"Creating Safer Spaces"-Workshop

OPEN FOR ALL GENDERS! SAFER SPACES The workshop approaches different strategies to employ intersectionality into activism,especially in relation to queer safer spaces. These are understood as situations where different experiences are recognized and celebrated while diverse privileges are challenged and worked through. The safer space invited communal accountability and deals with conflicts from a political and collective perspective. The workshop offers exercises based on Forum Theater and Theater of The Oppressed to recreate microagression situations. The structure of these theater forms enable participants to experience different positions and work on a solution together by proposing altering the scenario and discussing the outcomes together. The workshop works toward creating tools for political activism based on sensitivity and relational ethics. During the workshop the group will discuss their understanding of intersectionality, privilege and safer space. Then they will reenact 3 scenarios referring to different kind of oppression. The meeting will be ended with a group discussion. The workshop was designed by Conflict Mediation Team during Copenhagen Queer Festival in 2011 and presented at various queer events since.

Time: 3 hours Language: Englisch