Shelley Lynn Tremain she/her/they
@shelleytremain.bsky.social
Ph.D. in Philosophy, coordinate BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY blog, disabled feminist killjoy, ed. of _The Bloomsbury Guide to Philosophy of Disability_ and _Foucault and the Government of Disability_, author of _Foucault and Feminist Philosophy of Disability_.
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Image: Trump with two reporters inside Air Force One, aggressively pointing a finger at one of them
Image: Trump with two reporters inside Air Force One, aggressively pointing a finger at one of them
‘Unforgivable’: Trump’s ‘piggy’ insult is stoking more outrage than usual
The clip of the US president on Air Force One last Friday has taken off without much help from the media itself
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November 20, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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Image: Trump with two reporters inside Air Force One, aggressively pointing a finger at one of them
As promised, here is the latest installment of Dialogues on Disability: my interview with Will Conway!
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Image: Will sitting in a coffeeshop looking down at his coffee cup on the wooden table
Dialogues on Disability: Shelley Tremain Interviews Will Conway
Hello, I’m Shelley Tremain and I would like to welcome you to the one hundred and twenty-eighth installment of Dialogues on Disability, the series of interviews that I am conducting with disabled p…
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November 19, 2025 at 2:33 PM
As promised, here is the latest installment of Dialogues on Disability: my interview with Will Conway!
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Image: Will sitting in a coffeeshop looking down at his coffee cup on the wooden table
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Image: Will sitting in a coffeeshop looking down at his coffee cup on the wooden table
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"300 agents stormed the building, rappelled from a helicopter, knocked down doors and hurled flash-bang grenades. Agents ziptied and detained many US citizens for hours"
Prosecutors have not filed ANY criminal charge against the people arrested that night:
Reports @propublica.org
Prosecutors have not filed ANY criminal charge against the people arrested that night:
Reports @propublica.org
“I Lost Everything”: Venezuelans Were Rounded Up in a Dramatic Midnight Raid but Never Charged With a Crime
Authorities said Tren de Aragua “terrorists” had taken over the building. A ProPublica investigation found little evidence to back up the government’s claims. For the first time, the Venezuelans arres...
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November 15, 2025 at 10:07 AM
"300 agents stormed the building, rappelled from a helicopter, knocked down doors and hurled flash-bang grenades. Agents ziptied and detained many US citizens for hours"
Prosecutors have not filed ANY criminal charge against the people arrested that night:
Reports @propublica.org
Prosecutors have not filed ANY criminal charge against the people arrested that night:
Reports @propublica.org
The latest issue of Foucault Studies is hot off the press! Link to the issue in this BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY post!
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Latest Issue of Foucault Studies Is Out!
The Fall 2025 issue of Foucault Studies has been published today. You can find the issue here: Foucault Studies is the only international journal in the English language devoted to the work an…
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November 14, 2025 at 3:34 PM
The latest issue of Foucault Studies is hot off the press! Link to the issue in this BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY post!
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Big news about the Philosophy, Disability, and Social Change conference series and Philosophy, Disability, and Social Change 6 in particular!
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News About Philosophy, Disability, and Social Change 6
As December approaches, readers/listeners of BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY may be wondering why they have been given so little information about the upcoming sixth edition of the Philosophy, Disability, …
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November 13, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Big news about the Philosophy, Disability, and Social Change conference series and Philosophy, Disability, and Social Change 6 in particular!
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Here's a BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPH Y post that provides the text to the keynote presentation I made (online) yesterday to the "Feminist Re-readings of Foucault" conference, Sciences Po, Paris.
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A Feminist Re-Reading of Foucault Through the Apparatus of Disability/A Feminist Re-Reading of the Apparatus of Disability Through Foucault, Sciences Po/Paris, Nov. 7, 2025
The writing below is the text of my keynote presentation to FEMINIST RE-READINGS OF FOUCAULT, Sciences Po, Paris, November 7, 2025. _________________________________________________________________…
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November 8, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Here's a BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPH Y post that provides the text to the keynote presentation I made (online) yesterday to the "Feminist Re-readings of Foucault" conference, Sciences Po, Paris.
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It’s been a pleasure working with Lex and everyone in the politics vertical at Teen Vogue. I’m heartbroken that my column, Disability Visibility, is gone. Teen Vogue was one of the few places that published disabled journalists regularly. I just spent the last 2 months working on my next column
I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
November 6, 2025 at 5:28 AM
It’s been a pleasure working with Lex and everyone in the politics vertical at Teen Vogue. I’m heartbroken that my column, Disability Visibility, is gone. Teen Vogue was one of the few places that published disabled journalists regularly. I just spent the last 2 months working on my next column
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Coming up in two weeks: the latest installment of Dialogues on Disability!
Coming up in two weeks: the latest installment of Dialogues on Disability!
Dialogues on Disability on Wednesday, November 19, 2025
“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 con…
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November 5, 2025 at 11:40 AM
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Coming up in two weeks: the latest installment of Dialogues on Disability!
Coming up in two weeks: the latest installment of Dialogues on Disability!
BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY blogger Mich Ciurria on billionaire philanthropy, philosophy, academic freedom, and ableism.
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UnKoch My Philosophy Department: Reject Billionaire Donations for Disability Justice!
This week, my paper on billionaire philanthropy and academic philosophy was published in a special, open access issue of the Journal of Academic Freedom, titled P…
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November 4, 2025 at 1:38 AM
BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY blogger Mich Ciurria on billionaire philanthropy, philosophy, academic freedom, and ableism.
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This article does not take account of the industrial-complex that surrounds transplantation and the enthusiasm for DNR orders, especially for disabled people.
This Halloween, Kim Kelly digs into the history of medical graverobbing and desecration for profit—a long-dead symptom of the heedless cruelty of centuries past. Right? Surely nothing so grotesque could still take place in our enlightened era.
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Return of the Body Snatchers • Protean Magazine
This Halloween, Kim Kelly digs into the history of medical graverobbing and desecration-for-profit—a long-buried symptom of the heedlessness and abject cruelty of centuries past. Right? Surely nothing...
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November 1, 2025 at 12:07 PM
This article does not take account of the industrial-complex that surrounds transplantation and the enthusiasm for DNR orders, especially for disabled people.
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Here's a post about the continued exclusion of feminist philosophy of disability and disabled feminist philosophers from philosophy
Here's a post about the continued exclusion of feminist philosophy of disability and disabled feminist philosophers from philosophy
Feminist Exclusions and Why You Need This Encyclopedia
My work as editor of the Philosophy and Theory of Disability area of The Oxford Encyclopedia of Disability Studies is winding down. Overall, the experience of putting together this collection of ar…
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October 27, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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Here's a post about the continued exclusion of feminist philosophy of disability and disabled feminist philosophers from philosophy
Here's a post about the continued exclusion of feminist philosophy of disability and disabled feminist philosophers from philosophy
Here is a post of the poster for next month's event in Paris to which I will give the keynote online from Canada!
Image: The title of the conference in French across the top-half of the poster amidst two multi-coloured outstretched hands.
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Image: The title of the conference in French across the top-half of the poster amidst two multi-coloured outstretched hands.
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Poster for Feminist Re-readings of Michel Foucault, Paris, 7–8 Nov 2025, Hybrid
Image: The title of the conference in French across the top-half of the poster amidst two multi-coloured outstretched hands. At the bottom of the poster, my name as the keynote speaker and the addr…
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October 24, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Here is a post of the poster for next month's event in Paris to which I will give the keynote online from Canada!
Image: The title of the conference in French across the top-half of the poster amidst two multi-coloured outstretched hands.
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Image: The title of the conference in French across the top-half of the poster amidst two multi-coloured outstretched hands.
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Want to read some rad queer philosophy, in the form of short snazzy personal essays? Check out the most recent issue of the APA Studies in LGBTQ+ Philosophy, cheekily titled "Make philosophy queer again!" which I've edited! 1/
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October 23, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Want to read some rad queer philosophy, in the form of short snazzy personal essays? Check out the most recent issue of the APA Studies in LGBTQ+ Philosophy, cheekily titled "Make philosophy queer again!" which I've edited! 1/
Here is the program for a conference on Foucault taking place next month that is NOT exclusionary! The conference organizers have been exemplary in their efforts to make the conference accessible!
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Feminist Re-readings of Michel Foucault, Hybrid, Nov. 7-8
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Feminist Re-readings of Michel Foucault, Hybrid, Nov. 7-8
Feminist Re-readings of Michel Foucault, Hybrid, 7–8 Nov 2025, Sciences Po
Friday, November 7, 2025 (room K011) 9:15–10:00 – IntroductionJudith Revel (Université Paris Nanterre) & Frédéric Gros (Sciences Po) 10:00–10:30 – Coffee break (for speakers and audience) 10:30…
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October 20, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Here is the program for a conference on Foucault taking place next month that is NOT exclusionary! The conference organizers have been exemplary in their efforts to make the conference accessible!
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Feminist Re-readings of Michel Foucault, Hybrid, Nov. 7-8
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Feminist Re-readings of Michel Foucault, Hybrid, Nov. 7-8
Lots of exclusionary conferences on the horizon in philosophy! Read about Disabled Exclusionary Righteous Philosophers and their conferences in this BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY post!
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DERPs and Their Exclusionary Conferences
It’s a big weekend for DERPs and their conferences. You may recall (as I indicated here) that DERPs is the acronym for Disabled Exclusionary Righteous Philosophers, the term that I coined to …
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October 17, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Lots of exclusionary conferences on the horizon in philosophy! Read about Disabled Exclusionary Righteous Philosophers and their conferences in this BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY post!
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Leavitt: "The Democrat Party's main constituency is made up of Hamas terrorists, illegal aliens, and violent criminals."
October 16, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Leavitt: "The Democrat Party's main constituency is made up of Hamas terrorists, illegal aliens, and violent criminals."
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"Carney’s so-called Combatting Hate Act is an attack on pro-Palestine expression"
"Carney’s so-called Combatting Hate Act is an attack on pro-Palestine expression"
Carney’s so-called Combatting Hate Act is an attack on pro-Palestine expression
Oct. 1, 2025 Pro-Palestine protesters routinely face specious allegations of hate that conflate criticism of Israel with antisemitism. We are lawyers who regularly defend protesters facing criminal ch...
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October 16, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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"Carney’s so-called Combatting Hate Act is an attack on pro-Palestine expression"
"Carney’s so-called Combatting Hate Act is an attack on pro-Palestine expression"
The latest Dialogues on Disability interview with Karin Boxer who talks about OCD, moral responsibility theory, ableism, and more!
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Dialogues on Disability: Shelley Tremain Interviews Karin Boxer
Hello, I’m Shelley Tremain and I would like to welcome you to the one hundred and twenty-seventh installment of Dialogues on Disability, the series of interviews that I am conducting with disabled …
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October 15, 2025 at 10:49 AM
The latest Dialogues on Disability interview with Karin Boxer who talks about OCD, moral responsibility theory, ableism, and more!
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"Kennedy’s policies are costing Disabled people their lives — and their futures — though advocates continue to fight back."
"Kennedy’s policies are costing Disabled people their lives — and their futures — though advocates continue to fight back."
From 'Wellness Farms' to Budget Cuts, How RFK Jr.'s Misguided Policies Threaten Disabled People - Disabled Journalists Association
In Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s short time as Secretary of HHS, his false claims about autism, chronic illness and disability are having real-life impacts on disabled individuals, their families, caregiver...
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October 13, 2025 at 3:11 AM
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"Kennedy’s policies are costing Disabled people their lives — and their futures — though advocates continue to fight back."
"Kennedy’s policies are costing Disabled people their lives — and their futures — though advocates continue to fight back."
"The exclusion of disabled women is not simply representational – disabled women are, quite literally, physically shut out of everyday life."
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‘I’m still sick. I’m still disabled. But I’m proud of my body’: Frances Ryan’s manifesto for disabled women
Women with disabilities are the biggest minority group in the world, but are still shut out of society. In an extract from her new book, the writer reveals how that is changing – and what more needs t...
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October 12, 2025 at 7:18 PM
"The exclusion of disabled women is not simply representational – disabled women are, quite literally, physically shut out of everyday life."
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Image: headshot of Frances Ryan who has long hair and bright red lips
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Image: headshot of Frances Ryan who has long hair and bright red lips
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A post at BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY about homophobia in feminist philosophy
A post at BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY about homophobia in feminist philosophy
Annette Baier, Michel Foucault, and the Future of Feminist Philosophy
A post on Bluesky drew my attention to Annette Baier’s famous article “Trust and Antitrust,” which appeared in Ethics in 1986. Many feminist philosophers (and others) regard this …
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October 12, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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A post at BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY about homophobia in feminist philosophy
A post at BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY about homophobia in feminist philosophy
The upcoming interview covers many topics including rethinking one's past philosophical work through a new anti-ableist lens!
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Dialogues on Disability on Wednesday, October 15, 2025
“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 con…
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October 9, 2025 at 10:36 AM
The upcoming interview covers many topics including rethinking one's past philosophical work through a new anti-ableist lens!
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Thread.
Ive been told I'm "overreacting" and "hysterical" (literally what some men have said to me on here and on twitter) to care about these ableist usages.
Like I tell my students, use whatever language you choose. Others are free to know/judge you by those choices, too.
Ive been told I'm "overreacting" and "hysterical" (literally what some men have said to me on here and on twitter) to care about these ableist usages.
Like I tell my students, use whatever language you choose. Others are free to know/judge you by those choices, too.
Not to be *that* obnoxious academic, but the term "moron" was invented by eugenicists to classify high-functioning "feebleminded" people, and most often targeted at women who were sexually promiscuous.
It almost ceases to be ideological, I think anti-moron could be a lane for a political party.
October 6, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Thread.
Ive been told I'm "overreacting" and "hysterical" (literally what some men have said to me on here and on twitter) to care about these ableist usages.
Like I tell my students, use whatever language you choose. Others are free to know/judge you by those choices, too.
Ive been told I'm "overreacting" and "hysterical" (literally what some men have said to me on here and on twitter) to care about these ableist usages.
Like I tell my students, use whatever language you choose. Others are free to know/judge you by those choices, too.