Counterpublic

Counterpublic NYC provides peer education and community resources to its members of q***r identities without cost. on our google group ([email protected]) and utilize our page to discuss q***r perspectives on current events, social trends and academia with other members. Counterpublic Code:

“The philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways; the point is, t

o change it.” - Karl Marx, Theses on Feuerbach

"It is essential to destroy the widespread prejudice that philosophy is a strange and difficult thing just because it is the specific intellectual activity of a particular category of specialists or of professional and systematic philosophers." - Antonio Gramsci, The Prison Notebooks

"We can turn to the etymology of the word 'q***r,' which comes from the Indo-European word 'twist.' Q***r is, after all, a spatial term, which then gets translated into a sexual term, a term for a twisted sexuality that does not follow a 'straight line,' a sexuality that is bent and crooked." - Sara Ahmed, Q***r Phenomenology

"Recognizing the limits of current conceptions of q***r identities and q***r politics, I am interested in examining the concept of 'q***r' in order to think about how we might construct a new political identity that is truly liberating, transformative, and inclusive of all those who stand on the outside of the dominant constructed norm of state-sanctioned white middle- and upper-class heterosexuality." - Cathy Cohen, Punks, Bulldaggers, and Welfare Queens: The Radical Potential of Q***r Politics? "By q***r culture we mean a world-making project, where world, like public, differs from community or group because it necessarily include more people than can be identified, more space than can be mapped beyond a few reference points, modes of feeling that can be learned rather than experienced as birthright. The q***r world is a space of entrances, exits, unsystematized lines of acquaintance, projected horizons, typifying examples, alternate routes, blockages, incommensurate geographies." - Michael Warner and Lauren Berlant, S*x in Public

"If you have come to help me, you are wasting your time. But if you have come because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us walk together." - Aboriginal activists group, Queensland, 1970's Counterpublic NYC is a virtual workgroup of global q***r communities that exists in a potential space. Counterpublic actualizes one night each month with the exception of summer when it gathers weekly for nine consecutive sessions for its annual summer intensive, currently in NYC. Our workgroups act as a forum to re-imagine the production of knowledge into an emergence of social agency; we accomplish this task by exploring academic works in the context of current social problems and those organizations that strive to create change. Please contact us for support on how you can actualize Counterpublic in your hometown.