(How) Should The Question “Are Trans People Delusional?” Be Addressed?

Many readers and listeners of BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY will recognize that the title of this post includes the question that trans philosopher Talia Bettcher posed in a YouTube video of the same name which she produced and circulated on Facebook earlier in the week. When I saw the Facebook post about the video, I was worried. […]

Press Release for New Zine: Being Trans in Philosophy

‘We Are Not Trans in a Theoretical Way’: 22 Trans Philosophers and Philosopher-Parents of Trans Kids Speak Out on Academic Philosophy’s Impact on Trans Lives in the Discipline and Beyond Being trans is not a controversial idea but a lived reality. A new zine released today collects 22 first-personal accounts of what it is actually […]

CFEOI: CFP: Susan Stryker and Trans Studies, A Special Issue of Australian Feminist Studies (deadline: Feb. 16, 2025; May 1, 2025)

Expressions of interest are sought for contributions to a planned Special Issue (SI) of Australian Feminist Studies devoted to the topic of Susan Stryker and transgender studies. When Monsters Speak: A Susan Stryker Reader (2024) showcases the essential writings of Susan Stryker from the 1990s to the present; her scholarly work, her documentaries, zines, newsletters, etc. This SI invites […]

The Call is Coming from Inside the House; Or How Bioethics Has Compromised Philosophy and Philosophers

Bioethics and the neoliberal eugenics that motivates it have thoroughly compromised philosophy and philosophers–politically, institutionally, ethically, and economically. That is to say, the neoliberal effects of bioethics have become so pervasive and insidious in philosophy that the discipline and profession have, in many ways, become extensions of the medico-scientific-industrial complex. Indeed, few philosophy departments (in […]

CFA: Thinking Trans//Trans Thinking Conference 2025, Hybrid, Mar. 27-28, 2025 (deadline: Nov. 15, 2024)

Dates: Thursday, March 27th and Friday, March 28th, 2025 Location: Lafayette College in Easton, PA & Hybrid/Zoom Call for Proposals Submission Deadline: November 15, 2024 Notified for acceptance by Dec. 1, 2024 Keynote Speakers: Dr. Trish Salah (Queen’s University) and Dr. Nathan DuFord (Smith College) Trans philosophy, broadly construed, provides a space where trans people can think together […]

Trans Philosophy – Two Upcoming Events

Zoom workshop Building a Trans Community in Philosophy September, 4-5, 2023 This online event is for and by trans philosophers from any area of philosophy. Registration via Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/building-a-trans-community-in-philosophy-tickets-706705203287?aff=oddtdtcreator The event is organised by the brand-new Taskforce for Gender Minorities by Minorities and Philosophy (MAP) International. For more information about the workshop, see: https://genderminorities.weebly.com/building-a-trans-community-in-philosophy.html For more information about the taskforce, see: https://genderminorities.weebly.com/ Please share widely in your relevant networks. […]

Why You Shouldn’t Take Too Seriously This Entry on Disability in The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Within both the discipline and profession of philosophy, the exact nature of the differences between two methodological approaches—namely, (so-called) analytic philosophy and (so-called) continental philosophy—has been a contested matter and source of controversy for quite some time, in part because these approaches embody disparate institutional positions with respect to status and prestige. Although analytic philosophy […]

Dialogues on Disability on Wednesday, October 19th, at 8 a.m. 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 “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 […]