Toxic women and “absolute subsumption”

This is cross-posted from Cyborgology. This post is really a series of questions that arise when I tried to think about my earlier post on the production of WOC/black feminists as “toxic” in light of Jodi Dean’s new post “What comes after…

Some really great and provocative work on philosophical pluralism & philosophy’s demographic problem

The XCPhilosophy Collective has had a series of posts on the related problems of “diverse practices” and “diverse practitioners” in philosophy. They posted a wrap-up of the convo so far here. You should really check it out!  I especially like…

Toxic: on race, gender, and resilient labor on social media

Toxic: on race, gender, and resilient labor on social media

This is a cross-post from Cyborgology. Concepts like “the male gaze” and “controlling images” are Gender Studies 101 material: they’re the basic terms in which many feminists understand the media’s oppression of white women (in the case of the male…

Feminist Theory: Questions for Tiqqun/Weigel & Ahern

Tonight we’re reading Tiqqun’s Young-Girl essay and Weigel & Ahern’s response in TNI. Here are some questions for discussion: Further Questions Is Tiqqun just devaluing as feminine everything that’s bad about neoliberalism? So Tiquun says the YG “is absolutely not…

Keynote Lecture for 2014 DePaul Philosophy Graduate Association Conference

I am absolutely thrilled to be presenting the keynote talk at this year’s DePaul Philosophy Graduate Student Association Conference, “Philosophy on Trial: Philosophy & Its Others.”My talk is at 4pm this Saturday the 15th in the Levan Center on DePaul’s…