Decolonize Self-Care

About the Author

Alyson K. Spurgasis Associate Professor of Sociology and affiliated faculty in the Women's, 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 ofDiagnosing 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 outwww.alysonkspurgas.comfor info about Alyson's writing, teaching, speaking events, and more.

Zoe C. Meleo-Erwinis 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 Shringarpureis a writer, academic and founding editor ofWarscapesmagazine. She is the author ofCold War Assemblages: Decolonization to Digitaland a regular contributor toThe Los Angeles Review of BooksandAfrica is a Country. She currently runs theRadical Books Collectivewhich pushes for an alternative, inclusive and non-commercial approach to books and reading.