IDEA Lab hosting book club, ‘Unlearning and Leftist Theory’
The IDEA Lab will host the monthly meeting of Upheaval Book Club, organized by second-year MFA ceramic art student Victoria Walton. The September discussion, titled “Unlearning and Leftist Theory,” will be held on Friday, Sept. 30, from 11:15 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. in the IDEA Lab on the second floor of Harder Hall.
The IDEA Lab will host the monthly meeting of Upheaval Book Club, organized by second-year MFA ceramic art student Victoria Walton. The September discussion, titled “Unlearning and Leftist Theory,” will be held on Friday, Sept. 30, from 11:15 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. in the IDEA Lab on the second floor of Harder Hall.
IDEA Lab is an overarching umbrella for cultivating a diverse and inclusive environment providing co-teaching and co-learning experiences as part of an Anti-Racist Program at the School of Art and Design and Performing Arts Division at Alfred.
In the book club meeting, there will be a discussion of select pages from the anthology “This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color,” edited by activists Cherríe Moraga and Gloria E. Anzaldúa. Through this primary text, participants will establish the origins of their own beliefs, as they unpack the processes of unlearning mindsets that feed systems of oppression. At each meeting different passages of literature that center on themes of intersectionality and radical leftist liberation movements will be read.
Organizers remind participants to email IDEA Lab for the PDF of the select passages and to read them before the book club event.