Paulo Freire, born on the 19th of September in 1921, was a Brazilian philosopher and radical pedagogue most known for his 1968 work Pedagogy of the Oppressed. “Language is never neutral.”
Paulo was born in Recife, the capital of the northeastern Brazilian state of Pernambuco. Initially affluent, his family experienced hardship during the Great Depression of the 1930s, and Freire’s education suffered due to his own experiences with poverty and hunger.
Freire began working as a schoolteacher in the 1940s, beginning to serve as the director of the Pernambuco Department of Education and Culture in 1946. Due to the 1964 Brazilian coup d’état, where a military dictatorship was put in place with the support of the United States, Paulo Freire was exiled from his home country, an exile that lasted 16 years.
Freire then worked in Chile, until April 1969 when he accepted a temporary position at Harvard University. It was during this period, in 1968, that Freire published his most famous work, “Pedagogy of the Oppressed”.
In this text, Freire criticizes what he calls the “banking method” of education, wherein a teacher “deposits” knowledge into an empty vessel, the student, or “bank”. Instead, Freire calls upon teacher to engage in a more dialog-centric or creative education, one in which the suppressed experiences of the oppressed help create knowledge, fostering a social reality in which the marginalized are humanized.
Pedagogy of the Oppressed has since become the third most cited book in the social sciences, according to Elliott D. Green. As of 2000, the book had sold over 750,000 copies worldwide.
“Manipulation, sloganizing, depositing, regimentation, and prescription cannot be components of revolutionary praxis, precisely because they are the components of the praxis of domination.”
Paulo Freire
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I am currently taking glp medications from our comrades in China.
There have been supply issues so I am out. Comparing how my body feels with and without it is wild. Like I knew before but I didn’t really know. Obesity is a medical issue. The way my body is responding to food is so diffrent it is cooking my noodle
Glad you shared this - I hope you get what you need soon!
I think the response to GLP should prove/convince of the medical-ness.
OTOH, I hear a shitty argument a lot, that now that people (some people) have access to GLP and are reducing, it shows the fat acceptance was a myth/sham.
Chuds gonna chud.
But I think I have personally made some leeway against the moralizing of body weight discussing the food noise phenomenon, for example.
Just riffing and rambling today.
Yeah, food noise is the biggest change. It has freed up so much cognitive energy to just not have that going in the back of my mind.