...of the world. We can also analyze recent anti-trans narratives through this lens. Alexis Shotwell and Trevor Sangrey have argued that trans and gender non-conforming people pose a challenge to...
...blast! What are you reading right now? Would you recommend it? I am finally reading Alexis Shotwell’s Against Purity: Living Ethically in Compromised Times. I assigned a chapter of it...
...to work together. Alexis Shotwell has described Reproductive Justice as a model of “aspirational solidarity,” a vision which calls many movements with disparate priorities to work together towards a shared...
Alexis Shotwell: Thanks so much for talking with me about your wonderful book (The Weight of Whiteness: A Feminist Engagement with Privilege, Race, and Ignorance, Lexington Books, 2021)! Let’s start...
Alexis Shotwell’s work focuses on complexity, complicity, and collective transformation. A professor at Carleton University, on unceded Algonquin land, she is the co-investigator for the AIDS Activist History Project, and...
...challenges. (I learned about the importance of writing groups from Alexis Shotwell’s workshop on “suffering-free academic writing.” I really can’t recommend that workshop enough, especially for grad students!) One virtual...
This year’s Central APA featured an author-meets critics session on Alexis Shotwell’s new book Against Purity: Living Ethically in Compromised Times. Below, I interview the four panel members about their...
