CFA: Disability and Rights: The Possibilities and Limits of Rights Discourse under Neoliberalism, Zoom, 13-14 Jun. UK Time (deadline: 11 Apr., 2025, 5 pm UK Time)

This is a two half-day conference organised by Disability Law and Social Justice Stream of the Socio-Legal Studies Association and Marxism and Disability Network scholars, and kindly funded by the Socio-Legal Studies Association and University of Leicester. The conference will take place online (using the Zoom platform) on: ● Friday, 13th June 2025, 12:30-17:30 BST […]

Philosophy of Disability: The Difference That It Makes, Beacon College, Apr. 6, 2025

[The text below comprises the keynote address that I gave (via Zoom) to the Dimensions of Difference Conference at Beacon College yesterday. The conference was organized by Professor Zachary Isrow who teaches in the Humanities and Philosophy Department at Beacon College.] ________________________________________________________________________________ Philosophy of Disability: The Difference that It Makes The presentation that I will […]

Dialogues on Disability on Wednesday, April 16, 2025, at 8am ET (Corrected)

“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 […]

On Jason Stanley On Fascism and Organizing Inaccessible Conferences

My mother has been in the hospital for the past month, in and out of intensive care; so, my time to post on BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY has been constrained. In addition, I have been writing responses to the questions that Robert Chapman and Mich Ciurria pose to me in the interview that they have conducted with […]

Quote of the Week (and It’s Only Thursday): Hypatia’s Ableist Legacy, co-authored with Nora Berenstain

This week’s quote-of-the-week post (though it’s only Thursday) addresses the historical legacy of ableism at Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy. To open our discussion in the post, consider an excerpt from Shelley’s introduction to The Bloomsbury Guide to Philosophy of Disability. The introduction, which is entitled “Situating Philosophy of Disability in/out of Philosophy,” offers a summary […]

Who Is the Subject of the Left?

At the outset of Foucault’s important 1982 interview/text “The Subject and Power,” he provides a sweeping overview of the motivation for his work to that point, making the somewhat astonishing claim that the impetus for his endeavours over 20 years was not (as widely believed) “to analyze the phenomena of power, nor to elaborate the […]

Final CFP: Dimensions of Difference: Exploring Diversity, Complexity, and Connection in Thought and Practice, Leesburg, FL, Apr. 5-6, 2025 (deadline: Feb. 21, 2025)

 Dimensions of Difference: Exploring Diversity, Complexity, and Connection in Thought and Practice  “Difference is that raw and powerful connection from which our personal power is forged.” -Audre Lorde  Deadline for Submissions: February 21st 2025 Deadline for Notification of Acceptance: February 23rd 2025 Location: Beacon College – Leesburg, FL  Dates: April 5th & 6th, 2025  Keynote […]

Ableism and Admissions in Philosophy

Later this month, people in Ontario will vote in a provincial election and determine whether the current premier, Doug Ford, and his Progressive Conservative Party will continue to govern. In my riding, Hamilton Centre, the provincial seat is currently held by Sarah Jama, a disabled Black Muslim woman. Sarah, who was initially elected as a […]

Quote of the Week (and It’s Only Thursday): Undoing Ableism in Scholarship on Foucault

This week’s quote-of-the-week post (though it’s only Thursday) draws attention to the marginalization of Foucauldian scholarship on disability and the continuing absence of critical philosophical work on disability in Foucault scholarship–both lacunae whose constitution I have worked to ameliorate–as well as highlights some of the initiatives to redress this exclusion in which allies in Foucault […]