The Decolonial Body: Shifting Perspectives

How and why are some bodies seen as less human or more submissive than others?

Join the first Wrkwrkwrk reading group, led by Gabriela Loureiro.

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Texts:

Pinho, P. and Silva, E.B. (2010) ‘Domestic relations in Brazil: Legacies and Horizons’, Latin American Research Review, 45(2) pp. 90–113.

Alzandúa, G. (1987) ‘Chapter 7: La conciencia de Ia mestiza: Towards a New Consciousness’. In: Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza. San Francisco: Aunt Lute Book Company. pp. 77-91

Fanon, F. (1952) From ‘The Fact of Blackness’. In: Atkinson, T. 2005. The body. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, pp.98-109.

The Second Mother Trailer (2015) Directed by Anna Muylaert [Film]. Brazil: Africa Filmes, Globo Filmes, Gullane Filmes.

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All reading group meetings are free and open to all!

They take place at the University of West London. Find directions to the campus: https://wrkcollective.tumblr.com/directions

Let us know you’re coming by emailing wrkwrkwrkcollective@gmail.com and we’ll send you room directions.

The readings can be accessed here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0BxqnDsyg9zD_M1hsSzhRLTJTM0k?usp=sharing

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Wrkwrkwrk is a feminist study group supporting emerging research and new ways of thinking about media, technology, decoloniality and the body.