Alexis Shotwell (CN)

is a Canadian philosopher, activist and professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Carleton University in Ottawa. She works in social philosophy, political theory, and feminist philosophy, especially on questions of moral complicity. Her academic work addresses environmental justice, racial formation, disability, unspeakable and unspoken knowledge, sexuality, gender, and political transformation. She is the author of Knowing Otherwise: Race, Gender, and Implicit Understanding (Penn State Press, 2011) and Against Purity: Living Ethically in Compromised Times (Minnesota University Press, 2016). She has published a. o. in Signs, Hypatia, The International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics and Sociological Theory. As activist she is part of the punchupcollective. Her political work focuses on queer liberation, Indigenous solidarity and decolonization, and feminist community education. www.punchupcollective.org