Elsa Dorlin. France, 1974. She is a philosopher. She is a professor of political and social philosophy at the University Paris 8. In 2009, she received the CNRS Bronze Medal for her work on feminist and gender philosophy and epistemology. In addition to Defending Yourself, a Philosophy of Violence (2017), she published La Matriz de la Raza. Sexual and colonial genealogy of the French Nation (La Découverte, 2008) and Sex, gender and sexualities. Introduction to a feminist philosophy (PUF, 2008). We published in December 2018, Defending yourself a philosophy of violence.