The quote of the week for this week (though it’s only Thursday) ushers in the publication of Judith Butler’s first book on gender in a decade: Who’s Afraid of Gender? Readers and listeners of my work on the apparatus of disability recognize how formative Butler’s claims about the performativity of gender and nonjuridical forms of […]
Two Additional Endorsements of The Bloomsbury Guide to Philosophy of Disability
The publication of The Bloomsbury Guide to Philosophy of Disability is imminent. How exciting! If you have not yet pre-ordered your copy of the book, you can do so here: https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/bloomsbury-guide-to-philosophy-of-disability-9781350268913/ We have received two additional endorsements for the book. These endorsements are from Professors Jasbir Puar and Barry Lam. Jasbir Puar: “This fantastic collection […]
Are Amy Mullin and Michael Cholbi Experts on MAiD?
As I have pointed out in numerous posts on BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY, liberal feminist bioethicists/philosophers have been at the forefront of the eugenics movement in Canada for quite some time. So, I wasn’t surprised to see the publication announcement of Amy Mullin and Kayla Wiebe’s recent article in which these liberal feminist bioethicists in the Department […]
Schliesser on Foucault and Feminist Philosophy of Disability: An Update
I’ve been busy the last few days preparing both a talk that I’m giving to the Philosophy Club at Stetson University later today and the seventh-anniversary installment of Dialogues on Disability that will be posted on BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY this coming Wednesday. So, I haven’t had time to put together a response to Eric Schliesser’s commentary […]
Why Nursing-Home Incarceration Must End
On Wednesday of this week, the Auditor General of Ontario, Bonnie Lysyk, released her report on the catastrophic events that have occurred in Ontario nursing homes during the past pandemic year and the Ford Progressive Conservative government’s response to them. The report identified systemic underfunding, staff shortages, lack of PPE, lack of infection control, shared […]
Draft Program of Philosophy, Disability, and Social Change, An Online Conference Supported by The University of Oxford, Dec. 9-11, 2020
All times given are Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) which is five hours ahead of Eastern Standard Time (EST) and eight hours ahead of Pacific Standard Time (PST). Thus, the conference begins on Wednesday, December 9th at 1:00pm GMT, 8:00am EST, and 5:00am PST. Information about registration and web-links will be made available with the final […]
My New Article in Feminist Philosophy Quarterly
My article “Field Notes on the Naturalization and Denaturalization of Disability in (Feminist) Philosophy: What They Do and How They Do It” was published today in Feminist Philosophy Quarterly (vol. 6, no. 3, 2020). You can find my article here: https://ojs.lib.uwo.ca/index.php/fpq/article/view/9395/8720 The article seems especially pertinent this morning given the ongoing intransigent refusal of philosophers […]
Philosophy, The Apparatus of Disability, and the #EugenicsSyllabus Project
In the fifth chapter of Foucault and Feminist Philosophy of Disability, I argue that bioethics is a strategy of modern eugenics. In earlier articles—such as “Reproductive Freedom, Self-Regulation, and the Government of Impairment In Utero” and “Biopower, Styles of Reasoning, and What’s Still Missing From the Stem Cell Debates”—I pointed out ways in which the […]
Philosophy’s Disability Problem
That disability is naturalized and depoliticized in philosophy and beyond is one of the central reasons why philosophy of disability remains marginalized in the discipline and why disabled philosophers, especially disabled philosophers of disability, continue to be excluded from philosophy departments in Canada and elsewhere. For more than fifteen years, my research and writing have […]
Buying Ableism and Shit During the Pandemic
On social media, on TV, in the mainstream press, etc. endless reports have appeared about people “hoarding” toilet paper, getting into physical altercations in Costco stores over packages of toilet paper, searching for hours online to purchase toilet paper, driving around their deserted cities to find a package, and so on. I’ve also seen a […]
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