{"id":2813,"date":"2015-07-10T12:38:43","date_gmt":"2015-07-10T16:38:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/?post_type=event&p=2813"},"modified":"2016-01-19T12:31:27","modified_gmt":"2016-01-19T17:31:27","slug":"hacking-the-subject-black-feminism-refusal-and-the-limits-of-critique","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/event\/hacking-the-subject-black-feminism-refusal-and-the-limits-of-critique\/","title":{"rendered":"Hacking the Subject: Black Feminism, Refusal, and the Limits of Critique"},"content":{"rendered":"

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ABOUT THE EVENT:<\/p>\n

BCRW\u2019s newest working group, Practicing Refusal: Thinking Beyond Resistance, kicks off with a public lecture by distinguished ethicist and feminist theorist, Denise Ferreira da Silva. Her talk engages what she sees as the fundamental challenge posed by black feminism: the questioning of a feminist critical grammar that re-produces any \u2018proper\u2019 apprehension of the female\/the feminine and exposing the limits of what constitutes a \u2018proper subject\u2019. Her presentation aims to dissolve what she calls the patriarchal form of the subject. Refusing gender as the only critical tool for describing females’ socio-historical trajectories, Ferreira da Silva extends Hortense Spillers\u2019 reconfiguration of \u2018woman’, the female and the feminine, in ways that dis\/order of the modern grammar of the patriarch.<\/p>\n

ABOUT DENISE FERREIRA da SILVA:<\/p>\n

Denise Ferreira da Silva is associate professor at the Institute for Research on Gender, Race, Sexuality, and Social Justice, University of British Columbia. She is the author of Toward a Global Idea of Race<\/i>.<\/p>\n

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This event is free and open to the public.<\/p>\n

Click here for a map of Barnard College.<\/a> The venue is accessible to people with mobility disabilities.<\/p>\n

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