Bookbound A book club for K11 community
Bookbound is our own take on the concept of a book club. We don't want to discuss the same, entire 300+ pages we've all read. Instead, we want to get inspired by a book—or books—one of us studied and debate the topics it revolves around.
- October 10th
- 17:00
- K11
The first meetup is coming up! We'll read a bit and then discuss themes, issues and phenomena that are important to our community.
This will be the G.R.I.D. we will build the meetups on:
The Guide
There is always a person picking a book the meetup will be centered around. No need to become an expert on the author, topic or field. You are welcome to organize Bookbound around any book that inspired you.
The Resources
The Guide provides material that everyone attending can access and go through. If getting the book and reading it is within your means and possibilities, awesome. But the material shared will be low-threshold: an excerpt of the text, an article or review on the book or topic, an interview with the author, or something similar—just enough to build common understanding.
Among the Resources, the proposed questions for the Debate will be included.
The Intro
To get us on the same page even more, the Guide will prepare an introduction to the book and/or topic. They will introduce basic concepts, sum up how the book spoke to them, and sketch out how it might be inspirational so the Debate can flow.
Approximately 30 minutes of monologue, not more.
The Debate
Everyone discusses the book freely: the topics, concepts, phenomena and anything else that emerges. Everyone is welcome to mix in their lived experiences, other books, philosophies or approaches relevant to the topic.
One person from the group volunteers to be the facilitator—not the Guide—to help the discussion flow and balance the voices.
We might be anti-authoritarians, but we have nothing against one aspect of the traditional British book club: bringing cakes and other snacks is welcome!
First session
Feminist Antifascism and Counter-Publics of the Common
Let's discuss how to work towards a free world without relying on macho heroism, how to center everyday practices rather than spectacle, and how to create our own feminist counterpublics—because anything else won't ever be truly antifascist.
“Perhaps there is an eight-year-old girl somewhere who is desperately willing to kick some patriarchal, neo-Nazi ass. This book is for her.”
— Ewa Majewska
We might not be eight, and some of us are not girls, but this discussion is for all of us who share the goal with this little girl.