Cancel Culture [Durham, NC]
**This course is in-person only. There is no virtual component. Participants must be age 21+
Full Tuition: $340 — Sliding-scale tuition 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: Leah Allen | 5 Weeks | Tuesdays February 25 - March 25 | 6:00 - 8:00 PM ET | In-Person | 719 N Mangum St, Durham, NC
Depending on your politics, the term cancel culture might provoke panic or fatigue. The term is overdetermined by contemporary ideology, but the concept reveals important and interesting questions: how should we treat people with whom we disagree, or who commit acts we condemn? What should we do with artists who create problematic work or who live problematic lives? Why has the idea of cancel culture gained such traction in this particular historic moment? Do the alternatives to canceling others , such as restorative justice, actually work?
This class will trace ideas associated with cancel culture through contexts such as ancient Greece, US McCarthyism, contemporary social media in mainland China, the US prison abolition movement, and the Communist Party of the U.S. Throughout, we’ll focus on discerning exactly when and for whom cancel practices can be productive versus when and for whom they are exclusively destructive. Our goal in historicizing cancel culture will be to develop productive and context-specific ways of responding to injustice and harm.
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This class will take place in person at Night School Bar in Durham. Night School requires that students refrain from attending in-person classes when sick. For more on our class policies, see our FAQ. Instructors will also follow this policy. If your instructor is sick, class may be moved to online for a session or rescheduled to the week following the final scheduled session at the instructor’s discretion.
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 the full-tuition or mid-level tuition tier 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.
**This course is in-person only. There is no virtual component. Participants must be age 21+
Full Tuition: $340 — Sliding-scale tuition 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: Leah Allen | 5 Weeks | Tuesdays February 25 - March 25 | 6:00 - 8:00 PM ET | In-Person | 719 N Mangum St, Durham, NC
Depending on your politics, the term cancel culture might provoke panic or fatigue. The term is overdetermined by contemporary ideology, but the concept reveals important and interesting questions: how should we treat people with whom we disagree, or who commit acts we condemn? What should we do with artists who create problematic work or who live problematic lives? Why has the idea of cancel culture gained such traction in this particular historic moment? Do the alternatives to canceling others , such as restorative justice, actually work?
This class will trace ideas associated with cancel culture through contexts such as ancient Greece, US McCarthyism, contemporary social media in mainland China, the US prison abolition movement, and the Communist Party of the U.S. Throughout, we’ll focus on discerning exactly when and for whom cancel practices can be productive versus when and for whom they are exclusively destructive. Our goal in historicizing cancel culture will be to develop productive and context-specific ways of responding to injustice and harm.
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This class will take place in person at Night School Bar in Durham. Night School requires that students refrain from attending in-person classes when sick. For more on our class policies, see our FAQ. Instructors will also follow this policy. If your instructor is sick, class may be moved to online for a session or rescheduled to the week following the final scheduled session at the instructor’s discretion.
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 the full-tuition or mid-level tuition tier 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.
**This course is in-person only. There is no virtual component. Participants must be age 21+
Full Tuition: $340 — Sliding-scale tuition 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: Leah Allen | 5 Weeks | Tuesdays February 25 - March 25 | 6:00 - 8:00 PM ET | In-Person | 719 N Mangum St, Durham, NC
Depending on your politics, the term cancel culture might provoke panic or fatigue. The term is overdetermined by contemporary ideology, but the concept reveals important and interesting questions: how should we treat people with whom we disagree, or who commit acts we condemn? What should we do with artists who create problematic work or who live problematic lives? Why has the idea of cancel culture gained such traction in this particular historic moment? Do the alternatives to canceling others , such as restorative justice, actually work?
This class will trace ideas associated with cancel culture through contexts such as ancient Greece, US McCarthyism, contemporary social media in mainland China, the US prison abolition movement, and the Communist Party of the U.S. Throughout, we’ll focus on discerning exactly when and for whom cancel practices can be productive versus when and for whom they are exclusively destructive. Our goal in historicizing cancel culture will be to develop productive and context-specific ways of responding to injustice and harm.
—
This class will take place in person at Night School Bar in Durham. Night School requires that students refrain from attending in-person classes when sick. For more on our class policies, see our FAQ. Instructors will also follow this policy. If your instructor is sick, class may be moved to online for a session or rescheduled to the week following the final scheduled session at the instructor’s discretion.
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 the full-tuition or mid-level tuition tier 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.