Everything for Everyone - Exploring dominator culture and liberatory relationships

Everything for Everyone - Exploring dominator culture and liberatory relationships

This course aims to explore dominator culture in our interpersonal relationships - as friends, community members, parents, partners, and in our organising spaces. Alongside theory, together we will self-reflect and critically examine how domination, entitlement thinking and carceral logics influence us, our relationships and interactions, and the effects of this on our relationships.

We will examine recruitments into and attitudes and beliefs used to justify cultures of domination and the influence of these beliefs on the ways we approach relationships. We will discuss shame, relational accountability, and building practices that move towards non-domination and respectful/liberatory connections and partnerships. We will explore and experiment with practices that support connection, care, respect and accountability. Sharing and exploring these reflections through group conversations aims to treat these reflections about ourselves and our interpersonal relationships as collective rather than individualised. 

Possible Texts:

• Talkin’ Up to the White Woman - Indigenous Women and Feminism by Aileen Moreton-Robinson
• Women in Uprising - The Oaxaca Comune, The State, And Reproductive Labor in LIES Vol 1 by Barucha Calamity Peller
• Rethinking a Movement: A Conversation with Connie Burk by Franci Romeo
• On the Question of Sexism within the Black Panther Party by Safiyah Bukhari
• The Will to Change by bell hooks
• To Abolish the Family in Endnotes 5 by ME O’Brien
• The Rise of Angry White Men by Bob Pease
• The Feminist in Cellblock Y by Success Stories
• Analysing the Limits of Accountability in After Accountability by Pinko
• Kayla Puan on Growing up in the North Ironbound Commune in Everything for Everyone An Oral History of the New York Commune 2052-2072 by M.E. O’Brien & Eman Abdelhadi

Delivery mode: In person at IPCS, 78-80 Curzon Street, North Melbourne, 3051, Wurundjeri Country

Days/times:  Saturday 2PM-4PM AEST.

• Week 1: Saturday 11 July 
• Week 2: Saturday 25 July 
• Week 3:  Saturday 2 August
• Week 4: Saturday 8 August
• Week 5: Saturday 15 August
• Week 6: Saturday 22 August 

Scholarship places: full fee scholarship places are available for Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander or unwaged participants. Please email info@ipcs.org.au with a brief EOI to apply.

Accessibility: Please note that IPCS is not wheelchair accessible. There are several steps to the room from the front door of the building (78-80 Curzon St). Masks and hand sanitizer will be available. If you have any accessibility queries and/or requirements, please reach out to us at info@ipcs.org.au

Course Coordinators

Ani and Anne-lise live on unceded Wurundjeri Country and are interested in transformative justice, abolition, communising and kick-ons. They are involved in various community projects and want to explore how we do relationships, community and what we can do differently.

IPCS is located on Wurundjeri Country. We acknowledge the Wurundjeri peoples of the Eastern Kulin nation as the sovereign owners and custodians of the land; sovereignty was never ceded and connection to Country is ongoing. IPCS stands with Indigenous struggles for liberation from settler colonialism and imperialism on this land and globally.