For nine years, PIKSI, or the Philosophy in an Inclusive Key Summer Institute, has been helping students from underrepresented groups develop the skills, confidence, and community needed to pursue graduate study in philosophy. Our students include women, people of color, … Continue reading
For nine years, PIKSI, or the Philosophy in an Inclusive Key Summer Institute, has been helping students from underrepresented groups develop the skills, confidence, and community needed to pursue graduate study in philosophy. Our students include women, people of color, … Continue reading
As a feminist working on bioethics, I often turn to the reality of material singularity as a way to argue for more specificity in our dealings with the matter of living bodies. What do I mean by “material singularity?” This … Continue reading
As a feminist working on bioethics, I often turn to the reality of material singularity as a way to argue for more specificity in our dealings with the matter of living bodies. What do I mean by “material singularity?” This … Continue reading
IJFAB Book Review Editor, Katy Fulfer (Hood College) sends this my way: Recently a video surfaced which shows an NYPD officer shoving a pregnant woman to the ground when she tries to intervene in her son’s arrest (witnesses report excessive … Continue reading
The recent threats against actress and feminist-activist Emma Watson are only one, single example of the extreme internet harassment many female commentators face in the online world. While the threat to expose nude photos of Watson turned out to be … Continue reading
The recent threats against actress and feminist-activist Emma Watson are only one, single example of the extreme internet harassment many female commentators face in the online world. While the threat to expose nude photos of Watson turned out to be … Continue reading
From the New York Times apropos recent posts by Angela Ballantyne and Mary Rawlinson, extending their concerns When the functional activities of cyclic guanosine monophosphate get interfered by PDE5 chemical then this leads to develop impotency as the proper shape … Continue reading
John Oliver provides an entirely entertaining send-up of one conspicuous instance of contemporary sexism, a These grow taller supplements increase your height safely and naturally by using such pure ingredients as spirulina, amla and neem extract powders and antioxidants. cialis … Continue reading
Guest post by Karey Harwood, Ph.D. (Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, NC State University) Jennifer Whalen, the 39-year old mother who has been jailed in Pennsylvania for procuring an abortion-inducing medication (formerly called RU-486) for her 16-year old daughter, … Continue reading
Colleagues, If we can’t do something to help women like this, we need to reorganize. Not only does this continue the immoral intrusion by the church and the state into the reproductive destinies of women, but it also imposes unwarranted … Continue reading
You can find the appalling details at Slate. I also link again to this argument from Emily Bazelon. Simply put, naked images made public without consent do not deserve first amendment protection. As this particular case makes abundantly clear, they … Continue reading