Dialogues on Disability: Shelley Tremain Interviews Andrea Pitts Redux

Dear All, I very much regret to tell you that the interview that was originally scheduled for today has been postponed. Disabled people know that institutional time commitments and other arrangements must be regarded as flexible and subject to revision in order for disabled people (among others) to gain the social justice that privileged participants […]

30% Off The Bloomsbury Guide to Philosophy of Disability During This Back-To-School Sale!

Now is your chance to pick up copies of The Bloomsbury Guide to Philosophy of Disability, the cutting-edge resource for your teaching and research, at an additional discount. Assign the book to your students! From today until October 6, 11:59pm ET, Bloomsbury Publishers is offering a 30% discount on its books in its back-to-school sale. […]

Upholding Michel Foucault’s History (My Love Letter to Foucault Continued)

As I recently pointed out on BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY, October 15, 2026, will mark the centennial anniversary of Michel Foucault’s birth, with plans underway to commemorate Foucault in a variety of journal issues, conferences, workshops, edited collections, and monographs. As I noted in the previous post, I will contribute to some of these memorials. In the […]

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 […]

Playful Resistance to the Dis/ability Binary

Below is the script for my presentation at the Trans/Feminist Philosophy: Pasts, Presents, Futures conference, scheduled to take place at the University of Guelph on August 14th. Summary We tend to think of ability and disability as two sides of a binary divide. People on one side of the divide are entitled to disability-specific resources while […]

Still Apropos: Nondisabled People Always Win the “Hunger Games” of Academic Publishing and Tenure

BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY blogger Mich Ciurria’s post below from October 2022 is still apropos and even more relevant: in 2023/2024, there were no jobs advertised with philosophy of disability/disability studies as an AOS, despite the fact that critical analyses of disability flourish across the university. _________________________________________________ This year, only one department lists “disability studies” amongst its […]

CFA: Thinking Trans//Trans Thinking Conference 2025, Hybrid, Mar. 27-28, 2025 (deadline: Nov. 15, 2024)

Dates: Thursday, March 27th and Friday, March 28th, 2025 Location: Lafayette College in Easton, PA & Hybrid/Zoom Call for Proposals Submission Deadline: November 15, 2024 Notified for acceptance by Dec. 1, 2024 Keynote Speakers: Dr. Trish Salah (Queen’s University) and Dr. Nathan DuFord (Smith College) Trans philosophy, broadly construed, provides a space where trans people can think together […]

CEASEFIRE NOW!

Image: 4 squares of lines, one inside the other, at the centre of the squares are the words “Cease” and “Fire,” the former above the latter

Quote of the Week (and It’s Only Thursday): Hypatia’s Ableist Legacy, co-authored with Nora Berenstain