Hello, I’m Shelley Tremain and I’d like to welcome you to the eighty-ninth 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 discussion with disabled philosophers […]
Some of Our Favourite Posts from 2019
Here is a collection of some of our favourite posts from 2019. Of course, all of the installments of Dialogues on Disability (here) hold pride of place on BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY too. Some of the CFPs that we posted over the course of the year were also amazing! If we missed one of your favourite posts, […]
Sexual Violence and Disability: A Comment on “Sexual Harassment in Philosophy” (posted at PEA Soup)
The post below was originally articulated as a comment on the PEA Soup blog in response to the first part of its two-part series entitled “Sexual Harassment in Philosophy,” written by Janice Dowell and David Sobel. You can find the first post in the series and my comment on it here. _______________________________________________________________ I have written […]
Guesting at BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY
If you promised to write a guest post for BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY during the northern summer break, now is a good time to follow up on that promise! Melinda and I would love to put more guest posts on the blog, so if you have an idea for a post that fits with the general approach […]
Adding BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY To Your Toolbox
As we continue to foster a readership/listenership across continents, I want to encourage readers and listeners who either come here regularly or have only recently found us to draw upon the resources that BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY offers. If you browse through our pages, posts, and archives, you will find essays, reprinted articles, CFPs, and other items […]
Pitching a Post for BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY
In a few weeks, BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY will have been active for six months. During that time, more than 130 items have appeared here. Our readership/listenership is steadily increasing in numbers and expanding internationally. Every day, more and more philosophers and close associates read/listen to posts here and become a part of the global BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY […]
The Future of Feminist Philosophy and Opportunities Squandered
When I recently said “goodbye” to someone whom I’m wild about, I screwed it up. Come to think of it, on that occasion, I didn’t do a great job of “hello” either. But the farewell was certainly a missed opportunity. I said something like “It means so much to me to have your friendship.” Which […]
Is This Post Substantive Enough?
After Justin Weinberg called my work on the metaphysics of disability “bullshit” in a comment on the Daily Nous blog back in the Spring of 2017, that blog began to rub me the wrong way. Since then, I have commented on it only once or twice. Nevertheless, I often glance at the posts on Daily […]
Alcoff on Rape and Consistency: A Survivor Speaks
In October of last year, I wrote a post at Discrimination and Disadvantage about how I was sexually assaulted by a fellow graduate student when I was in grad school. The post was entitled “Testimony, Uncorroborated” and was a response to some of the criticisms that were in circulation about Christine Blasey-Ford who had, in […]
Foucault, Feminist Philosophy of Disability, Pacific APA, and Wordgathering
In January, I posted some thoughts about writing my book Foucault and Feminist Philosophy of Disability, noting that these ruminations were preliminary ideas that would take shape in the response that I give in the symposium on the book at the upcoming Pacific APA. Michael Northen, editor of Wordgathering: A Journal of Disability Poetry and […]
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