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Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom by bell hooks
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I read this book because I figured out that inclusive pedagogy & inclusivity as a scientific/material ethic, is going to be important for praxis.
Loved this book, and it gave me context into how maoism was influencing the discourse that baby boomers were having when I was a kid.
It basically gave me relationship advice & institutional information about schools. This is incredibly valuable to me as a survivor of the school to prison pipeline. It was healing to hear someone who was a student who had these sorts of problems & later on became part of it.
I did have a problem in 2 regards which might be reasonable for a 1994 feminism, but not for today's feminism:
1: centering a chapter on political lesbian Adrienne Rich on the basis of a Rich being a token white feminist who talks about antiracism. This is the same woman who coined the disasterous "Comphet" concept which promoted gender segregated & the same woman who had a transphobic hate book dedicated to her. Even wikipedia tries to be like oh her 1 trans friend Leslie Feinberg said Rich supported zir, yet, that doesn't refute that Rich was a transphobe especially since the way "transgenderism" was used in the 1990's included cisgender GNC people, as in more about action & less about sociological identity & consent. Leslie Feinberg was a communist. i find material support to still be helpful even when it comes from bigoted community members, but we still call a bigot a bigot. I acknowledge both the gifts & the abuse. Hooks said she chose Rich's poem because she knows it by heart basically, yet, IDK why it couldn't have been someone else's work.
2: going along with the conflation of the Greek word Eros, when life force is already more legible & the Greco-Romans were xenophobic classist patriarchal enslavers. I suspect this is what "lesbian community" refers to in some cases, but it's amatonormative & acephobic at least. This had to do with dealing with inappropriate attractions, which it's like deal with that on your own time & move on! Yeah, it's good to have a life force of play & stuff, but god forbid you set boundaries!!!
Loved this book, and it gave me context into how maoism was influencing the discourse that baby boomers were having when I was a kid.
It basically gave me relationship advice & institutional information about schools. This is incredibly valuable to me as a survivor of the school to prison pipeline. It was healing to hear someone who was a student who had these sorts of problems & later on became part of it.
I did have a problem in 2 regards which might be reasonable for a 1994 feminism, but not for today's feminism:
1: centering a chapter on political lesbian Adrienne Rich on the basis of a Rich being a token white feminist who talks about antiracism. This is the same woman who coined the disasterous "Comphet" concept which promoted gender segregated & the same woman who had a transphobic hate book dedicated to her. Even wikipedia tries to be like oh her 1 trans friend Leslie Feinberg said Rich supported zir, yet, that doesn't refute that Rich was a transphobe especially since the way "transgenderism" was used in the 1990's included cisgender GNC people, as in more about action & less about sociological identity & consent. Leslie Feinberg was a communist. i find material support to still be helpful even when it comes from bigoted community members, but we still call a bigot a bigot. I acknowledge both the gifts & the abuse. Hooks said she chose Rich's poem because she knows it by heart basically, yet, IDK why it couldn't have been someone else's work.
2: going along with the conflation of the Greek word Eros, when life force is already more legible & the Greco-Romans were xenophobic classist patriarchal enslavers. I suspect this is what "lesbian community" refers to in some cases, but it's amatonormative & acephobic at least. This had to do with dealing with inappropriate attractions, which it's like deal with that on your own time & move on! Yeah, it's good to have a life force of play & stuff, but god forbid you set boundaries!!!
Content Warnings
Graphic: Classism, Sexism, Colonisation, Genocide, and Racism
Moderate: Acephobia/Arophobia and Slavery
Minor: Racial slurs
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