Professors rarely speak of the place of eros or the erotic in our clas…

Bell Hooks
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Professors rarely speak of the place of eros or the erotic in our classrooms. Trained in the philosophical context of Western metaphysical dualism, many of us have accepted the notion that there is a split between the body and the mind. Believing this, individuals enter the classroom to teach as though only the mind is present, and not the body. ✨ Bell Hooks (2014). Teaching To Transgress, p.199, Routledge
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