Bloomsbury Academic is seeking books that integrate crip studies and transgender studies for Bloomsbury Academic’s Trans Studies book series, written by scholars from any discipline in the humanities, social sciences, or biological sciences. The series is led by an Advisory Board that includes prominent scholars like trans crip theorist Slava Greenberg. Bloomsbury has a longstanding commitment to publishing innovative books on disability and LGBTQIA+ topics. Their Gender & Sexuality […]
Playful Resistance to the Dis/ability Binary
Below is the script for my presentation at the Trans/Feminist Philosophy: Pasts, Presents, Futures conference, scheduled to take place at the University of Guelph on August 14th. Summary We tend to think of ability and disability as two sides of a binary divide. People on one side of the divide are entitled to disability-specific resources while […]
Still Apropos: Nondisabled People Always Win the “Hunger Games” of Academic Publishing and Tenure
BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY blogger Mich Ciurria’s post below from October 2022 is still apropos and even more relevant: in 2023/2024, there were no jobs advertised with philosophy of disability/disability studies as an AOS, despite the fact that critical analyses of disability flourish across the university. _________________________________________________ This year, only one department lists “disability studies” amongst its […]
Happy New Year! Is 2023 the Year for Non-linear Time?
Kinship Time I’ve been seeing a lot of progress reports on social media. In light of this, let me remind you that linear time is a social construct. You do not need to live up to a productivity schedule that follows a linear timeline. Indigenous philosopher Kyle Whyte of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation writes that […]
Nondisabled People Always Win the “Hunger Games” of Academic Publishing and Tenure
This year, only one department lists “disability studies” amongst its desired areas of specialization; namely, California Polytechnic State University’s AOS is “Technology Ethics, as related to Feminist Ethics and/or Disability Studies.” No department is looking for a specialist in critical disability theory or crip theory. Based on a keyword search, the word “disability” appears in […]
CFP: philoSOPHIA 2020, Vanderbilt, May 14-17, 2020 (deadline: Dec. 15, 2019)
philoSOPHIA 2020 — Hosted by Vanderbilt University and Kelly Oliver Plenary Speakers: Kathryn Sophia Belle (Penn State), Lisa Guenther (Queen’s) , Tracy Sharpley Whiting (Vanderbilt) Plenary Panel: New Perspectives on Disability: Kim Q. Hall, Melinda Hall, Joel Reynolds, Shelley Tremain The conference will have two workshop streams: (1) Rethinking Prisons; and (2) Rethinking Disability Submit […]
CFP: Critically Sick: New Phenomenologies of Illness, Madness, and Disability (deadline: Oct. 15, 2019)
Special Issue of Puncta: Journal of Critical Phenomenology Guest editors: Emily R. Douglas (McGill University) and Corinne Lajoie (Penn State University) Puncta is seeking new work for a special issue on critical phenomenologies of sickness, madness, and disability. A cursory search for scholarly work explicitly addressing the intersections of phenomenology and mad and disability scholarship […]
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