PREVIOUS COURSES
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Previous Courses
![Mutual Aid as Social Transformation [Online]](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605bf6f7806ef72325672f7f/1700322102155-1NEO6ZTPFM3QC7X4EHJ3/1.png)
![Feminist and Anti-Racist Philosophies of Space and Time [Online]](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605bf6f7806ef72325672f7f/1707508750387-2JR152XM122TY1LQL247/Cover+-+Phil+of+Space+%26+Time.png)
![Sleep, Dreams, and the End of Capitalism [Durham, NC]](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605bf6f7806ef72325672f7f/1707505092998-BSU0USCUAHV2UW2ZB5MK/Cover+-+Sleep%2C+Dreams%2C+%26+Cap.png)
![Sarah Jaffe’s Work Won’t Love You Back Reading Group [Durham, NC]](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605bf6f7806ef72325672f7f/1707523653378-K93L2GOUQEM4X7DAECGS/Cover+-+Work+Won%27t+Love+You+Back-2.png)
![Mark Fisher’s Capitalist Realism Reading Group [Online]](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605bf6f7806ef72325672f7f/1707508582230-P6TWXQG4MMAOEGZ5VHWM/Cover+-+Capitalist+Realism.png)
![Carson McCullers’s The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter Reading Group [Durham, NC]](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605bf6f7806ef72325672f7f/1707505643456-BQL2HFL4QKY4HE1VFBFY/Cover+-+Lonely+Hunter.png)
![Autotheory: An Intertextual Writing Workshop [Online]](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605bf6f7806ef72325672f7f/1711994414750-4R0JZWGKRMMR0WHQXBVV/Screen+Shot+2024-04-01+at+1.59.37+PM.png)
![Gossip as Alternative History [Online]](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605bf6f7806ef72325672f7f/1707509603609-SR50UDWGJZ294Z2OVRFP/Cover+-+Gossip+Alt+History.png)
![Silvia Federici's Caliban and the Witch Reading Group [Durham, NC]](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605bf6f7806ef72325672f7f/1711207692082-E8U0US477W07C6WL515H/Screen+Shot+2024-03-23+at+11.22.37+AM.png)
![Feminist and Anti-Racist Futures: A Fiction Intensive [Online]](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605bf6f7806ef72325672f7f/1707507993390-K0X4SX4FSRM7SKDWJL0V/Cover+-+Fem+%26+Anti-R+Futures.png)
![NSB Film School: The Films of Greta Gerwig [Durham, NC]](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605bf6f7806ef72325672f7f/1707504319218-MJ4BP8D3WBDOMFX3V5IK/Cover+-+NSB+Film+Gerwig.jpg)
![What Is Neoliberalism? [Durham, NC]](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605bf6f7806ef72325672f7f/1714842084849-BAG0YB60628XNV4SZYMZ/Screen+Shot+2024-05-04+at+12.59.23+PM.png)
![NSB Film School: Food on Film [Durham, NC]](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605bf6f7806ef72325672f7f/1714662848020-9SO9EPQET7QVUHKL6LLG/Screen+Shot+2024-05-02+at+10.55.46+AM.png)
![Sigmund Freud’s The Interpretation of Dreams Reading Group [Durham, NC]](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605bf6f7806ef72325672f7f/1707506509608-SWPDEPV7EVASQ0N3MIBV/Cover+-+Interpretation+of+Dreams-2.png)
![Drawing Non-Fiction Comics: A Generative Workshop [Durham, NC]](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605bf6f7806ef72325672f7f/1714662407746-1FA5XZKL24B9C2JFJ7QN/Screen+Shot+2024-05-02+at+11.00.49+AM.png)
![Beyond the Non-Profit Industrial Complex [Durham, NC]](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605bf6f7806ef72325672f7f/1707506760047-6SRXWWA6OKD4A5YFPAOW/Cover+-+Nonprofit+Complex.png)
![Autotheory: An Intertextual Writing Workshop [Durham, NC]](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605bf6f7806ef72325672f7f/1707507292511-01EMBQB814RKC1J69NJ7/Cover+-+Autotheory.png)
![Feminist and Anti-Racist Philosophies of Rest and Liberation [Online]](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605bf6f7806ef72325672f7f/1716044903889-3WLRE88X7KC5URI6E4WN/Screen+Shot+2024-05-18+at+11.07.49+AM.png)
![Exploring Flash: A Generative Writing Workshop [Durham, NC]](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605bf6f7806ef72325672f7f/1717253845682-3IG3PD4KVCJBP6F6KO59/4.png)
![NSB Film School: Sex Work on Screen [Durham, NC]](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605bf6f7806ef72325672f7f/1719328527999-2AOZ6AIV21NKADM3J7WY/SexWordOnScreen.jpg)
![Summer Songwriting Intensive: A Generative Workshop [Durham, NC]](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605bf6f7806ef72325672f7f/1717253547418-UI15JIRR9I48H8S3OPRT/5.png)
![Wages for Housework [Durham, NC]](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605bf6f7806ef72325672f7f/1719250107488-VW3DDO0465SDWKK54YVH/Screen+Shot+2024-06-24+at+1.24.04+PM.png)
![Wages for Housework [Online]](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605bf6f7806ef72325672f7f/1719250255781-UVP377PZUSCPF8N4X767/Screen+Shot+2024-06-24+at+1.24.17+PM.png)
![James Baldwin Teach-In [Durham, NC]](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605bf6f7806ef72325672f7f/1721515754723-TW5N176OCPAYPA770I8G/Screen+Shot+2024-07-20+at+6.48.54+PM.png)
![Beyond the Non-Profit Industrial Complex [Online]](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605bf6f7806ef72325672f7f/1716732074901-YU587LY793L01168THGU/Screen+Shot+2024-05-26+at+9.56.27+AM.png)
![Monica Byrne's The Actual Star (reading group) [Durham, NC]](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605bf6f7806ef72325672f7f/1720378173360-IV1HK1MMWZPACSLH9WZE/79.jpg)
![Monica Byrne's The Actual Star (reading group) [Online]](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605bf6f7806ef72325672f7f/1720377916383-CJQD9TNJ1WRI9D4SI14L/78.jpg)
![NSB Film School: Fembots, AI, and Emotional Labor [Durham, NC]](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605bf6f7806ef72325672f7f/1719512956414-ICT1AVMWQSUU5MHAFB55/Screen+Shot+2024-06-27+at+2.22.22+PM.png)
![Improvising for Social Change: A Generative Art and Action Workshop [Durham, NC]](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605bf6f7806ef72325672f7f/1719346759651-2VQASH9M61ODV9EEYFDK/Screen+Shot+2024-06-25+at+4.08.18+PM.png)
![Fall Fundraiser Teach-In: How to Talk about the Problem with Capitalism [Online]](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605bf6f7806ef72325672f7f/1722525079636-JRY8V372FSGYDH9UV3JG/Screen+Shot+2024-08-01+at+11.11.01+AM.png)
![Fall Fundraiser Teach-In: bell hooks on Engaged Pedagogy [Online]](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605bf6f7806ef72325672f7f/5f0b4cfc-2d54-454c-872e-6da580fb7b13/Screen+Shot+2024-08-18+at+12.02.24+PM.png)
![Fall Fundraiser Teach-In: Anti-Fascism and Finnegans Wake [Online]](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605bf6f7806ef72325672f7f/1722533048433-I8BF1ZMYLUEA70IRO407/Screen+Shot+2024-08-01+at+1.23.44+PM.png)
![Fall Fundraiser Teach-In: Ecology and Disability [Online]](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605bf6f7806ef72325672f7f/1722526451730-TBLRH92ELGIUNI8U59U9/Screen+Shot+2024-08-01+at+11.33.54+AM.png)
![Premilla Nadasen’s Care: The Highest Stage of Capitalism (Reading Group) [Durham, NC]](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605bf6f7806ef72325672f7f/1721700569528-E1G2FJGJ1LQ5YRC4S38B/Cover+-+CARE.png)
![William Faulkner’s The Sound and The Fury (Reading Group) [Online]](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605bf6f7806ef72325672f7f/1721700686145-6DOAHCMP3I3LNAOU408E/Cover+-+Sound+%26+Fury.png)
![Teach-In: The Uses of Anger [Online]](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605bf6f7806ef72325672f7f/6f7eaff4-8a65-43a8-a3c5-b5457269cfff/Audre+Lorde+Uses+of+Anger+Teach-In.png)
![Post-Capitalist Ecology [Durham, NC]](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605bf6f7806ef72325672f7f/1721700724649-M0NRXXGK40HUH7I6WQE7/Cover+-+Post-Cap+Ecology+%281%29.png)
![Past, Present, and Future: A Writing Workshop for The Age of Emergency [Online]](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605bf6f7806ef72325672f7f/1721700756290-ZYQ5NW31MOQIQIQAJ8TY/Cover+-+PastPresFuture.png)
![NSB Film School: Mothering Pedro Almodóvar [Durham, NC]](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605bf6f7806ef72325672f7f/1721700452251-QQG6NIDWF7Q5KPG57P9B/Cover+-+Mothering+Pedro+Almodo%CC%81var.png)
![Anti-Psychiatry: Cultural Critiques of the Mental Health Industrial Complex [Durham, NC]](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605bf6f7806ef72325672f7f/1721700886733-ZGOAO2BSSK0VDKMXT7SN/Cover+-+Anti-Psychiatry.png)
![James Baldwin’s The Fire Next Time (Reading Group) [Online]](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605bf6f7806ef72325672f7f/1721701028998-7B9DTRSV256VOJ3FLTW4/Cover+-+Baldwin+Fire+Next+Time.png)
![Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and the Birth of Science Fiction (Reading Group) [Online]](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605bf6f7806ef72325672f7f/ae899b29-b3ec-4482-9b8a-2360cbae1365/1.png)
![Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and the Birth of Science Fiction (Reading Group) [Durham, NC]](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605bf6f7806ef72325672f7f/e4670f5b-a27c-4b36-b345-8a9dc86277a9/2.png)
![Feminist & Anti-Racist Philosophies of Rage [Online]](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605bf6f7806ef72325672f7f/1721700972353-R964FHC0MJLG6LXDP5OK/Cover+-+Fem+%26+Anti-R+Phil+of+Rage.png)
![The Right to the City: Discussion with Nate Baker [Durham, NC]](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605bf6f7806ef72325672f7f/a7a6bf6e-3507-4c58-824f-f82eb79097ce/Right+to+the+City.jpg)
![Feminist Disability Studies [Online]](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605bf6f7806ef72325672f7f/1721950952951-5K9ZI9JXMBKNMK1DAF3N/Cover+-+Fem+Disability+Studies.png)
![Rebecca Solnit’s Hope in the Dark (Reading Group) [Online]](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605bf6f7806ef72325672f7f/1721951154394-BGGCSUTZ7BS5Q9LUIS4F/Cover+-+Hope+in+Dark.png)
![Experimental Selves: A Genre-Blending Writing Workshop [Durham, NC]](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605bf6f7806ef72325672f7f/1721950990037-N98ZPBG2TPFALUX9G87A/Cover+-+Experimental+Selves.png)
![Border Work: Race, Labor, and Ethnonationalism [Durham, NC]](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605bf6f7806ef72325672f7f/1721951053318-VNGP7QKRRUMVY3EHWL6G/Cover+-+Border+Work.png)
![Writing for Revolution: Writing Workshop [Online]](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605bf6f7806ef72325672f7f/1721951019000-Z2FN07CY7M0DZKY6LQUO/Cover+-+Writing+for+Rev+%281%29.png)
![NSB Film School: Witches [Durham, NC]](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605bf6f7806ef72325672f7f/1721951091503-559J5CX3YQSDRO9P72R3/Cover+-+Witches.png)
![Storytelling with Tarot: A Fiction Writing Workshop [Durham, NC]](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605bf6f7806ef72325672f7f/2f34e845-91f7-4e41-b311-356478cc7d97/2.png)
![Pleasure as Praxis [Online]](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605bf6f7806ef72325672f7f/1722096501185-KMR9O03VRDAN3MZ5WQSI/Screen+Shot+2024-07-27+at+12.07.59+PM.png)
![Manifesto! A Writing Workshop [Durham, NC]](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605bf6f7806ef72325672f7f/1721951183661-EZW022WCX9X8GWKR0FSW/Cover+-+Manifesto%21.png)
![The Anti-Essential Foucault [Durham, NC]](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605bf6f7806ef72325672f7f/1722011126592-6QMHT164QFB1ZXM5Z73V/Screen+Shot+2024-07-26+at+12.13.36+PM.png)
![Ursula Le Guin's The Left Hand of Darkness (Reading Group) [Durham, NC]](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605bf6f7806ef72325672f7f/bceb98f4-81e3-4388-a494-56bd0d0b0ca9/1.png)
![Winter Songwriting Intensive [Durham, NC]](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605bf6f7806ef72325672f7f/2c1b26c6-a239-4915-b265-4bd45c8f64ca/1.png)
![NSB Film School: Greek Weird Wave[Durham, NC]](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605bf6f7806ef72325672f7f/1722455080614-SVCFYFMTA71LTSLTE52Z/1.png)
![Winter Sowing Workshop: the easiest way to start seeds [Durham, NC]](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605bf6f7806ef72325672f7f/6ab1fb87-2791-4801-9af4-8428491130cd/Winter+Sowing+Workshop.png)
![Songwriting with Myth & Folktale [Durham, NC]](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605bf6f7806ef72325672f7f/bb1c0831-b87a-4151-bf18-24237ce069bf/1.png)
![Gustave Flaubert’s Madame Bovary Reading Group [Durham, NC]](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605bf6f7806ef72325672f7f/9da32625-a7b1-4e1c-91d9-ba55848850d0/1.png)
![Resistance and Revolution in Latin America [ONLINE]](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605bf6f7806ef72325672f7f/7f66dfb7-4cf9-4e2b-b0a4-fc7f00fcbc68/3.png)
![Resistance and Revolution in Latin America [Durham, NC]](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605bf6f7806ef72325672f7f/57ce85b8-4a1e-4458-bcb3-f5a29d7de5c3/1.png)
![NSB Film School: Climate Crisis in Cinema [Durham, NC]](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605bf6f7806ef72325672f7f/555918c7-755b-4cf1-96f4-86624638d24f/1.png)
![Loneliness: Art, Psychology, Society [Durham, NC]](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605bf6f7806ef72325672f7f/15fe4a43-464a-4236-ab6c-84d5f174f696/3.png)
![Loneliness: Art, Psychology, Society [ONLINE]](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605bf6f7806ef72325672f7f/86fdb4b2-de34-4800-b793-ededf0ab25ed/1.png)
![Exploring Flash: A Writing Workshop [ONLINE]](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605bf6f7806ef72325672f7f/bf471105-2fe2-43de-ad66-59bf45e6288f/3.png)
![Readings in Urban Theory [Durham, NC]](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605bf6f7806ef72325672f7f/50eebc1b-b192-4f3c-a072-490de07bfe24/1.png)
![Exploring Flash: A Writing Workshop [Durham, NC]](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605bf6f7806ef72325672f7f/18b96e70-4fb5-4808-b697-cf0e90f5e4f3/1.png)
![Songwriting in the Folk Ballad Tradition [Durham, NC]](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605bf6f7806ef72325672f7f/80f85082-f51c-4210-9b29-94602adfca81/1.png)
![NSB Film School: Cults in Film & Theory [Durham, NC]](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605bf6f7806ef72325672f7f/2dcc05db-004b-4384-b61c-344250458317/Cult+in+Film+%281%29.png)
![Kids and Capitalism [ONLINE]](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605bf6f7806ef72325672f7f/63625d1e-13d7-4998-a25a-10923d160fec/1.png)
![Kids and Capitalism [Durham, NC]](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605bf6f7806ef72325672f7f/8a55ddc8-bcc9-4e2d-a12f-a45080cd86e8/3.png)
![Cancel Culture [Durham, NC]](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605bf6f7806ef72325672f7f/5ce49e6e-d24f-445f-9188-eed71151aa7f/Cancel+Culture.png)
![Invasive Plant Removal Workshop [Durham, NC]](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605bf6f7806ef72325672f7f/a7d703fd-7293-445b-9abc-38a3e688be99/Screenshot+2025-02-06+at+12.15.39%E2%80%AFPM.png)
![NSB Film School: Hybrid Documentary [Durham, NC]](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605bf6f7806ef72325672f7f/67dc590f-2549-458e-b15e-a57a9392b213/1.png)
![Magical Realism: Writing Workshop [Durham, NC]](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605bf6f7806ef72325672f7f/20d37cee-8495-4ec6-8c0c-a578f658d0c7/1.png)
![Magical Realism: Writing Workshop [ONLINE]](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605bf6f7806ef72325672f7f/85723f93-7a85-490d-9620-92d8e38cc22f/3.png)
![Mysticisms: Truth and Transgression [Durham, NC]](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605bf6f7806ef72325672f7f/69ec638e-c978-4392-a66c-a90fa71ea1d3/Cover+-+Def+ReligionMysticism-2.png)
![Mark Fisher's Capitalist Realism (Reading Group) [Durham, NC]](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605bf6f7806ef72325672f7f/d7c320fb-b956-41a1-97c8-1544e9ec259b/Cover+-+Capitalist+Realism.png)
![NSB Film School: Reel Sports [Durham, NC]](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605bf6f7806ef72325672f7f/4970efcd-d429-41cb-891b-450c09ba1e57/Cover+-+NSB+Film+Reel+Sports.png)
![Dreams: Art, Psychology, History [Durham, NC]](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605bf6f7806ef72325672f7f/c615b705-6e90-4724-b78b-f8afed4fdb73/Cover+-+Dreams.png)
![David Graeber & Practical Utopia: An Introduction [Durham, NC]](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605bf6f7806ef72325672f7f/ccad3bf0-9bd3-482b-801b-67ffc984fe4a/Winter+Sowing+Workshop-2.png)
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