Forging Feminist Futures: An Interview with Alex Martinis Roe

Abstract

At the center of Berlin-based Australian artist and writer Alex Martinis Roe’s work is the concept of feminist genealogies. In her films and writing, and in the public conversations and encounters she organizes, Alex develops experimental and non-linear methods of forging relationships across generations. From 2012 to 2016, she engaged with feminist collectives in six cities across Europe and Australia in order to learn with and from their organizing practices, their ways of doing history, and their modes of theorizing. The result, To Become Two, was a series of films and a book, in which her goal was, as she writes, “to put forth a feminist political theory that outlines the importance of e..