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 the post, consider an excerpt from Shelley’s introduction to

“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 and academia from Shel...

The essay below appeared on the First-Generation Philosophers platform today. I enjoyed it so much that I reprinted it here.

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Hello, I’m Shelley Tremain and I would like to welcome you to the one hundred and thirty-fourth installment of Dialogues on Disability, the series of interviews that I am 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 ...

The final version of my article “Feminist Philosophy of Disability” has now been published online in The Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Disability Studies. I have copied the abstract for the article below. You can read/listen to the article here: