Upcoming Feminist/Bioethics Conference Roundup

A handful of upcoming conferences that would be great places to submit or experience new works in feminist approaches to bioethics. Calls for Proposals due May 15th, 2023 The History & Philosophy of Pregnancy – a hybrid conference at the … Continue reading

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Not up for grabs: disabled folks respond to unwanted touching
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A couple of days ago the BBC’s online magazine on disability, Ouch!, published an article about the phenomenon of unwanted touching by nondisabled people that is endured by many people with disabilities. The prompt for the article was the report … Continue reading

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Of Exoskeletons and Technological Solutions: A Conversation with Alison Reiheld, Joe Stramondo, and Jackie Leach Scully
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EDITOR’S NOTE: Sometimes contributors to IJFAB Blog find themselves having an informal conversation in person or on social media about a news event. When these conversations might shed light on otherwise-overlooked issues, a blog entry featuring some of the ideas … Continue reading

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The Echo Chamber of the True Believer: Anti-Vaxxers, Magical Thinking, and Other Disasters
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There is an article that I suggest ought to be read as widely as possible. Underneath the anti-vaxxer exterior lies much scientific misinformation, compounded by phobias, conspiracy theories, and general hubris that views those who take science and medicine to … Continue reading

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Pedagogy PART 3: A student wonders who should be teaching a course called “Rap, Race, Gender, and Philosophy.” Can a white male professor do the job? If so, how?
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Editor’s Note: Part 3 in our pedagogy mini-series comes to us from Elon University student Arianne Payne, an African-American woman who reflects on taking a course on rap, one which touches on racism and black culture, from a white male professor … Continue reading

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IJFAB Blog Contributors Interviewed on Today Show On Love and Family When Disability or Difference are Part of the Picture
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  This morning, NBC’s Today Show featured a short piece on the lives of Leah Smith and Joe Stramondo. What the piece did not mention is their scholarship and advocacy work, focusing instead on their family life.  Both have contributed … Continue reading

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Sports are something we made, and we can remake them: trans athletes, fairness, and barriers in sports
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Let me start by echoing Talia Mae Bettcher that transgender women are women and transgender men are men (Bettcher, 2013). The definition of “woman” includes all those individuals who identify as a woman and the definition “man” includes all those … Continue reading

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Seek each other out: Nothing About Us Without Us, Autism Awareness Month, and the centering of autistic persons
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April is Autism Awareness Month in the U.S.  All too often, the rhetoric around autism is shaped by the needs and voices of the caregivers and families of people who are autistic. Goodness knows the perspectives of caregivers and families … Continue reading

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What does it mean that caring for the environment is seen as unmasculine?
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As we know, the state of our environment has significant health effects and disruptions to climate are especially likely to harm the most vulnerable among us. This would seem to make it important for people to get behind conservation efforts. … Continue reading

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Time to Update IJFAB’s Pronoun Conventions?
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EDITOR’S NOTE: See this December 2017 blog entry for the IJFAB Editorial position on pronouns. In light of recent controversies in philosophy surrounding how philosophers ought best to write about vulnerable social identities–whether gender or race–I’ve been thinking about some … Continue reading

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Labor Without Respite: Tennis, pregnancy, and other ‘unexpected feats’

GUEST CONTRIBUTORS Agomoni Ganguli-Mitra (Dr. sc. med., Research Associate, Liminal Spaces Project; Teaching Fellow, School of Law; Executive committee member, Mason Institute; University of Edinburgh Law School, UK) Verina Wild (Dr. med., Philosophy Department, Ludwig-Maximilians- University Munich, Germany)  Social media … Continue reading

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Bioethics Meets Families in The Netherlands this Summer
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EDITOR’S NOTE: IJFAB Blog is pleased to have Jamie L. Nelson, of IJFAB’s editorial team and Michigan State University, join us as a regular contributor. Her work has been linked from the blog previously in this entry on Bathrooms, Binaries, … Continue reading

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