Complaints about the air quality written by philosophers who continue to engage in air travel and eat animals or use products derived from animals. Complaints about the overcast and yellow sky written by philosophers who continue to engage in air travel and eat animals or use products derived from animals. Complaints about their (grand)parents’ headaches, […]
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, […]
Reminder about the CFP for NASSP and CSWIP Conference, Joy, Care, and Resistance (deadline: March 15, 2026)
The extended deadline for this conference was Sunday, March 15. The scheduled keynotes for the conference are Quill Kukla and Kate Norlock. This post is a strident reminder that if you submitted an abstract to the CFP, you can nevertheless withdraw it and, in doing so, demonstrate both your solidarity with disabled philosophers and other […]
The Eugenic Canadian Context and the Future of the NDP in Canada
Last evening, I attended a campaign event for Avi Lewis that took place in Hamilton, Canada (where I live). Lewis is running to be the new leader of the New Democratic Party in Canada, which was virtually obliterated in the federal election last Spring when many Canadians chose to “strategically” vote for the Liberals and […]
Disabled Feminist Academics Are Marginalized, Exploited, and Excluded in Every Context and at Every Level of the University
As readers and listeners of BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY have witnessed, many, if not most, of my posts on the blog are concerned to identify the mechanisms, practices, and strategies by and through which the exclusion of disabled philosophers and the marginalization of philosophy of disability are produced. To take just one example, in a recent post, […]
