Introduction A youth rights coalition in which I am involved, called the Children’s Voting Colloquium, recently published a petition urging adults to transfer their votes to children in support of youth suffrage. (The reasons behind the pledge are explained in this article in the Guardian). The petition argues that there should be no minimum voting age because ‘political competency,’ which youths […]
Philosophy, Disability and Social Change 5 (#PHIDISSOCCH5), Online, December 11-13, 2024: Final Program and Registration Information
I’m very happy to announce that the final program and registration information are available for Philosophy, Disability and Social Change 5 (#PHIDISSOCCH5), which I am organizing with Jonathan Wolff and with the support of the Blavatnik School of Government at Oxford University. Philosophy, Disability and Social Change 5 is free, will take place online, and […]
Preliminary Program for Philosophy, Disability and Social Change 5, Online, December 11-13, 2024
I have copied below the preliminary program for Philosophy, Disability and Social Change 5 which takes place online December 11-13, 2024, 13:00-18:00 GMT/UK Time (=ET+5). Information about registration for this event will appear here soon. Check back often! (All times in GMT/UK Time=ET +5) WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 11 13:00-13:05 INTRODUCTIONS Jonathan Wolff (Blavatnik School of Government, […]
Dialogues on Disability: Shelley Tremain Interviews Sarah Gorman
Hello, I’m Shelley Tremain and I would like to welcome you to the one hundred and fourteenth 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 […]
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! Until October 6, 11:59pm ET, Bloomsbury Publishers is offering a 30% discount on its books in its back-to-school sale, including The […]
Update on Philosophy, Disability and Social Change 5, Dec. 11-13, 2024
This week, I am putting together the program for the fifth edition of the Philosophy, Disability and Social Change conference. You should expect the program to look quite different than it has in past years. For I have reformatted both the overall structure of the conference and the structure of sessions themselves to enable a […]
Ableist Language and Other Everyday Assaults on Disabled People
This return to a post of January 2019 is a reminder that the use of ableist language is not merely about a certain choice of words but rather produces (and reproduces) certain ableist ontologies and epistemologies. Some philosophers and theorists of disability continue to employ the ableist term people with disabilities which has been dubbed […]
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): 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 […]
Forthcoming Publication, “Foucault: The Premier Disabled Philosopher of Disability (My Love Letter to Foucault),” Now Online!
In previous BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY posts (e.g., here), I shared excerpts of my forthcoming chapter, “Foucault: The Premier Disabled Philosopher of Disability (My Love Letter to Foucault),” which will appear in The Foucauldian Mind, edited by Daniele Lorenzini (Routledge, 2026). As I indicated in the previous posts, October 15, 2026, will mark the centennial anniversary of […]
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