Please note that this month’s Reading Group is not in the usual venue

For this reading group, the amount of readings is quite extensive, we suggest that you read the articles or chapters that resonates the most with you!

Main readings:

• Irmgard Emmelhainz  Decolonial Love

Possible reading prompts:

• • What does this sentence evoke in you ? “The Self without sympathetic attachments is either a fiction or a lunatic … [Yet] dependence is scorned even in intimate relationships, as though dependence were incompatible with self-reliance rather than the only thing that makes it possible.”
  • – Which practice of resistance made you feel love lately?
• Srećko Horvat – The Radicality of Love (especially chapters 3 and 4)
• bell hooks  – All about love  (especially chapters 1, 6, and 8)
• Theophilus Wellington – Decolonising Love
• Linell Secomb – Empire and the Ambiguities of Love

Possible reading prompts:

• • • -Can you reflect on western visions of love you had to deconstruct or and in the process of deconstructing?

Additional resources:

• Sophie K Rosa – Challenging Monogamy Is a Political Act
• Erotics of Liberation