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Op 7 februari zines gaan we feministische zines maken in de Ruige Rog!

Wij brengen alles wat nodig is om zines te maken, en voor materialen vragen we donaties. Er zal ook thee en koffie zijn, evenals veganistische koekjes!

De ‘workshop’ zal plaatsvinden in de Roggeveenstraat 56, Den Haag.
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On the 7th of February we will create feminist zines at the Ruige Rog!

We will bring all the material that is needed, and will ask for a donation. There will also be tea, coffee and vegan cookies.

The ‘workshop’ will take place at the Roggeveenstraat 56 in the Hague.

Sexism, Racism and Other Discriminatory Behavior in Activist Collectives

On the 8th of June, Kattenkwaad will host a workshop on sexism, racism and other discriminatory  behavior in activist collectives or actions at anarchist festival the Pinksterlanddagen

Sometimes you enter an activist or anarchist space and you feel uncomfortable, not welcome and not empowered to voice your opinion or discuss your ideas. Spaces where you are supposed to feel more comfortable because people state that they are striving towards a non-discriminatory world or towards creating a space where everyone is welcome. Yet, underlying power structures that are present in society are often hard to break loose from, also in these communities.  

Feminist initiative Kattenkwaad will host a workshop on sexism, racism, ableism and other discriminatory behaviour in anarchist and activist groups. This workshop will focus on sharing experiences with each other, to discuss what we have been through and how we can deal with these situations. We organise it from an ‘open space’ perspective, which means that there is no set questions to discuss, but everyone is welcome to introduce questions, and to answer them. We believe that we don’t hold all the answers, and together we know way more.

The workshop will be open for everyone who feels like they experience or have experienced discriminatory behaviour. Women and non-binary identifying people their voices and experiences (particularly lesbians and bisexual, women of colour and trans-women) are going to be prioritised throughout the workshop. We hope that no one who wants to join the workshop engages in racist, homophobic, transphobic, ableist, ageist, classist, sexist or other exclusionary behaviour, including any and all forms of shaming, erasure, and victim blaming. We will interfere whenever we do feel like that is happening and we hope to create a space where people can share if they want to share or not their experiences and approaches to deal with these situations.

About the Pinksterlanddagen

Time of the workshop: 14h – 15:30h

Anarchistisch kampeerterrein Appelscha
Aekingaweg 1a
8426GN Appelscha

UPDATE:

Due to personal reasons Maddalena cannot travel all the way to the Hague to give the self-gyneacology workshop. We will give a second update when we have picked another date for the workshop.

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On the 14th of June Kattenkwaad will host a self-gynaecology workshop organised by Maddalena! Feel free to join if you have or have had a vagina or if you are in the process of sex reassignment. It’s time to befree ourselves from the patriarchal oppressive gynaecology and to rediscover statistics, magic poisons and aphrodisiac unguents!

During this workshop we will start from our bodies to redefine human anatomy cleaning up doubts and satisfying curiosities. Thanks to horizontal education, we will learn to look for appropriate materials to answer our questions.

Entrance on donation. Suggested donation is 10 euro’s, all profits will go to the crowdfunding campaign Into the World: make birth beautiful and safe https://www.umcrowd.nl/project/into-the-world-make-birth-safe-and-beautiful

To bring with you if you like to learn self-pelvic examination: a torch/headlamp, a towel and a small mirror. We will make sure that there is a safe space for people who want to learn this, and for people who do not feel comfortable with self-pelvic examination in a group.

About Maddalena
Maddalena graduated in the International Track in Medicine at Maastricht University and is currently carrying out the three years of clinical rotations necessary to practice as a doctor in The Netherlands. She has a special interested in gynaecology and obstetrics and decided to take Global Health as her second master. Her path brought her to the birth rooms of Ecuador, Italy and The Netherlands where she has worked with indigenous peoples and several cultural minorities and has assisted with diverse birth techniques such as birthing in water.

The venue is wheelchair accessible.

On the 11th of May there will be a rollerdisco benefit party for the Abortion Network Amsterdam (ANA) and BabyBullenBank (BBB). During the rollerdisco there will be vegan snacks, milkshakes and last but not least: some disco music!

Please bring your own skates when you have them. There will be some skates to rent as well, for a donation.

Organised by Bea-nix in collaboration with Kattenkwaad.
Information ANA: https://anamsterdam.noblogs.org/
Information BBB: http://stekdenhaag.nl/babybullenbank

More information can be found here. 

In the feminist movement, the depiction of the ‘witch’ has often been used as a symbol for resistance towards patriarchy and used as direct action methods for direct change (think about W.I.T.C.H). Yet, the genocide of women during the early modern witch-hunt era in Europe is often overlooked when we talk of periods in history that have had an impact on social inequalities in contemporary society. Yet, these witch-hunts occurred during the rise of modern day capitalism, and when the political and economic power of the church became very important. Christianity and capitalism sailed together to other places and there too, decided that powerful women*, medicine women*, shamans and everyone who they saw as ‘witches’ were destroyed. In some places in the world, the witch hunts are making a come back .According to Federici:

‘We are witnessing a new surge of interpersonal and institutional violence against women, including new witch hunts, which have occurred alongside an expansion of capitalist social relations.’

This is the second meeting which focusses on Silvia Federici’s ‘Witches, Witch-hunting and Women’. We would like it if you come to the reading group prepared, and if you can also read the previous chapters. Federici will offer us an explanation of how anti-capitalism should be connected with feminism, and the other way around.

We will read and discuss:

– Chapter 5: On the Meaning of Gossip

– Chapter 6: Globalization, Capital Accumulation and Violence Against Women: An International and Historical Perspective

HEX THE PATRIARCHY Reading Group: Witches, Witch-Hunting and Women*

On the 4th of April, when the New Moon rises, we will start to explore the relationship between witchcraft, anti-capitalism and feminism!

Women* who have opposed capitalism, patriarchy and Christian power structures have often been labelled as witches, with the result that many have been tortured, hanged, burned or killed in other terrible ways. The genocide of women during the early modern witch-hunt era in Europe is often overlooked when we talk of periods in history that have had an impact on social inequalities in contemporary society. Yet, these witch-hunts occurred during the rise of modern day capitalism, and when the political and economic power of the church became very important. Christianity and capitalism sailed together to other places and there too, decided that powerful women*, medicine women*, shamans and everyone who they saw as ‘witches’ were destroyed. Together capitalism and Christianity survive and become stronger through patriarchal power structures – let’s hex them and destroy them!

We will dive into the history of the witchhunts and its connection to capitalism with the help of Silvia Federici’s research. We will especially focus on ‘Witches, Witch-hunting and Women’. She will offer us an explanation of how anti-capitalism should be connected with feminism, and the other way around.

The book ‘Witches, Witch-Hunting and Women’ can be bought at the anarchist bookstore the Opstand, https://opstand.noblogs.org/.

At the Opstand a copy of chapters 2, 3 and 4 can be found.

And you can email kattenkwaad-haf(at)riseup.net for a pdf.

Het Patriarkraakt is a monthly talking group about toxic masculinity. We hope to create a space for self-reflection, to educate each other about feminism and sexism. To enable us to think in a healthy way about these issues, and to learn healthy behavior. A space to share questions, doubts, experiences and self-criticism.

The third session takes places on March 13th, this time in The Hague. This session we’re combining parts of the first two sessions. We will discuss what the patriarchy is and how it has operated in our lives. Then we’ll be looking for way to make our activist spaces safer for women, trans people and queers.

Everyone is welcome, but the talking group is focused on (the experiences of):
– Cis men
– People who want to unlearn toxic masculinity (regardless of your gender)

If this doesn’t apply to you, then you are still very much welcome. Especially if you think others can learn from you, or if you think you can learn from others.

Why do we do this?
In this patriarchal society we are taught toxic masculinity. This means that we are not able to sustain relationships in a healthy way (friendly, romantic…) . We learn to emotionally cut ourselves off from ourselves and others. We learn that aggression and violence are the only means to solve conflicts. We learn that we don’t need to listen to women/non-men and that we can cross their personal boundaries. We learn to commit sexual violence and to see it as normal or innocent.

Our activist spaces are not free from toxic masculinity. Here too we find sexism and sexual violence. Here too there is a dude-culture (brocialism/manarchism). We want to change this. We hope that this talking group will contribute to making activist spaces safer for women, non-men, trans people and queers.

Information:
Wednesday March 13th
Ruige Rog (Roggeveenstraat 56), The Hague
19:00 vegan food
19:30 start program