Chapters are invited for Transgender India, which examines hijras and sadhins from antiquity to the present, drawing on scholarship in the arts, humanities, and social sciences. Contributions providing philosophical perspectives are especially encouraged. Chapters may explore a range of Indian transgender identities and experiences—including but not limited to individuals identifying as third gender, MTF, FTM, and nonbinary. A […]
Happy Trans Day of Visibility!
Today is Trans Day of Visibility, so it seems like the ideal time to remind you that in December of last year, Ray Briggs wrote a fantastic guest post for BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY entitled, “Practical Suggestions for My Cis Colleagues in Philosophy.” You can find Ray’s guest post on BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY here. On Facebook, Ray linked […]
Practical Suggestions for My Cis Colleagues in Philosophy (Guest Post)
Guest Post by Ray Briggs* A Disclaimer I’m not the official spokesperson for the trans community, because not all trans people think alike. You should be suspicious of anyone, trans or not, who claims to be giving you the trans point of view. Remember that trans people are most likely to have our voices amplified […]
The Trans/Gender Debates in Philosophy: A New Look for Old Views
In a recent post, I asserted that feminist philosophers must work harder to integrate analyses of ableism into their interventions in the ongoing debates in philosophy about gender and transgender (and in their feminist philosophical work more generally). I pointed out that heretofore interventions in the debates thus far have largely (I could have said […]
Are Some Trans People Disabled? Are Some Disabled People Trans?
Yes and yes, and these are two (but only two) of the reasons why feminist philosophers need to do a much better job than they have thus far done to integrate analyses of ableism into their interventions in the ongoing debates in philosophy about gender and transgender and their work more generally. The interventions into […]
Philosophy of Disability: Present and Future, No. 4
In this fourth post of Philosophy of Disability: Present and Future—a series of posts designed to explain claims that I made in response to commentators in the Pacific APA symposium on Foucault and Feminist Philosophy of Disability—I want to elaborate my claim that naturalization of disability in philosophy has expanded in new directions. My central […]
Dialogues on Disability: Shelley Tremain Interviews August Gorman
Hello, I’m Shelley Tremain and I’d like to welcome you to the forty-eighth installment of Dialogues on Disability, the series of interviews that I’m conducting with disabled philosophers and post to BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY on the third Wednesday of each month. The series is designed to provide a public venue for discussion with disabled philosophers about […]
CFP: The Erotics of Nonsexualities: Intersectional Approaches (deadline: Aug. 19, 2019)
Special Issue of Feminist Formations Guest edited by Ela Przybylo and Kristina Gupta Submission deadline: August 19, 2019 This special issue seeks to bring into conversation intersectional work on erotics and on nonsexualities. The word erotics, derived from the ancient Greek eros, marks a way of thinking intimacy, relating, and kinship that can include but is […]
CFP: Transgender: Intersectional/International Conference, Edinburgh, May 28-29, 2019 (deadline: Jan. 31, 2019)
Transgender: Intersectional/International explores the narratives of diverse transgender people from around the UK and the world, as they experience multiple intersecting inequalities. The conference will go beyond the idea of ‘transgender’ as a single-issue agenda or experience, and instead explore the stories of transgender and non-binary people in connection with intersecting oppressions such as […]
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