Radical Reading Group 5/18

This Sunday May, 18th at 5pm will be the next meeting of the Queer Radical Reading Group. The essay is "Gender: For a Marxist Dictionary" by Donna Haraway. The essay is from the book "Simians, Cyborgs, and Women".

Radical is about different ideas coming together so that we can better understand our world. My way of understanding things comes in conflict with your way of understanding things. By discussing and working through our differences we can change how we see the world and then use that understanding to change our actions. Radical thoughts must lead to radical actions. We must organize to do this. The only way to organize is if you come to a meeting! If you'd like to come, but have a conflict, contact me and we can try to figure something out.

Now back to our regularly scheduled programming for our reading this week. As a collective we're all about sharing our resources, both literal and figural. If you'd like easy access to this essay, just send me an email at kitchensforreading (at) riseup.net. I can then add you to the listserv and viola, easy access. I personally think the phrase easy access is an ideal metaphor. To write something is to create a code that represents actions, sights, sounds or thoughts. This translation transforms these things into objects, something separate from reality. I love reading these objects. Therefore, my relationship to the objects is perverse. My desire for the representation of the object replaces the actual object.

Easy access indeed.

Albeit, I've created this complicated system for my understanding of easy access, which isn't easily accessible. Ah, the beauty of contradictions. However, this perhaps is not really pleasurable for anyone else, which isn't very radical. Easy access should be all about communal pleasure. Maybe my definition of perverse is slightly less easy access and slightly more masturbatory. This tangent is really going to stop now.

Do not be dissuaded from coming to our reading group! You should come and express your perspective, we really want to hear it. Show me how much you like easy access. Or tell me to stop using silly sexual innuendo in my indymedia posts. But if thats why you want to come, come with a good argument.

betsy