[Berlin]

Discussion: Simone White
May 20, 2018, 7:00 pm
at Savvy Contemporary

EXERCISE #2: ​​​​​​​TALKWITH  Simone White Free of charge Within the framework of WE WHO ARE NOT THE SAME, a research project which looks at and challenges decolonial intersectional feminist practices and politics, we are honoured to welcome Simone White for the second set of exercises – a writing workshop on the POETICS OF REFUSAL (applications closed) and a talk titled Erotic Power / Erotic Punishment: This talk names dangers, violations, punishments faced by women who seek and know freedom today. If the erotic is "an assertion of the lifeforce of women," let us be interested in theorizing, bringing to language, the idea, "lifeforce of women," what courses through us and what discourse and weapons try to stop our living. Simone Withe will attend to the figures of the mistress, the single mother, the ride or die/trap queen. How does the life/force of the black woman artist or intellectual navigate the figuration of her disfigurement, her atrocity, her undesirability? How much does sex cost? More info here.