Student Organized Seminar (298-0-20)

Topic

Writing as a Liberatory Practice

Instructors

Mesmin Patrick Destin

Meeting Info

Annenberg Hall 303: Tues, Thurs 3:30PM - 4:50PM

Overview of class

Inspired by bell hooks' phrase "Education as a practice of freedom," together we will learn how to engage in writing (and revision) as a practice of liberation. We will engage with the works of transformative and visionary writers to help us explore, imagine, and design liberated worlds. In this course, writing will serve as the vessel and vehicle for individual reflection, co-discovery, and worldbuilding. Throughout the quarter, we will write to develop our personal and collective voices during writing (and revision) workshops using the frameworks of "writing as thinking" and "poetic sensibility." We will intentionally journey through the realms of the personal, the interpersonal, and an emergence into the transpersonal. We will interrogate our relationships to systems of oppression and personal theories of writing while simultaneously deepening our relationships to resistance, healing, and emergence. Our most important goal will be to create a space of radical openness, love, and learning.

"The act of writing is the act of making soul, alchemy."
Gloria Anzaldúa

Registration Requirements

Please fill out the intake form: https://forms.gle/Rg5zj3nGXmzJygfo6