Reading for the Restless Session One: Bodies

Name: Reading for the Restless Session One: Bodies
Start: 2024-05-25T14:00:00+01:00
End: 2024-05-25T17:00:00+01:00
Location: Virtual Event

The first of our reading forum sessions starts with the body. How do we read in an embodied way? How might this affect our politics and ways of being

Saturday 25th May 2024

Virtual Event in Online

2:00pm til 5:00pm

Minimum Age

18+

Saturday 25th May 2024

Virtual Event in Online

2:00pm til 5:00pm

Minimum Age

18+

Reading for the Restless Session One: Bodies

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Reading for the Restless Session One: Bodies

About

We’ll read Johanna Hedva’s Sick Woman Theory and Audre Lorde’s Erotics as Power to talk about how our bodies might move us towards a politics of feeling.

Reading for the Restless is a four-part reading forum and learning community for artists, cultural practitioners, facilitators, as well as youth and education workers. The project is for people across the North West who are passionate about social justice, human rights, self expression, learning and unlearning, with a focus on developing practice. One of the focuses of the programme looks at theory - expressly queer theory - and thinks about how we might put some of these ways of thinking into practice and activate change within the communities we work within.

We’ll meet online (Zoom), with breaks and different ways of being together.

The first session starts with the body. How do we read in an embodied way? What do we bring to the texts that we read, and how might this affect our ways of being together? We’ll read Johanna Hedva’s Sick Woman Theory and Audre Lorde’s Erotics as Power to talk about how our bodies might move us towards a politics of feeling.

We’ll let you know our rough plan for the session along with the reading materials a month before the session and you can let us know if you have any access requirements. We will host an introduction session on the 15th April, if you would like to find out more or contribute to the reading list (see our website for further details).

Safer spaces

A Zoom link will be provided to all registered attendees ahead of this event.

We invite you to read our Safer Spaces policy at the bottom of this page before attending.

Further sessions

This session is the first of four. Future sessions will look at:

Getting together: How might Queerness be used to practise solidarity with other people?
Strange, odd and other: How do bigger systems in society affect our practice?
Failure and dealing with rupture: How can Queerness teach us to get it wrong and do it anyway?

Safer Spaces

At Heart of Glass we believe that it is our responsibility to create spaces, both offline and online, that are welcoming and respectful to everyone.

Adhering to these agreements is a collective responsibility and everyone is individually responsible for checking their own behaviour.

The following list of agreements is not exhaustive and if anyone would like the list to be amended, we encourage you to contact us and help us to make our space safer for all.

If you are under 14, please make sure that you are accompanied by an adult (18 years or older) when attending our online events.

Racism, as well as ageism, homophobia, biphobia, sexism, transphobia, ableism, or prejudice based on ethnicity, nationality, class, gender, gender presentation, language ability, asylum status or religious affiliation is neither accepted or welcome.

Both physical and emotional boundaries must be respected including explicit verbal consent before engaging in any physical contact with someone or crossing personal boundaries.

Bring an awareness of the space you hold, the positions and privileges you bring, including racial, class and gender privilege and how these may affect others.

Never make assumptions on the opinions and identifications of other participants or audiences without kindly asking first and then engaging in active listening.

Make every effort in your interactions with others to not judge, look down on another or enter into competition.

Be aware of the language you use in discussions and exchanges and how this relates to others.

Work together to foster a spirit of mutual respect: Listen to the wisdom everyone has to share.

Give generously to each person the time and space to speak and share their thoughts and ideas. In discussions, raise your hand (or virtual hand on Zoom!) to speak, do not interrupt others, and be kind with your words.

‘Respect the person; challenge the behaviour.’

These agreements are shared by anyone who engages with Heart of Glass, either offline at our events and workshops, or online via our social media channels and events hosted on Zoom, Youtube or other platforms.

If someone violates these agreements a discussion or mediation process can happen with the help of another person, depending on the wishes of the person who was violated. If a serious violation happens to the extent that someone feels unsafe, the offending party can be asked to leave the online or physical space and/or event all together. Those present can nominate the person or process that can mediate if needed.

Heart of Glass is very grateful to the Social Art Network (SAN) for giving us permission to reproduce an edited version of this Safer Spaces Policy, originally published as part of their Social Art Summit in November 2018.

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