CFP: Books that Combine Crip Studies and Trans Studies

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 […]

Palestinian Liberation is Disability Justice; Disability Justice is Universal Justice (by Mich Ciurria; reposted from May 3, 2024)  

Imperialism leaves behind germs of rot which we must clinically detect and remove [not only] from our land but from our minds as well – Frantz Fanon Genocide is Disablement To quote Alice Wong from the Disability Visibility Project, “Palestinian liberation is disability justice.”  Palestinians are experiencing genocide and “genocide is a mass disabling event and a […]

CFP: The Future of Race in Canada (deadline: Jun. 15, 2024)

We invite contribution proposals for an edited multidisciplinary volume addressing the future of race in Canada, broadly construed. Topics may be approached from any discipline or inter- or multidisciplinary perspectives. Possible topics include but are not limited to Canadian demographic trends, the increasing politicization of DEI, race-based polarization and conflict, legislative or institutional policy, shifting […]

Beautyism as Ableist Eugenics… and the Mystique of “Choice Feminism” 

Introduction I recently came across this article on Vice.com asking filmmakers to “stop making hot actors play normal people.” The author indicts filmmakers for casting too few “normal” people. I think that this is a much-needed critique, but it lacks philosophical nuance, which I intend to provide here. My analysis will explore the harms of mainstream beauty […]

Guerrero and the Effects of Claims About “Ignorance” for Change in Philosophy

Over at Daily Nous, Alexander Guerrero has written a very instructive guest post that provocatively builds upon interventions that, in the past, he has made about the eurocentrism, ethnocentrism, and Anglo-American concentration of philosophy curricula. Guerrero’s post is both informative and challenging, providing recommendations and advice to philosophers about how they can expand the purview […]

CFP: Feminist Perspectives on Moral Responsibility (deadline: Apr. 30, 2022)

This is a call for papers for a special issue of Feminist Philosophy Quarterly on feminist approaches to moral responsibility guest edited by Michelle Ciurria. Feminist philosophy provides unique insight into the ontology, epistemology, psychology, pragmatics, and politics of responsibility. Unlike mainstream philosophy, feminist philosophy “originated in feminist politics and… included from the start discussion of feminist political […]

Forthcoming Edited Collection on Philosophy of Disability

In a post at the end of 2020, I mentioned that early in 2021 I would send out invitations to a pathbreaking edited collection on philosophy of disability. The invitations have been sent out and confirmed; and I have assigned a title to the book. So, here are a few details that I can share […]