Hi! I’m Alex- a student, dancer, activist, southerner, and writer. I am out and proud as a queer and trans person, and I do my best to be a role […]
Revisionist History in and of Alison Bechdel’s Queer Memoir
Setting the Scene Fun Home is an authentic queer memoir detailing the lives of the Bechdel family, particularly the author, Alison, and her father, Bruce. A. Bechdel grows up in a […]
Past, Present, and Future: the State of Nations in Exit West
Exit West by Mohsin Hamid is a work of speculative fiction that follows young adults Saeed and Nadia through their journey as refugees while they escape their city and migrate […]
Reading and Writing Online: Whose Perspective Matters More?
As a member of Generation Z, I cannot understand what the world looked like before the Internet. This is the world Nicholas Carr describes in his opinion piece where he […]
Finding Family Through Tragedy: How House Bill 2 Brought Me Closer to the Trans Community
Wednesday, March 23, 2016: a day I will always remember as being filled with fear, uncertainty, and devastation. On that fateful day, the North Carolina General Assembly passed House Bill […]
Find Me Online
My TEDx talk My YouTube Channel https://www.youtube.com/c/alexdonatelli Podcast Appearances Queering the Classroom, Episode 18: https://queerclassroompodcast.libsyn.com/queering-the-classroom-episode-eighteen Out With It, Episode 1: http://outwithit.libsyn.com/episode-1-were-coming-out Out With It, Episode 2: http://outwithit.libsyn.com/episode-2-allyship Published Writing Mentions […]
GENDER IS OURS!
Gender is Ours is a project derived from GSS 350: Sex Radicals. I was in a group of five wonderful people where we spent the semester writing a manifesto, making […]
About Me
Hi! I’m Alex- a student, dancer, activist, southerner, and writer. I am out and proud as a queer and trans person, and I do my best to be a role […]
My Courses
I am a Gender Sexuality Studies major on the Histories and Genealogies track at Davidson College GSS & History HIS 336 – Sexual Revolutions: Women, Gender, & Sex in Modern Europe […]
