Early last week, I threw some shade at Feminist Philosophy Quarterly (FPQ), alluding to the way that the journal has upheld the eugenic status quo in philosophy by restricting and defacing my criticisms of the field of bioethics and my call for the field to be abolished.
In short, the editors of the journal have done so by autocratically removing citations from my article “Notes for a Feminist Abolitionist Genealogy of Bioethics,” which appears in the current issue of the journal, an issue that I guest edited on the theme of Other feminist perspectives and approaches to Foucault. This autocratic and wholly unjustified removal of these citations is a new violation of academic freedom in the profession and discipline; an(other) egregious example of how radical approaches and perspectives are marginalized and excluded in philosophy; and distinctly mars my history of radical and revolutionary scholarship in philosophy of disability, feminist philosophy, and Foucault studies.
Over the coming weeks, I will provide more details in posts at BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY about the implications of this gesture (and other unethical practices surrounding it) by the editors of FPQ for radical work in feminist philosophy and philosophy of disability; the increasing centrism of the journal; its targeting and mistreatment of me as a guest editor; and additional reasons why feminist philosophers–especially (disabled) feminist philosophers of disability–should at least at present avoid publishing their work in this journal.
A group has formed to oppose the autocracy that FPQ now comprises, particularly with respect to the harms that the journal has inflicted upon me and my scholarship. If you are interested in learning more about the research and publication ethics that the journal has circumvented and otherwise violated or the future actions of the group, please feel free to write me at sltremain@gmail.com.
In the meantime, you can find my unadulterated and uncensored version of “Notes for a Feminist Abolitionist Genealogy of Bioethics” here.
