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Feminist Making, Doing, and Sensing

Experiments in Philosophy

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Pages: 366

Illustrations: 30 illustrations

Release Date: July 07, 2026

Editors: Lauren Guilmette, Ada S. Jaarsma

Contributors: Ali Beheler, Amanda Bennett, Amber Rose Johnson, Amy Marvin, Anna E. Mudde, Anna Sigrithur, Ryan J. Johnson, Ela Przybylo, Elisha Lim, Emily Douglas, Eva-Marie Stern, Namita Goswami, Cressida J. Heyes, Lynne Huffer, Jay Conway, jessie l. beier, Katherine S. Davies, Kathryn Sophia Belle, Kim Q. Hall, Leyla Savloff, Margaret Price, Maria Mejia, Maya Hey, Nettrice R. Gaskins, Loveless, Natalie, Noëlle McAfee, Alyson Patsavas, Perry Zurn, Kyoo Lee, Qrescent Mali Mason, Riina Hannula, Sarah Kizuk, Martin Shuster, Sofie Vlaad, Jill Stauffer, Steph Elms, Suze G. Berkhout, Talia Mae Bettcher, Taylor Rogers, Tiia Sudenkaarne, Shelley Wall

Placing pressure on what it means to “do” feminist philosophy, Feminist Making, Doing, and Sensing offers an innovative and critical rethinking of feminist philosophical practice and feminist philosophy as a disciplinary field of thought. The collection raises questions about how disciplines are made, how philosophy gets done, and the collaborative nature of thinking. Seeking to decenter disciplinary norms about content, authority, and belonging, this collection disrupts the status quo of feminist philosophy through its insistence on formal experimentation and creative methods as well as its refusal to take philosophy and its disciplinary attachments at face value. The essays argue for ways of thinking, making, and doing philosophy that are participatory, relational, somatic, affective, sonorous, and sensorial, often looking to experimental and art-based practices such as film, music, poetry, comedy, crocheting, and more. Meant to encourage a collaborative dialogue with readers, several essays conclude with prompts, exercises, and activities, inviting readers to participate in creative philosophical making alongside their own practices.

Praise

“This wonderful collection, abuzz with energy, teaches us that feminist philosophy is not just about how we know but what we do. It offers a much-needed reminder of the creative sparks that come for fighting not just for space but each other. If you want to learn how to create new ways of being together by pulling on old materials and shared resources, this one is for you.” - Sara Ahmed, author of The Feminist Killjoy Handbook: The Radical Potential of Getting in the Way

“Forget the Philosopher Kings—here is a book, finally, for the many-gendered Process Queens among us! Care-ful, tender, capacious, and provocative, Feminist Making, Doing, and Sensing offers a strong case for the world-shifting that an experiential, embodied, processual approach to philosophical practice makes possible.” - Hil Malatino, author of Side Affects: On Being Trans and Feeling Bad

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Lauren Guilmette is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Elon University.

Ada S. Jaarsma is Professor of Philosophy at Mount Royal University.

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Introduction / Ada S. Jaarsma and Lauren Guilmette  1
Part I. Priming and Instructions
Happenings as Makings
1. Hands and the Body of Philosophy: A Visual Chapter / Lauren Guilmette  15
2. (Black) Feminists Constructing the Body of Philosophy: A Performance Score for a Black Feminist Keynote at a Hybrid Feminist Philosophy Conference / Qrescent Mali Mason  22
Priming as Making
3. Access Priming / Margaret Price  31
4. Scribbling In / Eva-Marie Stern and Shelley Wall  38
5. Finding One’s Way: Concept Creation in the Existential WTF / Talia Mae Bettcher with Jay Conway  43
Making Instructions and Instruction Scores
6. Performing in/and the Institution / Natalie Loveless  57
7. How to Make Your Own Trauma Kit / Alyson Patsavas  65
Making at Conferences
8. Autistic Conferencing: Reflections on the Tender Work of Ma(s)king / Ela Przybło  77
9. Philosophical Bedtime Stories / Cressida J. Hayes, Emily R. Douglas, and Kim Q. Hall  83
10. Enacting Entanglements: Performance Scores for Close Reading / Amber Rose Johnson  92
Part II. Making with Texts
Making in/With Archives
11. Making Each Other Across Time(s): A Mount Holyoke Story / Perry Zurn  105
12. The Weaving Is the Making / Amanda Bennett  119
13. Prelude to a Suite on John Brown / Ryan J. Johnson  125
Citational Practices
14. On Learning New Words: Dispatches from the Brink, or A Love Letter for Hortense Spillers / Namita Goswami  137
15. Unmaking Dominant “Worlds” / Maria Mejia  147
16. Writing Time / Lonely Thought / Hearing Others / Jill Stauffer  153
Making and Unmaking
17. Red thread of no: On lyric/(k)not/philosophy / Ali Beheler  167
18. Idiorhythmy: Installations for Survival / Lynne Huffer  179
19. Fluxus and Feminist (Un)making / Suze G. Berkhout  186
Part III. Making with Others
Curating Affects and Atmospheres
20. Weathering the Comic Storm: On Being Trans and Funny / Amy Marvin  199
21. Feeling Our Way Through: On Making a Dissertation Film / Taylor Rogers  213
22. Curatia in a Prism House of the Soul: The Philosopher as a Thought-Curator / Kyoo Lee  221
Algorighmic Making
23. The Blues Algorithm: Polyrhythmic Structures in Art and Making / Nettrice R. Gaskins  229
24. Mixtaping / Jessie L. Beier  234
25. Craft Knowing and Self-Attendance / Anna E. Mudde  242
Making Kin
26. (Un)making Kinship in the Wake of Family Policing / Katherine S. Davies  249
27. Community Feminism and Collective Poetry in Latin America / Leyla Savloff  254
28. Starfish Collaborations: Trans/feminist Composition Within, Against, and Beyond the Academy / Sofie Vlaad and Steph Elms  261
Microbial Making
29. Sympoiesis: The Ethics and Politics of Making with Microbes / Maya Hey and Anna Sigrithur  271
30. Making Ethics with Microbes / Tiia Sudenkaarne  277
31. Making and Doing Multispecies Care: Feminist and Posthumanist Standpoint for Microbial Signaling / Riina Hannula  283
Making with / Against / Beyond the Academy
32. Black Feminist Legacies of Making, Doing, Sensing Within and Beyond Academia / Kathryn Sophia Belle  289
33. Place-Based Methods, Settler Colonial Classrooms, and Ambivalent Pedagogies / Sarah Kizuk  295
34. Making Philosophy in a Lab and a Lab in Philosophy / Martin Shuster  302
35. Making Democracy Work / Noëlle McAfee  307
Bibliography  313
Contributors  337
Index  349

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Paper ISBN: 978-1-4780-3875-7 / Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4780-3387-5 / eISBN: 978-1-4780-6236-3 /