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Radical Feminisms

[[UPDATE: the class has already started, but you are welcome to join in at any time... Please see this blog for regular updates: http://excoradfeminisms.wordpress.com/ -- and email the facilitator at eli.meyerhoff@gmail.com if you'd like to join.]]

What is radical feminism today?  How can we incorporate radical feminist practices in our activism and everyday lives?

This class will approach these questions through reading and discussing contemporary feminist texts (reading 20-50 pages per week), and talking about these ideas in relation to our experiences and situations.  We will start with Nina Power's One Dimensional Woman, which critiques up-beat feminisms and offers a more anti-capitalist approach.  Nina is a rad philosopher and the author of a cool blog: infinite th0ught.  Here’s a blurb about the book:

Facilitator email(s): 
eli.meyerhoff@gmail.com

Location

Arise Books
2441 Lyndale Ave. S.
Minneapolis, MN 55405
United States
See map: Google Maps
Facilitator's experience: 
I am a novice with feminist theory, which is why I am organizing this class: in order to learn, through discussion with others, how to infuse radical feminist practices into my organizing. My activism includes organizing with the U of M chapter of the Experimental College, conferences about university struggles (http://beneaththeu.org - http://reworkingtheu.org), and grad student-worker unionization. Also, at the U of M, I'm writing my dissertation in political science (a critical analysis of the American education system and an exploration of alternative forms of education, particularly through activist co-research with EXCO).
Facilitator phone number(s): 
763-607-7034
Class minimum size: 
5
Class maximum size: 
35
Time/Location
Class times: 
February 22, 2010 - 6:00pm - 8:00pm
March 1, 2010 - 6:00pm - 8:00pm
March 8, 2010 - 6:00pm - 8:00pm
March 15, 2010 - 6:00pm - 8:00pm
March 22, 2010 - 6:00pm - 8:00pm
March 29, 2010 - 6:00pm - 8:00pm
April 5, 2010 - 6:00pm - 8:00pm
April 12, 2010 - 6:00pm - 8:00pm
April 19, 2010 - 6:00pm - 8:00pm
April 26, 2010 - 6:00pm - 8:00pm
May 3, 2010 - 6:00pm - 8:00pm
May 10, 2010 - 6:00pm - 8:00pm
May 17, 2010 - 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Additional class time information: 
*** The class time is not set! - Participants will determine it collectively via an online survey before the first class. If more than 15 people sign-up, we'll split the class into two groups at two different times. ***
Address: 
Arise Books
2441 Lyndale Ave. S.
Minneapolis, MN 55405
United States
44° 57' 30.15" N, 93° 17' 16.7676" W
See map: Google Maps
Additional class location information: 
if this location does not work for most participants, we can choose another location, such as the U of M campus, May Day Books, or a coffee shop.
Register: 
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a reading and discussion group on radical feminist theories and practices
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Activist/Militant Research in the Twin Cities

Are you a leftist activist?  Would you like to do collaborative research that helps your activism? Are you open to transforming yourself and your projects through the process of research?

If so, then this class is for you.  The purpose of the class is to learn and practice what has been called ‘activist’ or ‘militant research.’  One of its contemporary practitioners, the Colectivo Situaciones from Argentina, defines it as the following:
“Militant research is a concept-tool that works on the premise that all interpretation of the world is linked to some kind of action. Related to practices of co-research and institutional analysis, militant research proposes that all new knowledge production affects and modifies the bodies and subjectivities of those who have participated. Rather than use research as a tool to categorize and separate knowledge from practice, militant research operates transversally, becoming part of the process that organizes relationships between bodies, knowledge, social practices and fields of action.” (http://www.situaciones.org/ )

Facilitator email(s): 
eli.meyerhoff@gmail.com
Facilitator's experience: 
I have co-facilitated three EXCO classes before: Theorizing the University, Radical Mapping: a Disorientation Guide for the University of Minnesota, and Radical Pedagogies. I have been a teaching assistant for about ten classes at the U of MN, as a graduate student in the philosophy and political science departments. I am just learning about the topic of this class, 'activist/militant research,' but I have tried to carry out such research in an amateur way: in my work as an organizer with EXCO and the grad student-worker unionization efforts at the U of MN.
Facilitator phone number(s): 
763-607-7034
Class minimum size: 
5
Class maximum size: 
25
Time/Location
Class times: 
February 14, 2010 (All day) - May 9, 2010 (All day)
Additional class time information: 
TBD collectively once all participants have signed up
Additional class location information: 
As I am an EXCO organizer, I will figure out and reserve the location for the class on my own.
Register: 
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a discussion group on theories and practices of integrating collaborative research with activism -
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