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Pleasure Activism

Love what you do, how you do it, and the body you do it in

Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good by Adrienne Maree Brown (Editor)

February 3, 2021 by zinka Leave a Comment

Woof. I have been reading a lot of really amazing critical work this year and a lot of it has been just for fun. Also, a lot of it makes me feel like my brain is exploding but in a way that feels really really good to me, and I think Adrienne Maree Brown would approve.   Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good, by Adrienne Maree Brown, is a collection of essays, interviews, and other writing by Brown as well as a series of […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Non-Fiction Tagged With: activism, Adrienne Maree Brown (Editor), Black Feminism, critical theory, culture, essays, feminism, interviews, pleasure, sex, somatic theory

zinka's CBR13 Review No:6 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Non-Fiction · Tags: activism, Adrienne Maree Brown (Editor), Black Feminism, critical theory, culture, essays, feminism, interviews, pleasure, sex, somatic theory ·
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“We will find life, joy, and longevity in breaking what needs to be broken.”

Glitch Feminism: A Manifesto by Legacy Russell

January 24, 2021 by zinka 4 Comments

Glitch Feminism, by Legacy Russell, is a powerful manifesto that challenges gender binaries as well as other binaries including hegemonic understandings of our relationship to our bodies and cyberspace. Part critical theory, part art theory, art history, and contemporary art survey, I don’t think I’ve been so deeply entranced by reading a text like this in some time, maybe ever. I also know, that to really understand it, I’ll have to reread it a few more times but I’m attempting to review it anyway, so […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Non-Fiction Tagged With: AFK, art history, art theory, contemporary art, critical theory, cyberfeminism, cyborg manifesto, IRL, Legacy Russell, Manifesto

zinka's CBR13 Review No:4 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Non-Fiction · Tags: AFK, art history, art theory, contemporary art, critical theory, cyberfeminism, cyborg manifesto, IRL, Legacy Russell, Manifesto ·
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