[Smashpatriarchy] call-out for reading group

[rory breasail]

Sounds swell!/ that day works fine for me

On Wed, Aug 7, 2013 at 3:18 PM, fletch <ngnm84 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I agree great write up Reg. I support all of this awesome work, I can't
> participate until sept though. Please don't change plans on my behalf
> though, I can catch up.
> In sol,
> fletch
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On 2013-08-07, at 2:42 PM, Peter Gill <petergill85 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Sorry for taking so long to respond.
>
> Great write up Reg.  If folks are okay with it I'll post on facebook once
> we have copies of the books in at spartacus.  I ordered 6 hopefully that's
> enough.
>
> One idea a few of us have been throwing around is meeting up for tea and
> coffee sometime in the next few weeks.  I think this is a great idea.
>  Shall we make it a Tuesday Night?  Let's say Tuesday the 20th?  Does that
> work for most folks?
>
> Also I think it would be great if we had the reading group at spartacus
> books.
>
> Lov
>
> Peter
>
>
> On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 4:08 PM, reg johanson <regjohanson at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> hi everyone. pls find below a call-out for our reading group. pls advise
>> as to changes etc.
>>
>> also, we still have $200 from SFPIRG. could we spend tht money on a) food
>> and b) books for those who need a subsidy?
>>
>> Solidarity Against Patriarchy (SAP) invites you to read with us! We are
>> doing a reading group around two texts, Silvia Federici’s *Caliban and
>> the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation* (Autonomedia
>> 2004) and Andrea Smith’s *Conquest: Sexual Violence and American Indian
>> Genocide* (South End Press 2005).
>>
>>
>>
>> Our first meeting is proposed for Tuesday September 17th from 7-930 at
>> [where?]. We propose to start with *Conquest*.
>>
>>
>>
>> We are interested in these texts because they discuss two foundational
>> moments in the establishment of patriarchy, one marking the beginning of
>> capitalism in Europe, and one marking the beginning of capitalism on Turtle
>> Island. Reading them together can give us a deep intersectional perspective
>> on the relationships between patriarchy, capitalism, and colonialism.
>>
>>
>>
>> Solidarity Against Patriarchy (SAP) is a group of (mostly)
>> male-identified people working against internalized and external systems of
>> patriarchy. The work that the group engages in can be divided into two
>> categories: internal and external. Internally, SAP is both a dialogic and
>> experientially focused discussion group targeted towards men but open to
>> all genders for the purpose of exposing and challenging internalized forms
>> of sexism and its associated intersectional oppressions, such as racism,
>> homophobia, trans-misogyny, classism, ableism, etc. Externally, the group
>> works to support the voices of women speaking out against sexism by
>> creating film nights and establishing open discussions where women can
>> publicly speak about and critique patriarchy. In addition, SAP seeks to
>> educate men about how their behaviours uphold rape-culture by spreading
>> anti-sexist propaganda across Vancouver (for instance, see
>> http://www.wavaw.ca/solidarity-against-patriarchy/)
>>
>>
>>
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