The latest installment of Dialogues on Disability, my interview with Elaina Gauthier-Mamaril! biopoliticalphilosophy.com/2026/01/21/d...

"This is the operation of the politics of disconnection: a system in which state violence, institutional complicity, and media spectacle combine to fragment public consciousness." www.counterpunch.org/2026/01/19/t... Neoliberal Fascism and the Politics pf Erasure CW: ableist language

If you are someone that wears makeup, please be aware that Ronald Lauder - as in Estee Lauder is THE guy pushing #Greenland. Time to boycott! These are BIG brands - MAC, Smashbox, Bobbi Brown.. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

I worked with Grade 7 & 8 kids as a Child Development Counsellor, & then with University of Toronto students as an Accessibility Advisor, & it was only ever white colleagues who found my statements highlighting white supremacy to be hostile, but students still find me on social media to thank me! 🥹

'What finance really is, is playing around with other peoples' debts.'

I wrote a post at BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY about the American Philosophical Association's decision to entirely eliminate online participation in its annual conferences. "APA Tells Disabled Philosophers to F*ck Off (In a Manner of Speaking) biopoliticalphilosophy.com/2026/01/16/a...

biopoliticalphilosophy.com/2026/01/15/c... Call for Participants: 2026 Feminist Decolonial Workshop, Hybrid, May 26-29, 2026 (deadline: Feb. 1, 2026)

My BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY post in response to Jason Stanley's op-ed about how naive Canadian are about American fascism biopoliticalphilosophy.com/2026/01/09/f...

Forensic analysis of objective video evidence. This is how you serve readers searching for clarity.

www.dazeddigital.com/life-culture... Bjӧrk slams Trump, Denmark and colonialism Image: photo of Bjӧrk

biopoliticalphilosophy.com/2026/01/04/w... Who is More Progressive: You or Chat GPT? My latest at BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY

www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio... Caution: ableist language Waiting for the Out Review: Totally Magnificent TV about Philosophy in Prison

biopoliticalphilosophy.com/2026/01/02/c... CFA: Identity and Ideology: An Open Dialogue Between Mexican and Japanese Philosophy

biopoliticalphilosophy.com/2025/12/30/s... Here are some of the most forthright, provocative, controversial, talkback posts that appeared on BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY in 2025! Happy New Year from the BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY bloggers! Yours in struggle and solidarity. @shengokai.blacksky.app

Subsidizing The Occupation is a new project from The Maple. Click to find out how you and other Canadians have helped subsidize Israeli crimes. www.subsidizingtheoccupation.ca

Canada’s Arms-to-Israel Scandal Explained www.readthemaple.com/canadas-arms...

PHILOSOPHY, DISABILITY, AND SOCIAL CHANGE 6 #PhiDisSocCh6 REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN FOR THIS RADICALIZING EVENT! LINK IN THE POST WHICH ALSO INCLUDES THE FINAL PROGRAM! DON'T MISS THE HOTTEST EVENT OF THE YEAR IN PHILOSOPHY! @shengokai.blacksky.app biopoliticalphilosophy.com/2025/12/18/p...

biopoliticalphilosophy.com/2025/12/17/d... It's the December installment of Dialogues on Disability: Emily R. Douglas! Image: It’s summer. Emily, who is standing on their balcony beside a flowerpot of petunias, is bent towards the camera and laughing. Photo credit to Laurence Philomene

Recording of Professor Alice Crary’s UCD School of Philosophy/Royal Institute of Philosophy Annual Public Lecture: ‘If you’re not outraged about AI, you’re not paying attention: Philosophy in the time of techno-fascism’. #PhilSky #PhilAI #AIEthics youtu.be/Z3s7yRJ_CEo?...

I just saw the classic 1968 Basaglia work The Negated Institution has now, for the first time, been fully translated into English by @footymac.bsky.social. An incredibly important book in the history of critical approaches to psychiatry. And its open access! punctumbooks.com/titles/the-n...

Some may not see the challenges we face. Denialist groups, motivated by hate, are anticipated to target UBC in the new year. The Longhouse will serve as a secure refuge for Nenqayni students, staff, and faculty. Campus Security is alerted. Stay calm, grounded, and safe 🙏🏽 #AcademicSky #indigenous

Ending the year on a good note at @breachmedia.ca: 15 political movement victories in 2025 you may not have heard about but should definitely celebrate, by @scottneigh.bsky.social breachmedia.ca/15-movement-...

www.thebeaverton.com/2025/12/prog... Progressive Conservative Joins Progressive Conservative Party Image: side-by-side photos of Conservative MP Michael Ma and Liberal Conservative PM Mark Carney

aeon.co/essays/decol... "Liberalism privileges individual rights, but in societies where personhood is understood relationally – as among the Akan [in Ghana] rights talk feels incomplete." "Decolonise political thought: Africa's alternative to liberalism"

I spend a lot of time searching for things like "fascist health gurus" and the algorithms have noticed.

A talk I gave earlier this year has, unfortunately, become relevant again this week so I've published it here. open.substack.com/pub/neurodiv...

💫 Highly recommend diving into the new amazing work on the mental hygiene movement in India by my colleague Dr. Shilpi Rajpal. From her concluding remarks: "This research has investigated an era when the mind sciences gained control and defined every aspect of the so-called ‘ideal citizen’.... ⏬

www.cbc.ca/news/indigen... "Following three years of negotiations, 62 cultural items previously held in Vatican museums and vaults for a century landed at Montréal-Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport just before noon on Saturday."

It might be easy to find things like this merely petty or superficial, but that would be a mistake. Demeaning, erasing or eliminating celebrations or acknowledgments of Black America is straight from Redemption playbook, and is intended to reinforce the racial hierarchy and signal its reinstatement.

Today’s renaming of military bases for Confederates, re-installing of Confederate statue, denigration of Black holidays, refusal to acknowledge Black contributions while decimating civil rights by an openly white nationalist administration is all to signal the “restoration” of the racial order.

This whole convo is fantastic - 1.5 hours of very informative chat on climate justice vs the gross economics of tech Ft @naomiaklein.bsky.social @profwhw.bsky.social @profhvdv.bsky.social, hosted at @ccj-ubc.bsky.social youtu.be/27BHQhkK52I

Well this is bad. #AcademicSky #ResearchEthics retractionwatch.com/2025/12/04/g...

A post at BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY about the absolutely exhausting ableism of (nondisabled) feminist philosophers. biopoliticalphilosophy.com/2025/12/04/q...

biopoliticalphilosophy.com/2025/12/02/s... Help us increase the accessibility of the upcoming sixth edition of the Philosophy, Disability, and Social Change conference series by contributing institutional funding/support!

Last night's NDP French language debate exposed a party that doesn't seem serious about rebuilding after the departure of Jagmeet Singh The party's livestrteam links were faulty, and candidates weren't particularly engaging, mainly because the collective level of French was atrocious🧵

"Kinew’s government, among others, have begun shifting towards progressive carcerality, and the expansion of policing and punishment often hidden behind political figures who are deemed 'diverse.'" ~Black Indigenous Harm Reduction Alliance deadlycollective.com/2025/11/12/g...

As a hip hop artist and journalist, Wab Kinew documented the harms of policing on young people As Manitoba premier, Kinew is calling for more police in his province's schools We dove into his record on policing and youth for @breachmedia.ca www.youtube.com/watch?v=oa2n...

Co-wrote this piece with the brilliant @nisrinelamin.bsky.social and Ismail Adam of the Darfur Diaspora Association, on Canada's complicity in the war in Sudan and the genocide in Darfur, for @breachmedia.ca breachmedia.ca/in-the-genoc...

archive.is/202511281837... Version of Paisley Currah's "The Anti-Trans Playbook" that is not behind a paywall. #trans #feminism #justice

A post on the *draft program* of the upcoming edition of Philosophy, Disability, and Social Change: Philosophy, Disability, and Social Change 6 (#PhiDiSocCh6)! The final program will be posted soon at which time registration will open! biopoliticalphilosophy.com/2025/11/27/d...

A mother of 8 was sexually abused by an ICE officer. She went public with the abuse, and was deported the very next day. Her lawyer says she had a stay on her deportation order They disappeared her so she couldn’t speak out. Silvia Reyna Mendoza deserves justice. ICE should be abolished.

www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/en/catalo... Article on socioeconomic outcomes of transgender and non-binary people in Canada based on data from 2021 Census

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... 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! biopoliticalphilosophy.com/2025/11/19/d... Image: Will sitting in a coffeeshop looking down at his coffee cup on the wooden table

biopoliticalphilosophy.com/2025/11/17/n... Film screening and discussion! Hybrid, Dec. 2, 2025

"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

The latest issue of Foucault Studies is hot off the press! Link to the issue in this BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY post! biopoliticalphilosophy.com/2025/11/14/l...

Big news about the Philosophy, Disability, and Social Change conference series and Philosophy, Disability, and Social Change 6 in particular! biopoliticalphilosophy.com/2025/11/13/n...

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. biopoliticalphilosophy.com/2025/11/08/a...

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