INTERSECTIONAL ACTIVISM
Sun, June 21 '15 – Sun, August 30 '15
2pm – 7pm
⌘intersectional activism, decolonization, incarceration⌘
sundays 2-4pm @ silent barn 603 bushwick ave, brooklyn, ny 11206
a course detailing the rise of intersectionality theories, deployed to mean both intersectional bodies and critique. we'll explore the intersections of race, gender, class and disability, and consider the recognition and limits of a politics grounded in identity markers.
syllabus and all readings can be found at: www.intersectionalactivism.com
Week I: Introductions to Intersectionality [June 21]
Week II: Diversity, Inclusion, Multiculturalism [June 28]
Week III: Disidentifications, Borderlands, and Indigeneity [July 5]
Week IV: ~~~NO CLASS~~~ [July 12]
Week V: Anticolonialism and Postcolonialism [July 19]
Week VI: Cyborg Feminism [July 26]
Week VII: Cultural Property and “Appropriation” [August 2]
Week VIII: Labor, Disability, and the Right Not to Work [August 9]
Week IX: Privilege Politics and Safer Spaces [August 16]
Week X: Orientalism, Ornament, Cultural Imperialism [August 23]
Week XI: Queering Abolition and the Prison Industrial Complex [August 30]
readings from: kimberle crenshaw, angela davis, bell hooks, gayatri spivak, frantz fanon, fred moten, donna haraway, christina hanhardt, gloria anzaldua, jose munoz, dean spade, lisa nakamura, andrea smith
join our hepta skool group for more information: https://www.facebook.com/groups/825955077441283/
