"For restorative justice to work, the perpetrators’ delusions, entitlement, rationalizations, and smearing of victims must stop."

"Irrespective of philosophical arguments, babies will still be born. Many of these babies will find themselves alone and in need of parents"

"What sort of selves do literary works create? More broadly still, what kinds of selves does any manner of artwork create?"

"How do we think about a new political imaginary that is connected to, yet distinct from, technology?"

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"Something as insubstantial as a poetic image, if it touches on some truth or real feeling, can launch transformations."

"Hope is not only an educational practice, it is about social change and collective struggle. Hope is fundamentally social."

"If Ahmed’s sources of killjoy inspiration dislodge a reader’s sense of the most important feminist thinkers, all the better."

"The criteria we use to discuss science and pseudoscience are incredibly context dependent."

"If ideologies are cultures, they need to be learned. You can convert in and out of them, just as with religions."

"Whatever else the history of philosophy is, it is the history of the tensions between philosophy’s public-facing and scholastic tendencies"

"The more we affect and are affected by others, the more we can perceive and understand the plurality of other human lives and experiences."