Meet Your Teacher

Feminist scholarship is one of the great loves of my life.

(My other loves? Contemplation, writing, vintage clothes, my community, dance and mysticism and the Sacred.)

Along the journey of my academic and spiritual training, I’ve done 5 graduate programs and 63 graduate courses. I trained as a therapist and was a Merit Scholar at Yale Divinity School. I have held research and policy positions at two Ivy League schools. And I wrote an interdisciplinary PhD dissertation on contemplative writing practices in the context of a field and a department (ethnic studies at UC San Diego) committed to radical change (and contesting the Ivy League elitism of knowledge).

I bring the integration of 17 years of scholarly study to every class exercise and teaching I design at Feminism School.

This program is rich. It is also supportive and build for flexibility. Each month, you get two Feminist Theory Workshops and one Writing Seminar available to you. 

The Feminist Theory Workshops are optional and they are recorded. The Writing Seminar is a learning space where you will read your writing to others and get feedback, so I really recommend you try to attend all 6 of them.

The CT&C Program is designed to offer my usual rigor but also explicitly and creatively teach you the contemplative learning skills that makes devoted feminist study so pleasurable and transformative. 

That process of learning is a threshold crossing experience. You will shape the keys to open so many doors.

~Dr. Kimberly B. George

The Journey for the Critical Theory & Contemplation Program

(September 2021–March 2022)

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What is Critical Theory?

(& why do we need contemplative practices for it?)

$500—two class intensives (2 hours each). Contemplative reading homework is assigned (expect 2 hours of homework to prepare of each class). Access to the recording and class resources for 6 months.

Theorists on your learning journey::
Barbara Christian (Black feminist scholar—1st tenured Black woman at Berkeley!); Minnie Bruce Pratt (essayist, activist, partner to trans activist Leslie Feinberg); Chandra Talpade Mohanty (transnational/postcolonial feminist theorist)

Your 3:00 a.m. Knowledge

(and our cultural revolutions)

Leila Ahmed was the first Professor of Religion and Women's Studies at Harvard, and we will be reading and discussing her achingly beautiful memoir A Border Passage. Prof. Ahmed shows a path to knowledge forged in the quiet, courageous places within oneself (often felt at 3 a.m.), and the aliveness of deep, intellectual spaces of textual study.

While the focus of our class sessions will be her memoir, your learning will be supplemented by teaching drawn from her body of academic scholarship, too.

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Heart Requirements for the Program

  • Relational Encounter of Course Texts

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  • Honor Your Creative Practices

    This could mean cooking one beautiful meal once a week; collaging the textures of your outfits; or playing music or gardening or painting. It could mean anything in which you find a contemplative-creative flow of attention in your day.

  • Attend or Watch Class Recordings

    3x a month from September–March we meet by Zoom for 1 hour 90 minutes. While attendance is not required, it is encouraged as you have capacity. We do ask that you watch the recordings and do the exercises if you cannot attend.

  • Play with the Monthly Contemplative Practices

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  • 1) Complete the Application + $2500 Deposit

    The application is a short document to introduce yourself and clarify desire and vision for being in the program. Once you have submitted it and paid your deposit, you will immediately receive access to the course Intersections of Identity.

    (If you have already purchased the course, what you paid to register for it will be deducted from your deposit for this new program.)

  • 2) Sign the Program Contract and Terms of Engagement

    After registration, you will receive a 1-page document through Docusign that outlines our collective goals to create a respectful, loving, supportive space for our workshops and seminars.

    It sets a vision for our learning community, and we have everyone read and sign it.

  • 3) Pay Monthly Tuition (if on Installment Plan)

    September-October, and January-March, on the first of the month the $1100 for your monthly tuition payment is due unless you elect to pay for the program in full as a Feminism School Sponsor. Monthly installments are not billed in December.

    (A $100 fee is assessed if payment is more than 7 days late, but you will always get reminders!)

  • Please note: The Emotional Self-Defense Course is required as a pre-requisite!

    If you have not yet enrolled in this signature Feminism School course, you can still join the CR&C: Crossing Thresholds Writing Program but purchasing ESD (in addition) is necessary as a pre-requisite, since we will be working from the material.