Open access resources

This is a curated set of resources, all open access, written by the contributors to Feminist Making, Doing and Sensing. The resources are organized in the order of the Table of Contents.

Suggestions for using these resources:

  • if a chapter piqued your curiosity, here is more from each author to explore;

  • if you are an instructor, consider pairing chapters from the book with these additional readings.

Thanks to our Research Assistant, Zahraa Al-Shareefi! We also thank the EDI Opportunity Fund and the Office of Community & Belonging at Mount Royal University for supporting this work.

Celebrating the launch of Feminist Making, Doing & Sensing at Elon University, April 2026

Left to right: Ryan J. Johnson (Elon), Amanda Bennett (UNC / Poet Laureate of Carrboro), Ryan Kendall (Duke University Press), Qrescent Mali Mason (Haverford), Maria Mejia (Elon), Lauren Guilmette (Elon)

Image of the Art Hive at our 2024 philoSOPHIA conference: a space teeming with art supplies ready for use by conference participants.

Open Access Publications by our contributors:

Introduction

Lauren Guilmette and Ada S. Jaarsma, “In Praise of Experimental Workshops” (APA Blog, 2022)

Lauren Guilmette, “Using the Feminist Theory Archive” (APA Blog, 2019)

Ada S. Jaarsma, “Choose your own birth” (Aeon, 2020)

Ada S. Jaarsma, “Sympathy” (Political Theology Network, 2022)

Ada S. Jaarsma, “Existential Erotics” (Deleuze and Guattari Studies, 2026)

I. Priming and Instructions

Qrescent Mali Mason, “#BlackGirlMagic as Resistant Imaginary” (Hypatia, 2021)

Qrescent Mali Mason, “‘In Order to Live We Must Synthesize Thought and Feeling’: Reflections on Philosophical Pedagogy with Audre Lorde” (APA Blog, 2024)

Margaret Price, website, Crip Spacetime (Open Access Book, 2024);

Margaret Price, 2025 Interview; “De/Institutionalize,” podcast with Mimi Khuc (2024)

Eva-Marie Stern, Interview in Palette Magazine (2023)

Eva-Marie Stern, “Art as Patient: A Museum-Based Experience to Teach Trauma-Sensitive Engagement in Health Care” (Journal of Medical Humanities, 2023)

Shelley Wall, Podcast Interview for Graphic Medicine (2012)

Shelley Wall, “Neuroanatomy course takes a personal approach…” (U of T News, 2022)

Talia Mae Bettcher, “Trapped in the Wrong Theory” (Signs, 2014)

Talia Mae Bettcher, featured on the Hotel Bar Sessions Podcast (2023), the Overthink Podcast, 2025, and the New Books Network (2025); on her new book for the APA Blog (2025)

In the foreground, a LEGO bas relief by Bailey Szustak that would later become our book cover, with five hands reaching in to contribute to making a heart sculpted out of paper hands. In the background, Natalie Loveless is giving her 2024 keynote.

Natalie Loveless, Website, with links to recent work, including this 2023 interview; Lecture Recording, Digital Writing & Research Lab (2020)

Alyson Patsavas, “Crip Silences, Crip Futurities, Crip Joy,” Positions Podcast (2026)

Ela Przybylo, Asexual Erotics (Ohio State UP, 2019); Syndicate Symposium, ed. Jaarsma

Ela Przybylo, Ungendering Menstruation (Minnesota UP, 2025)

Cressida J. Heyes discussing Anaesthetics of Existence on the New Books Network (2020); “A Feminist Philosopher Reads Advice to Parents” (APA Blog, 2021)

Cressida J Heyes, “Identity Politics,” in Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (2002, rev. 2024)

Emily R. Douglas, “Shelley Tremain Interviews Emily R. Douglas,” Biopolitical Philosophy (2025)

Emily R. Douglas, “Madness, Mental Illness, and Emotional Distress” (APA Blog, 2025)

Kim Q. Hall, “Feminist and Queer Intersections with Disability Studies” (2017); "Limping Along: Toward a Crip Phenomenology," The Journal of Philosophy of Disability 1 (2021)

Kim Q. Hall discussing Queering Philosophy on the New Books Network (2022)

Amber Rose Johnson, “No Theories for the Liquidity of this Desire” (YouTube, 2021)

II. Making with Texts

Perry Zurn, website with links to recent publications; “Feminist Curiosity” (Philosophy Compass, 2021); discussing Curiosity and Power on the New Books Network (2021); on the Overthink Podcast, Episode 62: Curiosity (2022), “Curiosity, Power, and Narrative Practice: An Interview with Perry Zurn” (2023)

Perry Zurn, “How We Make Each Other, or, How is this Book Philosophy?” APA Blog (2025)

Perry Zurn, “Episode 227: Disorienting Cisgender,” Hotel Bar Sessions Podcast (2026); and Q&A about Cisgender on the Duke UP Blog (2026)

Amanda Bennett, Ninth Poet Laureate of Carrboro, NC, Town of Carrboro, Chapel Hill Magazine; Substack - Woo in the Real World

Ryan J. Johnson, with Biko Mandela Gray, discussing Phenomenology of Black Spirit on the New Books Network (2022) and Hotel Bar Sessions podcast (2024)

Ryan J. Johnson on Teaching Philosophy Outside: APA Blog (2023), Teaching in Higher Ed podcast (2023), and on Collective Final Projects, APA Blog (2025)

Namita Goswami, APA New Book Spotlight: Subjects that Matter (2019); Lauren Guilmette’s review of Goswami’s Subjects That Matter for Hypatia (2023)

Maria Mejia, with Tekla Babyak, “Access Intimacy & Killjoy Kinship,” APA Blog (2025)

Jill Stauffer, Ethical Loneliness: The Injustice of Not Being Heard (2015, Open Access Book); Interview on Radical Radio (2018); discussing Ethical Loneliness on the New Books Network (2019)

Ali Beheler, Website with links to recent work, including “The Whole Year, Fallboard Down,” The Shore (2025) and this podcast, “Poems by Ali Beheler & Bern Mulvey,” Vita Poetica Journal (2026)

Lynne Huffer discussing Foucault’s Strange Eros on the New Books Network (2020) and on a virtual panel hosted by Lauren Guilmette at Elon University (YouTube, 2020)

Lynne Huffer, “Foucault’s Queer Virgins: An Unfinished History in Fragments,” Foucault Studies (2021)

Lynne Huffer, “ThoughtCollage” website with links to recent work.

Suze G. Berkhout, “Troubling Transplant Temporality through Crip Technoscience and a Sensory Aesthetics…,” with Kelly Fritsch, Brian Keeley, and Bibo Keeley, Catalyst (2024)

Suze G. Berkhout, with Ada S. Jaarsma, “Nocebos Talk Back” (YouTube, 2022)

Suze G. Berkhout, “Placebos in Schizophrenia Research” Schizophrenia Bulletin Open (2022)

III. Making with Others

Amy Marvin, Philosophy Meets the Gendertrash from Hell, APA Blog (2024)

Taylor Rogers, NOAA: a music film (2021); website: https://emotionalphilosopher.com/

Kyoo Lee, website (kyoolee.net) with links related to curatorial work; appointed to AICA-USA Board (2025)

Kyoo Lee, open access works: Jacket2, Spittoon, Randian, “In Search of Analog Feminism Dot Net,” Lateral (2013)

Nettrice R. Gaskins, “Dr. Nettrice R. Gaskins on Art and Artificial Intelligence” (2020); “Art and Algorithms” (2021) and “Interview with Ahmed Best,” theafrofuturistpodcast (2021)

jessie l. beier, Website (jessiebeier.com); “About Art and Research: Interview” (2025); installation and workshop with Lathe-Cut Records at philoSOPHIA 2024

Qrescent Mali Mason poses after her 2024 keynote talk next to a tracing of her body on brown paper, populated with instant camera photos that audience members took of a part of their body where they locate thinking happening.

Anna E. Mudde, Thinking Bodies podcast, with Kristin Rodier

Katherine S. Davies, “When Home Isn’t: Feminist Philosophy and the U.S. Foster Care System,” APA Blog (2019)

Katherine S. Davies, “Thinking the Human(ities) in the Age of AI,” Athenaeum Review (2025)

Leyla Savloff, “Putas y Discas: Sex Work Activism and Disability Justice in Argentina,” in Disability Studies Quarterly (2022)

Leyla Savloff, “The afterlives of political violence in Argentina: The gendered body and everyday cruelty,” Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology (2023)

Sofie Vlaad, “TRANS/SISTER DE/SISTER (FRAGMENTS)” (poem)

Sofie Vlaad, “Transitioning Texts and Genre Reassignment: Trans Poetics as Trans Philosophy,” philoSOPHIA (2024)

Maya Hey, https://heymayahey.com/, with links to video lectures here, including “Fermentation and Health Speaker Series: Maya Hey,” Sonnenburg Lab (2023)

Maya Hey, with Alex Ketchum, “Fermentation as Engagement: on more-than-human connections and materiality,” Food, Feminism, and Fermentation (2018)

Anna Sigrithur, Wrought (time-lapse video/short film) directed by Joel Penner and Anna Sigrithur (2018)

Tiia Sudenkaarne, “A queer feminist posthuman framework for bioethics: on vulnerability, antimicrobial resistance, and justice” (2024)

Riina Hannula, “Agential Guts — Care and Creativity within the Messy Multi-species Assemblage” (2024)

Kathryn Sophia Belle, “Black Feminism and Its History: Interview with Kathryn Sophia Belle,” podcast episode, New Voices in the History of Philosophy (2022)

Kathryn Sophia Belle, “Exit Interview with Jasmine Wallace,” APA Blog (2023)

Kathryn Sophia Belle, Website, with La Belle Vie Academy and other offerings

Sarah Kizuk, “Settler Shame: A Critique of the Role of Shame in Settler–Indigenous Relationships in Canada,” Hypatia (2020)

Martin Shuster, “Rewatching, Film, and New Television,” Open Philosophy (2021)

Martin Shuster, Interview, New Books Network, discussing Critical Theory: The Basics (2024)

Noëlle McAfee on the Overthink Podcast, on “Civil Disobedience” (2024), discussing Fear of Breakdown on the New Books Network (2019) and on Substack

Open Access Work from our Generous Book Blurbers

Sara Ahmed, “Feminist Killjoys (And Other Willful Subjects,” S&F Online (2010)

Sara Ahmed, Feminist Killjoy Blog; see also: “You Pose a Problem: A Conversation with Sara Ahmed,” The Paris Review (2022)

Hil Malatino, Book Talk: Side Affects: On Being Trans and Feeling Bad, YouTube (2022)

Hil Malatino, “Reckoning and Repair: Keynote Lecture,” ICA-LA (2025)

The author (Lynne Huffer) hangs fragments of collage and writing from clothespins on strings stretching across the room.