Event overview
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This lecture offers a meditation on how fragility can be a source of connection and affinity between those deemed "too easily breakable."
This is the opening lecture for the Spring Term for the Centre for Feminist Research.
This lecture is drawn from Professor Ahmed's forthcoming book, Living a Feminist Life (Duke University Press, 2017), which calls for us to bring feminist theory 'back to life,' by thinking of feminism as a life question. The book explores feminism as how we bump into things; how we navigate restrictions that are in the world. The lecture reflects on fragility as a thread that connects different experiences: ordinary breakages of ordinary things; the shattering effects of doing diversity work in institutions where histories have become hard as walls; how some relationships are assumed as fated to break and how we live with that assumption; what breaks when bones break and what it means to inhabit the fragility of one's own bodily situation. The aim is to show how fragility can provide the basis for a feminist, queer and crip ethics: one that makes a shattering the start of something.
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 20 Jan 2016 | 6:00pm - 7:30pm |
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