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@markdingemanse.netOct 8, 2026, 9:48 AM

BTW I changed 'men' to 'people'. The casual and seemingy unexamined sexism of the language in Freire is quite grating and/but whenever I see it, I think of what bell hooks said on this point (in a conversation with 'Gloria Watkins' in Teaching to transgress, hooks 1994:49) #feminism #sexism #freire

There has never been a m om ent when reading Freire that I have not rem ained aware of not only the sexism of the language b u t the way he (like o th er progressive T hird World political leaders, intellectuals, critical thinkers such as Fanon, Memmi, etc.) constructs a phallocentric paradigm of liberation—wherein freedom and the expe rience of patriarchal m anhood are always linked as though they are one and the same. For me this is always a source of anguish for it represents a blind spot in the vision of m en who have profound insight. And yet, I never wish to see a critique of this blind spot overshadow anyone’s (and fem inists’ in particular) capacity to learn from the insights. This is why it is difficult for me to speak about sexism in Freire’s work; it is difficult to find a lan guage that offers a way to frame critique and yet m aintain the recognition of all that is valued and respected in the work. It seems to me that the binary opposition that is so m uch em bedded in Western thought and language makes it nearly impossible to project a complex response.
@hofferdal.bsky.socialOct 4, 2026, 2:35 PM

If you are not familiar with Freire's work, here a selection of some of his (many) books in English translation. Bibl. in alt-txt.

#Brazil #Freire

Facsimiles of the covers of the books Freire, Paulo. Cultural Action for Freedom. 2000 ed. Harvard Educational Review, no. 1. Harvard Educational Review, 2000. Freire, Paulo. Education for Critical Consciousness. Bloomsbury Revelations. Bloomsbury Academic, 2013. Freire, Paulo. Pedagogy of Freedom: Ethics, Democracy, and Civic Courage. Critical Perspectives Series. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 1998. Freire, Paulo. Pedagogy of the City. Continuum, 1993. Freire, Paulo. Teachers as Cultural Workers: Letters to Those Who Dare Teach. Expanded ed. Westview Press, 2005. Freire, Paulo, Ana Maria Araújo Freire, Robert R. Barr, and Paulo Freire. Pedagogy of Hope: Reliving Pedagogy of the Oppressed. Continuum, 1999. Freire, Paulo, and Paulo Freire. Pedagogy of the Heart. Continuum, 1998. Freire, Paulo, and Donaldo P. Macedo. Letters to Cristina: Reflections on My Life and Work. Routledge, 1996. Freire, Paulo, Donaldo P. Macedo, and Ira Shor. Pedagogy of the Oppressed. 50th anniversary edition. Translated by Myra Bergman Ramos. Bloomsbury Academic, 2018. Freire, Paulo, and Donaldo Pereira Macedo. The Paulo Freire Reader. Edited by Ana Maria Araújo Freire. Continuum, 2000.