The week after this meeting, we will be having a featured PPI workshop with public philosophy exemplars— we will be co-hosting the Fall 2024 meeting of SOFPHIA. SOFPHIA is a radical-socialist feminist circle with a rich history of community-activism and organizing. They have organized unions, participated in pro-socialist campaigns, fought for civil rights from abortion and queer marriage rights to academic freedoms, and built a long-standing community of friendship, support and radical social imagination. With highly influential members like Iris Marion Young, the circle has developed a number of best-practices for public philosophers, and struggled with the idea of the role of philosophy in imagining and refining on-the-ground solutions to ethical problems.

In preparation for meeting with them and learning from their experience, we will spend today looking at some pieces by feminist-activist-scholars who have reflected on the relationship between theory and practice in resistance campaigns.

Readings: TBD