we are made of
cells & stories…

welcome

I’m Alexandra Middleton, the Allie in limin(allie)ty.

anthropologist by vocation; writer by soul; photographer by heart; yoga & meditation guide by spirit; runner by nature

All of these parts and paradoxes —art & science, research & esoterism, praxis & poeisis—I weave into facilitating communities & practices that support people to create from/through/into the body.

I am an Assistant Professor of medical anthropology at the University of Copenhagen, and hold a PhD in anthropology from Princeton University. I am also a nonfiction essayist with words most recently in The Rumpus, Electric Literature and Off Assignment.

I am the founder & facilitator of WITHIN : a method, workshop series, and global community for somatic writing. My Substack newsletter, THE LIMINAL, celebrates the art (and mess) of living betwixt & between.

Above all else, I believe deeply in the power of human story—and that the most vital stories of our time live deep within our bodies.

[līmen] - a threshold

liminality is an anthropological concept describing an ambiguous threshold, neither here nor there.

it is also a space of creativity, possibility, and social change. previous ways of being dissolve as new ones emerge.

limin(allie)ty is a meeting place for connection and inquiry, relating to and with processes of unfolding, unfurling, becoming.

my writing, photographs, movement practices, workshops, and anthropological research all explore—and celebrate—this messiness:

the betwixt and between of being and becoming human.

words

  • essays + criticism here
    academic articles here
    portrait interviews here
    newsletter on Substack

  • *coming soon

    inquire at hello@liminalliety.com

research

  • medical anthropology
    neuroprosthetics
    feminist science & technology studies
    embodiment
    human-machine relations
    disability studies / crip technoscience
    assistive reproductive technology
    sensory studies
    ethnographic writing


    learn more here

  • current project: assisted reproduction, frontier technology, and cultures of (m)otherhood in Sweden and the US, funded by a Marie Curie Fellowship and the European Research Council

    PhD project and forthcoming book: experimental neuroprosthetics and lived embodied science in Sweden

    past work: indigenous medicine and global health in Togo, West Africa

    learn more here

somatic writing

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within — a method, workshop series, and global community for writing from, through, and into the body

 
 

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THE LIMINAL

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