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Bhandary is a social and political philosopher working at the intersection of the ethics of care, philosophy of race, reproductive justice, and political theory. She is the Founder and Director of the Care Lab (University of Iowa 2025-2026, Stony Brook University 2026-present), a Philosophy Research Lab. Her work focuses on the structural and distributive requirements for caregiving arrangements in society, developing critical care theory that illuminates racialized and non-western practices of care. In her first monograph, Freedom to Care: Liberalism, Dependency Care, and Culture (2020), she argues that society’s caregiving arrangements must be improved if women, and, women of color, are to have the freedom to care. In her second monograph, Being at Home: Living Autonomously in an Unjust World (2026), she defends the theory of intersectional liberalism, which proceeds from the subject position of the least advantaged, or what she defines as the “grafted subject”.
