91²Ö¿â Minorities and Philosophy (MAP) Chapter
Meeting Schedule for 2025-26
Minorities and Philosophy (MAP) is a club that meets in person, usually on the second Thursday of every month, from 5:00-6:30pm. We read an article or book chapter before each meeting and spend the hour discussing the reading and any topics that stem from that discussion. While MAP prioritizes readings about and/or from groups underrepresented in philosophy or related disciplines, all are welcome to participate. We hope to see you at a meeting!
All meetings will take place Thursdays, 2:00-3:30pm, in 208 Bowman Hall.
For further information, please email Benjamin Campbell at bcampb36@kent.edu.
All readings are available in the .
Highly Recommended Background Readings
W.E.B. DuBois, "Of Our Spiritual Strivings," from The Souls of Black Folk (1903)
Simone de Beauvoir, "Introduction," from The Second Sex (1949)
Sandy Stone, "The Empire Strikes Back: A Posttransexual Manifesto" (1987)
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, "Can the Subaltern Speak?" (1988)
Kimberlé Crenshaw, "Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex: A Black Feminist Critique of Antidiscrimination Doctine, Feminist Theory and Antiracist Politics" (1989)
FALL 2025
September 11
Reading: Sarah Ahmed, "A Phenomenology of Whiteness" (2007)
October 9
Reading: Frantz Fanon, "The Lived Experience of the Black Man," from Black Skin, White Masks (1952)
November 13
Reading: Lynne Tirrell, "Genocidal Language Games" (2012)
December 11
Reading: Natalie Dorfman & Joel Michael Reynolds, "The New Hysteria: Borderline Personality Disorder and Epistemic injustice" (2023)
SPRING 2026 (Dates TBD)
January 29
Reading: Frantz Fanon, "The Lived Experience of the Black Man," from Black Skin, White Masks (1952)
February 26
Reading: Natalie Dorfman & Joel Michael Reynolds, "The New Hysteria: Borderline Personality Disorder and Epistemic Injustice" (2023)
March 26
Reading: Judith Butler, "Performative Acts and Gender Constitution: An Essay in Phenomenology and Feminist Theory" (1988)
April 30
Reading: Talia Mae Bettcher, "Intersexuality, Transgender, and Transsexuality" (2015)
May 7
Reading: Selections from Paolo Freire's Pedagogy of the Heart (1997)