The Black Womb, Ontological Absence, and Social Death: A Fireside Chat with Patrice D. Douglass
Justin L. Clardy (Santa Clara University), CiAuna Heard, Patrice D. Douglass

October 27, 2026, 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Department of Philosophy, Santa Clara University

Santa Clara
United States

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Join us for a public dialogue with Prof. Patrice D. Douglass (UC Berkeley) on Black sexuality, gender, respectability politics, and the social ontology of Blackness. This generative dialogue will feature insights from Douglass' field shifting book Engendering Blackness: Slavery and the Ontology of Sexual Violence.

The dialogue will be held in-person at Santa Clara University on October 27th, 2026 but will also be available via live stream for those wishing to attend virtually.

Please RSVP at the link and direct any questions you may have to: Justin Clardy ([email protected])

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October 20, 2026, 9:00am PST

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#Social Ontology, #Philosophy of Race, #Philosophy of Sexuality, #Black Studies, #Afropessimism, #Black Feminism, #Patrice D. Douglass, #CiAuna Heard, #Justin Clardy, #Philosophy of Gender, #Africana Philosophy