bell hooks: Radical Love I Thursday, February 20
bell hooks: Radical Love I Thursday, February 20
Workshop Description: Our everyday ideas about love are over-saturated in capitalist consumption and deeply disconnected from personal and social transformation. Black feminist theorist bell hooks’ works on love invites us to fundamentally reimagine what we understand love to be. For hooks, love is a necessary dimension of liberation and a core component of both personal and political self-determination and self-actualization. In All about Love: New Visions, hooks argues that we do not “fall” in love. Rather love, is a choice we consciously make to connect with others. She calls into question our everyday ideas about love, declaring that love is antithetical to abuse, and shares a “recipe” of love as a combination of trust, commitment, care, respect, and knowledge, and responsibility. When we begin to rethink love, we begin to practice a love ethic that can challenge the culture of domination we currently live within–one that is fundamentally anti-love. In this workshop, we will engage with ideas from hooks’ famous All About Love: New Visions, as well as her lesser known but equally thought-provoking book Salvation: Black People and Love and her essay “Love as the Practice of Freedom.” Students will come away with a foundational understanding of hooks’ theory of love that they can practice and embody in their lives. This workshop is open to all.
bell hooks: Radical Love I Thursday, February 20
Workshop Description: Our everyday ideas about love are over-saturated in capitalist consumption and deeply disconnected from personal and social transformation. Black feminist theorist bell hooks’ works on love invites us to fundamentally reimagine what we understand love to be. For hooks, love is a necessary dimension of liberation and a core component of both personal and political self-determination and self-actualization. In All about Love: New Visions, hooks argues that we do not “fall” in love. Rather love, is a choice we consciously make to connect with others. She calls into question our everyday ideas about love, declaring that love is antithetical to abuse, and shares a “recipe” of love as a combination of trust, commitment, care, respect, and knowledge, and responsibility. When we begin to rethink love, we begin to practice a love ethic that can challenge the culture of domination we currently live within–one that is fundamentally anti-love. In this workshop, we will engage with ideas from hooks’ famous All About Love: New Visions, as well as her lesser known but equally thought-provoking book Salvation: Black People and Love and her essay “Love as the Practice of Freedom.” Students will come away with a foundational understanding of hooks’ theory of love that they can practice and embody in their lives. This workshop is open to all.
bell hooks: Radical Love I Thursday, February 20
Workshop Description: Our everyday ideas about love are over-saturated in capitalist consumption and deeply disconnected from personal and social transformation. Black feminist theorist bell hooks’ works on love invites us to fundamentally reimagine what we understand love to be. For hooks, love is a necessary dimension of liberation and a core component of both personal and political self-determination and self-actualization. In All about Love: New Visions, hooks argues that we do not “fall” in love. Rather love, is a choice we consciously make to connect with others. She calls into question our everyday ideas about love, declaring that love is antithetical to abuse, and shares a “recipe” of love as a combination of trust, commitment, care, respect, and knowledge, and responsibility. When we begin to rethink love, we begin to practice a love ethic that can challenge the culture of domination we currently live within–one that is fundamentally anti-love. In this workshop, we will engage with ideas from hooks’ famous All About Love: New Visions, as well as her lesser known but equally thought-provoking book Salvation: Black People and Love and her essay “Love as the Practice of Freedom.” Students will come away with a foundational understanding of hooks’ theory of love that they can practice and embody in their lives. This workshop is open to all.