“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 […]
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 […]
Feminist Philosophy of Climate Change Seminar Series (Online)
Organized by Hannah Hilligardt, Julie Jebeile, Sapna Kumar, Futura Venuto | University of Bern We invite you to our online seminar series exploring the intersections between feminist perspectives and climate change. Together, we will engage with key feminist themes – values, trust, epistemologies, injustice, uncertainty, diversity, activism, and emotions – and examine how these shape our understanding […]
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 […]
Dialogues on Disability on Wednesday, August 20, 2025
“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 […]
Dialogues on Disability: Shelley Tremain Interviews Raymond Aldred
Hello, I’m Shelley Tremain and I would like to welcome you to the one hundred and twenty-fourth 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 […]
How Do the PPN and DERPs Define Public Philosophy?
I felt both compelled and reluctant to email my friend Tracy Isaacs to express my dismay that she is on the program for the upcoming October conference of the Public Philosophy Network (PPN). The conference will take place in the epicenter of downtown Hamilton at a satellite campus of McMaster University that is located in […]
Quote of the Week (and It’s Only Thursday): Barnes, Self-Importance, and Epistemic Oppression
It’s hard to believe that Elizabeth Barnes continues to position herself as a credible authority with respect to critical philosophical work on disability and even philosophy of disability more formulaically defined. But here we are. In a contribution to a series of summer guest posts at Daily Nous, that is, Barnes has done exactly that. […]
Forthcoming Publication: “Disabling Bioethics: Notes Toward an Abolitionist Genealogy of Bioethics”
Here is some additional summer reading/listening for avid fans of BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY. The essay that appears below is forthcoming as a chapter in Genealogy: A Genealogy, edited by Verena Erlenbusch-Anderson and Daniele Lorenzini. Since my writing on disability is often appropriated without attribution or proper citation to me (not by you, dear fan/reader/listener!), I am […]
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