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4Artificial Life, Autopoiesis, and BreathIn Ruthanne Crapo Kim, Yvette Russell & Brenda Sharp (eds.), Horizons of Difference: Rethinking Space, Place and Identity with Irigaray, The State University of New York Press. pp. 241-263. 2022.
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1IntroductionIn Ruthanne Crapo Kim, Yvette Russell & Brenda Sharp (eds.), Horizons of Difference: Rethinking Space, Place and Identity with Irigaray, The State University of New York Press. pp. 1-13. 2022.
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6A Feminist and Decolonial Approach to Kinship: An Ambiguous and Ambivalent AccountPhilosophy Compass 19 (2). 2024.This article briefly traces newer kinship studies at the edges of kinship formations and argues that a feminist, decolonial examination of kinship interrupts cultural relatedness as a capital set of social relations meant to satiate the ache to belong to or progenerate a group. Examining the coordinated relationship between kinning and de-kinning, the author exposes the suffering the social contract fails to register but reinscribes. Central to this analysis is kinship's global colonizing matrix…Read more
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Chapter five. Life itself and sexual differenceIn Mary C. Rawlinson & James Sares (eds.), What Is Sexual Difference?: Thinking with Irigaray, Columbia University Press. pp. 103-123. 2023.
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7Creolizing Place, Origin, and Difference: The Opaque Waters between Glissant and IrigarayHypatia 37 (4): 765-783. 2022.This article brings Édouard Glissant's theory of creolization into critical conversation with Luce Irigaray's sexuate difference theory and suggests creolization as a process capable of reconfiguring place and origin. Such a creolized conception, the article suggests, fissures narratives of legitimacy, possession, and lawful order, pseudo-claims utilized to dismiss antiracist protests. The article traces Irigaray's critique of woman as place and origin with her conception of the interval. It exa…Read more
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15The Case of Djamila Boupacha and an Ethics of Ambiguity: Opacity, Marronage, and the VeilCLR James Journal 28 (1): 159-179. 2022.In this article, I briefly sketch the “right to opacity” that Édouard Glissant details in Poetics of Relation and situate it as an ethical imperative with Simone de Beauvoir’s Ethics of Ambiguity, contrasting the distinctive contributions of opacity and ambiguity toward ethical-political living. I apply the principles of opacity and ambiguity toward one of Beauvoir’s most political and only co-written works, Pour Djamila Boupacha. I argue that the polyvalent use of the Islamic veil during the Al…Read more
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11Returning to the Point of Entanglement: Sexual Difference and CreolizationJournal of French and Francophone Philosophy 30 (2): 44-65. 2023.In this essay, I suggest an entangled analysis of sexual difference theory via Luce Irigaray and creolization via Édouard Glissant. I argue that these two distinct discourses share a critical stance against Western sameness and assimilation into a closed metaphysical system. However, each is born of particular historical socio-political struggles that should not be collapsed. I bring them together to demonstrate that their claims are productively entangled and that a critical re-reading of melan…Read more
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30Horizons of Difference: Rethinking Space, Place and Identity with Irigaray (edited book)The State University of New York Press. 2022.Horizons of Difference offers twelve original essays inspired by Luce Irigaray's complex, nuanced critique of Western philosophy, culture, and metaphysics, and her call to rethink our relationship to ourselves and the world through sexuate difference. Contributors engage urgent topics in a range of fields, including trans feminist theory, feminist legal theory, film studies, critical race theory, social-political theory, philosophy of religion, environmental ethics, philosophical aesthetics, and…Read more
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8Postcolonial Pedagogy and the Art of Oral DialoguesAmerican Association of Philosophy Teachers Studies in Pedagogy 3 87-108. 2017.This paper explores postcolonial pedagogy and the use of oral dialogues as a way to assess college students and cultivate intellectual virtues in philosophy courses. The authors apply the theories of postcolonialism, particularly the emerging work of “poor theory,” to affirm the academic validity of oral dialogues and subaltern philosophy for a pedagogical framework of equity that goes beyond inclusion. Oral dialogues utilize an epistemology of the body in contexts of scarcity to increase studen…Read more
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12Bearing the Brunt of Structural Inequality: Ontological Labor in the AcademyFeminist Philosophy Quarterly 6 (1). 2020.Empirical data show that members of underrepresented and historically marginalized groups in academia undertake many forms of undervalued or unnoticed labor. While the data help to identify that this labor exists, they do not provide a thick description of what the experience is like, nor do they offer a framework for understanding the different kinds of invisible labor that are being undertaken. We identify and analyze a distinct, undervalued, and invisible labor that the data have left unnamed…Read more
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St. Cloud State UniversityProfessor
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Vrije University
PhD
St. Cloud, Minnesota, United States of America