Sunday Read #2: bell hooks, Engaged Pedagogy

Sunday Read is a reading circle organized together with Index Teen Advisory Board that invites people aged 16–21 to read and discuss texts about art once a month.

This time, we delve into bell hooks’ “Engaged Pedagogy” from Teachings to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom (1994).

Sunday Read is a place for shared exploration. We read and discuss the texts aloud together. This year we focus on texts that deal with language, accessibility and tools for inclusion and diversity. Each time, different types of art-related texts are introduced: essays, artist texts, exhibition texts, or art theory. Are you curious about any of this? Come as you are. No prior knowledge is required.

Do you know someone who would be interested? Please pass on the word!

Previous events have included close readings of:
- Johnny Chang & Louise Nassiri, “Floating in the White Sea: A Foray Into the Contemporary Art Institution” (2018)
- Ursula K. Le Guin, “The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction” (1986)
- Susan Sontag, “On Plato’s Cave” (1973)
- Hito Steyerl, “In Defense of the Poor Image” (2011)
- Kathy Acker, “Against Ordinary Language: The Language of the Body” (1993)
- Audre Lorde, “Poetry Is Not a Luxury” (1977) and “The Transformation of Silence into Language and Action” (1978)
- David Wojnarowicz, “Do Not Doubt the Dangerousness of the 12–Inch–Tall Politician” from Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration (1991)
- Mia Mingus, “Access Intimacy: The Missing Link” from the blog Leaving Evidence (2011)