Events &CV

UPCOMING EVENTS

Come see me at:

Johns Hopkins. Baltimore, MD. April 15, 2026. Speaker for panel on disability.
Black Cat Book Fair in Washington, DC. April 25, 2026. Speaker for panel on LGBTQ+ activism.

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BOOK PROJECTS

Valentine, Riley Clare and Zane McNeill. 2025. The Coercive Power of the Law: Vulnerable Bodies     

             and Boundaries of Perception. Palgrave McMillan.
McNeill, Zane, Riley Clare Valentine, and Blu Buchanan. 2025. Be Gay Do Crime: Radical Queer                People’s History. PM Press.

Valentine, Riley Clare. 2024. Progressive Liberalism and Neoliberalism in American Politics:
           The Heterodoxical Imperative. Palgrave MacMillan.
 

JOURNAL ARTICLES

Valentine, Riley Clare. 2025. "Can Madness be Utopic? Analyzing Utopias through Madness as       

            Political Praxis." Humana Mente Journal of Philosophical Studies 18(47): 293-313.

Valentine, Riley Care. 2025. “Willful Brains and Absent Minds: A Phenomenological
           Investigation of Fear, Epilepsy, and Willful Being.” Disability & Society.

Valentine, Riley Clare and Zane McNeill. 2024. “The Libidinal Law: Sexuality and Desire in
           U.S. Legal Embodiment.” Subjectivity 31(3):261-285.

McNeill, Zane and Riley Clare Valentine. 2024. “Freedom of the Press in
           Hungary and the United States: A Comparative Review.” CUNY Law Review.
McNeill, Zane and Riley Clare Valentine. 2024. “Grindr and Privacy Concerns of LGBTQ+ People in
           the United States and the European Union.” NLG Review 79(2): 32-43.
Valentine, Riley Clare. 2024. “Who has a Meaningful Life?: A Care Ethics
           Analysis of Selective Trait Abortion.” Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy.
Valentine, Riley Clare. 2023. “Blankets, Rosaries, and Cajun French: The
           Impacts of Researching Far-Right Online Discourse on the Researcher.” Journal of
           Autoethnography.

Valentine, Riley Clare. 2022. “Seizing Sex: A Reflection on Sex Education and Disability.”
           Sex Education.
Valentine, Riley Clare. 2022. “Roux Roots Us: Queer Reclamation and Redefinitions of Personal
           Culture.” Journal of Autoethnography 3(2): 217-220.
Valentine, Riley Clare. 2022. “‘It’s Time for a Rent Strike’: COVID-19 Rent Strikes and the Absence of
           State Care.” Open Philosophy 5(1): 636-649.
Valentine, Riley Clare. 2022. “The Feelings We Feel: Care and Community in Mister Roger’s
           Neighborhood.” Open Philosophy 5(1): 75-89.
Valentine, Riley Clare. 2018. “There is No They’re: Wittgenstein on Pluralistic Democracy.” Thesis
           Eleven 148(1).