About

Have you ever felt like politics, government, and fights for justice have nothing to do with your actual life? As though it is all just overwhelming, annoying, and confusing?

My work is to help folks make the connections between their everyday life and politics. So by engaging with and reading my blog, readers get a better understanding of how their daily life has a lot of political meaning and can actually change their community for the better.

Politics can and must be accessible, creative, and sometimes even fun. So I center my work on using accessible language to help folks understand how politics relates to their lives, what they do, and the communities/neighborhoods they live in and serve.

Creativity + Politics = transformative justice work, which pushes back against oppression and shifts the world in a radical and subversive way.

Who I am

I am an assistant professor of political science in New York City.

I’ve been public speaking, teaching, doing activist work, and writing about politics for twenty-years.

I have a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Chicago. I am an ethnographer, researcher, writer, and political science professor, based at the City University of New York (CUNY). I am a public speaker and podcaster. Black feminist + disability justice political education is the focus of my work. I am originally from Detroit, MI :-).

Logistics

Occasionally, the blog will be updated with writing about the intersection of everyday life and politics. I like to tell stories about my life and the lives of those I encounter. I connect their emotions, spirituality, hobbies, health, joy, love, professional life and justice work to larger questions about politics, community, and a radical transformation of the world we live in.

Who is This Work Dedicated To?

I dedicate my work to my family and to our ancestors. My family has always been deeply committed to politics, justice, and black arts and culture. As a result, my deepest goal is to honor that legacy through my writing, and for my work to perpetuate those values throughout the community in an accessible and meaningful way.

Formal Bio

Dr. Alex Moffett-Bateau is an ethnographer, researcher, writer and political science professor at John Jay College – CUNY. They are a public speaker, consultant, and podcaster. Professor Moffett-Bateau holds a PhD in political science from the University of Chicago and BA in political science + African American Studies from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

Their research and writing focus on extra-systemic and subversive politics. Alex’s forthcoming book Redefining the Political argues, in order to accurately understand the political engagement of Black women living in poverty, a fundamental expansion and redefinition of what is considered, “political” is needed.

Dr. Moffett-Bateau is a political knowledge worker whose focus is on Black feminist, abolitionist, + disability justice political education. Dr. MB is originally from Detroit, Michigan and now makes her home in New York City.

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