A growing bibliography of readings from past sessions
Session I
- Gayatri Spivak, “On the Politics of Translation” (1993)
Session II
- Milan Women’s Bookstore Collective, Sexual Difference: A Theory of Social-Symbolic Practice, excerpt from Chapter Four (Teresa de Lauretis, trans.) (1990), p. 108-131
Session III
Assigned by EMILIA-AMALIA:
- Hannah Black, “Press for Service,” from Dark Pool Party (2016)
Contributed by participants:
- Lynn Crosbie, Life is About Losing Everything (2012)
- Hilton Als, White Girls (2013)
- Lydia Davis, “Companion,” and “Foucault and Pencil,” from The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis (2009)
- Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Dictee (1982)
- Leanne Shapton, Swimming Studies (2012)
- Maggie Nelson, The Argonauts (2015)
- Vera Frenkel, “The Secret Life of Cornelia Lumsden” (1986)
- Simone Forti, Handbook in Motion (1974)
- Anne Spencer, The Memory Book (1995)
- Alice Munro, “Finale” and “The Eye” from Dear Life (2012)
- June Thomas, “The American Way of Dentistry: The Story of my Teeth,” Slate.com (2009)
- Ariel Levy, “Thanksgiving in Mongolia,” The New Yorker (2013)
- Goliarda Sapienza, The Art of Joy (1976, translated into English 2014)
- Maya Angelou, Mom & Me & Mom (2013)
- Eve Kosofksy Sedgwick, A Dialogue on Love (1999)
- Patti Smith, Just Kids (2010)
- Anne Carson, Nox (2009)
Session IV
- Adriana Monti, Scuola Senza Fine (School Without End) (1983), 36 min
Session V
- Helene Cixous,“Coming to Writing” (1976)
Session VI
- Aria Dean, “Poor Meme, Rich Meme” (2016)
Session VII
- Kyla Wazana Thompkins, “We Aren’t Here to Learn What We Already Know” (2016)
Session X
- Teresa de Lauretis, “The Practice of Sexual Difference and Feminist Thought in Italy” in Milan Women’s Bookstore Collective, Sexual Difference: A Theory of Social-Symbolic Practice, (Teresa de Lauretis, trans.) (1990), p. 1-24
- K. Aarons, “No Selves To Abolish: Afropessimism, anti-Politics, and The End of The World” (2016)
Session XI
- Toronto Wages Due Lesbian Collective (subset of Toronto Wages for Housework Committee), “Fucking is Work”
- Toronto Wages Due Lesbians, “Lesbian Autonomy and the Gay Movement” (1976)
- Frances Gregory of the Toronto Wages for Housework Committee, “I’m Not a Housewife, I’m Liberated”
- Editorial by Toronto Wages for Housework Committee, “Why A Campaign for Wages for Housework?”