Wild adventures in thought and deed: in conversation with Kathleen Quinlivan

Professor Kathleen Quinlivan died in 2020; she was based at the University of Canterbury Christchurch. A conversation between and Mary Lou Rasmussen, conducted 2020, makes up bulk this afterword; were longtime friends collaborators. This resonates with Kathleen’s intellectual vitality underscores a wild ethos that drove passion for social political change. an important figure development sexuality education Australia New Zealand. Over several decades undertook research on topics expanded field made interventions advocated not safety or assimilation, but pleasure, wildness potentiality failure. In talks about her early life experiences, within outside education, reflects how these informed theoretical commitments willingness to take risks, fail, persist cultivating ‘“a non-stupid” optimism’; term borrowed from U.S. playwright Tony Kushner.