Workshop 5

What’s personal is always political : A workshop of feminist practices

In this one-day workshop, we will be exploring, reading, commenting, and learning together from feminist and antipatriarchal writings from around the world in order to think, feel, and practice together how it can uphold dignity for cis and trans women and what we can do to incorporate this into our everyday practices. 

By drawing from diverse feminist/antipatriarchal literature, participants will gain insights into how gender, identity, social justice, and intersectionality shape mental health experiences and practices.

As we read and comment, we can bring in experiences from our work, political activism and personal experiences. Participants will get a sense of how naming gender-based violence can set us on a healing journey, and we will also explore various forms of resistance and celebration in everyday feminist and anti-patriarchal practices 

The workshop will provide an opportunity for participants to engage critically with these texts and reflect on their relevance to their practice. Through these texts and our reflections, we will enhance our understanding of the diverse experiences that contribute to building community and the tools for building more equitable practices.

Objectives:

By the end of the workshop, participants will:

  1. Understand key feminist/Anti-patriarchal theories/practices and their relevance to narrative practices.

  2. Reflect on how feminist and anti-patriarchal perspectives can inform and enhance our practice, and our communities.

  3. Engage in discussions about integrating feminist/anti-patriarchal principles into our narrative practices, and bringing them into our communities.

Facilitated by Gabriela Jauregui

Gabriela Jauregui (b. Mexico City) is a writer, translator, and editor. Her most recent novel, Feral, was published by Sexto Piso in Mexico and Spain. She coordinated the forthcoming anthology Tsunami, which will be published by Feminist Press in the U.S. She is the author of Many Fiestas (Gato Negro, 2017), Leash Seeks Lost Bitch (Song Cave, 2016), and Controlled Decay (Akashic Books, 2008), as well as the short story collection La memoria de las cosas (Sexto Piso 2015). She edited and co-authored two essay collections Tsunami (Sexto Piso 2018) and Tsunami 2 (2021). Her creative and critical work has been included in anthologies, journals, and magazines in the US, UK, Australia, Mexico, and Poland, including most recently McSweeneys, ArtForum, Litro, amongst others. She teaches in the English department in the College of Modern Letters at the UNAM (National Autonomous University of Mexico) and lives and works in the forests belonging to the Mazahua peoples and the Monarch butterflies.