Author: alexis
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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…
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“All we have is means”: Constituting beginnings from the middle of the mess – access copy
ifk – Kunstuniversität Vienna 19 Oct 2023 (this was the access copy for the conference – if you were there and would like me to send it to you, please email me)
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Fermenting complicity with another world
RADIUS CCA – Closeness of Toxicity event 14 Oct 2023 This was the access copy for this talk – if you were there and would like a copy, please email me!
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“All we have is means”: Ursula K Le Guin’s imperfectionist anarchism
Kunstuniversität Linz, 12 Oct 2023 – this was the access copy for this talk – if you were there and need it, please email me! Abstract: Anarchists have long argued that there is a vital connection between means and ends, that how we do things matters to what we can accomplish in collective movements for…
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No higher purpose: Ursula K Le Guin’s existentialist anarchism.
Institute of World Literature, Bratislava – 11 Oct 2023 (access copy was here if you were at the talk and need a copy, you are welcome to email me) Abstract: It is a standard existentialist trope that humans come into the world without a pre-given purpose for our existence. On this view, there is nothing…