Radical Intimacy: Cultivate the Deeply Connected Relationships You Desire and Deserve

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A punchy and impassioned account of inspiring ideas about alternative ways to live … Radical Intimacy is the compassionate antidote to a callous society’ Radical Intimacy shows that it doesn't need to be this way. A punchy and impassioned account of inspiring ideas about alternative ways to live, Sophie K Rosa demands we use our radical imagination to discover a new form of intimacy and to transform our personal lives and in turn society as a whole. What would happen if men were put in a situation where they were expected to share private information with other men? Fehr wondered. Would they benefit the way women do?

Sophie K. Rosa challenges us to rethink, reimagine, resist and redefine intimacy according to our own standards instead of those force-fed to us via the white supremacist capitalist cisheteropatriarchy. Consider this the next read in your study group.’

A narrative guide and practical methodology for nurturing and sustaining our relationships with ourselves, others, and the world. “With intimacy as the foundationalprinciple of our existence, we can build a life based on what we truly need, not what we think we need or have been told we need. By embracing the practice ofradicalintimacy, I can confidently promise my readers a personal revolution of self-acceptance, appreciation, vitality, and confidence. And without fail, mind-blowing, soul-stirring, earth-shattering sex follows.” —Zoë Kors Getting physical certainly stirs up the neurochemistry of attachment, mobilizing oxytocin and opioids that generate positive feelings and encourage more of the same. Once we link those feelings with a particular person, we want to stay with that person. Clinch and repeat. As Hilton Als writes in his New Yorker reflection on The Argonauts, this book is an “articulation of [Nelson’s] many selves”. This is not only with regard to the many “Maggies” we as readers meet – Maggie the academic, Maggie the lover, Maggie the step-parent, Maggie the mother, Maggie the stalked – but also in how Nelson blends different aspects of her artistic and literary life into the prose itself. The book compounds the many elements of Nelson’s expansive oeuvre, where she has worked across and within poetry, criticism, non-fiction and memoir.

Radical Intimacy shows that it doesn't need to be this way. Including inspiring ideas for alternative ways to live, Sophie K Rosa demands we use our radical imagination to discover a new form of intimacy.Questions of ethics and duty of care to participants (and ourselves) are often institutionally decided, and within those decisions are structures of power that sometimes do not consider what it means to be “other” in the academy. Researchers can sometimes bypass the sensitivity needed to approach individuals and communities and there is often a disconnect here between intention and impact, which can leave queer people feeling disillusioned and misrepresented. A narrative guide and practical methodology for nurturing and sustaining our relationships with ourselves, others, and the world.

In this reflective book, activist and writer Munroe Bergdorf reveals how transitioning is a universal part of the human experience, and something that all of us can relate to. By w riting from her personal experience of gender transition and integrating theory from key experts and activists, Bergdorf reveals how we can understand transitioning as a shared experience. By shining a light on the inevitable reality of change, it aims to bring us together and build a more understanding and inclusive world. As The Argonauts seems to suggest, perhaps intimacy, with (and despite) its problems, might offer new insights that are grounded in empathy, but nevertheless generative. Nelson’s work embraces the messiness, complexity and contradictions that are inherent in all social life: in our ideas, institutions and within each individual. With intimacy as the foundational principle of our existence, we can build a life based on what we truly need, not what we think we need or have been told we need. By embracing the practice of radical intimacy, I can confidently promise my readers a personal revolution of self-acceptance, appreciation, vitality, and confidence. And without fail, mind-blowing, soul-stirring, earth-shattering sex follows.” –Zoë KorsEvery course includes access to a private online community with fellow course members. Ask questions, share your stories, and enjoy benefiting from the encouragement and wisdom of others. Despite being something that affects each and every one of us, the way we understand and treat mental health continues to be largely ineffective and reductive. Micha Frazer-Carroll argues that mental health must be understood not only as a health issue, but a political one too, and that ‘raising awareness’ is no longer enough. This book traces the history of psychiatric diagnosis, alternative models of care, law and the decarceration of health, and more. Mad World offers a radical antidote to the constraints of our current conceptualisation of mental health and calls for a transformative reimagination of this sphere. I do not wish to discredit The Argonauts on this basis. Nelson’s intention within this book was to ask difficult questions of herself, and to inspire her readers to do the same. In sitting in discomfort and reflecting, one can radically reimagine one’s own positionalities and politics. In particular, Nelson’s commentary on language and LGBTQI+ lives is an essential intervention in contemporary “post-gay” politics, which insist on monolithic representation of LGBTQI+ lives that often advocate for normalisation in line with cis-heterosexual hegemonies, as seen in the works by Ghaziani and Kampler and Connell.

Though short, this is a very dense, well-researched book about how capitalism prevents us from living full lives in which we can support and love each other. I agreed with the premise already, so it was a preaching to the converted situation for the most part. A narrative guide and practical methodology for nurturing and sustaining our relationships with ourselves, others, and the world. “With intimacy as the foundational principle of our existence, we can build a life based on what we truly need, not what we think we need or have been told we need. By embracing the practice of radical intimacy, I can confidently promise my readers a personal revolution of self-acceptance, appreciation, vitality, and confidence. And without fail, mind-blowing, soul-stirring, earth-shattering sex follows.” —Zoë Kors Though Nelson mostly focuses on her own perspectives of her relationship with Dodge, her text is deeply reflexive throughout. The Argonauts is a work that highlights our need to be open to critique and to be accountable for ourselves, both through communication with others and through self-reflection. For sociologists, reflexivity is a key part of doing social research. The combination of citation and speech from others intermingled within the prose makes it difficult to know where the author ends and another takes her place.Implores us to transcend our unfair social structures to instead compassionately reconnect with one another'