Writing
Spring 2025
“Protocols for a Grounding Philosophy,” As for Protocols, Vera List Center for Art and Politics (VLC)/ Amherst College Press
2024
“Charles Mills’s “Black Trash”: Reproducing Race, Pig Waste, and EcologicalResistance.” Critical Philosophy of Race; 12 (2): 261–291
2024
“Sylvia Wynter’s Challenging Caribbean Critique” in Creolizing Critical Theory (edited by Kris F. Sealey and Benjamin P. Davis).Rowman & Littlefield.
2024"Repairing the World: Romy Opperman interviews Esther Stanford-Xosei," OPP (Oxford Public Philosophy)
2024
“Anti-Nuclear Anti-Colonial Feminism.” American Philosophical Association Blog
2023
“Decolonial Ecologies,” Malcom Ferdinand with Romy Opperman in What Matters Most: Conversations on the Art of Living, edited by Anthony Morgan, Agenda Publishing,Newcastle upon Tyne, 2023
2022
"The Need for a Black Feminist Climate Justice: A Case of Haunting Ecology and Eco-Deconstruction." CR: The New Centennial Review, vol. 22 no. 1,2022, p. 59-93
Winter 2022
“Racism and the Planet.” The Philosopher. Winter 2022, Vol.110, No.1. 48-52
2021
“We Need Histories of Radical Black Ecology Now,” March: A Journal of Art &Strategy. 02: Black Ecologies. October
2020
“Haunting and Hosting,” Blog of Gender and its Discontents, Gender and SexualityStudies Institute
2019
“A Permanent Struggle Against an Omnipresent Death: Revisiting Environmental Racism with Frantz Fanon,”Critical Philosophy of Race,Volume 7, Issue 1, 2019, pp.57-80
Speaking
“Liberating Futures,” Environmental Ethics in Dialogue, Boston College,
September 19th, 2025
“A Moment of Empire,” Introducing the workshop: Pedagogies of Crossing: Meditations on Feminism, Sexual Politics, Memory, and the Sacred,(participant and workshop organizer) PhiloSOPHIA: A Society for Transcontinental Feminism, Texas A&M University
April 11th, 2025
“Surviving Racist Environments”keynote address) Trinity University
April 10th, 2025
“Animal Industry, Waste, and Anti-Black Racism: Thinking Black Trash with Charles Mills,” Fordham University, MAP speaker series,
April 3rd, 2025
“Revolting Atmospheres and Climate Revolutions”- University of Buffalo
Feb 20th, 2025
Survival- Urgencies and the Unavoidable Present, Political Concepts, NSSR
October, 2025
“Don’t Mention the War” Geoengineering in Crisis:The Princeton Workshop on Geoengineering Ethics and Governance, Princeton, NJ
Sept 20th, 2024
"Revolutionary Survival: Black Feminist Alternatives to Eco-Nuclearism," An Environment for Black Feminism: History, Theory, Aesthetics, Copenhagen University
June 13th-14th, 2024
“Revolutionary Survival: Anti-Nuclear Lessons” (keynote), From Crisis to Coordination (conference), University of Minnesota
May 24th, 2024
“Radioactive Colonialism’s Renaissance,” Anti-colonialism and its Afterlives: Renewing and Rethinking Debates, The New School for Social Research
April 27th, 2024
Book Symposium Feminism, Capitalism & Ecology - Johanna Oksala, Nancy Fraser, Alyssa Battistoni, Cinzia Arruzza, Romy Opperman, The New School for Social Research
April 25th, 2024
“Anti-Nuclear Resistance as Intersectional Survival: Reflections on Eco-Nuclearism,” the Philosopher’s Holiday Speaker Series, Vassar College
April 24th, 2024
“Reproducing Climate Violence or Generating Liberation? Anti-Colonial Feminist Perspectives on Nuclear,” Global Legacies of Anti-Nuclear Activism, UC Santa Barbara
April 13th, 2024
"Have We Learnt Nothing? Catastrophe, Ceremony, and Autonomy," The Ecologies of Education conference, The New School
October 27th, 2023