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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 Medua.” 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 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 Medua.” 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 lived so fugitively that little of them remains in the archives outside a record of their repression.
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