[Smashpatriarchy] minutes meeting of oct. 14

[Peter Gill]

Hey

I just wanted to let everyone know that the round table which we have
committed to organizing will be happening from 7pm-10.  This is open time
at the Summit so everyone in the group is welcome to attend.  There`s lots
to share and learn from others.  Please come if you can.  I`ll send more
details in the coming days.

Peter


On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 7:39 PM, reg johanson <regjohanson at gmail.com> wrote:

> Minutes of meeting oct. 14
>
> present: reg, chris, ian, kenan, peter, harjap, david
>
> *Discussion of Social Spaces Summit workshop, sunday oct. 21 afternoon /
> eve.
>
> What do we want to talk about? Patriarchy as it functions systemically and
> interpersonally in the communities / spaces in which we work. It will be
> organized as a roundtable discussion. we will talk first about our group
> and our experiences with these issues. we will try to address three
> questions, and invite participants to do the same: 1) Can you talk about an
> experience of being "called out" on your own sexist  / patriarchal
> behaviour? 2) What is / has been your role in creating "safer spaces"
> against sexism / patriarchy? How can you improve your efforts? 3) What have
> you done or are you doing outside of radical / organizing spaces and
> communities to dismantle sexism / patriarchy? at school, for example, or at
> work?
>
> Reg and david will takes notes. Chris will facilitate if he is able to
> attend, peter will facilitate if no one else can or will. Kenan will keep
> speaker's list.
>
> we will also have info and other material to distribute, reg will make
> stapled booklets of some of our readings to distribute.
>
> *What next?
>
> 1) Info tables at events, providing pamphlets etc.
>
> 2) bottom-line organizing to highlight women-identified voices in the
> community. by "bottom line", we mean finding spaces, fundraising, set-up,
> info and distro, and related leg-work.
>
> Invite women-identified folks from (primarily the local) community to talk
> about what the movement needs to do to deal with it's own patriarchy, and
> in general.
>
> need to be aware of the politics of feminist organizing and its
> differences, for example around the question of trans-exclusion, positions
> with regard to sex work, etc.
>
> Names for possible invite: Jessica Yee, Roberta Jensen, Fathima Jaffer,
> Vikki Reynolds, Andrea Smith, Meaghan Murphy, Grassroots Women.
>
> This event would take place after Dec. 12, sometime around dec. 14-15. All
> group members are invited to give some thought to who would be good to
> invite.
>
> Harjap and david will look into venues for this event.
>
> *Basis of Unity. We read the draft of the basis of unity and made some
> changes. B of U will be sent to reg for grammar check and distributed to
> the group for further revision.
>
> NEXT MEETING: Harjap to book Mosaic for next meeting, three weeks from
> now.
>
>
>
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