Crip-pessimism: The Future of Disability Justice?

The following is the script for my presentation at St. Louis University on 01/31/2025 at 2pm. My slides with alt text can be found here: “The true philosophy of history thus consists in the insight that, in spite of all these endless changes and their chaos and confusion, we yet always have before us only […]

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): 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 […]

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 […]

Dialogues on Disability: Shelley Tremain Interviews Agnès Berthelot-Raffard

Hello, I’m Shelley Tremain and I would like to welcome you to the one hundred and eighteenth 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 […]

Dialogues on Disability on Wednesday, January 15, 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 “I’ve learned so much from Shelley Lynn Tremain’s Dialogues on Disability through the years (and found out about so much exciting work being done by disabled […]