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. […]| BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY
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 &...| BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY
1. A Cartography of Philosophy on/of Disability – Introduction by Chiara Montalti & Brunella Casalini (https://www.humanamente.eu/index.php/HM/article/view/558) 2. The Epistemological Significance of Blindness in Plato’s Republic. Bridging Ancient Philosophy and Disability Studies – by Lorenzo Giovannetti (https://www.humanamente.eu/index.php/HM/article/view/522) 3. Amending Heidegger’s Hermeneutic Phenomenology Based on Disabled People’s Lived Experiences – by James B Wise...| BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY
Hello, I’m Shelley Tremain and I would like to welcome you to the one hundred and twenty-sixth installment of Dialogues on Disability, the series of interviews that I am conducting with disabled ph…| BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY
Some Canadian and other LGBTQ+ philosophers have circulated posts on various platforms about a document issued by Haven, a group at University of Toronto-Scarborough that works on immigration policy and border issues. The document, entitled “A Guide for LGBTQI+ Asylum Seekers Crossing the Canada-U.S. Border,” is intended to provide guidance to American “LGBTQI+ individuals who are exploring […]| BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY
Spend some time thinking about the disabled philosopher that you didn’t hire/didn’t retain/didn’t tenure/didn’t promote/didn’t give a living wage/didn’t enable t…| BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY
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 th…| BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY
“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 con…| BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY
Faithful readers and listeners of BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY may recall that I am curating the Philosophy and Theory of Disability area of The Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Disability Studies that O…| BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY
Hello, I’m Shelley Tremain and I would like to welcome you to the one hundred and twenty-fourth installment of Dialogues on Disability, the series of interviews that I am conducting with disabled p…| BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY
I felt both compelled and reluctant to email my friend Tracy Isaacs to express my dismay that she is on the program for the upcoming October conference of the Public Philosophy Network (PPN). The c…| BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY
It’s hard to believe that Elizabeth Barnes continues to position herself as a credible authority with respect to critical philosophical work on disability and even philosophy of disability mo…| BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY
Here is some additional summer reading/listening for avid fans of BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY. The essay that appears below is forthcoming as a chapter in Genealogy: A Genealogy, edited by Verena Erlen…| BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY
I want to remind readers/listeners of BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY that I am now a coeditor of FOUCAULT STUDIES which has recently become publishing partners with Penn Press. The journal aims to incorpo…| BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY
Hello, I’m Shelley Tremain and I would like to welcome you to the tenth-anniversary installment of Dialogues on Disability, the series of interviews that I have conducted with disabled philosophers…| BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY
[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 …| BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY
“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 …| BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY
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 …| BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY
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 th…| BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY
Hello, I’m Shelley Tremain and I would like to welcome you to the one hundred and twentieth installment of Dialogues on Disability, the series of interviews that I am conducting with disabled philo…| BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY
On April 6, I will give a keynote address (via Zoom) entitled “Philosophy of Disability: The Difference That It Makes” to the Dimensions of Difference Conference at Beacon College, in L…| BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY
“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 …| BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY
Hello, I’m Shelley Tremain and I would like to welcome you to the one hundred and nineteenth installment of Dialogues on Disability, the series of interviews that I am conducting with disabled phil…| BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY
“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 …| BIOPOLITICAL 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 ri…| BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY
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 th…| BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY
Hello, I’m Shelley Tremain and I would like to welcome you to the one hundred and eighteenth installment of Dialogues on Disability, the series of interviews that I am conducting with disabled phil…| BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY
This week’s contribution to the quote-of-the-week thread (though it’s only Wednesday) considers the extent to which nondisabled philosophers and nondisabled feminist philosophers in par…| BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY
Hello, I’m Shelley Tremain and I would like to welcome you to the one hundred and fifteenth installment of Dialogues on Disability, the series of interviews that I am conducting with disabled philo…| BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY
I am putting the finishing touches on “Disabling Bioethics: Notes Toward An Abolitionist Genealogy,” my contribution to Genealogy: A Genealogy, edited by Verena Erlenbusch-Anderson and …| BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY
Hello, I’m Shelley Tremain and I would like to welcome you to the one hundred and fourteenth installment of Dialogues on Disability, the series of interviews that I am conducting with disabled phil…| BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY
Dear All, I very much regret to tell you that the interview that was originally scheduled for today has been postponed. Disabled people know that institutional time commitments and other arrangemen…| BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY
As I recently pointed out on BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY, October 15, 2026, will mark the centennial anniversary of Michel Foucault’s birth, with plans underway to commemorate Foucault in a varie…| BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY
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 th…| BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY
