
Artemis Thea’Leona Douglas
MA in Philosophy
feminist epistemology, quantitative text analysis, rhetoric/discourse and media, comparative political philosophy;
Artemis is a feminist philosopher, social science nerd, and media expert whose current research interests surround hope as indicator of political agency for individuals, political capacity for groups, and democratic health for societies. Her past research projects included an exploration of economic rhetoric and progressive policy, a groundbreaking study demonstrating trans women's precarity on the axis of being trans women, and a quantitized exploration of Trump's second-term executive orders showing how the administration's language patterns targeting one group often align with the patterns in language targeting another.
In addition to studying for her MA in Philosophy, she recently finished an MSc in Gender, Politics, and International Relations. Her undergraduate studies blended media production with journalism practice, professional writing, and women's studies, for an individualized degree in Feminist Rhetorical Practices.
At GCAS, her research is focused on feminist epistemology and how to undo material precarity through undoing the denial of epistemology- knowledge understood as a form of authority. She also helps run and co-founded a hyperlocal community newspaper with global coverage aims, where the community is trans people, rather than a traditional geographic or border-based community. That newspaper, The Needle, has covered news for the community in the US, Ireland, the UK, and Brazil to date. Most coverage centers on the US due to constraints with capacity at this time, but The Needle is always looking to expand its coverage horizons.
She believes in the feminist ethic of "the personal is political" and works from the disability community's model of "nothing about us without us". Her work is deliberately non-positivist, and is rooted in the knowledge that situated experience and lived knowledges, when accounted for and declared clearly, produce more powerful and objective knowledge than the hollow attempts at outside, externalized, views from nowhere.