Facebook is buzzing in anticipation of the publication of The Foucauldian Mind in September to commemorate the centennial anniversary of Michel Foucault’s birth. Edited by the illustrious Daniele Lorenzini, this landmark text has 44 chapters written by important scholars of Foucault’s work. I am delighted to be in their company by contributing my chapter “Foucault: The Premier Disabled Philosopher of Disability (My Love Letter to Foucault)” to the collection.

A book as immense (in insight and sheer size) as The Foucauldian Mind will be both expensive and in high demand. So, get your institutional and local public libraries to put in their pre-orders for it as soon as possible.

But wait! There’s more that (feminist) philosophers who work on Foucault can eagerly anticipate, especially with respect to theory that can motivate public forms of resistance and personal and political transformation.

If all goes as smoothly as planned, the special issue of Feminist Philosophy Quarterly that I am guest editing in commemoration of Foucault’s birth will appear in September too.

Collated under the theme “Foucault and Feminist Philosophy: Other Perspectives and Approaches,” this remarkable issue of FPQ will include articles on disability, Buddhism, and meditation; sex work in post-socialist China; disability, bioethics, and abolition; techno-fascism, disability, and education; and long-termism, as well as an interview with (renowned Foucauldian feminist philosopher) Ladelle McWhorter on genealogy, eugenics, and queer theory.

Come together. Be vigilant. Stay united and fearless.

Yours in struggle (always), Shelley