Alexis Poindexter, Author at The Oxford Blue

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Identity

A Divine Comedy: Christians Are Christianity’s Worst Enemy

by Alexis Poindexter March 3, 2025March 3, 2025

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Satire: How to Not Be an American Abroad

by Alexis Poindexter November 30, 2024December 1, 2024

Identity

Faith, Fractured: Confronting Cracks and Complexities of Christianity

by Alexis Poindexter October 30, 2024January 22, 2025

Second Draft: Teary-eyed goodbyes

Alexis Poindexter Jul 23, 2026 10 min read

Illustration of themes and objects relating to Oxford.

“For the past 20 minutes, I have been staring at an empty word document. This was categorically not the plan. When I started writing my…

Tommy Robinson Appearance at Oxford Union Sparks Mass Protest

Alexis Poindexter Jun 27, 2026 3 min read

Image credit to Thomas Yates, used with permission.

Who Gets to Remember?: When nostalgia becomes dangerous

Alexis Poindexter Jun 21, 2026 7 min read

The wisteria on the wall of Jesus College, Oxford.

“At the individual level, the mismatch between memory and history appears fairly harmless. For the collective, it can be terrible. The present, the only actuality,…

Monoculture isn’t dead, it’s online

Alexis Poindexter Jun 21, 2026 6 min read

A LAN party in the Winter 2004 DreamHack.

Culture feels chaotic right now. The times of communion over music videos on MTV are officially over, and our lives are split across millions of…