winter love hangouts
On Friday 21-Jan at 5:30-6:15pm EST (and every Friday to the end of Spring) we’ll be hanging out, talking about love.
- defining love (21-Jan)
- love ethic: the roots of love (28-Jan)
- love practice: a way of being (04-Feb)
- love recipe (11-Feb)
- boundaries (18-Feb)
- self-love (25-Feb)
- radical love (04-Mar)
- lovingkindness (11-Mar)
- love for sale (18-Mar)
There is nothing to prepare. I’ll share a brief text at the top, and we’ll talk.
While we start with a text, it’s not a book club, not literary criticism; it’s an entry point into a conversation among friends, (even if this is our first time meeting), about what we think and feel about love.
So far, these dates are inspired and informed by the work of bell hooks, Prentis Hemphill, Sonya Renee Taylor, Loretta J. Ross, Sharon Salzman, Jeff Warren, Barbara Kruger and Cole Porter.
Also, the text could be in any medium.
As a society we are embarrassed by love. We treat it as if it were an obscenity. We reluctantly admit to it. Even saying the word makes us stumble and blush… Love is the most important thing in our lives, a passion for which we might fight or die, and yet we’re reluctant to linger over its names. Without a supple vocabulary, we can’t even talk or think about it directly. —Diane Ackerman, A Natural History of Love
next winter love hangout: Fri 20-Jan at 5:30-6:15pm EST
our topic: defining love
While there is nothing to prepare for us to hangout, you may feel inspired to pull out your favorite texts about love in advance of us getting together, and that’s cool too. Either way, it’ll be great to hang out with you and talk about love.
Participating in a winter love hangout is a way to join the UNDERMININGnormal community.
It costs $7.00 to attend, and comes with a month of membership .
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UNDERMININGnormal is where deep-thinking, change-seeking women can find community, care and unhurried space for conversations we don’t usually get to have.
