In a recent post on BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY, Mich Ciurria wrote: To regard race, animality, and disability as “intersecting” oppressions rather than one and the same oppression is, on [Aph] Ko’s view, politically and epistemically harmful, because it sows divisions, precludes solidarity, and obscures a deeper understanding of domination. “Animal,” she clarifies, “is a label. It’s […]
Dialogues on Disability: Robert Chapman and Mich Ciurria Interview Shelley Tremain (Tenth-anniversary Edition) Redux
Due to unexpected circumstances, the Dialogues on Disability interview originally scheduled as March’s installment will not be posted today. In its stead, I have posted the interview that began this tenth-anniversary year of the series, namely, the installment from last April in which Robert Chapman and Mich Ciurria interviewed me for the series. Dialogues on […]
Reminder about the CFP for NASSP and CSWIP Conference, Joy, Care, and Resistance (deadline: March 15, 2026)
The extended deadline for this conference was Sunday, March 15. The scheduled keynotes for the conference are Quill Kukla and Kate Norlock. This post is a strident reminder that if you submitted an abstract to the CFP, you can nevertheless withdraw it and, in doing so, demonstrate both your solidarity with disabled philosophers and other […]
Aristotelian Proto-racism and the Western Invention of the Zoological Other: Lessons from Maxi Glamour’s Genealogy
When I worked at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, I had the privileged of meeting Maxi Glamour, a philosopher, digital creator, activist, and mythical genderless fairy creature of many talents. I encourage readers to follow their blog and social media accounts if you don’t already. Recently, Glamour published a brief and illuminating genealogy of racism in philosophy, which […]
CFP: The Meaning of Misogyny, Jun. 30-Jul. 1, 2026, Manchester/Online (deadline: Mar. 15, 2026)
The Meaning of Misogyny Conference is taking place from the 30th of June to the 1st of July 2026 at the University of Manchester. This two-day, hybrid conference aims to look at the work that specifically focuses on the meaning of misogynistic and/or gendered language. The topics will relate, but are not limited to, the following […]
Disabled Feminist Academics Are Marginalized, Exploited, and Excluded in Every Context and at Every Level of the University
As readers and listeners of BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY have witnessed, many, if not most, of my posts on the blog are concerned to identify the mechanisms, practices, and strategies by and through which the exclusion of disabled philosophers and the marginalization of philosophy of disability are produced. To take just one example, in a recent post, […]
Revisit or Catch What You Missed of Philosophy, Disability, and Social Change 6: The Videos!
As I indicated in previous posts here at BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY, the latest edition of the Philosophy, Disability, and Social Change conference series, namely, Philosophy, Disability, Social Change 6, was an outstanding event, exceeding the hopes and expectations of our organizing team and providing participants and attendees with memorable and highly rewarding experiences. Attendance at Philosophy, […]
Quote of the Week: MAiD, Bioethics, and the Culture of Eugenics in Canada
In a host of posts at BIOPOLITCAL PHILOSOPHY (for e.g., here, here, and here), in my monograph Foucault and Feminist Philosophy of Disability, in “Disaster Ableism, Epistemologies of Crisis, and the Mystique of Bioethics” (my chapter in The Bloomsbury Guide to Philosophy of Disability), and in my forthcoming article in Feminist Philosophy Quarterly, I have […]
Dialogues on Disability on Wednesday, February 18, 2026, at 8am EST
“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 […]
Philosophy, Disability, and Social Change 6 (#PhiDisSocCh6): Day One
SCHEDULE FOR TODAY’S EVENTS: (All times shown are in EST) Wednesday, January 28, 2026 10:00am-10:10am Welcome to #PhiDisSocCh6 Shelley Lynn Tremain (BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY) and Melinda Hall (Central Florida) 10:10am-12:10pm Panel: The Politics of Identity and Identification Caroline Christoff (Muskingum), “The Normativity of Neurodiversity: How Atypical Behavior Impacts Identity” August Gorman (Oakland), “Am I the Problem? […]
