Two More Endorsements for The Bloomsbury Guide to Philosophy of Disability

As the publication date for The Bloomsbury Guide to Philosophy of Disability approaches, the anticipation that I and the contributors to this pathbreaking collection feel continues to grow. I have now finalized an absolutely stunning cover for the book with the design team at Bloomsbury. I will present that book cover to you in due […]

Dialogues on Disability: Shelley Tremain Interviews Raymond Aldred

June is National Indigenous History Month in (so-called) Canada and today is National Indigenous Peoples Day in Canada. Celebrations and commemorations will take place all across Turtle Island today. You can read Jenene Woolridge’s (Mi’kma) tribute to the day here. In recognition of National Indigenous Peoples Day and the particular struggles that Indigenous disabled philosophers […]

More Endorsements for The Bloomsbury Guide to Philosophy of Disability

I am preoccupied with work on the proofs for The Bloomsbury Guide to Philosophy of Disability but decided to take a break in order to share with you these non-anonymous endorsements of the book from Professors Tracy Isaacs and Verena Erlenbusch-Anderson. Here’s what Isaacs and Erlenbusch-Anderson have to say about this forthcoming collection: This trailblazing […]

Pre-ordering The Bloomsbury Guide to Philosophy of Disability

Yesterday, we ran a wonderful two-part pre-publication launch of The Bloomsbury Guide to Philosophy of Disability (which I have edited) at the truly incredible hybrid philoSOPHIA conference that Andrea Pitts and Elisabeth Paquette organized. The entire conference was a testament to how a well-planned hybrid conference can be engaging and inclusive, as well as build […]

Polishing the Silver(s)

I recently had the distinct pleasure of attending an online presentation that Sara Ahmed gave at UC Berkeley. The presentation was motivated by a discussion of the terms polite and polish and their connotations and derivatives. Anyone who has read Ahmed’s work will know that their analyses often revolve around careful dissection of terms and […]

Calling All Dialogues on Disability Interviewees!

“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 […]

A Philosophy of Disability Event

Yesterday afternoon, I made a presentation in an illuminating online event, “Troubling Access: Ableism and New Movements in Philosophy of Disability,” which was organized by Joshua St. Pierre, Canada Research Chair in Critical Disability Studies at the University of Alberta, and Kristin Rodier, along with her collaborators of the J-Series (social justice series) at Athabasca […]

Autistic Experience in the Majority World, Wed. Apr. 26, Online

Autism and neurodiversity are terms that are gaining use in everyday conversation. The recognition of the diversity of neurological being represents a paradigm shift. Discussions about this have traditionally been orchestrated in a few countries in the west. This is a problem because it cuts us off from relevant world history, human context and opportunities. […]