2019-2020 National Humanities Center Fellow

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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

O Howard, We Sing of Thee!

I graduated 20 years ago…

HowardYolonda WilsonMay 14, 2018Howard, Teaching, Biographical, Personal Reflections

On Racialized Space and Belonging

Apparently, there’s a such thing as suspicious napping, and it warrants police intervention.

R. Kelly Was Every Grown Man Who Hung Out at My High School

R. Kelly was just like the grown men who hung around my high school.

Yolonda WilsonApril 28, 2018

Black Women and Bodily Privacy

I generally avoid footage of black people being shot, strangled, or otherwise abused.

Of Prince and Begging Season

Prince will forever be linked in my mind with “begging season.” Also, there’s only water in that cup. I think. Actually, probably not. Honestly, I don’t remember. But it’s me! Before the start of what would turn out to be Prince’s final concert in DC.

pop culture, PrinceYolonda WilsonApril 21, 2018teaching, Prince

Of Dogs, Gentrification, and the Race-ing of Space

Thinking philosophically about why I hate these gentrifying dogs...

Yolonda WilsonApril 18, 2018

MLK, the Albany Movement, and Me

I was born and raised (or "reared" as my mother insists) in the location of an important civil rights struggle. Hearing the stories bored me to tears until I matured enough to appreciate the lessons I had been taught.

the south, my biographyYolonda WilsonApril 3, 2018Albany, Civil Rights Movement

Organized Noize and the Importance of Community

Sometimes I underestimate how important it is to have a community. My brothers from the Dirty South are here to remind me.

the south, pop cultureYolonda WilsonMarch 31, 2018the south, pop culture, community, writing