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3Trans Philosophy: Meaning and Mattering (edited book)University of Minnesota Press. forthcoming.Trans Philosophy: Meaning and Mattering will be the first authoritative collection to establish trans philosophy as a unique field of inquiry. It defines trans philosophy as philosophical work that is accountable to and illuminative of transgender experiences, histories, cultural production, and politics. The book will showcase work from a range of fresh and established voices in this nascent field. It will address a variety of topics (e.g. embodiment, identity, language, law, politics, transpho…Read more
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Toward an Aesthetics of Race: Bridging the Writings of Gloria Anzaldúa and José VasconcelosInter-American Journal of Philosophy 5 (1): 80-100. 2014.
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1314 Decolonial Feminisms and Indigenous Women’s Resistance to Neoliberalism: Lessons from Abya YalaIn Jacoby Adeshei Carter & Hernando Arturo Estévez (eds.), Philosophizing the Americas, Fordham University Press. pp. 326-349. 2024.
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Racial Interpellation, Civic Education and Anti-Latina/o Racism.In Grosfoguel Ramón, Hernández Roberto D. & Rosen Velasquez Ernesto (eds.), Decolonizing the Westernized University: Interventions in Philosophy of Education from Within and Without, Lexington Books. 2016.
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5Latina Feminist Engagements with US PragmatismIn Corey McCall & Phillip McReynolds (eds.), Decolonizing American Philosophy, Suny Press. pp. 131-153. 2020.
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63José Medina, The epistemology of protest: silencing, epistemic activism, and the communicative life of resistance (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023)Contemporary Political Theory 23 (2): 284-310. 2024.
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10Philosophical Collaborations with ActivistsIn Lee C. McIntyre, Nancy Arden McHugh & Ian Olasov (eds.), A companion to public philosophy, Wiley-blackwell. 2022.Philosophers have long endeavored to support politically relevant efforts, including institutional and legal reforms, insurrectionist uprisings, anticolonial independence struggles, cultural movements, and anti‐violence work. While some debates have emerged regarding normative questions of whether or how philosophers should be activists, this chapter focuses more directly on the manner in which philosophical authors have supported, engaged in, or examined forms of political participation that se…Read more
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3An “Extension of the Occupier’s Hold”Chiasmi International 24 293-310. 2022.Drawing from Frantz Fanon’s writings on racialized alienation and psychopathology, this paper argues that Fanon’s engagement with phenomenology shaped his framing of the sociogenic origins of racialized perceptions of criminality in French psychiatry and that such a novel etiology reflects a commitment to political transformation. First, I trace Fanon’s notion of sociogeny as it develops both in his early writings, and in secondary scholarship on Fanon that highlights the phenomenological dimens…Read more
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9Resistance and Multiplicity: Insurrectionist Ethics and Afro-Indigenous Acts of SolidarityIn Jacoby Adeshei Carter & Darryl Scriven (eds.), Insurrectionist Ethics. Radical Perspectives on Social Justice, Palgrave. pp. 107-129. 2023.Taking its direction from references to Black and Indigenous struggles present in Leonard Harris’ oeuvre, this chapter turns to politicized acts of resistance among Black and Indigenous communities. More specifically, the essay traces the functions of cultural pluralism, value relativism, and representative heuristics within solidarity work that enact logics of resistance to settler colonization and anti-Black racism, among other forms of oppression. Through this analysis, we see that Harris’ vi…Read more
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1Carceral medicine and prison abolition: trust and truth-telling in correctional healthcareIn Benjamin R. Sherman & Stacey Goguen (eds.), Overcoming Epistemic Injustice: Social and Psychological Perspectives, Rowman & Littlefield International. 2019.
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9Bergsonism in post-revolutionary Mexico : Antonio Caso's theory of aesthetic intuitionIn Andrea J. Pitts & Mark William Westmoreland (eds.), Beyond Bergson: Examining Race and Colonialism through the Writings of Henri Bergson, Suny Press. pp. 171-192. 2019.
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8Introduction : creative extensionsIn Andrea J. Pitts & Mark William Westmoreland (eds.), Beyond Bergson: Examining Race and Colonialism through the Writings of Henri Bergson, Suny Press. pp. 1-9. 2019.
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15Challenging the Carceral Imaginary in a Digital Age: Epistemic Asymmetries and the Right to Be ForgottenLas Torres de Lucca: Revista Internacional de Filosofía Política 10 (19): 3-14. 2021.This paper argues that debates regarding legal protections to preserve the privacy of data subjects, such as those involving the European Union’s right to be forgotten, have tended to overlook group-level forms of epistemic asymmetry and their impact on members of historically oppressed groups. In response, I develop what I consider an abolitionist approach to issues of digital justice. I begin by exploring international debates regarding digital privacy and the right to be forgotten. Then, I tu…Read more
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9A Nonideal Approach to Truthfulness in Carceral MedicineIn Elizabeth Victor & Laura K. Guidry-Grimes (eds.), Applying Nonideal Theory to Bioethics: Living and Dying in a Nonideal World, Springer. pp. 309-332. 2021.This chapter examines truthfulness, or veracity, in the context of health care services within prisons, jails, and detention facilities in the United States. Mainstream discussions of bioethics often highlight the general importance of veracity within the patient-provider relationship, including providers’ obligations and constraints with respect to telling the truth to their patients, and, to a lesser extent, patients’ responsibilities and concerns regarding truthful reporting to their provider…Read more
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8Reflections on Gayle Salamon's The Life and Death of Latisha King (review)Philosophy Today 66 (1): 199-206. 2022.
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12The Polymorphism of Necro-BeingJournal of Philosophy of Disability 1 117-143. 2021.In this paper, I examine the writings of African American philosopher Leonard Harris as an author who has been read primarily for his contributions to the study of Africana philosophy, U.S. pragmatism, and moral philosophy. Despite contributions to bioethics and reflections on systemic racism within the context of institutional medical settings, Harris’s work has yet to be read in terms of its relevance for disability critique. This paper demonstrates how Harris’s writings may be read as contrib…Read more
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31Trans Philosophy: The Early YearsAPA Newsletter on LGBTQ Issues in Philosophy 1 (20): 1-11. 2020.Trans philosophy—like everything else—has a history. The 1990s was a pivotal decade for the academic development of trans philosophy in the United States and Canada. During this period, the broader interdisciplinary field of transgender studies was beginning to emerge, and professional philosophy’s own contributions to transgender studies were starting to take shape as well. In what follows, we hear from Talia Mae Bettcher, Loren Cannon, Miqqi Alicia Gilbert, and Jacob Hale, four trans philosoph…Read more
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6Humanist Battles and Embattled Humanists: Neointerventionism, Neopragmatism, and the Coloniality of TruthSouthern Journal of Philosophy 56 (supplement S1): 93-115. 2018.This paper examines conceptions of truth and “the human” in an effort to engage contemporary discussions of neointerventionism. A central question in the paper is whether one facet of the self‐justifying structure of neointerventionism is an operative framing of theories of truth underlying the explanans sought by foreign policy officials and state actors. To address this question, I turn to an unlikely source within philosophy of language, neopragmatist theorist Richard Rorty, to offer an examp…Read more
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19Examining Carceral Medicine through Critical PhenomenologyInternational Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics 11 (2): 14-35. 2018.The general aim of this paper is to provide insight into the relevance of critical phenomenology for the study of the patient-provider relationship in health care systems in U.S. jails, prisons, and detention facilities. In particular, I utilize tools from the work of scholars studying phenomenological approaches to health care and structural forms of oppression to analyze several harms that arise from the provision of medical care under the punitive constraints of carceral facilities.
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6In-Between: Latina Feminist Phenomenology, Multiplicity, and the Self (review)philoSOPHIA: A Journal of Continental Feminism 7 (1): 193-198. 2017.
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24Theories of the Flesh: Latinx and Latin American Feminisms, Transformation, and Resistance (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2020.This volume brings together many prominent philosophical voices today focusing on issues of U. S. Latinx and Latin American identities and feminist theory. As such, the essays collected here highlight the varied and multidimensional aspects of gender, racial, cultural, and sexual questions impacting U.S. Latinx and Latin American communities today. The collection also highlights a number of important threads of analysis from fields as diverse as disability studies,aesthetics, literary theory, an…Read more
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12Beyond Bergson: Examining Race and Colonialism through the Writings of Henri Bergson (edited book)SUNY Press. 2019.Examines Bergson's work from the perspectives of critical philosophy of race and decolonial theory, placing it in conversation with theorists from Africa, the African Diaspora, and Latin America.
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8White Supremacy, Mass Incarceration, and Clinical MedicineRadical Philosophy Review 18 (2): 267-285. 2015.
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6Fred Evans: The Multivoiced Body: Society and Communication in the Age of Diversity: Columbia University Press, New York, NY, 2008, $26.50 pbk, xi + 352 pages (review)Human Studies 33 (4): 465-471. 2010.
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20Gloria E. Anzaldúa's Autohistoria‐teoría as an Epistemology of Self‐Knowledge/IgnoranceHypatia 31 (2): 352-369. 2016.In this article, I examine the relationship between self-knowledge practices among women of color and structural patterns of ignorance by offering an analysis of Gloria E. Anzaldúa's discussions of self-writing. I propose that by writing about her own experiences in a manner that hails others to critically interrogate their own identities, Anzaldúa develops important theoretical resources for understanding self-knowledge, self-ignorance, and practices of knowing others. In particular, I claim th…Read more
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8In this project, I combine theoretical resources from metaethics and philosophy of language with contemporary issues in critical philosophy of race. Drawing from these literatures, I examine the nature of racial norms by developing a non-ideal, situated, and intersectional approach to second-personhood. Second-personhood, as I propose in the first half of the dissertation, serves two explanatory functions with respect to the nature of racial norms. First, second-personhood highlights how manifes…Read more