Invitation for the Pro_feminist Academy 2020 — canceled

*** this event has been canceled ***

May 29 to June 3, 2020 near Erfurt

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What is it about?
It is about feminism, patriarchy and gender-specific socialization.
We use the word academy not in the meaning of university, although some parts are of theoretical nature. The Profem_minist Academy rather wants to provide a space for facing our biographical background and personal inclusion in patriarchal structures.
We want to bring feminist theories together with contemplation about our personal entanglement and attitude in the patriarchal system. And we want to gain awareness about our possibilities to fight feminist fights or to support them as an ally.
Profeminism is often mentioned where people – often cisgender and endosex men – do not want to adopt the word “feminism”. For example, because they do not experience certain feminist struggles or do not experience a specific type of patriarchal violence from their position.
We as a partly cis-endo-male preparation group of the Academy want to tie in with this thought.
The Academy wants to strengthen both: Feminism and profeminism. A dynamic underline moves through our “Profemini_st”, since it’s separation is as brittle as the binary gender system itself.
People who match with the gender identity they got assigned at at birth are called cisgender. Cis means not trans*. People who are not inter*sex are called endosex. Their bodies fit in the medical norm of male or female bodies.

Who is invited?
Everyone who is interested in the topics of the Academy and claims an emancipatory attitude. Five similar Academies already took place since 2015. However, it is not necessary to have attended one of the previous Academies in order to be able to participate in the sixth Academy.

Remark:
Till now both the organization group and the event itself where mainly consisting of cis-endo-male participants. The main topic was and is masculinity, although a shift to more diverse topics occurred which focus more on other gender identities.
On one hand does the Academy want to provide room for women, lesbians, inter*, non-binary and trans* people. A room, in which they can deal with their own (learning) priorities. There will be the possibility to form peer groups without cis-endo-men. (more info about peer groups in the next paragraph.)
On the other hand is the Academy a space for cis-endo-men to expose themselves to feminism and patriarchy. A situation that could be with good reason experienced as exhausting and tension-filled by FLINT* people
This contradiction is part of the Academy since its beginnings.

Concept / timetable
The Academy is not a workshop and there will be no workshops. Instead the participants will decide for themselves what they want to work on. At the start of the Academy small peer groups of three to five people will form.
The process of group forming will consider knowledge of language, preference of topics, needs for groups of a specific gender and everything that could be important to you. Most of the day will be spent in these peer groups. But there will be periods of time where all participants can meet and also time to tend to oneself.
A key element of the Academy will be the puzzle pieces. Puzzle pieces are texts and suggestions of methods to approach them, which are prepared beforehand. Every peer group may choose to work on a few of them over the course of the next few days.

Topics
These topics from previous academies will be provided:
Sexuality, Rape Culture, Topless, Men’s Groups, Trans*- Allyship, Masculinity and Emotions,
Reproductive Work, Relational & emotional labour, Parenthood, Homophobia and male distinction from Femininity, Gender_Sex, Alcohol & Drugs consumption, Dealing with violence.

Materials of past academies can be found here: Material

Time and Space
This time the academy will take place near Erfurt. It starts on May 29, 2020 (Friday). You should have arrived at 6pm, at 7pm we will start with the program on time. It is important to us that you are there on time.
The academy ends on June 3rd (Wednesday) at 2pm or, including cleaning up, at 4pm. We are happy if some participants stay a little longer.

Accessibility, Cats, Dogs
Unfortunately the location is not wheelchair accessible.
There will be one cat on the site. For people with strong cat allergy we would not recommend the event. If it is (only) light cat allergy, please write us. There will be sleeping places which the cat can not reach.
Dogs are not allowed on the site.

Costs
We will try to get funding, but are unable to estimate the expenses at this moment. Quite vaguely, we expect the average price per participant to be something around 100 Euro (costs for traveling, sleeping and food combined).
Independently from what it will cost, we will make it possible for everyone to attend through a solidarity concept, even if your budget would normally not allow you to.

Registration
Please sign up by sending an email to profemak@riseup.net, if you want to participate. The deadline for registration is the 27th of May 2019, but please sign in as so as possible so that we can plan ahead and invite accordingly. We have limited the number of participants to 35. Since our concept involves small group work and builds on the overall group atmosphere, it is only possible to participate for the whole duration of the Academy (29th May til 3rd June).

Please tell us:
1. whether or how many children are taking part with you. And if you wish to have child care for them arranged.
2. if you want to care for your child/children by yourself. Which could limit your capability of participating in small group work.
3. whether you have any food intolerances (we cook vegan) and allergies (e.g. cat allergy)
4. whether you are planning to stay in the house or want to bring your own tent.
5. whether you are a cis-endo man – we ask this to see how the relation between cis-endo men and FLINT* people will be and to name this relation in case somebody asks us (definition above)
6. whether you would like your email address to be sent to a separate mailing list that you can use to coordinate a journey with other participantsts
7. and everything else you need to feel comfortable.

Questions?
Feel free to contact us through: profemak(at)riseup.net

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