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Sep 28, 2022 · Devika Chotoe


Reading Group – Session 4: Embodying Change



Technologies of self-care and creativity can help undermine the intergenerational and sociopolitical traumas and mechanisms perpetuated within the body. Following a discussion of ways to do this, performance artist Fazle Shairmahomed guides a somatic practice.

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Silvia Federici, ‘In Praise of the Dancing Body’ from Beyond the Periphery of the Skin: Rethinking, Remaking, and Reclaiming the Body in Contemporary Capitalism, PM Press/Kairos, 2019. ›››

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José Esteban Muńoz, Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity, New York University Press, 2009. ›››

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Nicole LePera, How To Do the Work: Recognize Your Patterns, Heal From Your Past and Create Yourself, Harper Collins Publishers, 2021. ›››

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Kai Cheng Thom, ‘Righteous Callings: Being Good, Leftist Orthodoxy, and the Social Justice Crisis of Faith’ from I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl’s Notes from the End of the World, Arsenal Pulp Press, 2019. ›››

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Resmaa Menakem, ‘Your Soul Nerve’ from My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies, Penguin Books, 2021. ›››

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Adrienne Maree Brown, ‘Liberating Your Fantasies’ from Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good, AK Press, 2019. ›››

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Juliette Singh, ‘The Body Archive’ from No Archive Will Restore You, Punctum Books, 2018. ›››

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Ursula K. Le Guin, The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction, Ignota Books, 1986. ›››

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ALOK, Your Wound / My Garden, ALOK Enterprises, 2021. ›››