April 5 – Withdrawal & refusal: radical feminist separatist communities

Class artifacts

Presentation slides

Readings

• Catriona Sandilands, “Lesbian Separatist Communities: Toward a Queer Ecology”, PDF, Organization & Environment, Vol. 15 No. 2, June 2002, 131-163
• Carmen Rios, “Rebel Girls: On Building a Better Separatism”, PDF and online at audostraddle.com, 9/30/2015
• Rina Raphael, “Why Doesn’t Anyone Want to Live in This Perfect Place?”, PDF and online, NY Times, 8/24/2019
• Raechel Herron Root, “A Tribute to the Artistic Communities of Oregon’s Lesbian Lands”, PDF and online at hyperallergic.com, 12/2019
• Risa Puleo, “New Territories of Queer Separatism”, PDF and online at artpapers.org, Apr 2015

Objects and examples

• National Radio Quiet Zone: Sanjay Gupta, “Vital Signs: Off the Grid,” CNN, Ep 42, 2017 (requires login through The New School library); and NY Times article, “No Cell Signal, No Wi-Fi, No Problem“
• Luddites and “Plain people”: Amish, Conservative Friends (Quakers), and Shakers
• Ted Kaczynski and Artist James Benning’s project “Two Cabins” (Interview with Benning, artforum.com)