Reading Group – Intersectional Humanities
Intersectional Humanities Reading Groups
Thursday 2nd February 2023, 5pm
Knowles Room, Wadham College
All welcome.
The Intersectional Humanities programme asserts the responsibility of the Humanities in reflecting on questions of identity, subjectivity, interiority, and language. The application of multiply-refracting interpretative lenses sharpens the focus of debate within feminist, queer, trans, non-binary, critical-race, post-colonial and disability studies, as well as carrying the potential to be more broadly transformative of intellectual and institutional structures and assumptions.
Join us for the first IH reading group to discuss Audre Lorde’s short essay ‘The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle The Master’s House’. Lorde’s rebuke of how the 1979 Second Sex Conference discusses oppression, mutuality and difference, and the relationship between the personal and the political.
Focused on the history of the concept of intersectionality as a critique of racialised and other forms of privilege, this in-person reading group is a collaborative space for participants from all disciplines and career stages, and open to participants outside the university. We encourage participants to suggest both texts and formats for future sessions and to lead discussions. Refreshments will be provided.
You can find ‘The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle The Master’s House’ by Audre Lorde here.
This reading is to be used for individual research purposes only.
You can find the pdf here:
For more information email intersectionalhumanities@torch.ox.ac.uk.
Intersectional Humanities, TORCH Programmes
