Decolonize Self-Care

About Alyson K. SpurgasZoe C. Meleo-ErwinZoe Meleo Erwin

Alyson K. Spurgas is Associate Professor of Sociology and affiliated faculty in the Womens Gender & Sexuality Studies Program at Trinity College in Hartford Connecticut. Spurgas researches writes and teaches about the sociology of trauma the politics of desire and technologies of care from an interdisciplinary and intersectional feminist perspective. They are also the author of Diagnosing Desire: Biopolitics and Femininity into the Twenty-First Century (The Ohio State University Press 2020) which won the 2021 Cultural Studies Association First Book Prize. Alyson lives in Brooklyn New York with their amazing partner and cat. Check out www.alysonkspurgas.com for info about Alysons writing teaching speaking events and more. Zoë C. Meleo-Erwin is a qualitative sociologist and former assistant professor of public health. In 2022 she left academia to pursue a career as a user experience researcher in the tech industry. As a scholar her work focused on the meanings of health and illness health decision-making experiences of embodiment and the ways in which digital technologies facilitate the creation of both identity and community around health and illness. A list of her publications can be found on her website www.zoemeleoerwin.com Bhakti Shringarpure is a writer academic and founding editor of Warscapes magazine. She is the author of Cold War Assemblages: Decolonization to Digital and a regular contributor to The Los Angeles Review of Books and Africa is a Country. She currently runs the Radical Books Collective which pushes for an alternative inclusive and non-commercial approach to books and reading.