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Reading Group: Becoming-Woman
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On April 5th, Quiver will discuss “Becoming-Woman.”
Rather than discuss the notorious section of A Thousand Plateaus on becoming-woman, we instead consider the woman as an escapee.
Our conversation will begin with a portion of Hélène Cixous’s essay “The Laugh of the Medusa.” With it we consider the practice of writing, the insurgency of the feminine, and the practice of undoing the self.
A selection on wayward lives from Saidiya Hartman’s “A Riot of Young Girls Assembled in a Riotous Manner” guides the second half of our discussion. In it, we speculate on the practices of women who lived so fugitively that little of them remains in the archives outside a record of their repression.
ReadingsRather than discuss the notorious section of A Thousand Plateaus on becoming-woman, we instead consider the woman as an escapee.
Our conversation will begin with a portion of Hélène Cixous’s essay “The Laugh of the Medusa.” With it we consider the practice of writing, the insurgency of the feminine, and the practice of undoing the self.
A selection on wayward lives from Saidiya Hartman’s “A Riot of Young Girls Assembled in a Riotous Manner” guides the second half of our discussion. In it, we speculate on the practices of women who lived so fugitively that little of them remains in the archives outside a record of their repression.
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