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Andrea Pitts (they/them/elle en español) is an interdisciplinary researcher and educator whose publications and pedagogy focus on carceral medicine and radical health activism, Latin American and U.S. Latina/x feminisms, prison and police abolition, queer migration studies, critical transgender politics, and disability justice. They are author of Nos/Otras: Gloria E. Anzaldúa, Multiplicitous Agency, and Resistance (2021), and co-editor of Trans Philosophy (2024), Theories of the Flesh: Latinx and Latin American Feminisms, Transformation, and Resistance (2020), and Beyond Bergson: Examining Race and Colonialism through the Writings of Henri Bergson (2019). Their current book project Latina/x Abolitionist Feminisms: Incarceration, Agency, and Coalitional Politics examines the philosophical contributions made by U.S Latina/x activists and scholars critiquing state violence, prisons, and policing from the 1960s to the early 2000s.
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Latin American and U.S. Latinx feminisms, critical prison studies, radical health activism, queer of color critique, transgender studies, and disability justice
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