322) Alexis Shotwell: Purity politics in compromised times

What is it that drives our individualistic pursuits for ethical purity? How do we embrace complicity as the starting point and begin to take responsibility for our messy histories? In this episode, we're joined by Dr. Alexis Shotwell, whose work focuses on complexity, complicity, and collective transformation. A professor at Carleton University, on unceded Algonquin land, she is the co-investigator for the AIDS Activist History Project and the author of Knowing Otherwise: Race, Gender, and Implicit Understanding and Against Purity: Living Ethically in Compromised Times. The musical offering shared in this episode is Mother by Jared Sowan, provided to us by Indigenous Cloud. Green Dreamer is a community-supported podcast and multimedia journal exploring our paths to collective healing, ecological regeneration, and true abundance and wellness for all. Support our work: Patreon.com/GreenDreamer *Our episodes are minimally edited. Please view them as invitations to dive deeper into every topic explored and resource mentioned.