Phila M. Msimang
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Phila M. Msimang
@msimang.bsky.social
Philosopher of race, biology, and related social issues.

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They’re recycling old and very dangerous ideas, and we keep having to make the same arguments against them.
November 6, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Thank you, Celso! 😁
November 1, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Thank you, Alisa! I’m glad to be representing philosophy in these spaces 😊
November 1, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Thanks 🙏🏾
November 1, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Thank you, Tessa! ☺️
November 1, 2025 at 12:11 PM
It’s about the ethics, management, and use of human remains in institutional collections mostly tainted by colonialism: blog.prif.org/2025/02/28/b...
Bones of Injustice: Political Frictions in Restitutions of Human Remains from Colonial Contexts - PRIF BLOG
In recent years, many museums and universities have begun to address past colonial injustices by critically examining their collections of human remains, often leading to their restitution to their as...
blog.prif.org
October 13, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Sounds like a good deal, no?
September 21, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Faintly whispering: *but they never fought a war with the intention of being against the forces of White supremacy*
September 6, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Why is English often thought to equate to literary studies more generally? I was struck by your line “Students of English do not expect to emerge from their degrees able to speak a foreign language” when English is a foreign language in most parts of the world it is taught. That feels like a tension
June 12, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Yes, it illustrates the social and historical generation of the categories. It shows that these categories and classifications are not labels that we put on nature but something we have created through social processes.
June 10, 2025 at 7:16 AM
This infographic is meant to show how those in power grouped people in increasingly rigid race-based ways. The aim of illustrating this history from that perspective is to provide a resource for the critique of the racial projects this has been (and continues to be) a part.
June 10, 2025 at 4:51 AM
The paper will will explain the reasons for certain editorial decisions that we took (e.g., only focusing on the classifications used in the Cape Colony in the period up to 1910, how we reduced some of the complexity in representing how groups were classified, etc.)
June 10, 2025 at 4:51 AM
Please share a link to the talk if there will be a hybrid option.
April 8, 2025 at 7:09 AM
What a view!
March 17, 2025 at 2:35 PM