Happy birthday Iris Murdoch--one of the fierce, playful, and brilliant metaphysical animals in this terrific book (I'm halfway through and loving it) #philsky #biography

I Kant get no satisfaction. (h/t to my husband) Maybe there's something deeper going on here. Please advise. #philsky

Apologies, but I need to repost this NYT quote from Mick Jagger in which he says he is reading Kant. Since posting it, it has been pointed out to me that I missed an opportunity for not one but two . . . puns? First h/t to @ywcath.bsky.social & Hedwig: You Kant always get what you want. And...👇

This just in: Mick Jagger admits in a NYT interview that he is reading philosophy, specifically Kant, because it is fashionable. Well, vaguely, but still. Also: so many arguments! #philsky

I posted this a year ago to honor Melissa Hortman, who was murdered #OTD last year for her political principles. Like her, I was a #BostonUniversity #philosophy grad from Minnesota. I hope, like her, to use my philosophy to fight for justice. Thinking of her all day. #philsky #womeninphilosophy

Another quote from Mary Church Terrell on pacifism and justice, especially relevant given this week's USSC decision: "There is only one way... to establish and maintain peace. Each and every government must treat all its citizens justly, no matter what their color may be... 👇

Terrell often had to remind white pacifists that it took a war to end her enslavement. She also challenged them to explain why they agonized about WWI deaths in Europe but ignored lynching and racial violence in the US. Taking these thoughts to heart as we end Black Women's History Month. #BWHM

Researching Black women pacifists, I found this powerful Mary Church Terrell quote. She identifies as a pacifist, then says: "But all pacifists are not cut according to the same pattern...I do not advocate peace at any price. The only kind of peace I like is one that is a just & honorable one."👇

I'm continuing to learn about Black women's internationalism . . . #OTD in 1945, Mary McLeod Bethune was the only woman of color at the UN founding conference, which she hoped would allow Black Americans become "integrated into the structure of the peace and freedom of all people everywhere.”👇

Mary Church Terrell, from "The Duty of the National Association of Colored Women to the Race," 1899, with thanks to @librarycongress.bsky.social #bwhm

I'm reading Mary Church Terrell's 1899 speech in which she articulates "Lifting as we Climb" as her association's motto . . . and love this admonition to her white listeners. Even better in her original handwriting 👇! #blackwomenshistorymonth #bwhm #pacifistwomen

Black Women's History Month continues! Here's another book that has helped me understand the leadership & the struggle-- looking forward to reading @marthasjones.bsky.social's newer "The Trouble of Color" as well #bwhm

Käthe Kollwitz--sculptor, feminist, pacifist--died #OTD in 1945. It has always felt unbearably sad that she died just before the war ended. I took this picture of her "Mother with her Dead Son" in Berlin's Memorial to Victims of War and Tyranny last year. So many more victims to mourn this year.

Went searching for my favorite nature photo from last year for #EarthDay, and I think it is this one.

Researching Black women's internationalism...the more I learn about Jessie Fauset, the more I want to know. Novelist, editor, translator, diplomat, essayist, talent scout of the Harlem Renaissance and a huge talent in her own right . . . this book is going on the list #BlackWomensHistoryMonth #bwhm

Another text shout-out to honor Black Women's History Month- a classic work that I really appreciated in trying to understand a fuller story about suffrage than the one I was taught #bwhm #herstory

Discovering in LOC archives today the unbelievable breadth of Mary Church Terrell's education at 1800s Oberlin--essays on suffrage, Tennyson, humor, Benjamin Franklin, slavery, the French Revolution, prejudice, war...clearly a brilliant mind in the making. Here's what she looked like then! #bwhm

Grateful for this source during Black Women's History Month, edited by Tyina Steptoe--writings by Martina Simms, Mary Church Terrell, Aida Overton Walker, Ida B. Wells #blackhistory #womenshistory

Reading German pacifist Helene Stöcker today & this cry from the heart found an echo in my own. #womenshistory #pacifism

It’s Black Women’s History Month, & I’ve been thinking about books that have helped me better understand Black women’s leadership on big questions of justice, rights, & peace. First up: Keisha Blain on how Black women articulated international human rights through their thought & activism #BWHM

No research angle here—just my favorite children’s book for #ChildrensBookDay. I swear this book is what made me go on to get a PhD in philosophy. So. Many. Questions. #philsky

After stumbling on a @archive.org book owned by W.E.B. Du Bois yesterday, I went looking for children’s books about him for #ChildrensBookDay today and can't find any. Help?? Instead: posting this 2026 Jane Addams Children's Book Award winner. Addams & Du Bois were allies, so this seems right!

Researching US Black women's involvement in WWI, reading Addie Hunton and Kathryn Johnson's account of their time supporting Black soldiers in France ... Sometimes @archive.org gives you any old scanned version of a book, and sometimes ... it belonged to W.E.B. Du Bois?? #archives #Blackhistory

#WomenWhoRethoughtTheWorld recap 4/4! Women's History Month ends, but the power of these women's ideas continues. For inspiration, more thanks to @kristingjesdal.bsky.social @sandrineankara.bsky.social @admirablewomen.bsky.social @alisabokulich.bsky.social @bambooshooti.bsky.social and many more..

#WomenWhoRethoughtTheWorld recap 3/4! In a world that needs rethinking, their ideas are treasures! For inspiration, thanks to @hannelore14089.bsky.social @eileenmhunt.bsky.social @carvehername.bsky.social @lorissa.bsky.social @anitaleirfall.bsky.social . . .

#WomenWhoRethoughtTheWorld recap 2/4! In a world that needs rethinking, their ideas are treasures! So are their hats and hairstyles. #womenshistory #womeninphilosophy #womeninSTEM #womenshistorymonth

I've loved doing #WomenWhoRethoughtTheWorld for #womenshistorymonth, highlighting 19C women who rethought philosophy, religion, science, art, mathematics, education, & more. In a world that needs rethinking, their ideas are treasures. Here they are again, no particular order! 1/4 #herstory

Day 30 of #WomenWhoRethoughtTheWorld: American philosopher and journalist Margaret Fuller! Fuller rethought female intellectual solidarity, initiating "Conversations" that gathered women to discuss philosophy and social issues. With #Emerson, she founded American #transcendentalism. #herstory

Day 29 of #WomenWhoRethoughtTheWorld: Puerto Rican suffragist and scientist Ana Roqué de Duprey! Roqué rethought civil rights for Puerto Rican women, fighting for equality beyond the vote. She wrote a study of Caribbean botany and an astronomical text called “The Sky of Puerto Rico.” #herstory

Day 28 of #WomenWhoRethoughtTheWorld: American Jewish poet, essayist & translator Emma Lazarus! Lazarus rethought the relationship between immigration, loyalty, and community, writing “Until we are all free, we are none of us free.” Her words are immortalized on the Statue of Liberty. #herstory