Queering Ethics: Cultivating Queer Sensibility

This essay explores what it means to “queer” ethics. Writing from a perspective that is both personal and philosophical, I argue that we cannot queer ethics simply by expanding the range of topics studied by analytic philosophers to include things like kink, misgendering, and going stealth. Queering projects in analytic ethics require queer sensibility, ways of doing philosophy that deviate from analytic philosophy’s dominant norms. The main contribution of this essay is to articulate this sensibility in methodological terms and highlight its potential to transform analytic ethics.