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My research contributes to ethics, social philosophy, and trans philosophy/theory. Motivated by the inscrutability of need claims for gender transition as need claims, my dissertation explores how our needs (in the moral sense) relate to who we are as subjects shaped by and under oppression. My developing research centers empathy and compassion as moral-political emotions pertaining to response to need, and the role of negative emotions in social critique. I have published on gender recognition and its value in Hypatia, and trans needs in the APA Blog.
Single author
1. "Ambivalences of Trans Recognition," Hypatia Volume 40 , Issue 2 , Spring 2025 , pp. 269 - 289 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/hyp.2024.61 Download paper
I discuss this paper on New Work in Philosophy.
I discuss this paper on New Work in Philosophy.
Collaborative
1. “Teaching and Learning Indigenous Philosophy in Viral Times: Personal and Pedagogical Reflections on how to Teach 'Indigenous Philosophy'” by co-authored with Wayne Wapeemukwa and Eduardo Mendieta, Teaching Philosophy Vol. 46 No. 2
Selected works in progress and under review
5. A paper on the methodology of trans philosophy, under review at a gender studies journal
4. A paper on non-ideal normative needs theory, under review at an ethics journal *
3. A paper on the performativity of need claims
2. A paper on compassion and humanitarianism *
1. A paper on caring desires and reasons for caring action *
* Email me for a draft!
4. A paper on non-ideal normative needs theory, under review at an ethics journal *
3. A paper on the performativity of need claims
2. A paper on compassion and humanitarianism *
1. A paper on caring desires and reasons for caring action *
* Email me for a draft!
Public philosophy
2. "Trans Needs Now" published in the Blog of the APA, August 10, 2023
What do trans people need? And how does what we need transform our understanding of human needs? I argue that the present moment contains the potential to bring to light the legitimacy of greater agency and creativity in the development and satisfaction of our needs.
1. “Being An Ally Online” published in the Blog of the APA, March 22, 2021
This public philosophy text examines the difficulties of being an online ally by dwelling on the invulnerability that aspirational allies often fall into, under the pressure of rapidly but unreflectively responding to social and political crises.
What do trans people need? And how does what we need transform our understanding of human needs? I argue that the present moment contains the potential to bring to light the legitimacy of greater agency and creativity in the development and satisfaction of our needs.
1. “Being An Ally Online” published in the Blog of the APA, March 22, 2021
This public philosophy text examines the difficulties of being an online ally by dwelling on the invulnerability that aspirational allies often fall into, under the pressure of rapidly but unreflectively responding to social and political crises.
Book reviews
1. Cameron Awkward-Rich, The Terrible We: Thinking with Trans Maladjustment, Symposium - Canadian Society for Continental Philosophy