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In this workshop we want to recover the disruptive force and purposeful reading of manifestos, pamphlets and other forms of political enunciation, whose concerns run through sexual dissidence, mixed-race difference and black feminism. The workshop proposes a participatory dynamic, with the aim of activating the force of enunciation. The reading of manifestos allows us to explore body language and voice modulation while uttering a discourse of empowerment and agitation. This workshop is coordinated by a group of students from the PEI.

Through manifestos we revise Michael Foucault’s hypothesis on power and the body; we approach the challenges to identity of the colonised body, as problematised by Frantz Fanon, and the techniques of resistance provided by feminist discourses since the seventies. Gloria Anzaldúa, Audre Lorde and Pedro Lemebel, among others, allow us to respond – reading with the body – to some of the contemporary questions and challenges.

Coordinated by: Anyely Marin Cisneros, Sofia Lemos, Dani Medina Orland, Veronica Lahitte and Rebecca Close.

Participant

Verónica Lahitte
With the collaboration of:
The Lisbon Consortium
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Programme

29 NOVEMBER AND 2 DECEMBER, FROM 6.30 PM AT 8 PM
Room 1, Study Center
Free
20 places

BIBLIOGRAPHY
First day
1. Fanon, Frantz: ‘La experiencia vivida del negro’, Piel negra, máscaras blancas [1952]. Madrid: Ediciones Akal, 2009.

2. Combahee River Collective: ‘Un manifiesto feminista negro’ [1977] in Raquel Lucas Platero (ed.), Intersecciones: Cuerpos y sexualidades en la encrucijada. Barcelona: Edicions Bellaterra.

3. Clarke, Charyl: ‘Lesbianismo: un acto de resistencia’ [1981] in Rafael M. Mérida Jiménez (ed.), Manifiestos gays, lesbianos y queers. Barcelona: Icaria Editorial, 2009.

Second day
4. Foucault, Michel: ‘Las relaciones de poder penetran en los cuerpos’, Microfísica del poder. [Interview by Lucette Finas in 1975 in La Quinzaine Littéraire, no. 247]. Madrid: Ediciones de La Piqueta, 1979.

5. Despentes, Virginie: ‘Tenientes corruptas’, 2005.

6. Queers anónimos: ‘Maricas, leed esto: odio a los heterosexuales’ [1990] in Rafael M. Mérida Jiménez (ed.), Manifiestos gays, lesbianos y queers. Barcelona: Icaria Editorial, 2009.

Complementary bibliogrphy
7. Anzaldúa, Gloria: Borderlands / The New Mestiza [1987]. San Francisco: Aunt Lute Books, 1990. Y ‘Miedo a volver a casa’ [1987] in Rafael M. Mérida Jiménez (ed.) Manifiestos gays, lesbianos y queers. Barcelona: Icaria Editorial, 2009.

8. Lemebel, Pedro: Manifiesto (Hablo por mi diferencia). Sarita Carbonero, 1986.

9. Lorde, Audre: ‘The Transformation of Silence into Language and Action’ (1977) and ‘The Masters Tools Will Never Dismantle the Masters House’ (1978) in Sister Outsider.

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