Feminist & Anti-Racist Philosophies of Rage [Online]
Full Tuition: $320 — Scholarship options are available in the drop-down enrollment menu for you to self-select. To pay in installments, choose to pay with PayPal at check out.
Instructor: Annu Dahiya | 5-weeks | Thursdays September 12 - October 10 | 7:00 - 9:00 PM ET | ONLINE
In her 1981 speech titled “The Uses of Anger: Women Responding to Racism,” Audre Lorde argued that anger and rage are the result of racism and sexism, but that anger is not futile. Instead, it is “loaded with information and energy.” By acknowledging our rage, we can take the first step in urgent battles against racism and sexism, as well as class exploitation and climate change. In other words, we might ask: what are the political uses of anger? As Lester C. Olson argues, it is important to attend to anger, since it is “prismatic” in that it has powerful uses and also is a possible hazard in that it can harm our bodies, and cause chronic illnesses. How can we use our anger without annihilating ourselves? Or, does the explosion of our rage, as Frantz Fanon argues, open up the possibility for us to “experience self-knowledge and the reconstruction of ourselves”?
We’ll begin by exploring the relationship between anger, rage, emotion, and affect. We will study how it is not our anger that is the “problem,” but rather the systems of oppression and hatred aimed at our destruction. We will spend five weeks naming the sources of our anger and imagining a feminist, anti-colonial, and anti-racist rechanneling of anger and rage into what Susan Stryker calls “the basis of self-affirmation, intellectual inquiry, moral agency, and political action.” In addition to Lorde, Fanon, and Stryker, thinkers will include bell hooks, Brittney Cooper, Sarah Ahmed, Frantz Fanon, and Myisha Cherry.
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Recordings may be provided upon request for missed classes.
Sliding Scale: Night School Bar pays instructors and staff a living wage. We ask that people who make above the living wage threshold for their area strongly consider choosing 75% or higher tuition tiers in order to support our own living wage program. For Durham, NC, where we are located, the living wage threshold is $49,000 for an individual. All scholarship needs are self-assessed, and we will never request or require proof of need.
Scholarships: We are currently able to offer three full scholarships per class. Our full scholarship tier is a nonrefundable offering, limited to one per student per month. Because our scholarship funding is limited, selecting multiple full scholarships in a single month will result in disenrollment from all classes. If the scholarship tier you need is sold out please email us directly, and we will add you to a waitlist and notify you if additional scholarships become available. Please see our FAQ for more information, including installment plans and refund policy.
Asynchronous Auditing: Classes are discussion-based and designed to be taken synchronously. However, we do offer an asynchronous audit option for most online classes if you need to follow along at your own pace. You must choose the audit option to receive all course recordings; please do not register using a scholarship if you do not plan to attend the majority of class sessions as you will not receive the recording materials to follow along. We do not automatically offer scholarships for auditors, but if you need one, you may request one by filling out this form.
Full Tuition: $320 — Scholarship options are available in the drop-down enrollment menu for you to self-select. To pay in installments, choose to pay with PayPal at check out.
Instructor: Annu Dahiya | 5-weeks | Thursdays September 12 - October 10 | 7:00 - 9:00 PM ET | ONLINE
In her 1981 speech titled “The Uses of Anger: Women Responding to Racism,” Audre Lorde argued that anger and rage are the result of racism and sexism, but that anger is not futile. Instead, it is “loaded with information and energy.” By acknowledging our rage, we can take the first step in urgent battles against racism and sexism, as well as class exploitation and climate change. In other words, we might ask: what are the political uses of anger? As Lester C. Olson argues, it is important to attend to anger, since it is “prismatic” in that it has powerful uses and also is a possible hazard in that it can harm our bodies, and cause chronic illnesses. How can we use our anger without annihilating ourselves? Or, does the explosion of our rage, as Frantz Fanon argues, open up the possibility for us to “experience self-knowledge and the reconstruction of ourselves”?
We’ll begin by exploring the relationship between anger, rage, emotion, and affect. We will study how it is not our anger that is the “problem,” but rather the systems of oppression and hatred aimed at our destruction. We will spend five weeks naming the sources of our anger and imagining a feminist, anti-colonial, and anti-racist rechanneling of anger and rage into what Susan Stryker calls “the basis of self-affirmation, intellectual inquiry, moral agency, and political action.” In addition to Lorde, Fanon, and Stryker, thinkers will include bell hooks, Brittney Cooper, Sarah Ahmed, Frantz Fanon, and Myisha Cherry.
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Recordings may be provided upon request for missed classes.
Sliding Scale: Night School Bar pays instructors and staff a living wage. We ask that people who make above the living wage threshold for their area strongly consider choosing 75% or higher tuition tiers in order to support our own living wage program. For Durham, NC, where we are located, the living wage threshold is $49,000 for an individual. All scholarship needs are self-assessed, and we will never request or require proof of need.
Scholarships: We are currently able to offer three full scholarships per class. Our full scholarship tier is a nonrefundable offering, limited to one per student per month. Because our scholarship funding is limited, selecting multiple full scholarships in a single month will result in disenrollment from all classes. If the scholarship tier you need is sold out please email us directly, and we will add you to a waitlist and notify you if additional scholarships become available. Please see our FAQ for more information, including installment plans and refund policy.
Asynchronous Auditing: Classes are discussion-based and designed to be taken synchronously. However, we do offer an asynchronous audit option for most online classes if you need to follow along at your own pace. You must choose the audit option to receive all course recordings; please do not register using a scholarship if you do not plan to attend the majority of class sessions as you will not receive the recording materials to follow along. We do not automatically offer scholarships for auditors, but if you need one, you may request one by filling out this form.
Full Tuition: $320 — Scholarship options are available in the drop-down enrollment menu for you to self-select. To pay in installments, choose to pay with PayPal at check out.
Instructor: Annu Dahiya | 5-weeks | Thursdays September 12 - October 10 | 7:00 - 9:00 PM ET | ONLINE
In her 1981 speech titled “The Uses of Anger: Women Responding to Racism,” Audre Lorde argued that anger and rage are the result of racism and sexism, but that anger is not futile. Instead, it is “loaded with information and energy.” By acknowledging our rage, we can take the first step in urgent battles against racism and sexism, as well as class exploitation and climate change. In other words, we might ask: what are the political uses of anger? As Lester C. Olson argues, it is important to attend to anger, since it is “prismatic” in that it has powerful uses and also is a possible hazard in that it can harm our bodies, and cause chronic illnesses. How can we use our anger without annihilating ourselves? Or, does the explosion of our rage, as Frantz Fanon argues, open up the possibility for us to “experience self-knowledge and the reconstruction of ourselves”?
We’ll begin by exploring the relationship between anger, rage, emotion, and affect. We will study how it is not our anger that is the “problem,” but rather the systems of oppression and hatred aimed at our destruction. We will spend five weeks naming the sources of our anger and imagining a feminist, anti-colonial, and anti-racist rechanneling of anger and rage into what Susan Stryker calls “the basis of self-affirmation, intellectual inquiry, moral agency, and political action.” In addition to Lorde, Fanon, and Stryker, thinkers will include bell hooks, Brittney Cooper, Sarah Ahmed, Frantz Fanon, and Myisha Cherry.
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Recordings may be provided upon request for missed classes.
Sliding Scale: Night School Bar pays instructors and staff a living wage. We ask that people who make above the living wage threshold for their area strongly consider choosing 75% or higher tuition tiers in order to support our own living wage program. For Durham, NC, where we are located, the living wage threshold is $49,000 for an individual. All scholarship needs are self-assessed, and we will never request or require proof of need.
Scholarships: We are currently able to offer three full scholarships per class. Our full scholarship tier is a nonrefundable offering, limited to one per student per month. Because our scholarship funding is limited, selecting multiple full scholarships in a single month will result in disenrollment from all classes. If the scholarship tier you need is sold out please email us directly, and we will add you to a waitlist and notify you if additional scholarships become available. Please see our FAQ for more information, including installment plans and refund policy.
Asynchronous Auditing: Classes are discussion-based and designed to be taken synchronously. However, we do offer an asynchronous audit option for most online classes if you need to follow along at your own pace. You must choose the audit option to receive all course recordings; please do not register using a scholarship if you do not plan to attend the majority of class sessions as you will not receive the recording materials to follow along. We do not automatically offer scholarships for auditors, but if you need one, you may request one by filling out this form.