diff --git a/src/Control/Concurrent/Thread/Finalizers.hs b/src/Control/Concurrent/Thread/Finalizers.hs
--- a/src/Control/Concurrent/Thread/Finalizers.hs
+++ b/src/Control/Concurrent/Thread/Finalizers.hs
@@ -1,12 +1,16 @@
 {-# LANGUAGE MagicHash #-}
 {-# LANGUAGE UnboxedTuples #-}
-module Control.Concurrent.Thread.Finalizers where
+module Control.Concurrent.Thread.Finalizers
+  ( mkWeakThreadIdWithFinalizer
+  , addThreadFinalizer
+  , finalizeThread
+  ) where
 import Control.Concurrent
 import Control.Exception
 import Control.Monad ( void )
 import GHC.IO (IO(..))
 import GHC.Prim ( mkWeak# )
-import GHC.Weak ( Weak(..) )
+import GHC.Weak ( Weak(..), finalize )
 import GHC.Conc.Sync ( ThreadId(..) )
 
 -- | A variant of 'Control.Concurrent.mkWeakThreadId' that supports
@@ -40,3 +44,11 @@
 -}
 addThreadFinalizer :: ThreadId -> IO () -> IO ()
 addThreadFinalizer tid m = void $ mkWeakThreadIdWithFinalizer tid m
+
+{-|
+  Run a thread's finalizers. This is just a convenience alias for 'System.Mem.Weak.finalize'.
+
+  The thread can still be used afterwards, it will simply not run the associated finalizers again.
+-}
+finalizeThread :: Weak ThreadId -> IO ()
+finalizeThread = finalize
diff --git a/thread-utils-finalizers.cabal b/thread-utils-finalizers.cabal
--- a/thread-utils-finalizers.cabal
+++ b/thread-utils-finalizers.cabal
@@ -1,11 +1,11 @@
 cabal-version: 1.12
 
--- This file has been generated from package.yaml by hpack version 0.34.4.
+-- This file has been generated from package.yaml by hpack version 0.35.2.
 --
 -- see: https://github.com/sol/hpack
 
 name:           thread-utils-finalizers
-version:        0.1.0.0
+version:        0.1.1.0
 synopsis:       Perform finalization for threads.
 description:    Please see the README on GitHub at <https://github.com/iand675/thread-finalizers#readme>
 category:       Concurrency