Quote of the Week: MAiD, Bioethics, and the Culture of Eugenics in Canada

In a host of posts at BIOPOLITCAL PHILOSOPHY (for e.g., here, here, and here), in my monograph Foucault and Feminist Philosophy of Disability, in “Disaster Ableism, Epistemologies of Crisis, and the Mystique of Bioethics” (my chapter in The Bloomsbury Guide to Philosophy of Disability), and in my forthcoming article in Feminist Philosophy Quarterly, I have […]

(My Presentation to) Philosophy, Disability, and Social Change 6

The sixth edition of the Philosophy, Disability, and Social Change conference series that took place this week was outstanding, exceeding the expectations of the organizing team in every aspect. The presentations were amazing, fascinating, provocative, engaging, creative, insightful, mischievous, daring, insurgent. The Q and As were lively, respectful, committed, and concerned. The Chat conversations were […]

About the Ableism That Conditions Your Criticisms of Zoom (Again)

Due to the APA’s recent decision (go here and here) to eliminate online participation in its conferences and to the number of feminist and other philosophy conferences that have reverted to exclusionary in-person-only formats, I’ve reposted (from June 2022) this explanation of how ableism undergirds the veneration and continued production of in-person-only philosophy conferences and […]

APA Tells Disabled Philosophers to F*ck Off (In a Manner of Speaking)

Earlier this week, the American Philosophical Association (APA) announced that it would discontinue its 2+1 experiment, the “experiment” whereby one of its three annual conferences would be held online and hence be accessible to disabled philosophers and other groups of philosophers otherwise excluded from the association’s events. You can read the stated rationale for this […]

Forget Emily in Paris. We’ve Got Jason in Toronto.

You may have watched the most recent episodes of “Emily in Paris,” but did you catch the recent Toronto Star op-ed “Jason in Toronto”? “Emily in Paris” is a Netflix series, several years old, about an American fashion consultant who takes dreary old Paris and Rome by storm. It is a series whose treatment of […]

Dialogues on Disability on Wednesday, January 21, 2026, at 8am 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 […]

Who Is More Progressive: You or Chat GPT?

Virtually all of the most renowned philosophers, politicians, authors, and activists on the Left today (as in the past) lack a robust political analysis of disability and ableism, an absence reflected in their writing and public pronouncements, their political demands, and their actions. Sure, some of them occasionally make a rhetorical gesture in this regard […]

CFA: Identity and Ideology: An Open Dialogue Between Mexican and Japanese Philosophy, Online, Mar. 4-6, 2026

Call for Abstracts Identity and Ideology: An Open Dialogue between Mexican and Japanese Philosophy Online Conference | March 4–6, 2026 The Department of Philosophy at the University of Guanajuato and the International Assoc. for Japanese Philosophy invite the submission of abstracts addressing topics from or toward Mexican and/or Japanese Philosophy, including but not limited to: […]

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 […]