Philosophy, Disability, and Social Change 7 #PhiDisSocCh7, Jan. 27-29, 2027, 9:30am-4:00pm ET (Unapologetically and Defiantly Online)

The next edition of the Philosophy, Disability, and Social Change conference series–Philosophy, Disability, and Social Change 7– will take place January 27-29, 2027. The conference will be supported by and run under the auspices of BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY and the Center for Ethics at University of Central Florida. The conference will take place entirely online. No […]

3 Things I Don’t Want to Read Today

As of this morning, approximately 860 wildfires were burning/were out of control/had burned across Canada. As of this morning, approximately 160 wildfires were burning/were out of control/had burned across northern Ontario alone. Entire towns have been destroyed. Many Indigenous communities and First Nations have been displaced (again), their members have lost everything.

Remembering Stonewall

Description of photo below: police in uniforms shoving a crowd of young queers at the entranceway to The Stonewall Inn, capturing a turning point in the struggles of LGBTQIA people. The caption of the photo reads: “This is the only known photo of the raid that led to the Stonewall riots. Joseph Ambrosini snapped it […]

How Canadian Philosophy Plays a Vital Role in the Project of Eugenics: Or, Gender, Schafer, and Other Nondisabled White Male Bioethicists

The annual in-person meeting of the Canadian Philosophical Association (CPA) begins at Dalhousie University tomorrow. Given that Dalhousie has played, and continues to play, a formative role in the development of bioethical and legal arguments that promote MAiD, eugenics will be “in the air” once again at the CPA meeting, not least because two of […]

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

This week’s quote-of-the-week post (though it’s only Thursday) addresses the historical legacy of ableism at Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy. To open our discussion in the post, consider an excerpt from Shelley’s introduction to The Bloomsbury Guide to Philosophy of Disability. The introduction, which is entitled “Situating Philosophy of Disability in/out of Philosophy,” offers a summary […]

MAiD in Canada and Its Discontents

If you read Canadian media, you might have come across news items that indicate how the new leader of the federal New Democratic Party, Avi Lewis, has ‘voiced concerns about the trajectory of Canada’s “medical assistance in dying” (in a word, MAiD) regime’. As I wrote in an earlier post at BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY, when I […]

Dialogues on Disability on Wednesday, April 15, 2026, at 8 am ET

“I have read almost all of your interviews and they are always wonderful. …  I am really looking forward to the next installment of Dialogues on Disability.” — Adrian Piper “… a major contribution to our understanding of the field and the people in it.”  — Vanessa Wills “I’ve learned so much about ableism in philosophy […]

Quote of the Week: Katy Fulfer on Aph Ko on BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY

As readers/listeners of BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY may recall, I am guest editing an issue of Feminist Philosophy Quarterly to commemorate the centennial anniversary of Foucault’s birth on October 15, 1926. If all goes as planned, the issue will appear in September 2026. In my role as guest editor, I am working with FPQ editor Katy Fulfer, […]