In a Facebook post today, I wrote:

“Re. the incidents at Cornell:

Why are so many philosophers acting so indignant in ways that imply that they themselves are not (actively) complicit in the sexual violence that occurs on campuses? How many survivor/victims have they helped? Personally speaking, I can attest that none of them helped me.”

In a draft cover letter that I put together last week in case I ever apply for another job in philosophy, I write:

Given my accomplishments to date, I should by now have been appointed and promoted to a full or distinguished professor position. As a disabled feminist philosopher of disability, however, I have been systematically excluded from the profession and victimized by sexual harassment. My application to your department is thus motivated by my steadfast commitments to: (1) produce philosophically innovative and socially transformative work on disability, gender, race, and other social categories; (2) improve the representation and status of disabled people and other marginalized groups in professional philosophy, the university, and society more widely; and (3) create accessible, engaging, supportive, and stimulating learning environments, an aspect of my approach to teaching and learning that students and colleagues have lauded.