Sophie Lewis's Love Letters to Feminism [ONLINE]
Full Tuition: $280 — Sliding-scale tuition options are available in the drop-down menu. To pay in installments, choose to pay with PayPal at check out.
Instructor: Jaime Madden | 4 Weeks | Thursdays July 10-31 | 7:00 - 9:00 PM | ONLINE
While Sophie Lewis's book titles like Abolish the Family (2022) andEnemy Feminisms (2025) can sound unsettling, her expansive archive is a love letter to feminism. For Lewis, feminism is here and now in anticolonial struggle, in anti-Zionist organizing, in the work of trans feminists who are fighting reproductive injustices, and in food distribution projects. These acts de-privatize love and prioritize care, aiming to collectively make a feminist future and the future of feminism. Lewis writes: "I belong to feminism."
In this class, we will study short excerpts from all 3 of Lewis's published books and we will anticipate the 2 that are forthcoming. Our primary focus will be on the essays she's published at magazines including Lux, n+1, and Salvage. Each week of our 4-week class is organized around a keyword that will help us tie together some of the many topics about which Lewis writes: leakiness, cisness, utopian method, and the communization of care. Finally, to help contextualize her ideas, supplemental materials will point to Lewis's influences and interlocutors. Among them are Donna Haraway, Kathi Weeks, Emma Heaney, anti-fascism, Black and abolitionist feminism, transgender Marxism, and utopian criticism of the family. It is invigorating to study Lewis's ideas. Together, we will find ourselves asking: “How can we use her writing? What parts of society must we make unthinkable, and what will we build that's new?”
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Recordings may be provided upon request for missed classes.
Sliding Scale: Night School Bar pays instructors and staff a living wage. We ask that people who make above the living wage threshold for their area strongly consider choosing the middle or full tuition tiers in order to support our own living wage program. For Durham, NC, where we are located, the living wage threshold is $49,000 for an individual. All scholarship needs are self-assessed, and we will never request or require proof of need.
Scholarships: We are currently able to offer three full scholarships per class. Our full scholarship tier is a nonrefundable offering, limited to one per student per month. Because our scholarship funding is limited, selecting multiple full scholarships in a single month will result in disenrollment from all classes. If the scholarship tier you need is sold out please email us directly, and we will add you to a waitlist and notify you if additional scholarships become available. Please see our FAQ for more information, including installment plans and refund policy.
Asynchronous Auditing: Classes are discussion-based and designed to be taken synchronously. However, we do offer an asynchronous audit option for most online classes if you need to follow along at your own pace. You must choose the audit option to receive all course recordings; please do not register using a scholarship if you do not plan to attend the majority of class sessions as you will not receive the recording materials to follow along. We do not automatically offer scholarships for auditors, but if you need one, you may request one by filling out this form.
Full Tuition: $280 — Sliding-scale tuition options are available in the drop-down menu. To pay in installments, choose to pay with PayPal at check out.
Instructor: Jaime Madden | 4 Weeks | Thursdays July 10-31 | 7:00 - 9:00 PM | ONLINE
While Sophie Lewis's book titles like Abolish the Family (2022) andEnemy Feminisms (2025) can sound unsettling, her expansive archive is a love letter to feminism. For Lewis, feminism is here and now in anticolonial struggle, in anti-Zionist organizing, in the work of trans feminists who are fighting reproductive injustices, and in food distribution projects. These acts de-privatize love and prioritize care, aiming to collectively make a feminist future and the future of feminism. Lewis writes: "I belong to feminism."
In this class, we will study short excerpts from all 3 of Lewis's published books and we will anticipate the 2 that are forthcoming. Our primary focus will be on the essays she's published at magazines including Lux, n+1, and Salvage. Each week of our 4-week class is organized around a keyword that will help us tie together some of the many topics about which Lewis writes: leakiness, cisness, utopian method, and the communization of care. Finally, to help contextualize her ideas, supplemental materials will point to Lewis's influences and interlocutors. Among them are Donna Haraway, Kathi Weeks, Emma Heaney, anti-fascism, Black and abolitionist feminism, transgender Marxism, and utopian criticism of the family. It is invigorating to study Lewis's ideas. Together, we will find ourselves asking: “How can we use her writing? What parts of society must we make unthinkable, and what will we build that's new?”
—
Recordings may be provided upon request for missed classes.
Sliding Scale: Night School Bar pays instructors and staff a living wage. We ask that people who make above the living wage threshold for their area strongly consider choosing the middle or full tuition tiers in order to support our own living wage program. For Durham, NC, where we are located, the living wage threshold is $49,000 for an individual. All scholarship needs are self-assessed, and we will never request or require proof of need.
Scholarships: We are currently able to offer three full scholarships per class. Our full scholarship tier is a nonrefundable offering, limited to one per student per month. Because our scholarship funding is limited, selecting multiple full scholarships in a single month will result in disenrollment from all classes. If the scholarship tier you need is sold out please email us directly, and we will add you to a waitlist and notify you if additional scholarships become available. Please see our FAQ for more information, including installment plans and refund policy.
Asynchronous Auditing: Classes are discussion-based and designed to be taken synchronously. However, we do offer an asynchronous audit option for most online classes if you need to follow along at your own pace. You must choose the audit option to receive all course recordings; please do not register using a scholarship if you do not plan to attend the majority of class sessions as you will not receive the recording materials to follow along. We do not automatically offer scholarships for auditors, but if you need one, you may request one by filling out this form.
Full Tuition: $280 — Sliding-scale tuition options are available in the drop-down menu. To pay in installments, choose to pay with PayPal at check out.
Instructor: Jaime Madden | 4 Weeks | Thursdays July 10-31 | 7:00 - 9:00 PM | ONLINE
While Sophie Lewis's book titles like Abolish the Family (2022) andEnemy Feminisms (2025) can sound unsettling, her expansive archive is a love letter to feminism. For Lewis, feminism is here and now in anticolonial struggle, in anti-Zionist organizing, in the work of trans feminists who are fighting reproductive injustices, and in food distribution projects. These acts de-privatize love and prioritize care, aiming to collectively make a feminist future and the future of feminism. Lewis writes: "I belong to feminism."
In this class, we will study short excerpts from all 3 of Lewis's published books and we will anticipate the 2 that are forthcoming. Our primary focus will be on the essays she's published at magazines including Lux, n+1, and Salvage. Each week of our 4-week class is organized around a keyword that will help us tie together some of the many topics about which Lewis writes: leakiness, cisness, utopian method, and the communization of care. Finally, to help contextualize her ideas, supplemental materials will point to Lewis's influences and interlocutors. Among them are Donna Haraway, Kathi Weeks, Emma Heaney, anti-fascism, Black and abolitionist feminism, transgender Marxism, and utopian criticism of the family. It is invigorating to study Lewis's ideas. Together, we will find ourselves asking: “How can we use her writing? What parts of society must we make unthinkable, and what will we build that's new?”
—
Recordings may be provided upon request for missed classes.
Sliding Scale: Night School Bar pays instructors and staff a living wage. We ask that people who make above the living wage threshold for their area strongly consider choosing the middle or full tuition tiers in order to support our own living wage program. For Durham, NC, where we are located, the living wage threshold is $49,000 for an individual. All scholarship needs are self-assessed, and we will never request or require proof of need.
Scholarships: We are currently able to offer three full scholarships per class. Our full scholarship tier is a nonrefundable offering, limited to one per student per month. Because our scholarship funding is limited, selecting multiple full scholarships in a single month will result in disenrollment from all classes. If the scholarship tier you need is sold out please email us directly, and we will add you to a waitlist and notify you if additional scholarships become available. Please see our FAQ for more information, including installment plans and refund policy.
Asynchronous Auditing: Classes are discussion-based and designed to be taken synchronously. However, we do offer an asynchronous audit option for most online classes if you need to follow along at your own pace. You must choose the audit option to receive all course recordings; please do not register using a scholarship if you do not plan to attend the majority of class sessions as you will not receive the recording materials to follow along. We do not automatically offer scholarships for auditors, but if you need one, you may request one by filling out this form.