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normalise the idea that people should notice the demographics of their invited speakers and try to avoid homogeneity it has been one factor among many helping to inspire similar campaigns in other fields and additional ones in our own but my happiest moment associated with this campaign was when it acquired a theme song i hope we ve contributed in other ways helping people philosophers and non philosophers alike to find feminist philosophy drawing attention to sexism and other and overlapping prejudices in philosophy and more generally helping to build a community that could work together to improve our profession back in the optimistic early days of blogging when we started we thought we could manage comments with what i called the be nice rule it sounds very feminine but those who know me know that it s a reference to the classic patrick swayze philosopher bouncer movie roadhouse and of course if you know your classics you know that in addition to there being a time to be nice there s also a time to be not nice the internet has become a complicated place and figuring out the time to be nice and the time to be not nice has revealed itself as beyond the abilities of even dalton world famous bouncer with a degree in philosophy we had many behind the scenes discussions about how to draw these lines and couldn t agree a clear way forward but we felt we needed one if we were to continue that s no small part of why this blog is ending people have asked what i will do next which is odd since it s not like blogging was my profession and now i need to find a new job but anyway i ve been thinking a lot about my deeply held view that online discussions of difficult issues are currently toxic to the point of being counterproductive one thing i am trying to figure out is what we can do instead how to have productive inclusive discussions of difficult issues i ve got some ideas and i m trying things out but i m not going to discuss them online not now anyway i m really looking forward to seeing what all of the fp bloggers and readers do next there are so many more places and ways to do feminist philosophy online now and there s a vast community out there to do it accessing feminist philosophers may 3 2019 may 4 2019 teresa blankmeyer burke 2 comments as we announced april 23 feminist philosophers is shutting down this is one of a series of posts by fp bloggers looking back on the blog and bidding it farewell there s an apocryphal quote that is usually attributed to helen keller that goes something like this blindness separates you from things but deafness separates you from people it turns out that kant wrote something about this in his anthropologie aside for all the hours i ve been thinking about this farewell post i must say that starting off with a reference to kant never occurred to me but blogging has a way of swerving the words on the page it s hard to put into words how excited i became once i discovered the philosophy blogosphere and feminist philosophers i could finally understand without guesswork what other philosophers were saying and having the words on the page to be read not speech read meant that i had an equal footing when it came to accessibility i d never had the opportunity to communicate with philosophers without having to do the additional work of speechreading inference or working through an interpreter who didn t have the background in philosophy the rest of us did it was through feminist philosophers that i found a sense of community in the informal aspect of academic philosophy there were many times when we disagreed sometimes publicly on the comments page but also on long email threads i will miss those threads time consuming as they were because of the respect we showed each other even in times of deep contention they were also another inadvertent accessible feature of doing philosophy that hadn t been available to me i learned much from reading and participating in them what i find most bittersweet about shutting down feminist philosophers is that this venue of informal philosophical exchange will now only exist as an archive i learned philosophical jargon and insider catchphrases by reading the comments i learned about other feminist philosophers including about other disabled feminist philosophers of color our numbers are small but we exist by reading the comments and i learned that the written word modality of social media was a way for philosophers who were deaf or hard of hearing or had other communication disabilities could participate in conversations that prior to this were difficult to access access to the informal conventions of feminist philosophy will still continue to exist as an archive but it will be a snapshot of a certain period of time and place and so i worry about how others on the margins will gain access to the shifting social capital and conversations that may not be present in their departments whether this is access related to disability or other factors my hope is that with the closure of feminist philosophers we can continue the spirit of this blog by continuing to invite others into our conversations in whatever formats are needed for inclusion to my fellow bloggers i want to say how honored i was to be invited to join you and what an incredible privilege it has been to work with you to make a difference to the readers of feminist philosophers i m grateful for the sense of community you helped to build and especially for making it possible for me to see the range of ways to engage and sometimes to spar to jenny thank you for having the vision and the fortitude to keep feminist philosophers going especially when the path was a tangle imagine sisyphus happy may 1 2019 may 2 2019 philodaria 4 comments as we announced april 23 feminist philosophers is shutting down this is one of a series of posts by fp bloggers looking back on the blog and bidding it farewell the internet is exhausting academia is exhausting politics are exhausting it s a bit of a miracle and a testament to the dedication my co bloggers that feminist philosophers had such a long run given its subject matter and role in the discipline it is hard to have productive conversations on the internet about anything let alone contentious matters of deep social import and trying to effect change in academia about things as simple as copier use or keeping a departmental fridge clean can leave one feeling like sisyphus so when i think about how my predecessors here at feminist philosophers successfully shifted the status quo of the entire discipline i am nothing less than awed with their accomplishments i m grateful for everything they ve done and it would be unfair to expect more of them i am though one of those who remains optimistic about the potential for online discourse to be a real force for good in the world i want to use my last post here at feminist philosophers to say something about why i think engaging in tough conversations online is still worthwhile despite its seeming futility in the 1960 s stanley milgram conducted a series of well known experiments at yale regarding obedience to authority if you aren t familiar with the details participants thought they had been randomly selected to play the role of teacher in an experiment on memory those who were assigned the role of learner were actually part of the research team though the teachers didn t know it the basic experimental set up was this the learner was supposed to learn list of words and then recall it if they made a mistake when reciting it the teacher was supposed to administer a shock to the learner learners weren t actually given shocks but the teachers didn t know that either and they were given a low level shock themselves at the beginning to have a sense of what it would feel like they were told the voltage of the shocks would go up with each mistake until it reached 450 volts in one version of the experiment where the learners were hidden by a wall once the shocks reached a certain point they would vocalize discomfort ask to be released and when they weren t if the teacher kept going they d stop responding as if they were unconscious if the teacher objected the experimenter would ask them to continue until the teacher objected five times at which point the experiment would end roughly 2 3rds of participants continued all the way through administering the highest voltage in a variant condition where teachers and learners were in the same room full compliance dropped to 40 in a condition where the teacher needed to touch the learner to administer the shock compliance dropped to 30 proximity to others as basic as merely being in the same room can enable resistance and consideration when callous deference to the status quo would otherwise be the norm engaging in discourse with each other online is a way of creating cognitive and imaginative proximity when physical proximity isn t possible of course whether online discourse is successful will depend on whether we actually talk to each other rather than past each other and obviously that s actually really hard it s hard for a lot of reasons for one in matters of moral or political dispute we all tend to think we re right and the other guy s a jerk or troll elif batuman illustrates a nearby phenomenon poignantly in the idiot i found myself remembering the day in kindergarten when the teachers showed us dumbo a disney movie about a puny weird looking circus elephant that everyone made fun of as the story unfolded i realized to my amazement that all the kids in the class even the bullies the ones who despised and tormented the weak and the ugly were rooting against dumbo s tormentors over and over they laughed and cheered both when dumbo succeeded and when bad things happened to the bullies but they re you i thought to myself how did they not know they didn t know it was astounding an astounding truth everyone thought they were dumbo that we all tend to think we re the good guy can make genuine discourse about controversial matters especially challenging talking to each other can be hard for another reason though who we take to be authoritative credible or even legible is not determined in a vacuum our beliefs are deeply interconnected our political views are informed by our social networks what information we recognize as interesting relevant or trustworthy is shaped by our social relationships when our friends communicate we understand them when we interact online with people who are very different from us have different background evidence different relationships different interests different experiences it can feel as if we re speaking different languages it s not impossible though i know minds can be changed because my own has been many times the first feminist philosophy course i took was an independent study i suspected feminist epistemology was nonsense and set out initially with the aim of arguing as much that research led me to this blog i became a regular reader then a commenter and in graduate school a contributor if you want to read a genuinely fascinating story megan phelps roper previously of the infamous westboro baptist church went through a radical conversion via twitter i m not naïve i know engaging online can take a personal toll we all have limited time limited energy and too much to do there were times during my run as a blogger here where d i d get hateful messages posted about me on other sites or sent to me directly ranging from ordinary personal insults to violent threats professional philosophers would regularly tell me that as a graduate student it was unwise to say much of anything online if i had a dollar for every time someone said keep your head down wait till you have tenure i d have better odds at being rich than the average graduate student has at actually landing a tenure track job in the first place but if we share these burdens if we take turns engaging if we re generous with one another if we intervene when we witness bad behavior together we can accomplish enormous things imagine sisyphus happy not because the world is absurd but because erosion tedious slow challenging ultimately moves mountains thank you all bloggers and commentators april 30 2019 may 1 2019 annejjacobson 1 comment as we announced april 23 feminist philosophers is shutting down this is one of a series of posts by fp bloggers looking back on the blog and bidding it farewell i joined the blog about 4 months after jenny began it it has meant a lot of different things to me one major meaningful feature has been the gendered conference campaign which has also been extended to other venues such as anthologies of course applying the idea that there should be adequate representation of women has involved a lot of tedious counting one anthology in ethics fifty entries three by women can t usually be determined to apply in one look still knowing we were addressing an often scandalous situation made it worth while when we started the campaign we were faced with a pretty grim picture conference after conference with men only invited speakers volumes in which there were at most a few women i had to remind myself that philosophy isn t really a men only field there s lots more to notice but i am going to mention only a few first working on feminist philosophers has given me many opportunities to learn a lot sometimes i ve become much more aware of areas in which i knew little disabilty studies has been one such another thing i ve come to think as we ve discussed things is that appeals to intentions or lack thereof veryoften can t adequately excuse ignorance in a real sense intentions may not matter i think of this every time i hear joe biden discuss his touchy behavior i fear he still fails to have done the work to understand why women have a space problem with grabby men other issues i have had the chance to work out over several years through the blog i ve really had a chance to think a lot about the role of institutions in what can make academic life difficult for women for example there s mobbing in the workplace or in academia mobbing is group bullying it is very harmful to the target mobbed and also to the group doing the mobbing it is very tempting in considering mobbing to ask who is at fault however people who have studied mobbing see the underlying fault to be more with adminstrations who encourage a wild west might is right ethos than with the individuals citizens it is hard to foster an atmosphere of respect if one doesn t show such respect another important lesson i think most of us on this blog took to heart is don t suppose you can solve problems in interacting with faculty by appealing to the administration you could end up with a wrecked career as i look through the blog there seems tobe so much that won t become quickly date have a look finally let me leave you with a sample of a feature the blog used to have the sunday cat was started nearly 12 years ago and i think the boom in cute c...