Reading Group
(Intersectional) Feminisms and Intimacy
Connected within that Light: Reading/Theory Group Series with Kathy-Ann Tan
This reading group series is entitled (Intersectional) Feminisms and Intimacy. In this second session we will collaboratively read and discuss a pivotal text by the Combahee River Collective.
This early inspiring and seminal text laid the groundwork for intersectional feminism as we know it today. Written by a collective of Black feminists including Audre Lorde, Barbara Smith and Cheryl Clarke, it was one of the most powerful statements published in its time. We will read and listen to some of Cheryl Clarke’s poetry together with that of Sonia Sanchez – a prominent figure in the Black Arts Movement – in particular her poem Catch the Fire.
Texts
Combahee River Collective, The Combahee River Collective Statement, 1978
The sessions will be led in English but discussion in German is welcomed. Texts will be circulated in advance after registration closes.
These three sessions continue the Connected within that Light: Reading/Theory Group Series at the Gropius Bau that loosely accompanies and augments the institution’s exhibition programme in 2020 and 2021. Sessions are facilitated by Berlin-based independent curator, writer and scholar Kathy-Ann Tan.
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