WGS277H1

Radical Relationalities

This course activates the ontology ‘radical relationality’ to “orient our cells toward justice” (Yupik dance maker, choreographer Emily Johnson). This course is attuned towards exploring multiple patterns and formations of radical relationality, bridging theory with praxis to conjure future ancestral practices of living and forms of relation. Through understanding that relations are processes; and constitutive of matter- portals of possibilities for (re)worldings, this course enacts patterns of change-making across scales from the micro to the earthly and planetary. We explore interspecies relationalities and intimacies through decolonial thought; land/body justice; reciprocity, modes of transformative justice and care ‘otherwise.’ We explore radical frameworks of transformative justice, organizing, allyship, and other activations of radical relational processes as justice work from multiple communities, including Queer, Indigenous, and Black (and the various intersectional relations, solidarities, and radical co-commitments these communities share).