Keynotes/Public Lectures/Conference Papers
Invited Speaker: "The Spirit Realm and the Journey of the Soul" Asian American Studies Department, UC Davis, May 21st, 2020
Invited Speaker, "Two Spirit Feminism" American Indian Studies Dept, San Francisco State University, April 6th, 2020
Keynote: “Peculiar Requests for Peculiar Bodies: Black Lives Matter, [Trans] Gendered Violence,
Disability, and Women in the “Post-racial,” “Post-sexist” Present.” The 20th Annual Women’s and Gender Studies Symposium, Illinois State University, Normal, IL, April 17, 2015
Invited Speaker: “Peculiar Requests for Peculiar Bodies”, Where do We Go From here? Symposium on
Black Women’s Bodies, Philosophy Department and the Black Graduate Student Association, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Il, April 20, 2015
Invited Speaker, Coalition for Racial Diversity in Philosophy, MIT, Cambridge, MA Aug 14-16, 2014
Invited Speaker, “Generating Academic Native American Philosophy from Recurrent Themes,” American Indian Studies Program, CalState, Northridge, April 2, 2014
Keynote: “What Would True Pluralism Look Like? Intersectionality, Embodied Epistemology, and Death in the University” Feminist Ethics and Social Thought (FEAST) Annual Conference, Tempe, AZ, 10-19-2013
Invited Speaker: “How to Get Tenure as a Black Woman Philosopher,” Collegium for Black Women Philosophers (CBWP), Penn State University, April 14, 2012
Invited Speaker: “Living Intersectionality: A Poetics of Gender, Race, Sexuality, Sovereignty, Dis/ability, and Identity.” Ethnic Studies Department, UC San Diego, Nov. 22, 2011
Invited Speaker: “‘Two Spirits’ in Native American Culture and History.” Invited lecture and Poetry reading, Gender and Women’s Studies, Bridgewater State University, Massachusetts, Oct 25th, 2011
Invited Speaker: “The Second Wave of Black Women Philosophers” Collegium of Black Women Philosophers (CBWP). Penn State University, State College, PA. April 15th-17th, 2011.
Conference Paper: “Diversity Without Justice: Is this the Professional Ethics We Want?” Association for Practical and Professional Ethics (APPE), Cincinnati, OH. Mar 2011.
Keynote: “Only The Boot On Your Neck Is Real: Racial Realism, Morphing Hierarchies Of Oppression And What We Have Forgotten,” Philosophy Graduate Student Association Conference, University of Memphis, Memphis, TN Feb11, 2011.
Keynote: “Why We Need a New Dialogic: Intercultural Philosophy, Intersectionality, and Accountability”, 3rd Annual Graduate Studies Conference, University of North British Columbia, Prince George, Canada, March 26th, 2010.
Conference Paper: “Sovereign Thought: Generating Academic Native American Philosophy from Recurrent Themes in Indigenous Cultures.” 11th Annual Conference of the American Indian Studies Association (AISA), Tempe, AZ, Feb 2010.
Colloquium: “Wisdom in Recurrence: Generating Academic Native American Philosophy” Philosophy Department, UCF, Colloquium Series. Apr 2009.
Keynote: “Marginal Notations From Bodies That Matter: Gender, Race, Sexuality, and Sisterhood” 11th Annual Women’s Studies Graduate Student Association Symposium, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL Mar 2009
Invited Speaker: “But Who are We Really? Racial Categories, Multiple Oppressions, and American Identity” Women’s Studies Department/Feminist Club, Keene College, New Hampshire, Nov 2008.
Conference Paper: "The Loving Wars: A Philopoetic Exploration of Queer Love, Interracial Sex, Suspect
Identities and Purple Hearts.” Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (SPEP), Pittsburgh, PA, Oct 2008.
Radio Interview: Mixed Race Identity. Mixed Chicks Chat: A Live Weekly Podcast About Being Racially and Culturally Mixed, Episode 73. Oct 2008.
Plenary Speaker: “Claiming, Naming, Sisterhood, and Difference: “What it Means for Chicanas to Claim Mestizaje.” Mujers Activas Y Lettras Cambios (MALCS) Conference, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, August 2008.
Conference Paper: “Cross-Cultural Feminism Roundtable,” American Philosophical Association (APA), Eastern Division, Baltimore. MD, Dec 2007.
Conference Paper: “The Internally Globalized Body as Instigator: Crossing Borders, Crossing Races( Philopoetics).” Florida Without Borders: Women at the Intersection of the Local and the Global: Second Annual Conference of the Florida Consortium for Gender and Women’s Studies. USF, Tampa, FL, Feb 2007.
Conference Paper: "Subjects, Objects and Responsibility: A Critical Evaluation of Deloria's Recommendations for an Indigenous Philosophy of Science." Eastern Division Meeting, American Philosophical Association (APA). Washington, D.C., Dec 2006.
Conference Paper: “Why are we Dying? Stoicism, Holism and Racism as They Relate to Native American and African American Mortality Rates.” Association for Practical and Professional Ethics (APPE), Jacksonville, FL, Mar 2006.
Invited Speaker: "Blackening the Canon: The Contribution of African and African American Philosophies to Expanding the Boundaries of the Discipline." African American Studies Lecture Series, UCF, Orlando, FL, Feb 2006.
Invited Speaker: "Identity, Poetry and Philosophy: Addressing Methodological and Political Concerns entailed in doing Indigenous Philosophy in the Academy" Teleconferenced Lecture, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada, Nov 2005.
Invited Speaker, "Two Spirit Feminism" American Indian Studies Dept, San Francisco State University, April 6th, 2020
Keynote: “Peculiar Requests for Peculiar Bodies: Black Lives Matter, [Trans] Gendered Violence,
Disability, and Women in the “Post-racial,” “Post-sexist” Present.” The 20th Annual Women’s and Gender Studies Symposium, Illinois State University, Normal, IL, April 17, 2015
Invited Speaker: “Peculiar Requests for Peculiar Bodies”, Where do We Go From here? Symposium on
Black Women’s Bodies, Philosophy Department and the Black Graduate Student Association, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Il, April 20, 2015
Invited Speaker, Coalition for Racial Diversity in Philosophy, MIT, Cambridge, MA Aug 14-16, 2014
Invited Speaker, “Generating Academic Native American Philosophy from Recurrent Themes,” American Indian Studies Program, CalState, Northridge, April 2, 2014
Keynote: “What Would True Pluralism Look Like? Intersectionality, Embodied Epistemology, and Death in the University” Feminist Ethics and Social Thought (FEAST) Annual Conference, Tempe, AZ, 10-19-2013
Invited Speaker: “How to Get Tenure as a Black Woman Philosopher,” Collegium for Black Women Philosophers (CBWP), Penn State University, April 14, 2012
Invited Speaker: “Living Intersectionality: A Poetics of Gender, Race, Sexuality, Sovereignty, Dis/ability, and Identity.” Ethnic Studies Department, UC San Diego, Nov. 22, 2011
Invited Speaker: “‘Two Spirits’ in Native American Culture and History.” Invited lecture and Poetry reading, Gender and Women’s Studies, Bridgewater State University, Massachusetts, Oct 25th, 2011
Invited Speaker: “The Second Wave of Black Women Philosophers” Collegium of Black Women Philosophers (CBWP). Penn State University, State College, PA. April 15th-17th, 2011.
Conference Paper: “Diversity Without Justice: Is this the Professional Ethics We Want?” Association for Practical and Professional Ethics (APPE), Cincinnati, OH. Mar 2011.
Keynote: “Only The Boot On Your Neck Is Real: Racial Realism, Morphing Hierarchies Of Oppression And What We Have Forgotten,” Philosophy Graduate Student Association Conference, University of Memphis, Memphis, TN Feb11, 2011.
Keynote: “Why We Need a New Dialogic: Intercultural Philosophy, Intersectionality, and Accountability”, 3rd Annual Graduate Studies Conference, University of North British Columbia, Prince George, Canada, March 26th, 2010.
Conference Paper: “Sovereign Thought: Generating Academic Native American Philosophy from Recurrent Themes in Indigenous Cultures.” 11th Annual Conference of the American Indian Studies Association (AISA), Tempe, AZ, Feb 2010.
Colloquium: “Wisdom in Recurrence: Generating Academic Native American Philosophy” Philosophy Department, UCF, Colloquium Series. Apr 2009.
Keynote: “Marginal Notations From Bodies That Matter: Gender, Race, Sexuality, and Sisterhood” 11th Annual Women’s Studies Graduate Student Association Symposium, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL Mar 2009
Invited Speaker: “But Who are We Really? Racial Categories, Multiple Oppressions, and American Identity” Women’s Studies Department/Feminist Club, Keene College, New Hampshire, Nov 2008.
Conference Paper: "The Loving Wars: A Philopoetic Exploration of Queer Love, Interracial Sex, Suspect
Identities and Purple Hearts.” Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (SPEP), Pittsburgh, PA, Oct 2008.
Radio Interview: Mixed Race Identity. Mixed Chicks Chat: A Live Weekly Podcast About Being Racially and Culturally Mixed, Episode 73. Oct 2008.
Plenary Speaker: “Claiming, Naming, Sisterhood, and Difference: “What it Means for Chicanas to Claim Mestizaje.” Mujers Activas Y Lettras Cambios (MALCS) Conference, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, August 2008.
Conference Paper: “Cross-Cultural Feminism Roundtable,” American Philosophical Association (APA), Eastern Division, Baltimore. MD, Dec 2007.
Conference Paper: “The Internally Globalized Body as Instigator: Crossing Borders, Crossing Races( Philopoetics).” Florida Without Borders: Women at the Intersection of the Local and the Global: Second Annual Conference of the Florida Consortium for Gender and Women’s Studies. USF, Tampa, FL, Feb 2007.
Conference Paper: "Subjects, Objects and Responsibility: A Critical Evaluation of Deloria's Recommendations for an Indigenous Philosophy of Science." Eastern Division Meeting, American Philosophical Association (APA). Washington, D.C., Dec 2006.
Conference Paper: “Why are we Dying? Stoicism, Holism and Racism as They Relate to Native American and African American Mortality Rates.” Association for Practical and Professional Ethics (APPE), Jacksonville, FL, Mar 2006.
Invited Speaker: "Blackening the Canon: The Contribution of African and African American Philosophies to Expanding the Boundaries of the Discipline." African American Studies Lecture Series, UCF, Orlando, FL, Feb 2006.
Invited Speaker: "Identity, Poetry and Philosophy: Addressing Methodological and Political Concerns entailed in doing Indigenous Philosophy in the Academy" Teleconferenced Lecture, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada, Nov 2005.