INTERNAL EXCHANGE Book ClubAbout this Event
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INTERNAL EXCHANGE
We are a collection of many parts. Some we show the world; others we archive for ourselves. This is a space to bring the inside out.
We source the nonfiction texts that society often avoids: the raw data on how we love, how we medicate, and the social theories we’ve been told to keep quiet about. We use these books as a lens to peer-review our own lives. It is a space where the private becomes a shared study – a safe place where we trade our own stories for a trusted ear, validating the data of our lives.
The name Internal Exchange is a deliberate paradox. Most internal things are kept locked away, but we believe that the only way to truly understand the self is through the necessity of an exchange. We take our private reflections – the thoughts we usually keep in the margins – and put them on the table as a shared currency. This is a community that isn’t afraid of discomfort; we are a support system willing to go to those vulnerable places together in the interest of learning about ourselves and others.
The objective: to use the page as a mirror. To assemble the self, one chapter at a time.
The book is the catalyst, your thoughts are the currency, the exchange is the medium, the assembly is the integration.
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Reading schedule:
- Week 1 – 9/30: No reading required; meet & greet, and discuss author & book theme
- Week 2 – 10/5: Introduction + Chapter 1 (pages 1-40)
- Week 3 – 10/12: Chapter 2 (pages 41-81)
- Week 4 – 10/19: Chapter 3 (pages 82-110)
- Week 5 – 10/26: Chapter 4 (pages 111-136)
- Week 6 – 11/2: Chapter 5 + Conclusion (pages 137-173)
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Description:
Capitalist ideology wants us to believe that there is an optimal way to live. ‘Making connections’ means networking for work. Our emotional needs are to be fulfilled by a single romantic partner, and self-care equates to taking personal responsibility for our suffering. We must be productive and heterosexual, we must have babies and buy a house. But the kicker is most people cannot and do not want to achieve these goals. Instead we are left feeling atomised, exhausted and disempowered.
Radical Intimacy shows that it doesn’t need to be this way. Including inspiring ideas for alternative ways to live, Sophie K Rosa demands we use our radical imagination to discover a new form of intimacy.
Including critiques of the ‘wellness’ industry that ignores rising poverty rates, the mental health crisis and racist and misogynist state violence; transcending love and sex under capitalism to move towards feminist, decolonial and queer thinking; asking whether we should abolish the family; interrogating the framing of ageing and death and much more, Radical Intimacy is the compassionate antidote to a callous society.
Agenda
🕑: 07:00 PM - 07:30 PM
Grab food/bevs, introductions, and ice breaker
🕑: 07:30 PM - 08:30 PM
Discuss weekly reading
Event venue
Nook, 45 Irving Avenue, Brooklyn, United States
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