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„Accounting for Ourselves – Breaking the Impasse Around Assault and Abuse in Anarchist Scenes“
// Text discussion
Together we want to have an exchange about this text by CrimethInc.
Impressions from the text:
„We lack skills in counseling, mediation, and conflict resolution. […] How many of
us even have basic active listening skills, let alone the ability to
navigate complex dynamics of consent and assault, patriarchal
conditioning, anti-authoritarian conflict resolution, and
psychological transformation?“
„Rather than presuming a ‚community‘ and attempting to hold people accountable
based on that fiction, we should define our expectations of and
commitments to the others in our various circles of affinity, and use
them as the basis for our responses to conflict and harm. […] If we
can create stronger ties with each other and understand our
affinities more concretely, perhaps we’ll have the basis to make
community accountability something more than a vague and contentious
dream.“
In addition to a critical exchange about the text, we want to ask ourselves questions,
(a.o.) raised in the text, such as:
- „It seems that the availability of community
accountability processes hasn’t changed the patterns of behavior
they were developed to address. What isn’t working here?“
- „When can we say definitively that a certain person
has ‚worked on their shit‘? […] Likewise, past what point can we
agree that someone has NOT worked on their shit, and we shouldn’t
bother wasting our time on it anymore?“
- „In a transient subculture, can we realistically
commit to following up with someone for years into the future, and
establishing structures of support and accountability that will
last that long?“
- „What would genuine safety for survivors and for all
of us look like? Are there other strategies in that direction that
we can enact beyond exclusion and ostracism?“
- „Our struggles for accountability suffer because we
have so few models, methods, or skills for resolving conflicts
amongst ourselves. […] What if we prioritized our conflict
resolution and mediation skills?“
- „what is ‚community‘? Are we in one together as
anarchists? As people in a certain local scene? Because we’re at
the same protest?“ Can we have community accountability
without community?
You can find the text here:
https://crimethinc.com/zines/accounting-for-ourselves
Please read the text already before the event, bring your questions, (critical)
thoughts and vegan snacks 🙂
We want to have an open text discussion on the theme complex of „psychoemotional
self defense against colonial_patriarchal capitalism“ once a
month.
If you have text propositions or questions, write us at: apesd@riseup.net
Veranstaltende Gruppe: apesd kollektiv
Sprache des Events: English + Deutsch
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