Best practices for trans allyship, for institutions and for individuals. Continue reading

December 9, 2021
by Aesthetics for Birds
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December 9, 2021
by Aesthetics for Birds
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Best practices for trans allyship, for institutions and for individuals. Continue reading
December 2, 2021
by Aesthetics for Birds
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Why one professor uses circus skills to teach students about philosophy Continue reading
October 28, 2021
by Aesthetics for Birds
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An incident at Slave Play shows what is wrong with philosophers’ obsession with distinctions Continue reading
October 22, 2021
by utahphilosoraptor
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If Chappelle’s art dines on controversy, cancellation serves it dessert. Continue reading
October 8, 2021
by Aesthetics for Birds
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Why overt or even subtle acts of adornment-based rebellion against cisnormativity make things better for everyone. Continue reading
October 1, 2021
by Alex King
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Netflix’s new comedy/drama gets some key things wrong about higher education, including its “sendup” of woke culture. Continue reading
February 26, 2021
by Aesthetics for Birds
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True diversification will ultimately require aesthetic integration to create something new that appeals to a diverse constituency. Continue reading
August 24, 2020
by Alex King
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A list of 60+ BIPOC authors and suggested pieces to read Continue reading
June 23, 2020
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As we celebrate the endurance and ground-breaking achievements of the past thirty years, I invite you to imagine where post-revolutionary feminist aesthetics will end up in 2030, 2040, and beyond. Continue reading
March 19, 2020
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What follows is a guest post by Patrick Fessenbecker. In a recent column in The New York Times, Ross Douthat contends that English professors aren’t having the right kind of arguments. Reflecting on the analysis of the decline of the humanities in a series of essays in the Chronicle of Higher Education over the last year, Douthat makes a familiar diagnosis: the problem is that we literature professors no longer believe in the real value of the objects we study. Engaging Simon During’s account of the decline of the humanities as a “second secularization” in particular, Douthat argues that secular attempts to defend the humanities will fail just as surely as secular attempts to defend religious ethics and norms did: it doesn’t work unless you really believe in the thing. Correspondingly, the debates literary scholars are having about how to expand the range of texts and subjects we teach are … Continue reading