Reading Group

This groups meets Sundays via Zoom from 8:00 pm to 9:00 pm PT. Send us an email to join the current Poli-Ed Reading Group or just show up!

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Our next book will be Disability Intimacy: Essays on Love, Care, and Desire edited by Alice Wong. We will start discussing the Introduction and Poem 1 on May 17th. Schedule TBA.

We are currently reading Disability Intimacy: Essays on Love, Care, and Desire edited by Alice Wong.

Discussion Guide by Esmé Weijun Wang

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• Sunday, May 17 – Introduction and Poem 1
• Sunday, May 24 – Part 1: Love and Care pages 7 – 42.
  Unspooling by Nicole Lee Schroeder. Rosasharon Teaches Me to Breathe: On Animals, Disabilities, and Intimacies by Ada Hubrig. The Last Walk by Melissa Hung. My Journey to Motherhood: A Parenting Odyssey by Marie E. S. Flores. To the You that Used to Be Home: An Anatomy of a Disabled Heartbreak by Mia Mingus.
• Sunday, May 31 – Part 1: Love and Care pages 43 – 84.
  Care During COVID: Photo Essay on Interdependence by Kennedy Healy and Marley Molkentin. This Is Mu Solemn Vow by Maria Town. The Exhaustion of Pretense and the Illusions of Care by Khadijah Queen. The Most Valuable Thing I Can Teach My Kid is how to Be Lazy by Elliot Kukla.
• Sunday, June 7 – Part 1: Love and Care pages 85 – 115.
  What Getting My First Milwaukee Back Brace Was Like by Ingrid Tischer. Igniting Our Power by Reclaiming Intimacy by Ashley Volion and Akemi Nishida. Primary Attachment by Yomi Sachiko Wong. Poem: Elegy for a Mask Mandate.
• Sunday, June 14 – Part 2: Pleasure and Desire pages 119 – 159.
  Skin Hunger and the Taboo of Wanting to Be Touched by s.e. smith. Know Me Where It Hurts: Sex, Kink, and Cerebral Palsy by Carrie Wade. Staring at Curvature by Travis Chi Wing Lau. republics of desire: disabled lineages of longing by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha.
• Sunday, June 21 – Part 2: Pleasure and Desire pages 160 – 192.
  Strange Love via Crip with a Whip by Robin Wilson-Beattie. Pleasure Is the Point: On Becoming a Pleasure Artist by Sami Schalk. How I’m Navigating Play Parties as a Disabled, Immunocompromised Kinkster by Jade T. Perry. Hi, Are You Single? by Ryan J. Hadded. Poem: doppelgänger by Cyrée Jarelle Johnson.
• Sunday, June 28 – Part 3: Creativity and Power pages 193 – 228.
  Soa by Pelenakeke Brown. My Journey with Beadwork by Sarah A. Young Bear-Brown. Disabled Queer Love Exists by Tee Franklin. Letters I Never Sent by Sejal A. Shah.
• Sunday, July 5 – Part 3: Creativity and Power pages 229 – 260.
  “many of whom have never been and are like me and feel alienated by it”: Access Intimacy in Archives by Gracen Brilmyer. Love Letter to London by Emilie L. Gossiaux. Crip Ecologies: Complicate the Conversation to Reclaim Power by Naomi Ortiz. Poem: Top Secret Club Abjection by Ashna Ali.
• Sunday, July 12 – Part 4: Everything and Everywhere pages 261 – 304.
  an incantation. by Aimi Hamraie. The Leg Chapter by Ashley Shew. First of All, I Love You by Dr. Syrus Marcus Ware. Profoundly Together by The Redwoods. Strange New Worlds and Other Love Language by Marieke Nijkamp.
• Sunday, July 19 – Part 4: Everything and Everywhere pages 305 – 341.
  Crip Class by Gabrielle Peters. A Tale of Three Hospitals by Jaipreet Virdi. Dreaming of Black Disability Doulas: An Imagining by Moya Bailey. Thirteen Considerations of the Holy Bug by Claude Olson.
  

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Books, movies, & essays we’ve previously discussed:

Reading Guide

http://www.deanspade.net/mutual-aid-building-solidarity-during-this-crisis-and-the-next/

Study Guide created by Radical in Progress

Teaching Guide

Links to interviews about Abolish Rent

Printable workbook

Discussion Guide: Discussion questions and further resources, curated by Rachael Zafer

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Health Communism with Beatrice Adler-Bolton on Upstream: https://sites.libsyn.com/435210/health-communism-with-beatrice-adler-bolton-in-conversation

Reading & Discussion guide

1. “The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House” by Audre Lorde.
2. “Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power” by Audre Lorde
3. “Choosing the Margin as a Space of Radical Openness” by bell hooks

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Possible future reads:

Lean on Me: A Politics of Radical Care by Lynne Segal

Disability Intimacy: essays on love, care, and desire edited by Alice Wong

We Will Not Cancel Us or Pleasure Activism by adrienne maree brown

Outgrowing Modernity: navigating complexity, complicity, and collapse with accountability and compassion by Vanessa Machado de Oliveira

All This Safety Is Killing Us: Health Justice Beyond Prisons, Police, and Borders -Abolitionist Frameworks and Practices from Clinicians, Organizers, and Incarcerated Activists. Foreword by Rachel Herzing Edited by Ronica Mukerjee and Carlos Martinez

Love in a F*cked-Up World: How to Build Relationships, Hook Up, and Raise Hell Together by Dean Spade

It Was Vulgar and It Was Beautiful: How AIDS Activists Used Art to Fight a Pandemic by Jack Lowery

The Ugly Laws: Disability in Public by Susan M. Schweik

A Short History of Trans Misogyny by Jules Gill-Peterson

Feminist, Queer, Cri by Alison Kafer

Less is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World by Jason Hickel

Unbuild Walls: Why Immigrant Justice Needs Abolition by Silky Shah

Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism
by Michael Parenti