Campaign Calendar

 

11/2 14.00 Mehringhof

Patriarchaat Kraakt: Fighting patriarchy where the targeted group is cis-men, Critical Masculinity Workshop

 

  • On Saturday February 11th Patriarkraakt will organize a day of workshops in Berlin as part of the Campaign Against Patriarchy (capcampaign.blackblogs.org). Patriarkraakt is an Utrecht based collective organizing workshops and sessions for people that want to work on their internalized toxic masculinity. Patriarkraakt believes that people who’ve internalized toxic masculinity should work on themselves and by organizing these sessions they hope to fight toxic masculinity, cultivate emotional honesty and fight the patriarchy. In this way their aim is to contribute to making the movement safer for women, queers and trans people, but also for men themselves.
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  • On February 11th Patriarkraat will host two different sessions! In the first workshop the collective will give a summary of their history as a collective and share with you the struggles they have encountered and the valuable lessons they have learned. Furthermore they will emphasize the reasons why they think critical masculinity groups are an essential and integral part of an effective feminist movement. Afterwards, there will be an open space to ask questions and to share experiences and struggles with (organizing) men groups. With this session they hope to share their lessons and inspire people to start organizing similar groups all over!
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  • The second session will be an open discussion on the role of critical masculinity groups in a community of accountability. Accountability here signifies all the efforts combined to combat problematic behavior within ourselves and the community by making people realize and acknowledge the problem and making them commit to unlearning and never repeating that behavior. This kind of accountability work can be a reaction to seemingly unharmful internalized everyday behavior, problematic behavior like  sexist jokes, but also to more extreme cases like sexual abuse. The discussion will be twofold: in the first part we want to have an open discussion in which we want to sketch how an effective community of accountability would look, what roles need to be fulfilled and what groups are necessary in order to make such a community function. In the second part we want to answer the question of what role critical masculinity groups would play in a community of accountability and what this role would entail. With this session we want to think about how accountability could work in the future and inspire ourselves and everyone present with hope and real life experiences from the audience