Feminist Philosophy of Trust Reading Group
Since the fall of 2024, I have been organizing a reading group in feminist philosophy of trust. We meet online to discuss published articles and works-in-progress.
The reading group is open to anyone interested in thinking about trust philosophically through a feminist lens. If you would like to be added to the mailing list, please get in touch with me through the contact page on this website.
Reading Schedule
Spring 2026
January 23rd: Katherine Dormandy (2024) “Epistemic Self-Trust: It’s Personal”
March 5th: Carolyn McLeod - “Institutional Betrayal” (Work-In-Progress)
April 24th: Corinne Lajoie and Pierre-Marc Daigneault - “What does trustworthiness look like in public institutions?” (Work-In-Progress)
May 21st: Clair Baleshta - “Trust and Harm Reduction, Trust as Harm Reduction” (Work-In-Progress)
Fall 2025
September 16th : Jose Medina (2020) “Trust and Epistemic Injustice”
October 22nd: Hale Demir-Doğuoğlu (2025) “Only Tall Because Somebody’s On Their Knees”: Distrust, Power, and the Pursuit of Invulnerability”
November 18th: Emma C. Gordon (2025) “Monitoring and Institutional Trust Repair”
December 17th: Matt T. Clark (2025) “The Harms of Being Trusted or Distrusted”
Summer 2025
June 26th: Hawley, K. (2017) “Trust, Distrust, and Epistemic Injustice”
July 3rd: Kelly Cunningham - “Why Honesty is (Still) a Hard Virtue” (Work-In-Progress)
July 17th: Palafox-Harris, E. (2024) “Resisting Perceptions of Patient Untrustworthiness”
July 31st: Jason D’Cruz and Alexis Morin-Martel - “Vicarious Distrust” (Work-In-Progress)
August 28th: Carolyn McLeod (2025) “Trust and Belonging”
Spring 2025
January 24th: Annette Baier (1992) “Trusting People”
February 7th: Nicolas Kirby (2024) “Unjust shadows: living with the burden of distrust”
February 28th: Karen Jones (2019) “Trust, Distrust, and Affective Looping”
March 7th: Johnny Brennan (2021) “Recognition Trust”
March 21st: Amy Mullin (2024) “Pregnancy, Gender Identity, Autonomy and Trust”
April 11th: Nancy Nyquist Potter (2002) How Can I be Trusted? (selected chapters)
May 23rd: Corinne Lajoie “Excessive Monitoring and the Institution’s Distrust” (Work-In-Progress)
Fall 2024
Oct 3, 2024: Annette Baier (1985) “Trust and Antitrust”
Oct 17, 2024: Elizabeth Barnes (2023) “Trust, Distrust, and Medical Gaslighting”
Oct 31, 2024: Mackenzie, Catriona (2020) “Vulnerability, Insecurity and the Pathologies of Trust and Distrust”
Nov 14, 2024: Laura Specker Sullivan - “Functional Behavioral Trust” and “Climates of Trust” (Work-In-Progress)
December 5, 2024: C. Thi Nguyen (2023) “Hostile Epistemology”
Dec 12, 2024: Cayla Clinkenbeard - “Social Media Companies’ Responsibility for Disinformation” (Work-In-Progress)