Presenters: Killjoy Institute

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. 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.-

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