Alexis Shotwell

For people making syllabi for next term, your regular reminder that an awesome person I don't know (but friends report is awesome in other ways than this) made this day/date generator to help us all: wcaleb.rice.edu/syllabusmake...

Leaked Texas A&M Document Exposes a Chilling Blueprint for Silencing Race and Gender in Higher Ed This Substack is reader-supported.

Leaked Texas A&M Document Exposes a Chilling Blueprint for Silencing Race and Gender in Higher Ed

#AcademicSky

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Everybody sad about the loss of Teen Vogue and independent left outlets in general can get their wallets ready to pre-order the next print issue of @pinko.online which will ship by the end of the year. It’s still here and it’s beautiful

The Future of Revolution: Jasper Bernes with M. E. O’Brien - Events - e-flux Join us for a presentation by Jasper Bernes, followed by a response from M. E. O’Brien.

This Tuesday I'll be joining Jasper Bernes in discussion, talking about his book The Future of Revolution. I'll be reading from a SF story I was wrote in response. It's about about revolutionary factory workers in Brazil, set in the world of Everything for Everyone. www.e-flux.com/events/67832...

A poster advertising a book launch event for David McNally's Slavery and Capitalism: A New Marxist History, December 6 at 7pm at the Social Innovation Atelier, 95 Clegg St. Ottawa. Details as per post.

Join socialist activist & scholar @redprof.bsky.social for the launch of Slavery and Capitalism: A New Marxist History, in conversation with @caradrianh.bsky.social.

Sat Dec 6, 7pm-8pm. Doors open 6:30pm.
Social Innovation Atelier, 95 Clegg St., Ottawa
RSVP: octopusbooks.ca/mcnally

Adding: it is in no way an academic convention.

This is the con that changed how I think about what academia could be, and also saved my soul over the last six years and also it’s just incredibly fun, kind, and riveting. Come hang out with me in Montreal in June!

I hung out with Lois yesterday and we talked about these things. She is NEVER involved in ANYTHING like this. If you get a message or a social media DM claiming to be her, IT NEVER IS.

Is AI making job recruitment less meritocratic? We're getting some v interesting research studies on this question now, and the news is... not good. @jburnmurdoch.ft.com & I dive in, in the latest edition of our newsletter The AI Shift www.ft.com/content/e5b7...

i think its quite eye opening. in a sense trans women & trans people in general are by no means exceptional and many are of course complex and flawed people but there is something about moving beyond cisness that gives someone access to a self-consciousness and subjectivity that is enlightening.

I always described this one as my "coming out" essay because it exposed my #neurodivergence in a vulnerable way I had never done before, BUT I had no idea it exposed the inner world of my #DissociativeIdentityDisorder until a decade later, in 2024 ...

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Well, sorry to hear that Texas A&M isn’t interested in being an institution of learning

Of Many Minds Neurodiversity and Mental Health Among University Faculty and Staff

This looks really interesting; I spend a lot of time in my work teaching writing (both just, teaching writing, but also teaching writing as part of my teaching) thinking about how assignments can support neurodivergent students *and* faculty. www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...

I have for some time now told crows the story of my friend Marissa who tells stories to crows, and here at last is a story about that.

James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.

A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.

Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."

Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
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Wowwwwww what the HELL

Do yourself a favor and read this excellent wide-ranging interview with the activist-scholar Cathy Cohen!

Joy for your birthday!

There are many reasons to love Marissa Lingen, and this is one.

Watch MAJOR! Online | Vimeo On Demand The award-winning documentary "MAJOR!" follows the life and campaigns of Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, a Black transgender elder who has been fighting for…

The documentary I made with Miss Major 10 years ago is on Vimeo on Demand. If you want to spend some time with her on screen tonight and learn some abolitionist trans history while you're at it, it's free to rent with the code "shinebright" vimeo.com/ondemand/major

"You make the best of it all and hope you can help make it a little better for the gurl after you."

- Miss Major, 2023 💔

Our plane to Spain is in the air!

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Thank you so much to the countless people supporting us in every way and in particular all of the Rutgers students and faculty who have supported us every step of the way.

“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.

We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’

A dark image, with two carved pumpkins, lit from within. A text bubble from the first reads "Hi pal! Any awesome events in Ottawa this coming week?" The second pumpkin's text bubble reads "let's look at the Radical Events Ottawa Listserv!"

This week in rad Ottawa:
October Chain Fast for Palestinian Family Reunification;
Rallies of Allies for Court Support - Solidarity with Kebaowek;
Film Screening: Gaza Fights for Freedom (2019);
Sexual Bereavement - Queer Death Salon; & more! www.punchupcollective.org/reo-calendar/

Alexis Shotwell on anarchism. New episode on podcast platforms & pls smash like & subscribe on YouTube: youtu.be/V3evGc0mF5Y)

​Book cover of Checkpoint 300: Colonial Space in Palestine by Mark Griffiths. Blocked title with black and red lettering on a black-and-white image of an institutional hallway divided by a metal gate and enclosed turnstile.

Out today: Drawing on nearly a decade of fieldwork, a sensitive, timely examination of how colonial power infiltrates family dynamics, enforces gendered mobility restrictions, shapes local economies. Checkpoint 300 by @casesofyou.bsky.social

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Abolition After Katrina | Lydia Pelot-Hobbs and David Stein Countless people are left in harm’s way because of the state’s refusal to make evacuation plans. The hurricane ends up coming through weaker than expected—but then the levees break. Within hours, 80 p...

An excellent interview with @lydiajean.bsky.social! "As a geographer, I’m really interested in thinking through the different scales of the carceral state. We often talk about the state as if it’s a monolith, instead of as a multi-scalar and contradictory assemblage of institutions."

Reconciliation is neither possible nor desirable, since there was never a positive relationship in the first place. Nonetheless...

At Broadview ICE facility, federal agents hurl tear gas and pepper spray at protesters blocking vans Federal agents hurled tear gas and pepper spray into a crowd of about 100 protesters who attempted to block vans from entering and exiting a U.S. Immigration and Customs holding facility in Broadvi…

At Broadview ICE facility, federal agents hurl tear gas and pepper spray at protesters blocking vans www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/19/t...

Philosophy and Disability, Special Issue of Humana.Mente: Journal of Philosophical Studies 1. A Cartography of Philosophy on/of Disability – Introduction by Chiara Montalti & Brunella Casalini ( 2. The Epistemological Significance of Blindness in Plato’s Rep…

Special issue of Humana.Mente on Philosophy and Disability

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