Purity, Impurity and Separation

What happens when we stop trying to keep ourselves—and the world—neatly separated? In this episode of thinking bodies, Anna Mudde and Kristin Rodier explore María Lugones’s “Purity, Impurity, and Separation” (1994), a powerful feminist philosophy of multiplicity, domination, and resistance--one that is relevant for current discussions of purity politics, among other things.

With contributions from Adriana Rincón-Villegas and Brooke Rudow, we unpack Lugones’s critique of the “logic of purity,” her concept of mestizaje, and the ways social categories divide, simplify, and control complex lives.

Plus!--mayonnaise and the radical possibility of being gloriously impure.

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Keywords: purity politics, María Lugones; Purity, Impurity, and Separation; feminist philosophy; purity politics; logic of purity; mestizaje; multiplicity; decolonial feminism; Latina feminism; oppression; logic of purity; purity politics; feminist theory; feminist philosophy of oppression; plurality; difference; mixed identities; intersectionality; domination; resistance

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