Love Pedagogy: Disrupting the Violence Against Young Bodies

To "disrupt" is to interrupt an event, activity, or process by causing a disturbance or problem; it is to radically alter the structure of a problem. Ed Factory Teacher's Institute seminars and public symposia this year will attempt to address the young body both psychologically and physically and the direct and often overlapping social, economic, and political responses the US has had to particular young bodies (e.g., gay bodies, bodies of color, male and female bodies).

Join the Teacher's Institute @Minneapolis for its annual public symposia series, where artists, scientists, educators, and activists will engage the public in discussions about why it's necessary and how we might disrupt the violence against young bodies. RSVP here.

What is a “love pedagogy”? Read about it here.

Young Bodies Speak Back

Friday, March 6, 2015
6:00 PM 8:00 PM 18:00 20:00

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An Installation & Reading by Students + Teachers of Minneapolis Public Schools Featuring

The focus of this year's institute is Love Pedagogy: Disrupting the Violence Against Young Bodies. Using installation art and writing, Visiting-Scholars Patricia Smith (poet) and Mark Nowak (documentary poet), along with the Ed Factory's senior consultant Lisa Arrastia and specialist Fadwa Abbas will spend two days engaging Institute Minneapolis fellows and a select number of their students in an experiential examination of the disruption, and the tangled complexities of self, other, and difference. The results of their work together will be on display and performed at the Capri Theater in North Minneapolis on Friday 6 March.

Tagged teaching, race, art, poetry, YA fiction