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Fall 2024

  • Sept 13​

    • Topic: Gender and Authenticity

      • “Authenticity, Morality, and Gender Norms” (2024) Rowan Bell 

  • Sept 27

    • Topic: Beauvoir and Contemporary Feminist Phil 

      • “What Do Incels Want? Explaining Incel Violence Using Beauvoirian Otherness" (2023) Filipa Melo Lopes

  • Oct 25

  • Nov 8

  • Nov 22

    • Topic: Non-binary Genders

      • The Shape of Sex (chapter to be determined) (2021) DeVun

        • Potential Additional Flash Talk Space:

  • Dec 6

    • Workshop day (2 Flash Talks) 

      • 20 min presentation slot 1: 

      • 15 min Q&A

      • 20 min presentation slot 2: 

      • 15 Q&A

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Previous Semesters

Fall 2023 - Winter 2024

  • The reading group component of RGFP went on pause for this cycle and was replaced by a robust series of work-in-progress talks.

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Winter 2023

  • Jan 31. Ellie Anderson’s “A Phenomenological Approach to Sexual Consent.”

  • Feb 9. *Workshop with Kristie Dotson, Love Politic

  • Mar 7. The Combahee River Collective Statement; Jennifer Nash, "Re-Thinking Intersectionality."

  • Mar 21. Adi Goldiner, "Understanding 'Disability' as a Cluster of Disability Models"

  • Apr 4. Talia Mae Bettcher, "Trapped in the Wrong Theory: Re-Thinking Trans Oppression and Resistance"

  • Apr 18. Elizabeth Barnes, "Disability and Adaptive Preference"

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Fall 2022

  • Sep 22. Myisha Cherry, "Love, Anger, and Racial Injustice,"

  • Oct 6.  Julie Sze, "Gender and Environmental Justice"

  • Oct 20. *Jingli Zhou, "Unjustified Selective Adoption."

  • Nov 3. Janine Jones, "Disappearing Black People through Failures of White Empathy,"

  • Nov 18. *Workshop with BR George and Ray Briggs, "Gender Feels"

  • Dec 8. Jane Hill, "The Everyday Language of White Racism"

 

Winter 2022

  • Jan 20. Jane Hill, "Language in White Racism : An Overview" (Ch. 2 from The Everyday Language of White Racism) [via Zoom]

  • Feb 3. Andrea Long Chu, "On Liking Women", as well as a brief selection from Females [via Zoom] 

  • Feb 17. Glen Sean Coulthard, "For the Land: The Dene Nation’s Struggle for Self-Determination" (Ch. 2 from Red Skin, White Masks: Rejecting the Colonial Politics of Recognition) [via Zoom]

  • Mar 10. Sukaina Hirji, "Oppressive Double Binds" [via Zoom]

  • Apr 7. Linda Radzik, "Practicing Social Punishment" (Ch. 3 from The Ethics of Social Punishment: The Enforcement of Morality in Everyday Life) [via Zoom]

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Fall 2021

  • Sep 23. Amy Reed-Sandoval, "Socially, Not Legally, Undocumented" from Socially Undocumented: Identity and Immigration Justice [via Zoom]

  • Oct 7. Sara Ahmed, "Killing Joy: Feminism and the History of Happiness" [via Zoom] 

  • Oct 21. Meeting cancelled due to Oct 22 speaker event.

  • Nov 4. Céline Leboeuf, "'What Are You?': Addressing Racial Ambiguity" [via Zoom]

  • Nov 18. Cedric Robinson, "Racial Capitalism: The Nonobjective Character of Capitalist Development" (ch. 1 of Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition). [via Zoom]

  • Dec 2. Manon Garcia, "Delights or Oppression: The Ambiguity of Submission" (ch. 8 of We Are Not Born Submissive: How Patriarchy Shapes Women's Lives). [via Zoom]

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Winter 2021

  • Feb 3. Kristie Dotson, "Between Rocks and Hard Places: Introducing Black Feminist Professional Philosophy" [via Zoom]

  • Feb 17. Quill Kukla, "A Nonideal Theory of Sexual Consent" [via Zoom] 

  • Mar 3. Rachel Elizabeth Fraser, "The Ethics of Metaphor" [via Zoom]

  • Further Mar/Apr reading groups cancelled due to multiple speaker events

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Fall 2020

  • Oct 1. Frank B. Wilderson III, Afropessimism, Chs. 1-2 [via Zoom]

  • Oct 15. Andrea Dworkin, "The Promise of the Ultra-Right" (Ch. 1 of Right-Wing Women) [via Zoom] 

  • Oct 29. Saidiya V. Hartman, "Seduction and the Ruses of Power" (Ch. 3 of Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America) [via Zoom]

  • Nov 12. Margaret Olivia Little, "Suspect Norms of Appearance and the Ethics of Complicity" [via Zoom]

  • Dec 10. Renée Jorgensen Bolinger, "The Language of Mental Illness" [via Zoom]

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Winter 2020

  • Jan 21. Briana Toole, “From Standpoint Epistemology to Epistemic Oppression”

  • Feb 4. Ania Loomba, "Racism in India" 

  • Feb 18. Gayle Rubin, "The Traffic in Women - Notes on the 'Political Economy' of Sex" 

  • March 10. Robin Zheng (ms) - pre-read workshop 

  • March 24. Hilkje Charlotte Hänel, "Ameliorating the Concept of Race" (Ch.5 of What is Rape?) [via Zoom]

  • April 7. Lorella Terzi, "The Social Model of Disability: A Philosophical Critique" [via Zoom]

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Fall 2019

  • M Sep 23, 4-5, AH 4211. Angelo N. Ancheta, "Neither Black Nor White" from Asian American Studies Now: A Critical Reader

  • W Oct 9, 3-4, AH 1164. Robin Dembroff, "Beyond Binary: Genderqueer as Critical Gender Kind" 

  • M Oct 21, 4-5, AH 4211. Debra Satz, "Markets in Women's Sexual Labor" 

  • W Nov 6, 3-4, AH 1164. Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, "Feminist Disability Studies"

  • M Nov 18, 4-5, AH 4211. Shelbi Nahwilet Meissner and Kyle Whyte, "Theorizing Indigeneity, Gender, and Settler Colonialism"

  • W Dec 4, 3-4, AH 1164. Silvia Federici, "On Elder Care Work and the Limits of Marxism" in Revolution at Point Zero: Housework, Reproduction, and Feminist Struggle

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Winter 2019 

  • Jan 23. Heath Fogg Davis, "Introduction" to Beyond Trans: Does Gender Matter?

  • Feb 18. Heath Fogg Davis, "Seeing Sex in the Body: Sex-Segregated Sports" (ch. 4 of Beyond Trans: Does Gender Matter?)

  • March 11. Alex Guerrero, "The Epistemology of Consent" 

  • Wed, March 27 4-6PM. Work-In-Progress Session with Mercy Corredor, "Policing Unintentional Slights: Bad Sex and Moral Disapproval"

    • Admissions Fair event. 

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Fall 2018​

  • Sept 17. Catharine MacKinnon, "Rape Redefined" (from Butterfly Politics) and "Rape: On Consent & Coercion" (ch.9 of Toward a Feminist Theory of the State)

    • Optional: MacKinnon, "A Sex Equality Approach to Sexual Assault"  ​

  • Oct 1. Derrick Darby, "Du Bois's Defense of Democracy" (draft)

    • Optional: W.E.B. Du Bois, ​"Of the Ruling of Men" (ch. 6 of Darkwater)

  • Oct 18. Rebecca Kukla, "Performative Force, Convention, and Discursive Injustice"

    • Thurs, Oct 18, 11:30-1PM in AH 1171 (note day, time, & location change)​

  • Oct 29. Tommy Curry, "Introduction" to The Man-Not: Race, Class, Genre, and the Dilemmas of Black Manhood

  • Nov 12. José Esteban Muñoz, "Introduction: Performing Disidentifications" to Disidentifications: Queers of Color and the Performance of Politics

    • Optional: ​ch.7, "Performing Disidentity: Performing Disidentification as a Practice of Freedom" 

  • Nov 26. Rae Langton, "Duty & Desolation" 

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Winter 2018

  • Jan. 24. J. Medina (2013) - “Color Blindness, Meta-Ignorance, and the Racial Imagination.” 

  • Jan 31. M. Lugones (2006) - "On Complex Communication" 

  • Feb 14. Jane Anne Gordon (2018) - “Unmasking the Big Bluff of Legitimate Governance and So-Called Independence: Creolizing Rousseau through the Reflections of Anna Julia Cooper”

  • March 7. Nausica Palazzo,  "How Conservatives’ Animus Toward Same-Sex Couples Has ‘Queered’ Family Law" (Work-In-Progress presentation; details here)

  • March 14. Panel Discussion of "Cat Person" with the author, Kristen Roupenian. Comments by Filipa Melo Lopes (Philosophy), Meena Krishnamurthy (Philosophy), and Sara Chadwick (Psychology/Women's Studies).

  • March 21. Iris Young - "From Guilt to Solidarity" ​​

  • April 4. Guillermo Del Pinal - "Conceptual Centrality and the Stability of Social Biases" (Work-In-Progress presentation; details here)

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Fall 2017 

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Winter 2017

  • N. Bauer (2015) - “What Philosophy Can’t Teach Us About Sexual Objectification” (ch. 3 of How to do Things with Pornography) 

    • Side Reading Group: Bauer, ch’s 1, 2, 4

  • L. Zerilli (2009) - “Toward a Feminist Theory of Judgment” 

  • S. Efstathiou (2012) - “How Ordinary Race Concepts Get to Be Usable in Biomedical Science: An Account of Founded Race Concepts”

  • M. Mikkola* (forthcoming) - “Subordination: Causal and Constitutive”

  • M. Mikkola* (forthcoming) - “Free, Restricted, and Prohibited Speech” (ch’s 2 and 4 respectively of her forthcoming book on pornography)

  • L. Alcoff (2007) - “Epistemologies of Ignorance: Three Types”

  • L. Alcoff (2005) - “Latino v. Hispanic: the politics of ethnic names” and Gracia’s response in “A political argument in favor of ethnic names” 

  • M. Krishnamurthy* (2017) - "Race Talk, Justice, and Self-Respect: A Brief Analysis of Rachel Dolezal"

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Fall 2016

  • M. Fricker (2016) - "Epistemic Injustice & the Preservation of Ignorance"

  • K. Manne (2016) - "Humanism: A Critique"

  • A. Srinivasan (ms) - "Does Feminist Philosophy Rest on a Mistake?"

  • L. Anderson (2015) - "Racist Humor"

  • B. Boxill (1976) - "Self-Respect & Protest"

  • M. Krishnamurthy* (ms) - "White Moral Blindness and the Importance of Experiencing Racism"

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Related Reading Group Discussions​

  • Spring Colloquium readings by Ásta, E. Barnes, R. Dembroff, and C. Witt.

  • E. Díaz-León* (ms)-  "Sexual Orientations: The Desire View" 

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* = Author guest-starred 

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