"Let’s​ ​cut​ ​you​ ​open​ ​right​ ​now​ ​and​ ​see​ ​what​ ​we​ ​can​ ​do​ ​about​ ​it.​ ​Wait​ ​a​ ​minute,​ ​I​ ​said.​ ​I​ ​need​ ​to​ ​feel​ ​this thing​ ​out​ ​and​ ​see​ ​what’s​ ​going​ ​on​ ​inside​ ​myself​ ​first,​ ​I​ ​said,​ ​needing​ ​some​ ​time​ ​to​ ​absorb​ ​the​ ​shock,​ ​time to​ ​assay​ ​the​ ​situation​ ​and​ ​not​ ​act​ ​out​ ​of​ ​panic.​ ​Not​ ​one​ ​of​ ​them​ ​said,​ ​I​ ​can​ ​respect​ ​that,​ ​but​ ​don’t​ ​take​ ​too long​ ​about​ ​it”​
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The aim of this experiment was to slow read Audre Lorde's The Cancer Journals through a practice centered on developing multiple embodied approaches to thinking with and accessing text. 
Slow reading asks us to pause with the page, to engage with the page both as object and idea, to remember ourselves as readers with bodies, and to feel what spaces in the text open up when we stay with it. 
We were part of and existing community of artist-scholar practitioners who facilitated workshops in mediums from cut-up poetry, to "hammocking". Exploring how S.L.O.W.ing might look, feel, and even taste.

S.L.O.W was developed with Jessica Suzanne Stokes, Marbles Jumbo Radio, Julian Gatto.
With the support of HATCH Feminist Art and Science Shop in Davis, California

Audre Lorde, The Cancer Journals​

 
S.L.O.W