Alexis Shotwell

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  • Femme identification & Stranger Things

    Femme identification & Stranger Things

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    spoilers for most of season 1. I read, and appreciated a lot of Shannon Keating’s points about femininity and Hollywood horror conventions over at Buzzfeed. Its central point is a critique of the trope in pop culture requiring unfeminine girls to be made over, feminized, and rendered desirable in order to be worthy of regard.…

  • Against purity!

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    I just submitted the final edits on the book I’ve been working on, Against Purity: Living in Compromised Times. The last parts of working on a piece of writing are always a bit of a let-down, consisting as they usually do of checking references and correcting typos, and the stage I’m at makes me nervous…

  • The problem with loving whiteness

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    This was later published as part of a section in Philosophy Today on the book The problem with loving whiteness SPEP, October 2015, response to S. Sullivan’s Good White People: The Problem with Middle-Class White Anti-Racism Shannon Sullivan’s work on racialization and habits, and on relationality and transaction, was important to my philosophical formation. It…