The latest issue of Weekend Reads, the supplement of The Chronicle of Higher Education, includes an episode of College Matters, the publication’s podcast, with Judith Butler. In the podcast, Butler gives a brief synopsis of their groundbreaking characterization of gender as performative and its impact on gender studies and queer theory, and then goes on […]
Dialogues on Disability: Shelley Tremain With Élaina Gauthier-Mamaril and Emily R. Douglas
Hello, I am Shelley Tremain and I would like to welcome you to the eleventh-anniversary 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 discussion with disabled philosophers about […]
Philosophy and Theory of Disability in The Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Disability Studies!
On April 9, The Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Disability Studies (ORE) — a mammoth project whose contents will appear online on a rolling basis — was launched! As readers/listeners of BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY may recall, I edited/curated the Philosophy and Theory of Disability Area of the ORE (go here). Yesterday, several authors who wrote for the […]
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, […]
The Making of Oppression and Another (Outdated and Outmoded) SEP Entry on Disability that You Should Ignore
In a recent post on BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY, Mich Ciurria wrote: To regard race, animality, and disability as “intersecting” oppressions rather than one and the same oppression is, on [Aph] Ko’s view, politically and epistemically harmful, because it sows divisions, precludes solidarity, and obscures a deeper understanding of domination. “Animal,” she clarifies, “is a label. It’s […]
Dialogues on Disability: Robert Chapman and Mich Ciurria Interview Shelley Tremain (Tenth-anniversary Edition) Redux
Due to unexpected circumstances, the Dialogues on Disability interview originally scheduled as March’s installment will not be posted today. In its stead, I have posted the interview that began this tenth-anniversary year of the series, namely, the installment from last April in which Robert Chapman and Mich Ciurria interviewed me for the series. Dialogues on […]
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 […]
Iran Resources at Weaving Our Worlds
From Weaving Our Worlds: This resource list was produced in March 2026, less than one week after the US and Zionist entity launched attacks against Iran — manufactured through lies, orientalist propaganda, sanctions, regime-change rhetoric, and monarchist fantasies — in the middle of diplomatic negotiations and killing over 1000 people (and counting) and Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. These imperialist attacks come […]
Robert Chapman on Gramsci, Madness, and Fascism
Gramsci on Madness and Fascism: Hegemony and Sanist Slurs By Robert Chapman Mad and neurodivergent people on the left often find ourselves in purportedly inclusive spaces where ableist and sanist language nonetheless circulates casually, most often as a way of dismissing political opponents. Words like mad, insane, or moronic are deployed as if they were […]
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