Unbearable Speech

lynne huffer is Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Philosophy at Emory University. She is the author of six books, including a trilogy on Foucault’s ethics of eros published by Columbia University Press: Foucault’s Strange Eros (2020); Are the Lips a Grave?: A Queer Feminist on the Ethics of Sex (2013); and Mad for Foucault: Rethinking the Foundations of Queer Theory (2010). Her most recent book, These Survivals: Autobiography of an Extinction (Duke University Press, 2025), is an experimental collage-book composed of fragments of text and original artwork on the theme of mass species extinction. She has published academic articles on feminist theory, queer theory, Foucault, ethics, and the Anthropocene, as well as personal essays, creative nonfiction, and experimental writing. She is also the author, with Jennifer Yorke, of Wading Pool, a collaborative artists book (Vamp and Tramp, 2019) and is currently completing a collection of philosophical essays, “The Ethics of Extinction.”