Author: alexis
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Ongoingness quotes
This is gonna take a long long time (living between two planets)Ursula K. le Guin and Anarchism Casino for Social Medicine, 24 May 2025 Donna Haraway: “Her stories are about ongoingness. She is again and again telling stories that don’t end in apocalypse” Ruth Wilson Gilmore: abolition is “the context and content of struggle, the…
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Ongoingness
This is gonna take a long long time (living between two planets)Ursula K. le Guin and Anarchism an interactive talk with Alexis Shotwell> The struggles of today have no heroes, no beginnings and no ends. They began before any of us were born and will continue many generations into the future, after we and our…
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Suffering-free activist writing – Casino for Social Transformation Writing is an important way to communicate about, work through, and reflect on our movements and struggles. It is also a vital part of our struggles, because it’s a way to understand, think through, and record what we’re doing and thinking. The capacity to write with ease,…
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What Should We Be Doing Right Now? – interview in the Tyee
I was honoured to be in conversation with journalist Zoë Yunker in the The Tyee – please go over there and support independent journalism! This post is going up so that I can share a link to this interview on sites that block news in Canada. Zoë writes: “I don’t know about you, but lately…
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Sure/unsure writing exercise
Often in our academic writing we’re expected to be sure of ourselves – to sound or be authoritative about something, or to know that we’re correct in what we’re arguing. At a final-product level, this is of course really important. But when we’re just starting out on a project, only writing about something we already…
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Amid more shocking residential schools discoveries, non-Indigenous people must take action
This piece was originally published on The Conversation in June 2021 Indigenous communities are beginning to use ground-penetrating radar to find hundreds of unmarked graves long known to be at the sites of former Indian Residential Schools. This week, 751 more children’s bodies were discovered at former Marieval Indian Residential School in Saskatchewan. Prime Minister…
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“Imagining worlds beyond fungibility: Science fictional approaches to particularity”
Access copy (please feel welcome to email me if you were there and need a copy of the full paper now) Interdisziplinäres Zentrum für Geschlechterforschung (IZG) at the Zentrum für interdisziplinäre Forschung (ZiF), Bielefeld 2 July, 2024 Abstract: How do we imagine new worlds? One way to answer this question is to shape ourselves against…
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Life as fanfiction: Building a self and a world beyond what has shaped us
Carleton College – Feb 13th, 2024 – access copy Did you know that Fifty Shades of Grey started its life as an erotic fan fiction of the Twilight novels? E.L. James changed the names for the publication of her series, but Anastasia is Bella, Christian is Edward, etc. Fan fiction is when readers (“fans”) write…
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Whiteness is a relationship: Thinking with Shary Boyle’s “Outside the Palace of Me”
18 January, 2024 – access copy Race is a social relationship, a creation, a collective fabrication. But it is real. It kills some people and enriches others; it pretends that these deaths and that horded wealth are just the way the world is and therefore how it will always be. This is a lie. Even…
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Panel on Ami Harbin’s Fearing Together
Fermenting freeform feelings – access copy Panel on Ami Harbin’s Fearing Together Eastern APA, January 18, 2024 Feelings have turned out to be a perhaps unexpected terrain of struggle over the first years of the ongoing Covid pandemic. And among those feelings, fear has emerged as a kind of “hinge feeling,” a feeling upon which…