We’ll read Johanna Hedva’s Sick Woman Theory and Audre Lorde’s Erotics as Power to talk about how our bodies might move us towards a politics of feeling.
Reading for the Restless is a four-part reading forum and learning community for artists, cultural practitioners, facilitators, as well as youth and education workers. The project is for people across the North West who are passionate about social justice, human rights, self expression, learning and unlearning, with a focus on developing practice. One of the focuses of the programme looks at theory - expressly queer theory - and thinks about how we might put some of these ways of thinking into practice and activate change within the communities we work within.
We’ll meet online (Zoom), with breaks and different ways of being together.
The first session starts with the body. How do we read in an embodied way? What do we bring to the texts that we read, and how might this affect our ways of being together? We’ll read Johanna Hedva’s Sick Woman Theory and Audre Lorde’s Erotics as Power to talk about how our bodies might move us towards a politics of feeling.
We’ll let you know our rough plan for the session along with the reading materials a month before the session and you can let us know if you have any access requirements. We will host an introduction session on the 15th April, if you would like to find out more or contribute to the reading list.
Safer spaces
A Zoom link will be provided to all registered attendees ahead of this event.
We invite you to read our Safer Spaces policy before attending.
Further sessions
This session is the first of four. Future sessions will look at:
Getting together: How might Queerness be used to practise solidarity with other people?
Strange, odd and other: How do bigger systems in society affect our practice?
Failure and dealing with rupture: How can Queerness teach us to get it wrong and do it anyway?
Free
