote of the Week (and It’s Only Thursday): Canadians on Conscientious Objection, Trudeau Jr., and Annexing Canada (Tremain)

Strawsonian Responsibility and the Capacities Criterion: Three Critiques from the Margins (Ciurria)

Dialogues on Disability: Shelley Tremain Interviews Agnès Berthelot-Raffard (Berthelot-Raffard/Tremain)

Quote of the Week (and It’s Only Thursday): Analytic Philosophy as the Champion of the Status Quo (Tremain)

Gender, DEI, the NIH, and Neutrality: Who Cares? (Tremain)

Quote of the Week (and It’s Only Thursday): Undoing Ableism in Scholarship on Foucault (Tremain)

Crip-pessimism: The Future of Disability Justice? (Ciurria)

February 2025

Ableism and Admissions in Philosophy (Tremain)

Dialogues on Disability: Shelley Tremain Interviews Lori Gruen (Gruen/Tremain)

March 2025

Who Is the Subject of the Left? (Tremain)

Dialogues on Disability: Shelley Tremain Interviews Clarissa Müller-Kosmarov (Müller-Kosmarov/Tremain)

On Jason Stanley On Fascism and Organizing Inaccessible Conferences (Tremain)

Techno-fascists are Ruining the World: Get Mad (Ciurria)

April 2025

Dialogues on Disability: Robert Chapman and Mich Ciurria Interview Shelley Tremain (Tenth-anniversary Edition) (Tremain/Chapman/Ciurria)

Quote of the Week (and It’s Only Thursday): UBC Philosopher Andrew Irvine, Settler Denialism, and the Emboldened Right in Canadian Academe (Tremain)

Canadians Wanted a Master and They Got Him: Some Reflections on Yesterday’s Federal Election (Tremain)

May 2025

The Latinx Philosophy Reader  (Barcelo)

CEASEFIRE NOW! (Tremain)

Dialogues on Disability: Shelley Tremain Interviews Vanessa Wills (Wills/Tremain)

What Feminism is This? (Tremain)

Quote of the Week (and It’s Only Thursday): Hiring Practices and Dirty Laundry (Tremain)

June 2025

More on Snyder, Shore, and Stanley Go to Toronto (Tremain)

Press Release for New Zine: Being Trans in Philosophy (Tremain)

Dialogues on Disability: Shelley Tremain Interviews Nic Cottone (Cottone/Tremain)

July 2025

What Canadian Philosophers Won’t Do (Tremain)

Quote of the Week (and It’s Only Thursday): Barnes, Self-Importance, and Epistemic Oppression (Tremain)

How Do the PPN and DERPs Define Public Philosophy? (Tremain)

Dialogues on Disability: Shelley Tremain Interviews Raymond Aldred (Aldred/Tremain)

August 2025

Voices from the Rubble: Solidarity Webinar, Online, Wednesday, Aug. 6, 5pm Jerusalem/3pm London (Tremain)

Quote of the Week (and It’s Only Thursday): Hypatia’s Ableist Legacy, co-authored with Nora Berenstain (Berenstain/Tremain)

Disability and Moral Responsibility in The Oxford Encyclopedia of Disability Studies (Ciurria)

Dialogues on Disability: Shelley Tremain Interviews Mich Ciurria (Ciurria/Tremain)

September 2025

Vital Links to Captioned Videos of Five Editions of the Philosophy, Disability and Social Change (#PhiDisSocCh) Conference (Tremain)

In-Person Philosophy Conferences as a Mask for Academic Imperialism (Tremain)

Relativism of Distance (Barcelo)

(How) Should The Question “Are Trans People Delusional?” Be Addressed? (Tremain)

September 30 is National Day for Truth and Reconciliation/Orange Shirt Day: The Story of Orange Shirt Day (Tremain)

Canadian Philosophy Departments Can Provide Refuge to Fascism’s Scapegoats (Ciurria)

Dialogues on Disability: Shelley Tremain Interviews Caroline Christoff (Christoff/Tremain)

Solnit and How Oppositional Ableism is Nevertheless Ableism (Tremain)

October 2025

La Estrategia de los Malos Modales según Alejandra Vitale (Barcelo)

DERPs and Their Exclusionary Conferences (Tremain)

Dialogues on Disability: Shelley Tremain Interviews Karin Boxer (Boxer/Tremain)

Feminist Exclusions and Why You Need This Encyclopedia (Tremain)

Annette Baier, Michel Foucault, and the Future of Feminist Philosophy (Tremain)

The APA’s Gaslighting Letter on Palestine (Ciurria)

November 2025

UnKoch My Philosophy Department: Reject Billionaire Donations for Disability Justice! (Ciurria)

Latest Issue of Foucault Studies Is Out! (Tremain)

Dialogues on Disability: Shelley Tremain Interviews Will Conway (Conway/Tremain)

December 2025

Quote of the Week (and It’s Only Thursday): Tremain on the Exhausting Ableism of Feminist Philosophers (Tremain)

Show Your Support for Philosophy Disability, and Social Change 6 (#PhiDisSocCh6) (Tremain)

Dialogues on Disability: Shelley Tremain Interviews Emily R. Douglas (Douglas/Tremain)

Philosophy, Disability, and Social Change 6 (#PhiDisSocCh6), Unapologetically Online, Jan. 28-30, 2026: Final Program and Registration! (Tremain)

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