Reimagining Intimacy [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: Phillip Stillman | Sundays May 18-June 15 | 6:00-8:00 PM | In-Person, 719 N Mangum St, Durham, NC
To be in love: to be with someone who is your best friend, but also your favorite lover; a supportive listener, but not an emotional drain; a partner in crime, but one you could open a bank account with, maybe even have a baby with—all in just one person. Unlikely as it sounds, most of us seem to rank romantic love, and its traditional consequence, the biological family, among the basic features of a livable life. Few of us can imagine intimacy in any other form. But shouldn’t we? This course is about imagining new, urgently needed forms of kinship, some of which include sex and sexuality, but many of which don’t. We’ll read a mix of thinkers from philosophers like Michel Foucault and bell hooks to writers like Angela Chen and Roxane Gay, but mostly we’ll be talking together, forming a little intellectual community of our own, and reimagining intimacy.
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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: Phillip Stillman | Sundays May 18-June 15 | 6:00-8:00 PM | In-Person, 719 N Mangum St, Durham, NC
To be in love: to be with someone who is your best friend, but also your favorite lover; a supportive listener, but not an emotional drain; a partner in crime, but one you could open a bank account with, maybe even have a baby with—all in just one person. Unlikely as it sounds, most of us seem to rank romantic love, and its traditional consequence, the biological family, among the basic features of a livable life. Few of us can imagine intimacy in any other form. But shouldn’t we? This course is about imagining new, urgently needed forms of kinship, some of which include sex and sexuality, but many of which don’t. We’ll read a mix of thinkers from philosophers like Michel Foucault and bell hooks to writers like Angela Chen and Roxane Gay, but mostly we’ll be talking together, forming a little intellectual community of our own, and reimagining intimacy.
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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: Phillip Stillman | Sundays May 18-June 15 | 6:00-8:00 PM | In-Person, 719 N Mangum St, Durham, NC
To be in love: to be with someone who is your best friend, but also your favorite lover; a supportive listener, but not an emotional drain; a partner in crime, but one you could open a bank account with, maybe even have a baby with—all in just one person. Unlikely as it sounds, most of us seem to rank romantic love, and its traditional consequence, the biological family, among the basic features of a livable life. Few of us can imagine intimacy in any other form. But shouldn’t we? This course is about imagining new, urgently needed forms of kinship, some of which include sex and sexuality, but many of which don’t. We’ll read a mix of thinkers from philosophers like Michel Foucault and bell hooks to writers like Angela Chen and Roxane Gay, but mostly we’ll be talking together, forming a little intellectual community of our own, and reimagining intimacy.
—
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.