My talk at for the Royal Institute of Philosophy, "Why Philosophers Need to Think About Pregnancy" is available to watch online. My presentation isn't great here. There's quite a bit of fumbling and awkward looking at notes. But I hope the content is interesting. www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZDV...

Teaser clip from my contribution to the Royal Institute of Philosophy London Lecture series www.facebook.com/share/r/1EK1...

Early start! 7am Eurostar on my way to Vienna (for a conference on Parenthood as Transformative) and then to Basel for a short research stay with the Just Parenthood project. events.ceu.edu/2025-11-07/p... just-parenthood.com

I’ll be giving a Royal Institute of Philosophy Centenary lecture on the 23rd October. Do come if you are near London. royalinstitutephilosophy.org/event/why-ph...

Dylan Trigg, a philosopher working on parenthood as a transformative experience is conducting a questionnaire-based study to gather data on the diversity and complexity of parenthood. You can find out more about the study here: sites.google.com/view/dylantr...

Question for people who are runners and philosopher: If you figure something out while running and have to stop and email it to yourself, do you pause your run or count this in your run time?

The EPIC blog (epistemic injustice in healthcare) has reached 50,000 pageviews! Check it out: epistemicinjusticeinhealthcareproject.blogspot.com new posts every week #philsky

Trans people and feminists keep refining approaches to our collective liberation. This great new article by @matthewjcull.bsky.social, @fionawoollard.bsky.social and Jules Holroyd recommends a pluralist approach to inclusive language, building on the Brighton & Sussex midwives' additive approach.

I'm looking forward to taking part in this event on #AssistedDying. If you are in Southampton on the 22nd of April, do consider coming along. Eventbrite details at tinyurl.com/mzv9xa9f.

Ready for the Southampton Science and Engineering Festival! If you are around Southampton and want a day of fun family activities, come to the Science and Engineering Festival! I’ll be running an activity ‘Who’s in Your Family?’ drawing on my work in philosophy of parenthood. #SOTSEF

In case anyone wants a hint. The students guessed after I reminded them that a few weeks back I illustrated a point with a very poorly drawn version of the meme where two Spider-Man point at each other.

I asked my students to guess what I was attempting to draw here. ‘A melting snowman?’ No. ‘Someone who got hit by a trolley?’ No. They did guess. (And responded with laughter and groans.) Can you guess? (Sorry no alt text possible for this one.)

Near Southampton on 12th of March? Join @fionawoollard.bsky.social and artists, Yonat Nitzan-Green and Jane Bennett for a free workshop Thinking With Drawing: Exploring Maternal Identity. #SOTSEF #BSW25 #PhilosophyMatters #PhiloFortnight2025) Register www.sotsef.co.uk/wider-festiv... Please share!

Do you work with families before, during, or after #pregnancy? Are you interested in learning how to make your language #inclusive? Come to our free online workshops! The first workshop is on March 10th 2025. Register here: forms.gle/qpyHH9FMJ7EA... Please share!

Near Southampton on the 12th of March? Join me, Yonat Nitzan-Green and Jane Bennett for a free workshop Thinking With Drawing: Exploring Maternal Identity #SOTSEF #BSW25 #PhilosophyMatters (slightly early for #PhiloFortnight2025) Sign up at www.sotsef.co.uk/wider-festiv... Please share widely.

Extract from email to student. "Here are some philosophical crocodile names John Stuart Crocodill Aristcrocle; Acrocinas; Crocgentsein Jean-Croc Rousseau Mary Wollstomecroc Karl Snapper John Crawls John Crocke Croc Derrida? Noam Chompsky Snappy-avelli Iris Mur-croc All best wishes Fiona"

Please share widely!

Today is the first lecture of my First Year Ethics class, also known as the day I walk across campus carrying a giant inflatable crocodile. Crocrates the Philosophical Crocodile is ready for the new semester!

Amazing to have our work on inclusive language translated into Chinese!

Day 2 of PEA Soup discussion on our paper!

I'm so pleased that this paper by Matthew Cull, Jules Holroyd and myself has been published. The paper uses philosophy of language to show that gender inclusion in pregnancy and birth CAN be done well. version of record www.cambridge.org/core/journal... open Access eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/217382/

The PEA Soup blog on our paper, "Can You Do Harm to Your Fetus? Pregnancy, Barriers, and the Doing/Allowing Distinction." is now live! peasoupblog.com/2025/01/can-...

If you are in the U.K, consider signing this petition calling for the decriminalisation of abortion, ensuring no woman faces jail for ending a pregnancy. eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A... #TimeToAct #Abortion

Every year, for my first year Ethics module. I do a syllabus quiz and give away Crocrates the inflatable philosophical crocodile as the prize. I’ve just been online to make my annual Crocrates order and saw this. A Crocrates suit. It’s calling to me…

I feel as if I can see the light at the end of the tunnel. I will soon emerge from marking and teaching and have precious time before Christmas to finish a paper and book proposal. I’ve actually loved this marking (fun assessment, students wonderful), but I am looking forward to my research time!

Ah. The day before the Christmas Fete, when all the adorable little children totter into school clutching bottles of alcohol.

My book Wonderstruck will come out in paperback edition soon! press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

I was talking to a child who was scared of butterflies. I explained flight patterns and how they are unique to each species. Explaining the reasons behind their seemingly chaotic behavior, helped replaced fear with curiosity. Sometimes fear around insects is just a fear of the unknown.

Just out: paper in Ethics coauthored with Elselijn Kingma, exploring how framing people as doing harm to their fetus functions as a ‘justificatory bypass’ to avoid hard questions about special duties, and why this is illegitimate. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

I am so proud of this paper! I have wanted to publish a paper in Ethics since I was a grad student. Working with Elselijn was amazing. I think she makes me a better philosopher. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

🗣️ Call for Papers 🔊 I am co-guest editing with Dr Jada Wiggleton-Little a special issue of the Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal on Chronic Pain & Social Justice. ✍️ Deadline: May 31, 2025. For inquiries please contact me or Dr Wiggleton-Little. More info ⤵️ #bioethics #academicsky

I keep seeing videos of horrified Americans who have just found out that British people don’t rinse their dishes after washing up. 30% replies: British people saying that everyone here rinses their dishes. 30%: British people defending the no rinse method. Me: trying to remember how I do the dishes.

A good day. Strength training and Christmas themed walking workout; made some nice progress on my paper on maternal identities; Women in Philosophy tea (during which Santa strolled past the window).

18 mile run in the winter sunshine. Got lost trying to find a detour because my planned path was closed due to flooding and a ‘feral pony’ quarantine. Now need to figure out how to stretch/ foam roll without getting mud everywhere.

I thought I’d do a little thread on some of the books and articles that I read or reread and which stuck out to me whilst writing the feminist metaphysics entry for the SEP #philsky #feministphilosophy

I wonder whether I have space for this in my bio?

In Friday’s Nature Briefing, we note that some scientists are rebuilding community in a little place called Bluesky… 🦋 eepurl.com/i4LHFQ

Our @unisouthampton.bsky.social researchers have mapped the most tranquil areas of #Southampton

prima donna: a vain or undisciplined person who finds it difficult to work under direction or as part of a team Pre-Madonna: any time before August 16, 1958

This Trans Day of Remembrance, we remember and honour those who have lost their lives to transphobic violence. All trans people deserve to live their lives safely with dignity and with joy. 🏳️‍⚧️ #TransRightsAreHumanRights #TransDayOfRememberance

If you are at #NWSA2024, check out our latest call for papers on "Feminism, Antifeminism, and The Mobilization of Regret." Deadline May 1. signsjournal.org/for-authors/... #NWSA #CFP #feminism

Are you working on migration justice from a feminist perspective? Apply to be part of this workshop Rebecca Buxton & I are organizing on "Feminist Philosophy of Migration". See the call below & DM me if you have questions www.alws.at/iws_organiza... #migcitsky #poltheory #philosophy #philsky

Love this. ‘Queue’ is from the French word with the same spelling (but pronounced as ‘kuh’) meaning an animal’s long tail. In the 18th and 19th centuries it also referred to a pigtail and was sometimes spelled as ‘cue’, which gave us the name of the long thin rod used in snooker.

I co-organise @clsrleeds.bsky.social If you’re interested in the philosophy of love, intimacy, and relationships in the broadest sense then check us out.

I said that at 1000 followers, I would post the first photo taken of Schopenhauer. Well, here it is. That’s right, it’s blank! But it wasn’t always that way…🧵 1/9

my two cents on the echo chamber discourse (with a very outdated title) 1) echo chambers are only a risk for dominant groups, when they don't hear marginalised voices 2) most people instead need *epistemic respite*: space away from alternative viewpoints to build communities

Out: Hinge epistemology In: Hygge epistemology

We rate dogs is on Bluesky! I’d forgotten that I needed this in my life.

Lovely conversation at my Many Ways to Be a Mother workshop exploring parenthood, gender embodiment and inclusivity.

Hello everyone, this is me. Generally all things politics, reproduction, death. Social science, critical theory and feminism. Open Access ebook here on the politics of second trimester pregnancy loss: www.berghahnbooks.com/title/Middle... Next project about the cervical stitch / cerclage. :)