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Feminist Ethics and Social Theory (FEAST)
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FEAST is a home and community for feminist philosophy and feminist social theory since 2001. Intersectional, decolonial, interdisciplinary. posts by @calebw.bsky.social
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The paper is by Mary Peterson and Kate Yuan. Here's the abstract:
Abstract In this article, we explore how to engage with the work of ethicists facing public allegations of professional sexual misconduct. Rather than disengaging or proceeding as usual, we propose citing their work alongside impartial information about credible allegations. We choose to isolate the work of ethicists as the target of this proposal because ethicists are distinct on two fronts: they are distinct among philosophers because they have moral authority, and distinct among others with moral authority, such as religious leaders and civil rights activists, because their power is reproduced in part through citations. Our approach offers a nuanced perspective on the power conferred through citations. We argue that individual scholars have a moral and intellectual responsibility to cite using this practice, especially when institutional enforcement of justice is lacking.
November 18, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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Feeling a renewed sense of focus after a moving keynote by Dr. Beth Richie on the commitments of abolition feminism, which starts from really seeing and *listening* to the profound harms people are experiencing in a prison nation.

Dr. Richie called on us all to do a "carceral audit" of our work
Screen shot of Beth Richie standing speaking at a podium, with a live transcript below that reads: about individual harm. Which I think we're better at than listening to stories of state violence. We have to understand that violence will only end when we understand a power analysis. That it's not about individual change, it's about structural change. Survivors have taught scholars and other activists that these lessons really come from everyday stories to which we, again, need to be held accountable. Black feminist scholars often call this standpoint theory, and that's how we move from practice to a theory of decolonized knowledge, transforming, and teaching for freedom. Abolition feminism builds on that
October 17, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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Our conference on Feminist Accountability and Transformative Justice got underway last night with a panel on Black Feminist (self-)critique and relationality. So excited to hear so much great work over the next few days!
Andrea Warmack stands at a podium in front of a giant projection screen showing a group of Black women poets in 1973, and the title “A Radical Alteration of Assumptions” Caleb Ward, Andrea Dionne Warmack, Naomi Simmons-Thorne
October 17, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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Please register for our hybrid conference Oct. 16–19 on "Feminist Accountability and Transformative Justice"!

Grad student & independent rates are very low if you register before Oct 6!

The great abolitionist thinker Beth E. Richie will be our keynote.

Info here: philevents.org/event/show/1...
Beth E. Richie and her book, Arrested Justice: Black Women, Violence, and America's Prison Nation "Resistance of the Heart against Business as Usual" woodblock print from Bread & Puppet
September 26, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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Check out this full-time teaching position in Feminist Disability Studies at Georgetown University. It's not tenure track, but it looks like it's renewable, and the teaching load is a manageable 3/3 with latitude to teach some awesome classes.

Apply by Oct. 27

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Assistant Teaching Professor in the Program in Disability Studies and Women and Gender Studies Program at Georgetown University Georgetown University: Main Campus: College of Arts & Sciences: Disability Studies Location Main Campus Open Date Sep 17, 2025 Deadline Aug 01, 2026 at 11:59 PM Eastern Time
September 23, 2025 at 8:53 AM
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Hear ye, hear ye, new issue of Feminist Philosophy Quarterly!

Including new work on the term “cis” by our co-director @perryzurn.bsky.social

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Articles, peer-reviewed How Cis Went Mainstream Critical Junctures and Costs Perry Zurn Reimagining the Potential of Feminist Epistemologies in Science Epistemic Achievements, Social Structure, and Diversity Piper Sledge, Collin Rice Autonomy and Gendering in Childhood Nanette Ryan Gaslighting-Up When Gaslighting Is Good Bobbi Cohn Confessing Victims and Victim Testimony Misogyny’s Role in the Structuring of Subjects Emily N. Bogin
June 11, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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Pink graffitti: "Support your local feminist gang!" By Berlin-based graffiti artist "PMS"
May 19, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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WOGAP is one of the most vibrant, longstanding communities for feminist philosophy in North America, and may be singlehandedly responsible for the upsurge in analytic feminism over the past 25 yrs. Papers for their anniversary conference accepted until April 4!

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Call for Papers The Workshop on Gender and Philosophy (WOGAP) will hold a conference to celebrate its 🎉 25th Anniversary 🎉, June 12-14, 2025 at MIT! Keynotes (both helped found WOGAP in 2000) Ásta (Duke) Ishani Maitra (U. Michigan) Panels Doing public feminist philosophy Myisha Cherry (UCR) Robin Dembroff (Yale) Kate Manne (Cornell) The importance of the history of feminist theory (through the 20th c) for contemporary feminist philosophy Lori Watson (Wash U) Vanessa Wills (George Washington Univ) Charlotte Witt (UNH) We invite submissions for papers (3000-4000 words) on feminist philosophy, broadly construed, to be presented at the conference; please include a 150 word abstract with your submission. Please submit papers for consideration to: wogap2025-submit@mit.edu DEADLINE: 4 April 2025 Papers should be anonymized, though send the document from the email address where you would like to be contacted in case your submission is accepted. Do not include your name in the submission’s filename. Some travel stipends will be available to those who don’t have other sources of funding, but we cannot promise funding to everyone. Graduate students and non-tenure-track faculty will be given priority for funding.
March 31, 2025 at 9:09 AM
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Happy international day of feminist revolution to all!
Simone de Beauvoir leading the Braveheart charge
March 8, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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Submit by March 15 for our 2025 conference on Feminist Accountability and Transformative Justice!

Conference is Oct. 16-19, 2025, beachside near Tampa, FL—our 10th & last event at our original location, before we move to a more politically viable site. Plz boost!

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Artwork: "The Phrenologer's Window II" (1966) by Betye Saar The FEAST program committee welcomes submissions (from within or outside of philosophy) that reflect on the conference theme “Feminist Accountability and Transformative Justice” and engage topics including but not limited to: Practicing accountability beyond carceral logic Moving from an ethics of accountability to a politics of transformative justice Forgiveness and assuming responsibility for wrongdoing Compassion, understanding, and healing Privilege and complicity Rethinking oppression from the framework of transformative justice Feminist pedagogies and practicing accountability in the classroom Holding each other accountable in feminist circles Coalition and solidarity building through differences The ethics and politics of citation and naming lineage Calling out vs. calling in Mutual aid, accountability, and transformative justice Abolition feminism Disability justice and crip kinship Restorative justice and transformative justice Ethics and politics of care Feminist responses to genocide Sexual violence and transformative justice Feminist responses to interpersonal violence and abuse Keynote Speaker: Beth E. Richie (University of Illinois Chicago)
March 7, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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📢Rare opportunity to dive deeply into the work of Joy James, one of the most powerful Black radical political thinkers working today. The workshop is June 3–6, 2025 online and in Philadelphia, and applications are due Feb. 1.

More info at decolonialthoughtworkshop.wordpress.com/2018-worksho...
Feminist Decolonial Politics Workshop June 3–6, 2025 Villanova University, Philadelphia, PA Figure of Study: Joy James Applications due February 1, 2025 for more information: decolonialthoughtworkshop.wordpress.com Current Workshop It is my distinct pleasure to announce that the figure of study for the 2025 Feminist Decolonial Politics Workshop is Joy James. James is the Ebenezer Fitch Professor of Humanities at Williams College. She is author of many books and articles on the topics of antiblackness and genocide, feminism, and abolitionism (among others). Here is some additional information about the 2025 FDPW workshop: Location: Villanova University, located just outside Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (and online) Date: June 3-6, 2025 Time: Approximately 9-5PM each day The workshop will be primarily organized around three texts in particular, namely: James, Joy. 1996. Resisting State Violence: Radicalism, Gender, and Race in U.S. Culture. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. James, Joy. 2013. Seeking the Beloved Community: A Feminist Race Reader. Albany: SUNY Press. James, Joy. 2023. New Bones: Captive Maternal Agency and the (After)Life of Erica Garner. Brooklyn: Common Notions. That said, given the extensiveness of James publications, we intend on in weaving some additional texts. All texts will be made available to the workshop participants electronically.
January 16, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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"Our department doesn't have a climate problem."

Polychrome woodblock print from the series "Women in Philosophy", 1886-2024
Black, grey and red woodblock print of a full moon above a woman with long hair and a red garment gesturing to a strangely winged demon with a human face, holding up a paper with Japanese writing. Actual art info: Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (1839–1892), "Iga no Tsubone: Midnight Moon, Mount Yoshino", 1886
December 2, 2024 at 12:29 PM
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The issue is edited by Tempest Henning and Roksana Alavi, and submissions should be 7k–10k words w/o notes or biblio, prepared for anonymous review. They also accept submissions of more personal pieces of max 4k words for the "Musings" section. Send your work!
Hypatia: Journal of Feminist Philosophy flyer, "CFP for a Special Issue: Politics of Self-Care in an Unjust World" stating "deadline extended to December 2, 2024"
November 20, 2024 at 2:10 PM
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Also feel free to tag us when your femphil work comes out and we'll boost!

bonus pic: Alison Jaggar being a badass
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feminist political philosopher Alison Jaggar, a white woman with white hair in autumn outdoor clothes, drawing and aiming a modern composite bow
November 18, 2024 at 10:20 AM
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Oh no, passing on the awful news of the passing of the Black critical theorist Selamawit Terrefe. She was a vibrant and creative thinker.

Really hope this is some big mistake.
Screen shot from a Facebook announcement by Frank Wilderson
November 10, 2024 at 1:45 AM
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Only low light pictures I guess, but the Lorde conference with the Roundtable for Black Feminism was so amazing!!
Joy James at the podium giving a keynote on Black (feminist?) revolutionarism Naomi Simmons-Thorne connecting all the dots across the movements of Black feminism Alexis Pauline Gumbs giving a virtual keynote
November 8, 2024 at 7:07 PM
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We just heard really incisive analysis from Falguni Sheth of the mystification of the category of "South Asian" in the US, and how it is used to fracture solidarity and recruit immigrants to racist, model minority alignments with whiteness and settler colonialism 🔥
October 21, 2023 at 5:53 PM
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Listening to @skhojamoolji.bsky.social talk about her book on Shia Ismaili care and the construction of sociality in displacement. Lots of rich and intimate discussion of methodology and miracles and becoming oneself a "keeper of secrets".

Really resonant solidarities, also about cook books!
Zoom screenshot with Shruti Devgan, Harini Kumar, Mariam Durrani, and author Shenila Khoja-Moolji. The author is speaking and gesturing and the other three are smiling Cover of Rebuilding Community: Displaced Women and the Making of a Shia Ismaili Muslim Sociality by Shenila Khoja-Moolji, alongside the following text: Over the course of the twentieth century, Shia Ismaili Muslim communities were repeatedly displaced. How, in the aftermath of these displacements, did they remake their communities? Shenila Khoja-Moolji highlights women’s critical role in this rebuilding process and breaks new ground by writing women into modern Ismaili history.
October 20, 2023 at 5:04 PM
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We're gonna live-sky our 2023 conference here, with so many interdisciplinary panels on South Asian feminist discourse. Here's a screen grab from a really interesting conversations about shame practices and gender in Tamil refugee camps, from Sudha Rawat, a doctoral candidate at JNU in New Delhi
screenshot from presentation by Sudha Rawat, with "Narratives from Field" and images of Tamil women (with faces censored)
October 20, 2023 at 4:01 PM