Remastered Tools
Remastered Tools is a series of 4 webinars based on my alchemy of the insight of Audre Lorde into practical tools for community accountable scholars and an opportunity to connect with other aligned underrepresented visionary graduate students. Until we start our next cycle of Remastered Tools webinars they are available by request to campus organizations, classes and community groups. Email brillianceremastered@gmail.com for details.
1. Remastered Tools 101 (Now Available as a downloadable Do It Yourself Course!!!)
Remastered Tools 101 Course for Community Accountable Intellectuals by Alexis Pauline Gumbs
Remastered Tools 101 is an opportunity to examine our relationship to knowledge and our theories of change as they relate to the work we do as scholars and the work we empower with our scholarship. We will investigate how dependence on systems that are NOT community accountable are cultivated even in the most seemingly radical fields and support each other in creating visions for our own community accountability.
Required Reading: Audre Lorde’s The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House
More info here.
2. The Angry Intellectual: Channeling Rage for Transformation
The Angry Intellectual is an opportunity for visionary underrepresented scholars to transform our venting about the injustice we experience in the university industrial complex into clarity, decision and motivation in our own lives and in the institutions we want to create. It is also an opportunity to see connections between the different nonsense that is making us all rightfully angry and to make partnerships to transform the conditions of our outrage.
Required reading: Audre Lorde’s The Uses of Anger: Women Responding to Racism
More information here.
3. Eye to Eye: Radical Collaboration for Community Accountable Intellectuals
Eye to Eye is an opportunity to get real about how individualism, internalized oppression and a capitalism-produced need to seem smart can get in the way of creating meaningful collaborations and useful intellectual partnerships with the communities that we love the most. It is also an opportunity to find partners to collaborate with and to create plans for becoming the unstoppable, interconnected, community accountable scholars we want to be!
Required reading: Audre Lorde’s Eye to Eye: Black Women Hatred and Anger
More information here.
4. Beyond the Feel-Good: A Sustainable Erotics of Community Accountable Scholarship
The Beyond the Feel-Good Webinar is an opportunity to get in touch with our deepest desires and passionate motivation in our community accountable scholarly work. It is also an opportunity to find scholars that share your passions and to support each other in transcending superficial university-serving (aka phony) community engagement and to step up our transformative impact on the world!
Required reading: Audre Lorde’s Uses of the Erotic/ Power of the Erotic
More information here.
Join the Brilliance Remastered community the first week of March for an interactive webinar investigation of performance and online ritual in relationship to community accountable intellectual work. Participants may be from any field (including performance studies) and will learn about performance practices from Audre Lorde’s Chorale Need, and the shared experience of creating a healing multi-media cyber performance for our community about who we are and what we need as community accountable scholars.
Registration Due by Feb. 18, 2013 (Audre Lorde’s Birthday!)
*the ensemble will be limited to 9 participants
Intensive dates: March 4,5,6,7,8 2012 (9pm Eastern Time)
More info and registration details here.
Coming Soon!
Been There: Genius Interactive Interviews on Community Accountable Scholarship
Stay tuned for the Been There Webinar series featuring senior community scholars doing collaborative work while inside the university and who have taken their brilliance outside of the academy.