Alyson K. Spurgas
@alysonkspurgas.bsky.social
Writer, teacher, antifascist, punk/metal, psychoanalysis, cats 🇵🇸 🐈⬛🎸🎶🍉
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Congratulations to Laurie Bertram Roberts, our 2025 Ann Snitow Prize winner! If you are interested in learning more about Roberts' work and the award, join us at the online awards ceremony on Tues Dec 9 at 6pm! annsnitowprize.com
Announcing the winner of the 2025 Ann Snitow Prize: Laurie Bertram Roberts - The Ann Snitow Prize
New York – November 27, 2025 The Organizing Committee of the Ann Snitow Prize is thrilled to name Laurie Bertram Roberts its sixth annual honoree. The $12,000 award recognizes a feminist of outstandin...
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December 6, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Congratulations to Laurie Bertram Roberts, our 2025 Ann Snitow Prize winner! If you are interested in learning more about Roberts' work and the award, join us at the online awards ceremony on Tues Dec 9 at 6pm! annsnitowprize.com
Three days left to nominate someone for this amazing award! annsnitowprize.com The world is a trashfire, and this is a great way to materially support someone who is doing rad political work, organizing, art, etc. ❤️🔥
Nominations for the 2025 Ann Snitow Prize are Now Open - The Ann Snitow Prize
Nominations for the 2025 Ann Snitow Prize—a $12,000 award for an outstanding feminist intellectual/artist and activist working in the United States—are now open. To nominate someone for the Ann Snitow...
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July 29, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Three days left to nominate someone for this amazing award! annsnitowprize.com The world is a trashfire, and this is a great way to materially support someone who is doing rad political work, organizing, art, etc. ❤️🔥
Please consider nominating someone for the Ann Snitow Prize! Six days left to nominate and it’s such a wonderful award in honor of an amazing and generous feminist scholar/organizer. It also offers $12K to the recipient ✨
Just 6 days left to nominate someone for the Ann Snitow Prize, $12,000 honoring an outstanding feminist, who combines intellectual or artistic work with creative, generative, effective social justice activism. Find out more: annsnitowprize.com/nominations
Nominations - The Ann Snitow Prize
Calendar and Requirements Nominations for the 2025 Prize will open on May 12, 2025 and will close July 15, 2025 at 11:59 PM EST. Nominations are submitted via email and should include the following:• ...
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July 10, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Please consider nominating someone for the Ann Snitow Prize! Six days left to nominate and it’s such a wonderful award in honor of an amazing and generous feminist scholar/organizer. It also offers $12K to the recipient ✨
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We liked @alysonkspurgas.bsky.social 's chapter about the history of ISNA and #DSD language in Holmes' Critical Intersex so much we wrote up a detailed summary of the chapter along with our reactions: www.tumblr.com/intersexbook...
#ActuallyIntersex #Intersex #QueerTheory #QueerHistory
#ActuallyIntersex #Intersex #QueerTheory #QueerHistory
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💬 5 🔁 16 ❤️ 39 · Summary: Chapter 4 of Critical Intersex · For many of us, Chapter 4 of Critical Intersex (2009) turned out to be a particularly rich source of information about intersex history.…
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June 18, 2025 at 9:22 PM
We liked @alysonkspurgas.bsky.social 's chapter about the history of ISNA and #DSD language in Holmes' Critical Intersex so much we wrote up a detailed summary of the chapter along with our reactions: www.tumblr.com/intersexbook...
#ActuallyIntersex #Intersex #QueerTheory #QueerHistory
#ActuallyIntersex #Intersex #QueerTheory #QueerHistory
Excited to be speaking at the book launch for the brand new revised and expanded ten-year anniversary edition of *Asexualities: Feminist & Queer Perspectives*!
July 28, 2024 at 7:06 PM
Excited to be speaking at the book launch for the brand new revised and expanded ten-year anniversary edition of *Asexualities: Feminist & Queer Perspectives*!
Check out my band Skirting's debut EP "What You've Been Told" on Bandcamp! I am so proud to be a part of this project with Shawn McGibeny, Teressa Brake, and Eleanor Whitney. Also all the thanks to John Gergely for recording and mixing the EP skirtingmusic.bandcamp.com/album/what-y...
What You've Been Told, by Skirting
6 track album
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May 25, 2024 at 3:41 PM
Check out my band Skirting's debut EP "What You've Been Told" on Bandcamp! I am so proud to be a part of this project with Shawn McGibeny, Teressa Brake, and Eleanor Whitney. Also all the thanks to John Gergely for recording and mixing the EP skirtingmusic.bandcamp.com/album/what-y...
All eyes on Rafah.
February 12, 2024 at 4:08 AM
All eyes on Rafah.
Proud to have co-authored this introduction/statement for the Fall 2023 issue with my co-editors at Lateral #FreePalestine #StopGenocide csalateral.org/issue/12-2/e...
Editors’ Introduction: Cultural Studies toward a Free Palestine
A little over a year ago, Noura Erakat reported on the work of the Palestinian Feminist Collective (PFC)1 in an essay in the Boston Review entitled “Designing the Future in Palestine.”2 In it, she...
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January 11, 2024 at 6:15 PM
Proud to have co-authored this introduction/statement for the Fall 2023 issue with my co-editors at Lateral #FreePalestine #StopGenocide csalateral.org/issue/12-2/e...
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Super excited to discuss @alysonkspurgas.bsky.social and Zoë Meleo-Erwin's new book "Decolonize Self-Care" this Friday evening!
November 13, 2023 at 4:25 PM
Super excited to discuss @alysonkspurgas.bsky.social and Zoë Meleo-Erwin's new book "Decolonize Self-Care" this Friday evening!
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GAZAN CATS. “Despite the horrors of war, Gazans don’t abandon their cats.”
Gazans carrying their cats as they walk south. They say how their cats are family, have been scared and shivering from the bombing, are just as hungry as their people. Video is in Arabic, but self-evident.
This broke me.
Gazans carrying their cats as they walk south. They say how their cats are family, have been scared and shivering from the bombing, are just as hungry as their people. Video is in Arabic, but self-evident.
This broke me.
رغم أهوال الحرب.. الغزيون لم يتخلوا عن قططهم
يبتسم الأطفال ويضحكون في أثناء نزوحهم إلى جنوب غزة بسبب مقدرتهم على أخذ قططهم ومواشيهم معهم. فما سر تعلق الغزي...
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November 12, 2023 at 1:07 PM
GAZAN CATS. “Despite the horrors of war, Gazans don’t abandon their cats.”
Gazans carrying their cats as they walk south. They say how their cats are family, have been scared and shivering from the bombing, are just as hungry as their people. Video is in Arabic, but self-evident.
This broke me.
Gazans carrying their cats as they walk south. They say how their cats are family, have been scared and shivering from the bombing, are just as hungry as their people. Video is in Arabic, but self-evident.
This broke me.
Excited to discuss Decolonize Self-Care on O/R Books with my co-author Zoë C. Meleo-Erwin and respondents
@catherinetan.bsky.social, Sheena Sood & Kelly Moore on Fri Nov 17 @ 5pm EST! bioethics.unc.edu/talk/decolon... bit.ly/skatselfcare
@catherinetan.bsky.social, Sheena Sood & Kelly Moore on Fri Nov 17 @ 5pm EST! bioethics.unc.edu/talk/decolon... bit.ly/skatselfcare
November 6, 2023 at 10:46 PM
Excited to discuss Decolonize Self-Care on O/R Books with my co-author Zoë C. Meleo-Erwin and respondents
@catherinetan.bsky.social, Sheena Sood & Kelly Moore on Fri Nov 17 @ 5pm EST! bioethics.unc.edu/talk/decolon... bit.ly/skatselfcare
@catherinetan.bsky.social, Sheena Sood & Kelly Moore on Fri Nov 17 @ 5pm EST! bioethics.unc.edu/talk/decolon... bit.ly/skatselfcare
This is an absurd mischaracterization of the anti-genocide/anti-war protests, @nytimes.com. You should correct this.
November 3, 2023 at 3:19 PM
This is an absurd mischaracterization of the anti-genocide/anti-war protests, @nytimes.com. You should correct this.
Tonight! Skirting at East Williamsburg Econo Lodge at 8:30pm!
November 3, 2023 at 3:12 PM
Tonight! Skirting at East Williamsburg Econo Lodge at 8:30pm!
Join us and stand up for Palestine 🇵🇸 lithub.com/join-thousan...
Join the thousands of writers who have signed this letter for Gaza.
Yesterday, a group of writers, editors, and academics known as the Writers Against the War on Gaza (WAWOG)—an ad hoc coalition committed to solidarity and the horizon of liberation for the Palestin�...
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November 1, 2023 at 4:12 PM
Join us and stand up for Palestine 🇵🇸 lithub.com/join-thousan...
Skirting is playing another show on Fri Nov 3 at the East Williamsburg Econo Lodge! Stoked to be playing with Hiko Men, Freaky Wilderness, and Monograms 🖤
October 27, 2023 at 3:34 PM
Skirting is playing another show on Fri Nov 3 at the East Williamsburg Econo Lodge! Stoked to be playing with Hiko Men, Freaky Wilderness, and Monograms 🖤
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Devil: Here's the deal: you can be the greatest city in the world...
NYC: Fuck yeah! [signs contract]
Devil: ...but I choose your mayors.
NYC: Fuck yeah! [signs contract]
Devil: ...but I choose your mayors.
October 16, 2023 at 5:59 PM
Devil: Here's the deal: you can be the greatest city in the world...
NYC: Fuck yeah! [signs contract]
Devil: ...but I choose your mayors.
NYC: Fuck yeah! [signs contract]
Devil: ...but I choose your mayors.
What the hell is wrong with Eric Adams??
October 13, 2023 at 4:28 PM
What the hell is wrong with Eric Adams??
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Read @elimeyerhoff.bsky.social and Isaac Kamola on “freedom to learn”
Freedom to Learn and Academic Freedom for All!
BY ELI MEYERHOFF AND ISAAC KAMOLA Learning is under attack. Right-wing politicians, activists, and well-funded political organizations have organized assaults on schools, universities, and librarie…
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October 11, 2023 at 4:58 PM
Read @elimeyerhoff.bsky.social and Isaac Kamola on “freedom to learn”