Aging, Death, and Body Horror

What are the true horrors of aging? Is it growing older? Your body and mind failing? Or is it the looming prospect of death itself? We desperately try to hold on to our youth, it seems. And what do you expect if we are incessantly told by capitalist society that youth equals beauty, vitality, and desirability...? Is the true horror of aging not the system that creates and exploits these vulnerabilities?

Let's revolt against this system together! Against ageism, exploitation and these expectations! At this Radical Sunday School session, we discuss our own personal experiences, realities, and fears revolving around aging, death, and our decomposing bodies - all in an attempt to find ways to accept the reality of aging and death, and reclaim our bodies that have been turned into horror.

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The formal education system affects us all. Not only are we forced to attend schools growing up, but academic research shapes our governments, our news, and how we view the world around us. As much as many of us want to believe in the promise of institutional education, the sad fact is that our schools and universities are undemocratic and elitist. They perpetuate inequalities instead of giving people the tools to fight them. This world is fucked.

Here at Radical Sunday School, though, we know that another world is possible. Everyone should be able to direct their own learning, to grow together with their communities, and to live as though they’re already free. There are countless examples of movements already putting these ideas into practice. This collective is trying to follow in their footsteps, organizing to explore new ways of learning based on principles of autonomy, mutual aid, and egalitarianism.

This is not intended to be a course that you would have to follow all the way through. Jump in and out whenever you like. Sessions will be held every Sunday at Joe's Garage.

Doors open at 17.30, we start sharp at 18.00!