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Every Night is Girls’ Night: Feminist Aesthetics in Narrative

Now women return from afar, from always: from ‘without,’ from the heath where witches are kept alive; from below, from beyond...

-Hélène Cixous, “The Laughing Medusa.”

This creative nonfiction class will ask: what does it mean to write about and towards women’s freedom? How can we write through pain, inflicted by heteronormative patriarchy, and transform it into art? How can our work reconsider certain aesthetics in order to reclaim feminism in a liberatory form? How do we approach the feminine not as gender, but as a way of being? This creative nonfiction class will exist in the space of the “below” and “beyond,” following Cixous’s proclamation that the feminine impulse is to resist death and make trouble. This class is open to people of all genders! Our writing will respond to the feminine both materially and abstractly, so this workshop will be a safe space for people of all genders to investigate and practice a feminist aesthetic.

Texts we will use as models and inspiration to write our own work will include, among others: Females by Andrea Long Chu; Ladies Lazarus Piper J. Daniels; Sister Outsider Audre Lorde.