On January 14, 2021 I handed in my last two grad school applications. The whole process of applying to grad schools was time consuming and nerve wrecking and I feel like I aged at least 3 years in that time. But some aspects about it have been very nice: I could engage a lot in […]

Aaaaaand it’s done! The last lecture of our lecture series was held. The PhilosopHER* lecture series was organised by the anti-discrimination working group, which consists of 4 students (me included) from philosophy and cultural sciences. It was supposed to be an introduction to feminist philosophy, an area incredibly underrepresented at our philosophy department. At the […]

On the one level, double consciousness is just seeing oneself through two different perspectives, as he talked about African-Americans seeing themselves always knowing how white racists would see and interpret their actions, their dress, the color of their car, whatever, on the one hand. But also knowing, having access to their own perspective, their community […]

My previous posts addressed racism in university contexts. Just several days after I published the latest one, I was informed that a lecturer in my philosophy department used racist language in his seminar, without any critical discussion and even though several students asked him to stop. In response, he began a long monologue trying to […]

In my last post, I proposed that lecturers warn their students if they might encounter racist language in the assigned readings. In this post I want to explain what I mean by that. Yesterday, I attended a panel on anti-discriminatory university environments. Discussing our experiences, I recalled how reading a racial slur in Hume’s Enquiries […]

(This is a follow-up post to this one) Imagine a class on e.g. Kant or Hume, maybe an introductory class, maybe an advanced course. It is the beginning the term and the end of the first meeting: […] Now that I’ve told you about the general direction of this course, I want to take a […]

I am currently taking seminars on Hegel, Kant and Hume. Yes, that racist Hegel, that racist Kant and that racist Hume. Of course, in no seminar was their racism mentioned. I only had to wait until the second meeting on Kant & Hume before I encountered the first racial slur. There was one brave White […]