November 22, 2024 | 6:00-7:30pm EST
Facilitated by Sirajum Sandhi

THE WHAT: a workshop to uncover and utilize your feminist killjoy as a tool for liberatory organizing.

This space is designed as a space of embodied learning through collective reflection, inquiry, and action to (re)visit our understanding of a feminist killjoy as a tool to unearth embodied knowledge for liberatory organizing. This workshop is for comrades already engaged in social struggles against gendered, racialized, and sexualized violence. We invite you to co-create a space of self-inquiry and reflexivity with a view to collaborative action.

What is a Feminist Killjoy?
A feminist killjoy finds joy in disrupting patriarchal norms that pass as joys. If you don’t laugh at a co-worker’s misogynistic jokes, you are a killjoy. If speaking up for something that rubs you wrong feels more important than " keeping the peace, " you are a killjoy. If you understand and embody that silence is a tool to maintain an oppressive status quo, you are a killjoy.  

In this workshop, we will (re)familiarize ourselves with the philosophy of the feminist killjoy, engage in reflection exercises to identify our killjoy instincts and learn practical tools for honing our instincts and bringing the practice to our organizing work.

THE WHY:

With ongoing genocides in the world and the historical amnesia surrounding the struggles against injustices, we are finding ourselves more and more alienated. Whether it’s the surge of disinformation or manufactured consent for atrocities paid for by our tax dollars, we have been told not to see, feel, hear, and understand our instincts to disrupt and organize for collective liberation. It is time to listen to our killjoy instincts, find one another, and stay steadfast in our struggles for a free world.

THE WHEN, WHERE, HOW:

• A Live 1 hr 30min workshop on Zoom

• November 22

• 6:00 - 7:30pm ET

• AI closed captioning available

TRAINING OUTCOMES

• Learn the philosophy of killjoy feminism

• Learn ways to identify your killjoy instinct

• Learn how to apply your killjoy instinct to your organizing work

FOR WHO:

This workshop is for individuals already engaged in social struggles who feel alienated in spaces at home, work, social spaces, and even organizing spaces because they are not affected in the same way as those around them. They are labeled disruptive or made to feel like they are in the wrong room.

TO PARTICIPATE:

You will need a quiet enough space where you can comfortably engage in the various activities throughout the workshop, including moving your body, speaking or engaging with others, or reflection/focusing your attention inward.

Please review these two links prior to the session:

• Dis-O: Find Your Killjoy Instinct

• Find Other Killjoys | feministkilljoys

COST:

We offer our workshops on a Sliding Scale. Scholarships start at $10. The true cost of this workshop is $60 with sliding scale for financial needs and financial privileges.

If your organization offers development funding to support you to attend the course, select either the Full Rate or Redistribution Rate, based on the amount of funds made available to you plus the cost that you are able to personally contribute or where you fit on the sliding scale guide linked above. Solidarity Rates are reserved for individuals paying out of pocket who meet the criteria outlined in our Sliding Scale Guide.