Public Philosophy

Public lectures, appearances, and trade articles.

These videos can also be found and shared on TikTok and Instagram.

New videos coming soon from the following lectures:

Gender and the Philosophies that Got Us Here [Nov 2025]
Gender, Performed [Dec 2025]
Identity, Politics, & Epistemic Injustice [Jan 2026]

That "Why" Moment

One of the issues of "cognitive debt" that studies have shown to arise from prolonged use of ChatGPT is "diminished critical inquiry," something that disrupts what the Existentialists would perceive as our opportunity to face absurdity.

Video one of three, from "Existentialism & AI" -Lectures on Tap, NYC, August 2025.

Failing to Question

A second issue of "cognitive debt" that comes from a prolonged use of ChatGPT is a "vulnerability to manipulation," which I argue opens us up to what the Existentialists call bad faith.

Video two of three, from "Existentialism & AI" - Lectures on Tap, NYC, August 2025.

The AI Threat to Creativity

A third issue of "cognitive debt" is "decreased creativity." I argue that Existentialists perceive our lives as being acts of creation, and that - with no a priori meaning - failing to be creative is to fail to live.

Video three of three from "Existentialism & AI" - Lectures on Tap, NYC, August 2025

Who Gets to Know, Who Gets to Speak

Social power structures impact how we know things, who knows things, and who we trust to be credible enough to know things. This is a fundamental theory of epistemic injustice.

From "Why They’re Not Listening: The underlying denial of women's credibility" - A talk for the Women's Leadership Network at Octagon Talent Agency, October 2025

On Fiction & Feminism

Media can influence and impact our understanding of ourselves and of other people, especially when we consider the way that we represent certain identities, or fail to represent them at all.

From an episode of the Kinda Radical podcast, November 2024. Listen to the episode here.

The conversations from this podcast are based on my MA thesis, which can be found here.

Powerful Women in Fantasy

In reflection on the death of Daenerys Targaryen in HBO's Game of Thrones, and the representation of how popular fantasy can treat women in power.

From an episode of the Kinda Radical podcast, November 2024. Listen to the episode here.

The conversations from this podcast are based on my MA thesis, which can be found here.

Women in Myth: Prize or Place

In "hero's journey" fantasy, women are often depicted as either a place - where the hero can return to or seek our solace, like a mother - or a prize - who the desires and the motives of the hero are often placed upon, like a damsel in distress.

From an episode of the Kinda Radical podcast, November 2024. Listen to the episode here.

The conversations from this podcast are based on my MA thesis, which can be found here.

Trade Articles

Backstabbing and Backing Out: Feminist Fails of Game of Thrones [2021]

With Dany and Arya arguably standing as representatives of the upending of gender roles, the decisions to eliminate Dany and ship Arya off fail to provide a subversive female character in a patriarchal world.

This article is a public version of theory from my MA thesis, Fantasies of Representation: Methods of Feminist Literary Analysis, which can be found here.

Feminist Reflections on Dune: Spoiler Alert, Women Write Speculative Fiction Too! [2021]

When does the repeated adaptation of the same male authors and their ‘classic’ works become just a reduction of every new female-written novel that has the same (if not more) capacity for world-building and audience-awing?

This article is a public version of theory from my MA thesis, Fantasies of Representation: Methods of Feminist Literary Analysis, which can be found here.