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 […]

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

With Jonathan Wolff’s retirement earlier this year, came the end of Oxford University’s support for the Philosophy, Disability, and Social Change conference series. Henceforth, the primary sponsors/funding bodies of Philosophy, Disability, and Social Change are the Center for Ethics and Department of Philosophy at The University of Central Florida. Nevertheless, the team behind Philosophy, Disability, […]

More News About Philosophy, Disability, and Social Change 6 (#PhiDisSocCh6)

Conference organization and planning continues! Yesterday, I met with Melinda Hall (School of Interdisciplinary Studies, University of Central Florida-UCF) and Jonathan Beever (Center for Ethics, University of Central Florida-UCF), as well as Jamie Morris, our illustrious tech expert who resolved some outstanding questions with respect to the platform and logistics of the conference. We are […]

CFP: Books that Combine Crip Studies and Trans Studies

Bloomsbury Academic is seeking books that integrate crip studies and transgender studies for Bloomsbury Academic’s Trans Studies book series, written by scholars from any discipline in the  humanities, social sciences, or biological sciences. The series is led by an Advisory Board that includes prominent scholars like trans crip theorist Slava Greenberg.  Bloomsbury has a longstanding commitment to publishing innovative books on disability and LGBTQIA+ topics. Their Gender & Sexuality […]

Is Canada a Safe Haven if You are Disabled and LGBTQ+?

Some Canadian and other LGBTQ+ philosophers have circulated posts on various platforms about a document issued by Haven, a group at University of Toronto-Scarborough that works on immigration policy and border issues. The document, entitled “A Guide for LGBTQI+ Asylum Seekers Crossing the Canada-U.S. Border,” is intended to provide guidance to American “LGBTQI+ individuals who are exploring […]

This Labour Day…

Spend some time thinking about the disabled philosopher that you didn’t hire/didn’t retain/didn’t tenure/didn’t promote/didn’t give a living wage/didn’t enable to flourish in their vocation.

Reviewers for “Foucault and Feminist Philosophy: Other Perspectives and Approaches,” Special Issue of Feminist Philosophy Quarterly

As readers and listeners of BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY may recall, I am guest editing a special issue of Feminist Philosophy Quarterly on the theme “Foucault and Feminist Philosophy: Other Perspectives and Approaches,” which will commemorate the one hundred-year anniversary of Michel Foucault’s birth on October 15, 1926. Late in September, I will begin to receive the […]

Hurricane Katrina, Twenty Years Later

Friday, August 29, 2025, marks the twentieth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, a weather event that rapidly became a significant social and political catastrophe killing close to two thousand people, most of whom were poor and Black, and displacing and rendering homeless thousands more, forecasting the spectre of human-made disaster precipitated […]

Dialogues on Disability: Shelley Tremain Interviews Mich Ciurria

Hello, I’m Shelley Tremain and I would like to welcome you to the one hundred and twenty-fifth installment of Dialogues on Disability, the series of interviews that I am conducting with disabled philosophers and post to BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY on the third Wednesday of each month. The series is designed to provide a public venue for […]