bell hooks: Radical Love [4-weeks, $120 Suggested]
Instructor: Dahiya | Tuesdays May 4-25 | 8:00-9:30 PM ET
The work of bell hooks has been a central foundation of black feminist thought, so much so that the concept of ‘intersectionality’ couldn’t have been developed without her work on the margins. Less often studied is her work on love. But for bell hooks, transformational and revolutionary politics, including racial and gender justice, require us to begin from the position of radical love. In her essay, “Love as the Practice of Freedom,” hooks writes, “without love, our efforts to liberate ourselves and our world community from oppression and exploitation are doomed. As long as we refuse to address fully the place of love in struggles for liberation we will not be able to create a culture of conversion where there is a mass turning away from an ethic of domination.” In this formulation, an ethic of love is crucial for resisting what hooks calls the everyday “culture of domination,” which is fundamentally “anti-love.”
In this theory seminar, we will study the relationship between love and politics. How have imperialism, racism, sexism, and classism shaped what hooks terms the “culture of domination” that we live in, one that is fundamentally anti-love? How does this culture of domination inform and shape our relation to ourselves and to each other? Following hooks, what does it mean to understand love as a practice? How might we practice an anti-racist feminist love? How might conceptually studying love help us reimagine what radical politics could and should be?
We depend on a mix of direct student donations and supplemental donations to make all classes pay-what-you-can. Please pick the pricing tier that corresponds with your needs and that you are able to pay now. If you would like to pay in installments, make your first payment now and make a note on your check-out form. If you would like to donate more later in the term, you can always come back and use the “Make a One Time Donation” button! To use a full scholarship, just pick the $3 tier to cover site/processor fees.
If at any point up to 48 hours before your first class session you realize you will be unable to take the class, we will work with you to reallocate your funds to a future class, to another student’s scholarship, or refund it. After classes begin, we are only able to make partial refunds and adjustments.
Instructor: Dahiya | Tuesdays May 4-25 | 8:00-9:30 PM ET
The work of bell hooks has been a central foundation of black feminist thought, so much so that the concept of ‘intersectionality’ couldn’t have been developed without her work on the margins. Less often studied is her work on love. But for bell hooks, transformational and revolutionary politics, including racial and gender justice, require us to begin from the position of radical love. In her essay, “Love as the Practice of Freedom,” hooks writes, “without love, our efforts to liberate ourselves and our world community from oppression and exploitation are doomed. As long as we refuse to address fully the place of love in struggles for liberation we will not be able to create a culture of conversion where there is a mass turning away from an ethic of domination.” In this formulation, an ethic of love is crucial for resisting what hooks calls the everyday “culture of domination,” which is fundamentally “anti-love.”
In this theory seminar, we will study the relationship between love and politics. How have imperialism, racism, sexism, and classism shaped what hooks terms the “culture of domination” that we live in, one that is fundamentally anti-love? How does this culture of domination inform and shape our relation to ourselves and to each other? Following hooks, what does it mean to understand love as a practice? How might we practice an anti-racist feminist love? How might conceptually studying love help us reimagine what radical politics could and should be?
We depend on a mix of direct student donations and supplemental donations to make all classes pay-what-you-can. Please pick the pricing tier that corresponds with your needs and that you are able to pay now. If you would like to pay in installments, make your first payment now and make a note on your check-out form. If you would like to donate more later in the term, you can always come back and use the “Make a One Time Donation” button! To use a full scholarship, just pick the $3 tier to cover site/processor fees.
If at any point up to 48 hours before your first class session you realize you will be unable to take the class, we will work with you to reallocate your funds to a future class, to another student’s scholarship, or refund it. After classes begin, we are only able to make partial refunds and adjustments.
Instructor: Dahiya | Tuesdays May 4-25 | 8:00-9:30 PM ET
The work of bell hooks has been a central foundation of black feminist thought, so much so that the concept of ‘intersectionality’ couldn’t have been developed without her work on the margins. Less often studied is her work on love. But for bell hooks, transformational and revolutionary politics, including racial and gender justice, require us to begin from the position of radical love. In her essay, “Love as the Practice of Freedom,” hooks writes, “without love, our efforts to liberate ourselves and our world community from oppression and exploitation are doomed. As long as we refuse to address fully the place of love in struggles for liberation we will not be able to create a culture of conversion where there is a mass turning away from an ethic of domination.” In this formulation, an ethic of love is crucial for resisting what hooks calls the everyday “culture of domination,” which is fundamentally “anti-love.”
In this theory seminar, we will study the relationship between love and politics. How have imperialism, racism, sexism, and classism shaped what hooks terms the “culture of domination” that we live in, one that is fundamentally anti-love? How does this culture of domination inform and shape our relation to ourselves and to each other? Following hooks, what does it mean to understand love as a practice? How might we practice an anti-racist feminist love? How might conceptually studying love help us reimagine what radical politics could and should be?
We depend on a mix of direct student donations and supplemental donations to make all classes pay-what-you-can. Please pick the pricing tier that corresponds with your needs and that you are able to pay now. If you would like to pay in installments, make your first payment now and make a note on your check-out form. If you would like to donate more later in the term, you can always come back and use the “Make a One Time Donation” button! To use a full scholarship, just pick the $3 tier to cover site/processor fees.
If at any point up to 48 hours before your first class session you realize you will be unable to take the class, we will work with you to reallocate your funds to a future class, to another student’s scholarship, or refund it. After classes begin, we are only able to make partial refunds and adjustments.