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In this workshop, we’ll explore and expand the possibilities of intimacy in our writing. Lauren Berlant argues that intimacy, rather than something privatized, experienced, and cultivated in heteronormative couplings, is everywhere in circulation. It moves freely through private and public worlds and thus can show up in any number of complex, unruled encounters, inspiring not only desire, but also apathy, disgust, violence, wonder, and many other kinds of feeling.
We’ll engage a short, beginner-friendly somatic exercise to disturb and to feel out the edges of our private worlds, considering what possible intimacies emerge from our gestures, motions, and interactions. Then, we’ll take our embodied reflections into a generative reading and writing time, analyzing and writing poetry that engages these expanded notions of intimacy. Overall, we’ll use this workshop to discover new ways of being with ourselves, each other, and our work. 2 hours.