Writing Feminist Life Together

What moment in your life, perhaps your childhood, best reminds you of your innate capacity to resist social scripts of conformity that never made sense to you? Why are adults sleeping as global warming heads toward us and why are so many kids waking up and demanding change? And what is the connection between our unconscious, our creativity, and finding ways to build better worlds together? I ask these questions and meditate on the dearly beloved feminist theorist Gloria Anzaldúa.

This is the first pod done just to assist graduate and university students on the pressures of writing within institutionalized education. It is based on my Wellness Writing Workshops (see kimberlybgeorge.com for more information). We will talk about what it means to reconnect to the affective meanings of your work, the purposes and communities you are writing for/with, and why writing amidst relations of power is such a challenge.

In this episode, I discuss: * Making writing journals with your kids and teaching them about trusting their inner life! * Inviting men to learn feminist theory and integrate their mind and their body. * Why Descartes didn't trust his body or his senses. * Why living with chronic pain can teach us to dissociate as a form of survival; and how we start trusting again our body's messages about what is inflaming us. * How the mind-body binary sneaks in a hierarchy. *How that hierarchy gets mapped onto social relations.

How can feminist writing practices help us get closer to the knowledge inside ourself that is both powerful and entwined within deep grief labor? And how do we learn to hold that process as it unfolds? What changes in ourselves and our relationships along the way?

This episode offers my PhD research at the intersections of neuroscience, therapy, and feminist writing practices to talk about what the processes of recognition—and non recognition—do to us. I especially highlight Black feminist thinkers at this nexus of ideas.