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6A Tenderness Approach to PhilosophyAmerican Association of Philosophy Teachers Studies in Pedagogy 7 99-117. 2022.In this paper, I outline various pedagogical practices that I believe are important for diversifying the field of philosophy. I outline these practices through a discussion of knowledge and its production, the production of relations through collective acts, the creation of space in and beyond the institution, and finally moving beyond inclusion narratives. The various pedagogical practices that I outline have been developed in, and drawn from, a workshop titled the Feminist Decolonial Politics …Read more
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4Teaching & Learning Guide for: On Sylvia Wynter and Feminist TheoryPhilosophy Compass 15 (12). 2020.
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44Ceremonies of Liberation: On Wynter and SolidarityCLR James Journal 28 (1): 61-83. 2022.The focus of this essay is Sylvia Wynter’s conception of ceremony. I argue that ceremonies provide the conditions for a new conception of what it means to be human, that is no longer hierarchical. As such, both ceremonies and this new human are necessary for processes of liberation. In order to be liberatory, however, ceremonies must be place-based and yet fluid and mobile, are steeped in history and are thrust into the future, depend upon community, and impact daily experiences. I argue that em…Read more
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8Universal emancipation: race beyond BadiouUniversity of Minnesota Press. 2020.A vital and timely contribution to the growing scholarship on the political thought of Alain Badiou.
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19Revisiting Monique Wittig’s Lesbian for a Feminist LifephiloSOPHIA: A Journal of Continental Feminism 11 (1-2): 49-73. 2021.Sara Ahmed’s Living a Feminist Life draws explicitly from the writings of French second-wave feminist Monique Wittig. Given that Wittig’s work has fallen into obscurity in recent years, and that a number of critiques have responded to her theorization of the notion of “the lesbian,” this essay seeks to understand what Wittig has to offer to twenty-first-century intersectional feminist theory, like that of Ahmed. In this essay, I thus offer analysis and critique of Wittig’s discussion of race and…Read more
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15On Sylvia Wynter and feminist theoryPhilosophy Compass 15 (12). 2020.The goal of this study is to provide an account of the relation between feminist theory and the writings of decolonial theorist Sylvia Wynter. I offer a twofold approach to this account. On the one hand, I outline a series of texts that have addressed Wynter's critique of feminist theory. These authors note how Wynter problematizes a universal conception of woman that marginalizes women of color. On the other hand, I have provided an account of various authors who have turned to Wynter for the p…Read more
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37Reconciliation and Cultural Genocide: A Critique of Liberal Multicultural Strategies of InnocenceHypatia 35 (1): 143-160. 2020.The aim of this article is to interrogate the concept of cultural genocide. The primary context examined is the Government of Canada's recent attempt at reconciliation through the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Drawing on the work of Audra Simpson, Glen Sean Coulthard, Kyle Powys Whyte, Stephanie Lumsden, and Luana Ross, I argue that cultural genocide, like cultural rights, is depoliticized, thus limiting the political impact these concepts can invoke. Following Sylvia Wynter, I also argue…Read more
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27Autopoietic SystemsRadical Philosophy Review 24 (1): 1-19. 2021.In Autopoiesis and Cognition, Humberto R. Maturana and Franscico J. Varela state that “the way an autopoietic system maintains its identity depends on its particular way of being autopoietic, that is, on its particular structure, different classes of autopoietic systems have different classes of ontogenies”. With this in mind, in this article I develop how this conception of autopoietic systems is both present in, and operates through, Wynter’s employment of space and place, poetry, and wonder.
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19Humanism at Its LimitsPhilosophy Today 62 (4): 1069-1088. 2018.Alongside Colin Wright, I contend that it is important to consider the implications of Alain Badiou’s political project in various distinct geopolitical locations. To this end, in this paper I bring Badiou’s work into conversation with the decolonial feminist project of Sylvia Wynter. Both Badiou and Wynter provide an account of political emancipation that operates by disrupting already existing oppressive structures. However, I argue that the manner in which they hope to achieve this emancipati…Read more
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17Philosophy and the eventalain Badiou with Fabien tarby cambridge: Polity press, 2013. VII + 154 pp. $13.23 (review)Dialogue 53 (4): 751-752. 2014.
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