academic. educator. organizer.
Events &CV
UPCOMING EVENTS
Come see me at:
Small Friends and Records. December 6, 2025. Author event for The Coercive Power of the Law.
The Wooden Shoe. March 19, 2026. Author event for Be Gay, Do Crime.
BOOK PROJECTS
Valentine, Riley Clare and Zane McNeill. 2025. The Coercive Power of the Law: Vulnerable Bodies and
Boundaries of Perception. Palgrave McMillan. 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).