Workshop Date and Time: Saturday, June 6th, 1:30pm – 3:00pm
Workshop Location: MB 3.430
Organizers: Jorge Vallejos, York University
Workshop Description: This workshop introduces letter-writing to academics as a form of care for themselves and care for others. Academia, especially at the graduate level, can be isolating, confusing, and hostile. Merging theory and practice of radical self-care, co-created by disabled QTBIPOC poets Audre Lorde and Gloria Anzaldua, with epistolary herstory and writings by feminist academics (Acevedo-Zapata, Channa, Khang Le) who write letters as praxis, I will share letter-writing as act and site of reflection, research, and resistance. Our group will discuss and practice letter-writing as a way of being that is different from the individualistic norm of the patriarchal academic industrial complex.
Maximum Number of Participants: 12
