Personal Politics

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The Theory

• Spivak – Can the Subaltern Speak? (Strategic Essentialism)
• Beauvoir – The Second Sex (Situationist critique of marriage)
• Nancy Chodorow – The Reproduction of Mothering (Learnt sexual power difference in childhood)

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Main Ideas

• Sex critical reproduction
• Consent culture – Male survivor zine
• Essentialism vs Climates of oppression and symbolic learnt sexual difference

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My Documents

• Subversive masculinity
• Unpicking history of trauma, relationship experiments and hope
• Male survivor material; lists, comment and zine proposal?

 

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Reading / Research

Sex Positive

• Radical Slut Dis-covery: building and re-building our sexual selves
• WHORECORE Fucking Queer and Getting Paid

Sex Critical

Against uncritical liberation of desire (privileged hedonistic lifestyles)

• FUCKED: on being sexually dysfunctional in sex-positive queer scenes zine
• authentic desire and moral development
• Polyamory off our backs

Against Essentialism

• Against Separatism
• “Feminine” Heterosexual Men: Subverting Heteropatriarchal Sexual Scripts? – Darryl B. Hill
• Anarcha-feminism and the newer “woman question” – sallydarity
• How-an-outdated-view-of-masculinity-ignores-the-needs-of-all-men/
• Forever your girl

Sex Militant

• Toward The Queerest Insurrection
• Negative feminism, anti-social queer theory and the politics of hope
• ‘Do We Scare Ya’ Cuz, We’re Not Afraid To Fuck’? Queer-feminist Punk Countercultures, Theory, Art and Action
• DANGEROUS SPACES: Violent Resistance, Self-Defense, and Insurrectional Struggle Against Gender
• i am no hero, and neither are you thoughts on how our histories of abuse inflect our anarchist practice

Survivor Support

• Support Zine – Cindy Crabb
• Apoyo (Spanish-language version of Support):
• Supporting a Survivor of Sexual Assault: a Primer (10 Steps)
• No! The Rape Documentary [film]
• Male Survivor
• Trans and Intersex Survivors of Domestic Violence

Affirmative consent

• Learning Good Consent
• Break the Silence: How to Put Together Your Own Consent Workshop
• (Safer sex and relationships zine, facilitators guides, curriculum, resources and sample agendas)
• My Body My Pleasure My Choice A positive sexuality booklet for young people by Generation Five.
• Abuse is Not S/M and S/M is Not Abuse zine

Trauma and Recovery

• The Icarus Project: Emotional Trauma First Aid Handout
• Trauma Stewardship: An Everyday Guide to Caring for Self While Caring for Others by Connie Burk & Laura van Dernoot:
• Survivor’s Guide to Sex/Healing Sex by Ellen Bass,
• Trauma and Recovery by Judith Herman Lewis,
• Thriving in the Wake of Trauma: A Multicultural Guide by Thema Bryant-Davis,
• The Body Remembers: The Psychophysiology of Trauma and Trauma Treatment by Babette Rothschild,
• Waking the Tiger by Peter A Levine,

Burnout and self-care

• Resisting burnout with justice-doing The International Journal of Narrative Therapy and Community Work. (4) 27-45.
• Collective ethics as a path to resisting burnout

Personals

• Freddy Stories, by Lynda Barry
• When Things Fall Apart, by Pema Chodron
• Punk vs Sexism and Rape from Profane Existance
• The Courage to Heal, The Courage to Heal Workbook, Allies in Healing.
• The Sexual Healing Journey: A Guide for Survivors of Sexual Abuse, by Wendy Maltz.
• Invisible Girls: the Truth About Sexual Abuse. A Book For Teen Girls, Young Women, and Everyone Who Cares About Them, by Dr. Patti Feuereisen http://www.girlthrive.com, by Seal Press
• The Survivor’s Guide to Sex: How to Have an Empowered Sex Life After Child Sexual Abuse, by Staci Haines
• She Who Was Lost is Remembered: Healing from Incest Through Creativity, ed Louise M. Wisechild.
• Sexual Harassment: Women Speak Out, ed Sumrall and Taylor.
• Brutal from Slug and Lettuce.
• Brainscan 21
• Mend My Dress #1
• ask; from the mouthes of wolves

For people called out for violent or abusive behaviour

• Tips for Seeking a Therapist (for People Who Have Done Sexual Harm), by Anonymous.
• Taking The First Step Suggestions To People Called Out For Abusive Behaviour by Wispy Cockles
• What to Do When You’ve Been Called Out

Identity specific Issues

Women

• Emma Shepard letter from prison (punished with longer prison sentence for being ‘good girl, gone bad’)
• Feminist case against women bishops (Subalternity: Essentialise their role in society, accept dehumanizing traditions that make them subservient to men)
• Girl on Girl Hate (Hold each other to a subservient standard, know your place)
• Women who feel entitled more likely to endorse benevolent sexism study finds

Street Harassment

• walking the war zones
• a little story about clothes and guns

Men

• Refusing to be a Man – John Stoltenberg
• Invisible Victims: Men In Abusive Relationships
• You Just Don’t Understand: Women and Men in Conversation (the gender contract and language)

Race and Colonialism

• The Autobiography of My Mother by Jamaica Kincaid
• Whiteness and Trauma: The Mother-Daughter Knot in the Fiction of Jean Rhys; Jamaica Kincaid and Toni Morrison
• Dirty open secret of master slave relationships in Burma
• I Will Survive: The African-American Guide to Healing from Sexual Assault and Abuse, by Lori Robinson.

Sexuality

• Heterosexuality a Feminism and Psychology reader

Mental Health

• When Rabbit Howls, by the Troops For Truddi Chase.
• I’ve Got Angels in my Head. Excerpts: forgiving myself and letter to friends
• Witch Hunt By Annie Anxiety
• Mentally Ill Sometimes Things Get Confusing When You’re Mentally Ill

Sex worker rights

• Trapped – short essay, by a canadian sex-trade worker
• Vancouver Rape Relief Does Not Support All Survivors – printed for this event

Community Empowerment

• Emotion Work, Feeling Rules, and Social Structure
• Building the Bonds of Attachment: Awakening Love in Deeply Troubled Children By Daniel A. Hughes
• Violence and abuse (optional parenting coaching for all families)
• Womens Self Defense #2 Stories & strategies of survival.
• Thoughts About Community Support Around Intimate Violence

Accountability Processes

• Calling IN: A Less Disposable Way of Holding Each Other Accountable
• Philly Stands up Portrait of Praxis: Anatomy of Accountability Kelly, Esteban Lance & Jenna Peters Golden (2010)
• As If They Were Human: A Different Take on Perpetrator Accountability
• What is the opposite of accountability (section from Community Accountability Within People of Color Progressive Movements by INCITE!)
• Shame, Realisation and Restoration: The Ethics of Restorative Practice, – Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy, Volume 27, Issue 3, pages 153– 162, September 2006

For Allies and Men doing work against gender violence

• Why Misogynists Make Great Informants (zine form)
• Philly Dudes Collective: Year One
• On The Road To Healing #1
• On The Road To Healing #2
• Dealing With Our Shit: Six Years of Men’s Group and Accountability Work
• Experiments in Transformative Justice by the Challenging Male Supremacy Project
• When Calling Me Your Beautiful Sister is Not Enough
• Going to places that scare me: Personal reflections on challenging male supremacy

Workshops and trainings

• Break the Silence: How to Put Together Your Own Consent Workshop (Safer sex and relationships zine, facilitators guides, curriculum, resources and sample agendas)
• R3 collective: Anti-oppression and burnout
• AORTA collective workshops: Facilitators guides and trainings
• Philly Stands Up (2011) ‘Rehearsing Community Accountability’
• Vicky Reynolds: Witnessing Our Collective Ethics (2012) An Inquiry into Ally Work (2011) The problem with normal: A gift from queer theory (2011)

Community accountability, anti-oppression, intersectionality and allyship: Resources for counsellors, agencies and the interface between community accountability and services.

• Bay Area Transformative Justice Collective: Community Support Network
• A solidarity approach: The rhizome & messy inquiry. – Systemic Inquiry: Innovations in Reflexive Practice Research.
• The problem’s oppression not depression – Stay Solid! : A Radical Handbook for Youth.
• Doing Justice: A Witnessing Stance in Therapeutic Work Alongside Survivors of Torture and Political Violence – Studies in meaning 4: Constructivist perspectives on theory, practice, and social justice.
• Journal of Counselling and Psychotherapy, 47(1), 14-28. Everett, B., MacFarlane D., Reynolds, V., & Anderson, H. (2013)
• Lessons from self-organizing communities: ‘We were already a community and you put a roof over us’. – The International Journal of Narrative Therapy and Community Work, 2, 61-78.
• “Leaning in” as imperfect allies in community work. – Narrative and Conflict: Explorations in theory and practice, 1(1), 53-75.
• Bridging the worlds of therapy & activism: Intersections, tensions & affinities. – The International Journal of Narrative Therapy and Community Work. (4) 57-61.
• Hate Kills: A social justice response to “suicide”. – http://discoursesofprevention.com/post-symposium-activities/.
• The role of allies in anti-violence work. – Ending Violence Association of BC Newsletter. (2) 1-4
• Fluid and Imperfect Ally Positioning: Some Gifts of Queer Theory. – Context. Association for Family and Systemic Therapy, UK, 13-17.
• An ethic of resistance: Frontline worker as activist. – Women Making Waves19 (1), 5.