As readers/listeners of BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY may recall, I am guest editing an issue of Feminist Philosophy Quarterly to commemorate the centennial anniversary of Foucault’s birth on October 15, 1926. If all goes as planned, the issue will appear in September 2026. In my role as guest editor, I am working with FPQ editor Katy Fulfer, […]
The Making of Oppression and Another (Outdated and Outmoded) SEP Entry on Disability that You Should Ignore
In a recent post on BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY, Mich Ciurria wrote: To regard race, animality, and disability as “intersecting” oppressions rather than one and the same oppression is, on [Aph] Ko’s view, politically and epistemically harmful, because it sows divisions, precludes solidarity, and obscures a deeper understanding of domination. “Animal,” she clarifies, “is a label. It’s […]
Dialogues on Disability: Robert Chapman and Mich Ciurria Interview Shelley Tremain (Tenth-anniversary Edition) Redux
Due to unexpected circumstances, the Dialogues on Disability interview originally scheduled as March’s installment will not be posted today. In its stead, I have posted the interview that began this tenth-anniversary year of the series, namely, the installment from last April in which Robert Chapman and Mich Ciurria interviewed me for the series. Dialogues on […]
Reminder about the CFP for NASSP and CSWIP Conference, Joy, Care, and Resistance (deadline: March 15, 2026)
The extended deadline for this conference was Sunday, March 15. The scheduled keynotes for the conference are Quill Kukla and Kate Norlock. This post is a strident reminder that if you submitted an abstract to the CFP, you can nevertheless withdraw it and, in doing so, demonstrate both your solidarity with disabled philosophers and other […]
Dialogues on Disability on Wednesday, March 18, 2026, at 8 a.m.
“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 “… a major contribution to our understanding of the field and the people in it.” — Vanessa Wills “I’ve learned so much about ableism in philosophy […]
Robert Chapman on Gramsci, Madness, and Fascism
Gramsci on Madness and Fascism: Hegemony and Sanist Slurs By Robert Chapman Mad and neurodivergent people on the left often find ourselves in purportedly inclusive spaces where ableist and sanist language nonetheless circulates casually, most often as a way of dismissing political opponents. Words like mad, insane, or moronic are deployed as if they were […]
Disabled Feminist Academics Are Marginalized, Exploited, and Excluded in Every Context and at Every Level of the University
As readers and listeners of BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY have witnessed, many, if not most, of my posts on the blog are concerned to identify the mechanisms, practices, and strategies by and through which the exclusion of disabled philosophers and the marginalization of philosophy of disability are produced. To take just one example, in a recent post, […]
Revisit or Catch What You Missed of Philosophy, Disability, and Social Change 6: The Videos!
As I indicated in previous posts here at BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY, the latest edition of the Philosophy, Disability, and Social Change conference series, namely, Philosophy, Disability, Social Change 6, was an outstanding event, exceeding the hopes and expectations of our organizing team and providing participants and attendees with memorable and highly rewarding experiences. Attendance at Philosophy, […]
Quote of the Week: MAiD, Bioethics, and the Culture of Eugenics in Canada
In a host of posts at BIOPOLITCAL PHILOSOPHY (for e.g., here, here, and here), in my monograph Foucault and Feminist Philosophy of Disability, in “Disaster Ableism, Epistemologies of Crisis, and the Mystique of Bioethics” (my chapter in The Bloomsbury Guide to Philosophy of Disability), and in my forthcoming article in Feminist Philosophy Quarterly, I have […]
Dialogues on Disability on Wednesday, February 18, 2026, at 8am EST
“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 “… a major contribution to our understanding of the field and the people in it.” — Vanessa Wills “I’ve learned so much about ableism in philosophy […]
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