Encore Public Voices Fellowship

I’m officially a “thought leader.”

Yolonda WilsonSeptember 12, 2019Comment

CUNY Black Women Philosophers Talk

Finally posting the CUNY talk from the Black Women Philosophers Conference March 15-16, 2019.

Yolonda WilsonSeptember 6, 2019Comment

NHC Fellowship Begins Next Week

The Bull City is home…

Yolonda WilsonAugust 29, 2019Comment

Black Women and Invisible Illnesses

Black women experience higher rates of autoimmune illness and more complications from those illnesses. However, because we often don’t “look sick,” others are less likely to accommodate our needs.

bioethics, genderYolonda WilsonAugust 22, 2019race, autoimmune illness, black womenComment

New Beginnings...

I can’t believe I haven’t posted in over six months... So much has happened. Much I can’t yet share. Some I hope that I don’t have to share.

Yolonda WilsonJuly 25, 2019Comment

2019-2020 National Humanities Center Fellow

You are reading the blog post of a 2019-2020 National Humanities Center Fellow.

biography, bioethics, black death and dyingYolonda WilsonFebruary 15, 2019National Humanities Center, black death and dyingComment

Dying While Black

Daddy and me, Easter 1977.

Yolonda WilsonFebruary 6, 2019Comment

No One Is Coming to Save Black Women, So We Save Ourselves

Doing an interview later on R. Kelly. In the meantime, here is a little something a wrote a few days ago…

Yolonda WilsonJanuary 9, 2019Comment

Hurricane Michael Hit My Hometown

Hurricane Michael is the latest natural disaster to hit Albany, GA.

Yolonda WilsonOctober 15, 2018Comment

Jeffrey Stewart On The Humanities at Howard

Yolonda WilsonOctober 2, 2018Comment

Jahi McMath and Clinical Ethics

Another piece on the McMath case. This time for The Hastings Center.

When People Don't Read What You Wrote and Then Accuse You of Saying Things You Didn't Say

As annoyed as I am by the personal attacks on me after my recent article in The Conversation, it is strangely satisfying to watch people make my case for me.

Jahi McMath's Death and Black Patients

I’ve written again on Jahi McMath, the little girl who was declared brain dead after a tonsillectomy. This time for The Conversation.

I'd Never Imagined a Black Woman Philosopher and What it Means to Me that I Became One

When I was younger I could imagine a unicorn more easily than I could imagine a black woman philosopher…

the profession, my biography, intersectionalityYolonda WilsonJune 20, 2018me, black women, philosophy

Sexuality and Female Pleasure

I dream of the world where sexual pleasure is celebrated!

gender, sexuality, pop cultureYolonda WilsonJune 14, 2018sexual pleasure, Jada Pinkett Smith

#MeToo on *The Conversation*

I’m excited about my first piece in The Conversation.

gender, intersectionality, raceYolonda WilsonJune 14, 2018#metoo, sexual violence, black women

I See Parts of Myself in Stacey Abrams

I was initially going to use this post to nerd out on Hobbes and Rousseau in an erudite discussion of race and the concept of representation in modern philosophy. I still kinda want to nerd out on Hobbes and Rousseau, but that’s a project for another day.

Yolonda WilsonMay 23, 2018