Radical Love across Difference
“Without love, our efforts to liberate ourselves and our world community from oppression and exploitation are doomed.” - bell hooks
Graduate students from the Boston-area Consortium for Graduate Studies in Gender, Culture, Women, and Sexuality (GCWS) present a biannual interdisciplinary conference entitled Radical Love Across Difference to be held on a virtual platform on April 9-11, 2021. This virtual conference, featuring the work of graduate students from across the world, is free and open to everyone.
By using a praxis of love to highlight the struggles toward liberation, we approach what hooks suggests is a culture of refusing systems of domination. The importance of expressing, maintaining, and transforming radical love, especially across differences, is more pressing than ever. This conference seeks to explore the role radical love plays in health crises, climate change, racial justice, migration, economic justice and further social justice movements through community and belonging, pedagogy and literacy, creative expression and storytelling, virtual life and presence, and further fields
The conference seeks to explore:
How does radical love constitute a distinct mode of resistance?
How is radical love represented in the histories, stories, and traditions of ancestors and peoples?
How can radical love foster community and just societies across difference and challenge the status quo?
How do the structures of white supremacy and capitalism impact radical love?
Are there limits to loving radically?
How is radical love expressed in the virtual, social, and material world(s)?Can radical love influence our biological markers or gene expressions.
Live captioning will be provided at all sessions. We will not be recording this event.
