CFEOI: CFP: Susan Stryker and Trans Studies, A Special Issue of Australian Feminist Studies (deadline: Feb. 16, 2025; May 1, 2025)

Expressions of interest are sought for contributions to a planned Special Issue (SI) of Australian Feminist Studies devoted to the topic of Susan Stryker and transgender studies. When Monsters Speak: A Susan Stryker Reader (2024) showcases the essential writings of Susan Stryker from the 1990s to the present; her scholarly work, her documentaries, zines, newsletters, etc. This SI invites […]

Quote of the Week (and It’s Only Thursday): Undoing Ableism in Scholarship on Foucault

This week’s quote-of-the-week post (though it’s only Thursday) draws attention to the marginalization of Foucauldian scholarship on disability and the continuing absence of critical philosophical work on disability in Foucault scholarship–both lacunae whose constitution I have worked to ameliorate–as well as highlights some of the initiatives to redress this exclusion in which allies in Foucault […]

Gender, DEI, the NIH, and Neutrality: Who Cares?

The past week has been a whirlwind. The inauguration of Donald Trump to the Office of the U.S. Presidency on January 20 will go down in history as a flashpoint that precipitated sweeping social and cultural shifts in the United States and beyond. Already we have witnessed the promulgation of executive orders from the highest […]

New Book on Technology and Equality

This post is intended to announce the much-anticipated publication (Rowman & Littlefield) next month of Technology and Equality*, edited by Sven Ove Hansson and Colleen Murphy. I am delighted that this important book includes my chapter “Disability and Technology? No, Disability as Technology,” the penultimate version of which you can find on my PhilPeople page […]

Quote of the Week (and It’s Only Thursday): Analytic Philosophy as the Champion of the Status Quo

In a recent post, I drew attention to the conservative motivations of bioethics (which should be understood to include so-called disability bioethics and feminist bioethics). In other posts and publications (for e.g., here and here), I have drawn attention to the ways that “analytic” disability bioethicists and other “analytic” philosophers who write about disability preserve […]

New (Year’s) Update on Special Issue of FPQ on Foucault and Feminist Philosophy

I have finished adjudicating abstracts submitted for the special issue of Feminist Philosophy Quarterly on the theme “Foucault and Feminist Philosophy,” an issue that will be published in 2026 to commemorate the centennial of Foucault’s birth on October 15, 1926. Close to forty abstracts/proposals were submitted to be considered for the issue. I was very […]

The Call is Coming from Inside the House; Or How Bioethics Has Compromised Philosophy and Philosophers

Bioethics and the neoliberal eugenics that motivates it have thoroughly compromised philosophy and philosophers–politically, institutionally, ethically, and economically. That is to say, the neoliberal effects of bioethics have become so pervasive and insidious in philosophy that the discipline and profession have, in many ways, become extensions of the medico-scientific-industrial complex. Indeed, few philosophy departments (in […]

Ableist (Philosophy of) Language and Why ‘Crip’ Might Not Be the Answer

Earlier this morning, I inadvertently posted a news item on Bluesky that included ableist language–namely, the term tone deaf. The article, which discusses the forms of structural oppression and discrimination that working-class Scottish students at the University of Edinburgh experience, was especially interesting to me given that my maternal ancestors were poor and working-class people […]

Fatness and the Abnormal (Guest post)

Fatness and the Abnormal Kristin Rodier Presentation to Philosophy, Disability and Social Change 5, December 13, 2024 I want to thank Shelley Tremain and the conference organizers for inviting me to share my work. Learning about what everyone has been working on has become a highlight of my year. In keeping with Shelley’s advocacy within […]