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This course will explore how somatic healing practices are changing social justice movements and challenging the neoliberal wellness industry. Counter to individual wellness models, feminist concepts of radical self-care are integral to collective liberation. Challenging the limitations of rationalism and mind-body dualism, we will begin to understand knowledge as generated through the body, including intuition, ancestral memory, and the dreamtime.

The 1970s feminist mantra "the personal is political" remains apt. How do our everyday choices reify or resist the current social order, which by many measures is dysfunctional and fundamentally unjust? At this advanced stage of global capitalism, many people engage the world primarily as consumers, a process inseparable from personal, professional, and commercial branding across various media platforms. How might we use our purchasing power as well as our creative capacity as producers to realize feminist futures? Yet we cannot enact what we cannot imagine.

Civil Rights leader, Dolores Herta, is famous for saying, "The only way Democracy can work is if people participate." With this in mind, class participants will take a deep dive into Massachusetts state government to explore the legislative and budget processes focusing on where people - as individuals and as part of social movements - are powerful. This course will start with the basics and move on to the intersection of inside and outside strategy and organizing.

What is race? What is sexuality? And how did early American history shape the legal structures that would come to define racial and sexual identities and possibilities? In this course, students will examine how African, European, and Native American ideas about race and sexuality influenced the development of colonial, early Republican, and antebellum America, with a special focus on the evolution of American legal frameworks undergirding racial and sexual hierarchies.

How does capitalism depend on gender, race and sexuality? In turn, how are gender, race, and sexuality defined through our economic lives? Why are women so often cast as the solution to poverty in the Global South? Is sex work distinct from other types of work? How can we think about the household as the fundamental socio-economic unit in light of queer and feminist critiques of the nuclear family?