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About Sarah Tyson
Sarah Tyson is an associate professor of philosophy at the University of Colorado, Denver.
NBN Episodes hosted by Sarah:
February 18, 2026
So Unimaginable a Price
What happens if we turn to James Baldwin, not just for the amazing quotations and excellent photos, but as a critical theorist? What if we read his no…
December 16, 2025
Carnalities
How can habits of racialization be affected by art, in its reception and its creation? How can a carnal aesthetics help us understand Latinx life? Wha…
October 20, 2025
Unbecoming Persons
How should one live? What should one do? And what do these questions have to do with being a good person? In Unbecoming Persons: The Rise and Demine o…
August 20, 2025
Stop Thief!
Why do so many philosophers value anarchy but refuse to call themselves anarchists? Why don’t philosophers draw on the classical anarchist tradition? …
June 15, 2025
Critical Mixed Race Philosophy
What are dominant narratives of mixed race identity? What are those narratives doing, in everyday life and within philosophical discourse? How can att…
April 20, 2025
Beyond Personhood
What does transphobic oppression have to do with sexism, heterosexism, and racism? How does a decolonial analysis help us understand trans oppression?…
February 20, 2025
Race, Time, and Utopia
How does time figure in racial domination? What is the relationship between the capitalist organization of time and racial domination? Could utopian t…
December 20, 2024
Nightmare Remains
What does mourning have to do with politics? How do practices of forced disappearance and improper burial shape subjects, spaces, and what is intellig…
October 21, 2024
Marx's Ethical Vision
Does Marx have a coherent ethical vision? How does that square with his sometimes-scathing dismissal of morality? What does his critique of capital ha…
August 20, 2024
Creating a Black Vernacular Philosophy
What can philosophy do? By taking up Black American cultural practices, Devonya N. Havis suggests that academic philosophy has been too narrow in its …
June 20, 2024
Feminism, Capitalism, and Ecology
Can capitalism be made ecologically sustainable? Can it be good for women? What theoretical approaches help us to grapple with these questions in ways…
April 20, 2024
A Phenomenology for Women of Color
How can we understand the changing power of race and gender to shape our reality? How shared is reality? Can narratives of experience help us develop …
February 20, 2024
For F*ck's Sake
Swearing can be a powerful communicative act, for good or ill. The same word can incite violence or increase intimacy. How is swearing so multivalent …
January 20, 2023
Side Affects
Fatigue, disorientation, numbness, envy, rage, burnout. What good could come from thinking about trans experience and these bad feelings? In Side Affe…
September 20, 2022
Queering Philosophy
Why isn’t there a queer subfield in philosophy? How has institutionalized philosophy continued to develop without a recognized specialization in queer…
July 20, 2022
Animal Crisis
As we lose more individual animals and entire species to catastrophic climate change, habitat destruction, toxic dumping, and other human activities, …
May 13, 2022
Entropic Philosophy
Everything is breaking down. Chaos is increasing. Entropy is not just a metaphor, although it also that. In Entropic Philosophy: Chaos, Breakdown, and…
March 21, 2022
Seen and Not Heard
What happens when we take children seriously as philosophical thinkers? What if we try to hear them about topics such as climate change, solitude, and…
January 10, 2022
Creolizing the Nation
Can the concept of the nation be a resource for liberatory political struggle? Are the dangers of nationalism simply too great? In Creolizing the Nati…
October 20, 2021
The Politics of Black Joy
What can southern Black joy teach us about agency? What role does refusal have in liberation? What more might there be to root work than resistance? I…
August 20, 2021
Nos/Otras: Gloria E. Anzaldúa, Multiplicitous Agency, and Resistance
How can we think together multiplicity and agency? How can we resist oppression and build transformative political coalitions while attending to the a…
June 24, 2021
Colonial Debts
What can debt reveal to us about coloniality and its undoing? In Colonial Debts: The Case of Puerto Rico (Duke University Press, 2021), Rocío Zambrana…
April 20, 2021
Curiosity and Power
Is curiosity political? Does it have a philosophical lineage? In Curiosity and Power: The Politics of Inquiry (University of Minnesota Press, 2021), P…
February 19, 2021
Intersectionality as Critical Social Theory
Is intersectionality a critical social theory? What must intersectionality do to be both critical and a social theory? Must social justice be a guidin…