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We’re reading the zine “Grin and Bare it All.”
For our next meeting, we will be reading “Women and the Subversion of the Community” by Mariarosa Dalla Costa and Selma James.
The edition we are reading was published by Petroleuse Press.
For this week’s conversation, we are looking at The Good Men Project to have a conversation about what makes (or doesn’t make?) our work different from their approach. Specifically, we will be discussing their “About Us” page.
Additionally we will be reading an article published on the website titled “The Patterns In Mass Shootings and a Conversation About Men.”
This week’s reading is the booklet “Supporting a Survivor of Sexual Assault” published jointly by UBUNTU and Men Against Rape Culture.
You can download it as an imposed PDF for printing.
For our next meeting we will be reading the zine “Accounting for Ourselves: Breaking the Impasse Around Assault and Abuse in Anarchist Scenes.” It is available in a screen-friendly format or as a PDF for printing.
Our next reading is the zine “Don’t Leave Your Friends Behind: Radical Parents Allies Handbook.”
A copy of the zine is available here.
Our next reading is the zine “Dangerous Spaces: Violent Resistance, Self-Defense, and Insurrectional Struggle Against Gender.”
Contents:
– “Anarcha-Feminists Take to the Streets”
– “Safety is an Illusion”
– “Notes on Survivor Autonomy and Violence”
– “Dysphoria Means Total Destroy”
– “An Insurrectional Practice Against Gender”
+ 14 communiques
It is available formatted for on-screen reading or for printing.
For our reading this week, we will be reading the zine “Support.” It is available as a PDF here.
A brief description of “Support:”
In a time when sexual assault and abuse are an increasing problem; even in so-called radical and punk communities, and when most women have been sexually abused in one way or another, Cindy Crabb (Doris Zine) brings us a document showing ways to prevent sexual violence and support survivors of sexual abuse. The zine helps to define consent, some letters that Cindy has received, listening, talking about sex, power dynamics, comics by Fly, and much more! A crucial resource that reads much like a regular issue of Doris.
For next week we are going to be reading the following: